wcummings

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   by wcummings 9y ago

   If you want a laugh, read the ethereum sharding document. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ
2. 62.▲
   by wcummings 9y ago

   Sounds like more a reflection of you and your conversations than IRC as a medium.
3. 63.▲
   by wcummings 9y ago

   USENET still exists, and someone pays the bills. Ditto for IRC. People still use them. Though RSS is kinda dying, I'll give the author that.
4. 64.▲
   by wcummings 9y ago

   >Worse, people who currently give a shit and act on that may just... stop. "I support their work and I just get attacked for it, why bother?" Is it worth having allies who hold their support hostage?
5. 65.▲
   by wcummings 9y ago

   >I'm personally tired of being painted as a sexist asshole who "just doesn't get it" because I'm a white male Iuno, I'm a "white male" and I don't have this problem.
6. 66.▲
   by wcummings 9y ago

   Denying there is a problem is counter productive...
7. 67.▲
   by wcummings 9y ago

   Too much liquidity?
8. 68.▲
   by wcummings 9y ago

   Sounds like it's brute forcing elisp fns.
9. 69.▲
   by wcummings 9y ago

   Situations like that should be few and far between. I write an occasional comment if I'm doing something confusing or unintuitive but the hope is you're not writing a lot of confusing code.
10. 70.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    Wow, the reddit mobile site is totally unusable. Can someone paste the content?
11. 71.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    All the real elite programmers are wobblies.
12. 72.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    Then they're missing the point because they specifically mention security, not stability.
13. 73.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    We need a cultural revolution .
14. 74.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html
15. 75.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    Yeah also when was the last time a WM exploit was relevant?
16. 76.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    Hate to break it to you, but Amazon does not treat their warehouse staff much better.
17. 77.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    >With that said, Naltrexone doesn't address the fundamental emotional problems that underlie most cases of addiction. So it doesn't do them a whole lot of good to force them to take it, without also helping them find stability,
18. 78.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    >If you're asking: Good god, how many people really want or need that, think: Fussing infants. TIL I am a fussing infant. I love that "sounds of the rain forest" bs (though I don't use an echo).
19. 79.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    Gotcha, I misunderstood.
20. 80.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    That's really more of a detail of how Erlang implements actors. In Erlang actors are used to represent mutable state.
21. 81.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    I stand corrected.
22. 82.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    NYC has the highest concentration of Peregrine Falcons anywhere in the world. Lots of tall buildings for nests and lots of rats.
23. 83.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    I cringe when I hear about plans for "tuition-free" 4-year college. I went to a fancy private high school, with a bunch of kids who graduated and went to fancy private universities. From what I can tell, it's done very little
24. 84.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    Autonomous vehicles (AV's) might allow for a smaller headway, by removing reaction time, but this benefit will be minimal at higher speeds when cars requires hundreds of feet to stop after the brake has been applied. Reaction time beco
25. 85.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    >we'd be able to see something very special where vehicles would be able to travel at speed while maintaining very small marginal distances Braking distance alone (excluding the reaction time) is going to be over 100ft at highway sp
26. 86.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    There's a lot of stuff on Kickstarter that looks a lot like fraud, I think people see this as part of a trend. You don't have to ban it, just give the "investors" more recourse.
27. 87.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    The kernel it ships with won't load blobs.
28. 88.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    Reviled by people who have never used it.
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    by wcummings 9y ago

    I live in (ok, ok, near ) Boston and I constantly fantasize about this. I don't commute by car I look forward to riding my bike 5mph in front of driverless cars, at least if they don't run me over... I also have to imagine they w
30. 90.▲
    by wcummings 9y ago

    Maybe I'm just oblivious but this isn't a problem for me.