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by woodman 10y ago
I see, I think we are pretty close to the point of debating how true a truth is. I think the real difference between the disciplines, in the application of logic, is highlighted by your use of "coherent". While an engineer will
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by woodman 10y ago
> Logic is no more central to philosophy than... I filled my mandatory philosophy credit hours many years ago, so this might be a very silly question: what happens when a product of philosophy can be demonstrated to logically not follow
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by woodman 10y ago
It certainly was a thing in the 80s, IBM was selling it in the late 60s. [0] I don't know how difficult it would have been to put in an airframe though... I'm guessing: very. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by woodman 10y ago
I had to buy a very old laptop because the software for configuring Motorola sabers depended on the cpu for timing communication with the radio during the flash process. People have bricked their radios trying to emulate old clock speeds.
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by woodman 10y ago
I've tackled some problems that would have ideally, from a performance perspective, been implemented with very deeply nested if()'s. I've found a truth table like layout of bool evaluations to be a nice compromise between ma
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by woodman 10y ago
The problem isn't the advice, it is the reliance on the advice being followed without fail for a product that leaves very little safety margin in normal operation. It is like putting a factory reset button right next to the power butt
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by woodman 10y ago
> That's not how the release button is intended to be used. Stress does funny things, also "Just avoid holding it that way" isn't good advice for things like guns. > ...with a non-Serpa nobody blames the holster...
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by woodman 10y ago
For a long time I felt the exact same way (also big mitted), but I got challenged to leave the Springfield at home and use a borrowed G17 for a week long course. I still prefer the M1911 for sport, and satisfying my need to constantly tink
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by woodman 10y ago
Oh yeah, we are talking about different use cases. I'd never advocate anything that would make an IWB draw any slower than it already is :) For the more block inclined, MIC trigger guards are nice for winter jackets.
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by woodman 10y ago
I used the word "nearly" for a reason, the numbers are very close and the method of categorization is not known to me (folks like to lump suicide with homicide when it furthers their argument). So "more" isn't an o
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by woodman 10y ago
I'm going to have to disagree with you, I think thumb break retention holsters (that have been the standard forever) are just fine. The usability problem for holsters comes from the loss of fine motor control following an adrenaline d
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by woodman 10y ago
I'm not sure what you'd expect to be reassured of, that cops are less likely to die of car accidents and gunshots than the average person? My point isn't that they have no increased risk, my point is that the level of risk i
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by woodman 10y ago
> scripting is still left up to This is commonly provided by the port maintainer - I haven't conducted a survey but I'm pretty confident that service scripts in FreeBSD ports rarely make it into rc.d without a deliberate freebs
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by woodman 10y ago
I stopped having to carry daily around the time that serpa holsters got popular. All the combat vets accurately predicted that the release mechanism would lead to a lot of negligent discharges - many training courses wouldn't let you
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by woodman 10y ago
> all too common tragedy Any murder is too much murder, but I certainly wouldn't describe it as common. Cops are nearly as likely to die of a car accident as they are of getting shot. A cop friend of mine was going on about how th
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by woodman 10y ago
If the other player accepts your poison pill, then you should reconsider its effectiveness. The only rational conclusion you could draw from such a move would be "Gee, they're willing to spend at least 55 million to fire and hire
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by woodman 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that economics, not technology, was the hold up. Pressurized hard drives have been around for a long time, the halon filled IBM 3390 being a classic example [0]. Yes helium is more difficult to contain than halon, but
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by woodman 10y ago
"Usage of helium inside a hard drive helps to reduce the drag force acting on the spinning disk stack and lower the fluid flow forces affecting the disks and the heads. As a result, HDD makers can install up to seven platters into a st
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by woodman 10y ago
Hydrogen is much harder to contain. [0] [0] https://archive.org/details/cihm_81141
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by woodman 10y ago
> It's like they went out of their way to spread misinformation. I'm not as on top of modern psychology as I'd like to be, so I'd love to see a formal study on the subject, but I'm pretty confident that most peop
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by woodman 11y ago
Yeah, discussing domestic surveillance legislation in a thread linked to an article covering the latest domestic surveillance legislation is way off topic.
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by woodman 11y ago
> You don't ignore section headings when reading laws. You do when you are interpreting the laws. They're labels that carry as much weight as subsection markers. To say otherwise would imply that the "Patriot Act" b
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by woodman 11y ago
"covered communication" is defined in the prior page (309.a). The definition stands alone, regardless of how "incidentally" appears on the same page, it makes no reference to proceeding limitation or definitions. "
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by woodman 11y ago
Wow, well let me ruin your day: you are wrong. Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015: section 309. "A covered communication shall not be retained in excess of 5 years, unless ... (iii) the communication is enciphered or
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by woodman 11y ago
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015: section 309 [0] "A covered communication shall not be retained in excess of 5 years, unless ... (iii) the communication is enciphered or reasonably believed to have a secret meaning;
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...government should not be compelled... Yes, it should. Who is working for who here? I can understand someone delegating the initial implementation details of a public service to the state, but to say that the state shouldn't b
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by woodman 11y ago
So here is a false choice, but consider which one would have a greater and longer lasting impact: A) You dash to the rolltop and feverishly write letters to every politician you can think of. You then get on a bus with a bunch of other ups
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by woodman 11y ago
Both liberals and conservatives will eagerly switch off their brains when their pet interest is threatened. For conservatives it is their brand of culture, for liberals it is their brand of state. The puppet show is getting boring. As fa
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...we can hardly trust manufacturers to develop robust automotive software on their own... All the more reason to root the device.
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by woodman 11y ago
Well it can't be entirely passive for time-sensitive/comprehensive monitoring, because telemetric data won't cross one of their numerous tap points unless the target is roaming or the target's carrier is being queried by

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