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by warner25 2y ago
I share your sense of foreboding. See my other comment about how I'm feeling about last time vs. this time, but I have one other hope: In the US, the states still retain a lot of power. There are still a lot of states that will continu
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by warner25 2y ago
Well said. Speaking as a registered Republican dating back to the early 2000s, I thought Trump was a clown when he first announced his intention to run in 2015 (you could call me a "Never Trumper"). I was shocked like everybody el
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by warner25 2y ago
True. I'm in the Army, so I typically see Army dentists. That means that they're on salary (edited to add: in a rigidly seniority-based promotion system, working in a clinic that isn't concerned with profit and loss), not get
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, I think trying to make games work on Windows 3.1 to 9x was a very formative experience for just a narrow slice of Millenials. I've seen the definition of Millenials span all the way up to 2000 births, and I'm pretty sure the
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by warner25 2y ago
I've had this same thought. I have younger kids, so we haven't yet reached the point of needing to contend with all this (e.g. "...but everyone else has an iPhone and Instagram and Tik-Tok account..."), and I've b
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by warner25 2y ago
I think you're right, plus there was a solid wall dividing online life from "IRL" back then. When I asked and answered "A/S/L" among randos, we were all anonymous. It was an escape from the social dynamics
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by warner25 2y ago
This makes me think, as I've thought previously, that the generational labels seem too broad for the pace of change in information technology over the last 40 years. I read your comment as an older Millenial and thought "what?! a
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, I have four kids, and I'll be the first to tell you that it's not a logical, rational decision; it's an emotional, probably hormonal, one. For people like us (the HN crowd, in general) who are drawn to computers, math,
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by warner25 2y ago
For as long as there have been tanks, I think there have been cheap anti-tank weapons that are effective when tanks aren't operating as part of a combined arms team with other maneuver, fires, and protection elements. There does seem t
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by warner25 2y ago
As a relatively young academic subject, CS at most universities grew out of an existing department, typically either math or maybe more commonly EE. I think, unsurprisingly, this influenced what comprised a CS degree at each university. Whe
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by warner25 2y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I read Tubes back in 2012 when it was first published, and I enjoyed it. I knew a lot less about networking back then, so it would probably be a good book to re-read now with a different perspective, and to
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by warner25 2y ago
> Internal candidates are usually at an advantage. Veterans always are. The system is as you described. Internal candidates already know it and veterans, when transitioning out of uniformed service, get a full-blown class on it: how to p
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by warner25 2y ago
This reminds me of storing equipment and supplies at the platoon level in the Army. The Army owns a huge number of shipping containers, like they're pervasive on any Army base, just part of the landscape. Basically every platoon keep
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by warner25 2y ago
I wanted to share one of his pieces with a friend, so I sent the URL in a text message, and my friend (a network technician) responded with "Uh, is that link safe?" The title of the piece was "Free Public WiFi" which mak
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by warner25 2y ago
This author is a very good and entertaining writer. You're really missing out if you don't take the time to read every word. Make yourself a drink, find a nice place to sit, and enjoy. I was introduced to his work through an HN po
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by warner25 2y ago
I'm an old PhD student. I've seen cases where an easy / naive solution written in Python can be orders-of-magnitude slower than a solution written in C, but I suspect that you're right: that a thoughtful / clever us
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by warner25 2y ago
That and talking about prosecuting the political opposition along with journalists, poll workers, and career public servants just for doing their jobs. And using the military to do it. I don't actually think he'll be able to end d
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by warner25 2y ago
I think the intuition of the parent comment is right, but you also make a fair point[1]. I just wonder if you genuinely believe that any prospective Trump voter could be convinced by any argument to vote for Harris at this point. I mean
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by warner25 2y ago
> ...establish beforehand whether it's a worthy thesis... I think you're describing the process of putting together a dissertation proposal, and I think it might be the hardest part of getting a PhD. To do that, one first needs
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by warner25 2y ago
Thanks, it's interesting to hear about the range of expectations, and it definitely varies a lot by field. Putting together three 5-7 page papers seems doable (as opposed to, like, three 13-18 page IEEE Security and Privacy or USENIX S
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by warner25 2y ago
Of the ~ten people I know who've defended in my department in the last three years, two of them had issues. The first one might have passed the defense (I'm not sure), but didn't graduate until negotiating and making some cha
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by warner25 2y ago
How much of that was expected to be as the lead author? That's an impressive body of work either way. I think that most top-tier CS conference papers are the product of a couple years of work from inception to presentation.
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by warner25 2y ago
At first, there were real budget cuts (the "peace dividend") of about 10%. Over time, total spending grew to be much more in both nominal and real terms, and much more per troop. However, it's also much lower as a percentage
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by warner25 2y ago
I can see how the following "services" would be helpful to a desperate academic: 1. Paying to have one's legitimate manuscript accepted, instead of going through the normally time-consuming and capricious process of reviews a
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, I get that people need papers. I just don't see how paying to have one's name added to a sham paper with a handful of other unrelated paying customers could possibly help to meet that requirement. If I told my committee that
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by warner25 2y ago
As a current PhD candidate, I have two thoughts: 1. Who is this for? My program doesn't have a publication requirement, but it's sort of an implicit expectation and it helps to definitively answer the question of whether I've
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by warner25 2y ago
Oh yeah, there's a whole different discussion to be had (and HN does have it often), about the problems with peer reviewed publications and citations being the end-all for graduate students and professors. My particular school and depa
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by warner25 2y ago
What PhD program doesn't require a public defense? I'm currently a PhD candidate, and our program includes separate written and oral qualifying exams during the first year or two, and a public defense of the dissertation at the
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by warner25 2y ago
Grounded where? The point is that they aren't on the ground in this imagery.
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by warner25 2y ago
But if the airplanes weren't flying, they would be parked on the ground somewhere. So where are all the airplanes in your theory? There are zero in parking.

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