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by wtbob 11y ago
I wonder if knowledge of this might have saved Firefly…
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by wtbob 11y ago
> There's only 4,294,967,296 addresses in IPv4, so if you hand out giant blocks, you run out quite fast, whereas with 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 you could hand out huge IPv4 /8 sized blocks from now unt
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by wtbob 11y ago
> It seems contradictory that the guests of parties expect "bourgeois cheese and beer" and yet themselves have limited budgets. Not if the guests see themselves as children and their hosts as parents.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> I wonder if widespread exploitation of this issue will finally disillusion the community with the supposed wonders of an open ecosystem. The problem is not that we have an open ecosystem; it's that we have multiple closed ecosyste
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by wtbob 11y ago
> > "Sure, but I do expect that folks on my teams are spending about ⅓ of their lives—or 8 hours/day—working." "Those who produce more quality features over less time are more valuable than those who produce fewer,
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by wtbob 11y ago
> In my experience, 8 hours of face-to-face overlap actually makes me significantly less productive due to distractions. In my own experience, those distractions are mostly due to open-plan and cubicle-farm offices. Given a proper one-m
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by wtbob 11y ago
Yup, and indeed our problems have originated when we ignore the rock-paper-scissors nature of our federal government. As I mentioned in another post, we should have seen a lot more impeachments of federal officials over time.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> crazy electoral college method for elections The Electoral College is not crazy; indeed, IMHO what we need is for the state legislatures to appoint their electors. What's crazy is the popular vote.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> which has greatly hindered the third branch, the Judiciary, from being able to act as effectively as it might have otherwise. I don't think that the American judiciary's problem is that it's hindered in its actions. Hist
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by wtbob 11y ago
> Sacco and Vanzetti, who were victims of one of the most spectacular miscarriages of justice Nonsense. They were guilty, as subsequent investigations have demonstrated.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> Right, strict punctuality for punctuality's sake alone is counterproductive. It has the virtue of assuring that we are all available in person to one another, which is actually pretty valuable.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> The notion that anyone in a modern software development job would care about the specific hours someone spends in a seat is ridiculous to me. Sure, but I do expect that folks on my teams are spending about ⅓ of their lives—or 8 hours&#
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by wtbob 11y ago
> dislike for Californians (Oregon & Montana) Have you considered that the dislike for Californians is due to them turning any state in which a great number of them settle…into California? It's a perfectly natural process: whene
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by wtbob 11y ago
> So we must just accept the fact that military is there to destroy environments and they just don't really care? No, the military is there to win wars. When you're in a fight for your life, you don't much care if you tra
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by wtbob 11y ago
> They have known about this for years; they have either finished the testing OR they have completed their purpose with regards to the weapon. Sonar is not a weapon; it's a sensor system intended to discover enemy submarines.
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by wtbob 11y ago
It seems pretty useful that despite being a decade-old installation and being linked to from HN, it is responding near-instantaneously. Likewise, the suckless tools are useful in that they just work . That's pretty useful too.
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by wtbob 11y ago
It loads up briefly—with an image visible, even!—then becomes a blank white page without JavaScript.
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by wtbob 11y ago
Cool, but for some reason in seems to eat SPACE to page down.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> LOOP is something that imho very controversial. No, not really: it's as controversial as Common Lisp's Lisp-n nature (which is to say, both of which are controversial amongst Scheme programmers writing Common Lisp). It'
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by wtbob 11y ago
The Common Lisp version he has is pretty poor; I think this is more idiomatic, and is two lines as well: (defun build (list1 list2) (loop for x in list1 append (loop for y in list2 collect `(,x ,y)))) or: (defun build
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by wtbob 11y ago
Well, then see drdaeman's response. There's no reason to add anything more which requires JavaScript unless there's absolutely no alternative. Otherwise, why not just serve up a blank page which executes JavaScript to add
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by wtbob 11y ago
Wow, Poe's Law strikes again. Are you making a joke or are you serious?
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by wtbob 11y ago
> Given a large enough work factor, there literally aren't enough resources in the entire universe to brute-force even a single hash. Or, given a strong-enough original password. I postulate that, until the moment I posted it, &#x2
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NutWorks electronic humour magazine (1985-1990)(pcuf.fi)
7 points by wtbob 11y ago|0 comments
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by wtbob 11y ago
Meh, why is turnout something one should encourage? Put another way, why should the voices of those who could barely be bothered to show up be amplified over those of those who really care? I don't want 100% turnout; I do want the
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by wtbob 11y ago
I completely agree that it should be possible to repair things, but this: > Mr. Wiens is also part of a coalition pushing legislation in Minnesota, Massachusetts and New York that would require “digital electronic product” makers to prov
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Literate Devops with Emacs [video](youtube.com)
66 points by wtbob 11y ago|0 comments
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by wtbob 11y ago
If Unicode defines the rule for initial/medial vs. final ſigma, I wonder why it doeſn't do the ſame for long vs. ſhort s. More seriously, for encoding purposes shouldn't it be up to the application using the encoding to choos
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by wtbob 11y ago
> There's something to be said for supporting accessibility, and I completely endorse that, but if you turn javascript off because you want to, don't complain when you can't read or use a modern website. > The web uses
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by wtbob 11y ago
> It's 2015, not 1999. If you don't have javascript enabled, do you honestly expect to be able to read half of the internet? Yes, I expect to be able to read data without having to execute code. And, FWIW, the Internet was

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