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by vajrabum 5y ago
DARPA doesn't do research or development. They fund it.
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I only know this because I clicked on some more stuff after looking at that but the Fukushima tsunami caused a fair amount of damage in the Santa Cruz, CA harbor both to docks and boats. Apparently the waves can get magnified when they go i
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by vajrabum 5y ago
There's a possibly or partially apocryphal story about the moonrise causing a false alarm of a Russian ballistic missile attack from the BMEWS system in 1960 when they first turned it on in Thule. Anyway the idea that there are certain
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Why do people need computers, really? A smart phone is a small portable computer with a phone built in. Maps is one of the types of apps that most people use but it's not the only one. Email, social media, text messaging, note taking,
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It says on their mission statement that they do SIGINT and information assurance (i.e. IT security) and there is plenty of public evidence that they do both. Plus they've been deeply involved with designing cryptographic protocols and
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by vajrabum 5y ago
What's hacked together about using NLBs and EC2 instances with statically launched Docker instances on each EC2 instance driven by Terraform and Cloudformation? That's all pretty standard AWS stuff. I'd guess from having run
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Hakuin, one of the most famous Japanese Zen master's, got "Zen Disease" when he was in his 20s and doing intense meditation. The symptoms sound very similar to what was in the article. He recommended a particular meditation a
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL all support bulk insert. Two obvious use cases are QA Databases and the L part of ETL which pretty much require it.
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by vajrabum 5y ago
That kind of result may mean you need a Molly guard. The original Molly was a toddler who reportedly pushed the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 twice in one day and so they put a cover over the switch to put an end to that sort of outage. Occ
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I notice that the page says that Daryl Bem's experiements on precognition have no good evidence. I poked around a bit and immediately found this paper on a metanalysis from 2016 on the topic. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2
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by vajrabum 5y ago
How does a simple, flat tax fix not reporting income?
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I found the cpython code's standard library has got a lot of good stuff and the inline documentation is generally very good. I learned things from csv, difflib, heapq, and re. I'd recommend taking at least a quick look at any pyth
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Most of that makes sense but it's worth remembering the ASR-33 was upper case only!
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ARP's fun but it's arguably the least fun bit of the TCP/IP stack. Here are the other articles from the series. https://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-2-ipv4-icmpv... https://www.saminiir.
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by vajrabum 5y ago
What other viral diseases are easily treatable by medication as opposed to vaccination? Are there any?
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Richard Bird has pursued the algebraic approach in a lazy functional language context. He and Ooge de Moor presented their work on the algebraic approach to lazy functional languages in a textbook form in the book Algebra of Programming in
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by vajrabum 5y ago
The risk of loss of a passenger aircraft isn't the same thing as not wearing a seatbelt or being late for a party. Nobody sane would want to be personally responsible for the death of 200 or 300 people in one go. The FAA has a no comme
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Most of the patients this could be prescribed to are on Medicare. At $56k per patient and 5.5 million patients that's $308Billion. Oh and the drug causes edema in the brain in 40% of patients who are APOE e4 carriers which will be over
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Things are changing but as of 2019 by a whisker, most radiologists own their practices and accross all specialties 56.6 percent of physicians in the US are members of small practices. Physicians especially specialists tend to work for and w
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Imagine that you are doing this at web scale. Instead of one web server you have 2000, and another 1000 middleware servers all talking to a distributed database cluster with another 500 machines. You can probably run your web servers close
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I'd venture to say that aren't any significant federal government contractors that don't employ former federal workers. Like it or no this is the norm and it isn't all the revolving door. Selling to the federal governmen
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by vajrabum 5y ago
OK. I got the thing about towing and the city horning in on towing revenue, and collegiate slumlords, but I don't see how that impacts commercial rents. What dishonest types of businesses are you referring to?
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Kaspar Lund of V8 and Dart fame and Toit.io have brought an IOT platform to market based around a purpose designed dynamic language with a bytecode VM optimized for use in MCUs. That VM engine is hosted in FreeRTOS which together with the
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Submariners have long had a saying that there are two kinds of ships, submarines and targets.
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Sorry to hear of your loss. Sounds like an amazing man that I would have wanted to know. I have a thought that really works for me. It doesn't take the sting out, just makes the good parts good. Essentially the trick is to find a way t
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by vajrabum 5y ago
Fairly basic, but still fun. Julia Evans has the best explanations of systems level stuff often shared in a comic strip form. Plus the article has a reference to Nightmare which is a fun binary exploitation ctf game/course that most pr
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Is the methodology they're using outdated? Or perhaps their approach seems naive? Or are you saying something else?
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Here's a trailer for a game the developer built using the engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xleJeiOHHh4 and a devlog describing how he persists python interpreter state. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by vajrabum 5y ago
I got to poking around and found this reddit posting in which the author describes the features of the engine which includes an embedded python interpreter and saving restoring python state. https://www.reddit.com/r/C_P
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I'd completely forgotten about Eloise Ristad and "A Soprano On Her Head." Fanstasic book. Thanks for the reminder. I poked around looking for Bold Beginnings and didn't find it but I did find this page that might be inte

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