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by yason 11y ago
The value of power cycling is to determine how intermittent the problem is. If the problem only ever occurs once and power cycling fixes it then that is effectively a permanent fix. If it comes back next year and power cycling fixes it agai
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by yason 11y ago
Imagine being able to use a laptop, or a phone, for days without plugging in. Can't do it with my laptop but my phone stays on for 1-2 weeks. That's the reason I have a very basic phone, and it does everything I want my phone to
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by yason 11y ago
I'm somehow always a bit worried when travelling to the US and reading these stories just makes it worse. I don't know what the risk for a visitor is in reality. These cases seem to happen out of nowhere. I don't have any rea
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by yason 11y ago
No you can't. You can show that it has worked a finite number of times in tssting. With testing alone you can't show that it won't produce arbitrary crap the next time you run it. Here I think lies the line between theory a
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by yason 11y ago
Credit cards are used because they allow for global money transactions in much the same way debit cards do locally in your home country. For example, it's practically impossible to fly into USA, rent a car, and book a hotel for a week
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by yason 11y ago
I've been wearing glasses since I was seven and I've never felt they're particularly annoying or cumbersome. (I swim and ride a motorcycle, so potentially I might be.) Therefore, I don't really need to think at all wheth
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by yason 11y ago
This underlines the craziness of copyright and intellectual "property". If DMCA claims were expensive, companies would bother requesting takedown for the most profitable movies/albums/games only and they wouldn't go
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by yason 11y ago
Amiga was like Tesla (the car) is now. Not that it was (is) blazing fast and technologically advanced in comparison to other models but the fact that it seems to have come from a whole another plane of technology. Surely it helps to have mu
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by yason 11y ago
> why the hell we need those ultracomplicated > can-do-everything filesystems?! We don't but some people do. Or think they do, but that's the same. It's not like I'm losing something because I can always use the si
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by yason 11y ago
Because the interesting part of the effort is doing it fast in anticipation of translating the optimization tricks to cases where you can't just go buy more RAM anymore. A lot of problems can be "solved" with current hardware
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by yason 11y ago
Why do you assume that most people want (external) power in their lives? Note that it's one thing to talk about getting more money and actually being serious about it. This is where I can see lots of people not wanting all that money,
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by yason 11y ago
I can recommend the Bentley manuals. With general knowledge of how an internal combustion engine works I basically learned how an actual car really works by reading through one back in the 90's. The Haynes manuals are merely worth a qu
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by yason 11y ago
Finland went one step further and that fee on blank media is now directly forked off the government's budget. As a result, I'll be paying for personal copies even if I never bought the original product nor any blank media.
764.
by yason 11y ago
So, now that the masses have been (criminally) copying music and films into their computers roughly for a couple of decades and we've maybe ten years ago passed the point where music (and mostly films, too) are basically unconsumable
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by yason 11y ago
I've never really liked the short/int/long definitions. They're just out there to confuse you, especially if you've written your share of assembly. For as long as I can remember I've just used size_t, uintptr_t
766.
by yason 11y ago
The tube map has been redesigned dozens of times. Here's a good book on the history of the map: http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Becks-Underground-Map-History/dp/18...
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by yason 11y ago
The standard way to embed your own language is to use a Lisp to begin with. Any Lisp language is effectively designed to provide standard tools and mechanisms for adding new language constructs so that you can write your own language with
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by yason 11y ago
Subsidies and regulation doesn't work. If you subside families, the subsidies will simply go into rents and then those who don't get subsidies still have to pay that same rate. Basically, the lowest rent turns into exactly the sam
769.
by yason 11y ago
Northern Europeans do chatter but if it only flys. If it doesn't, like with many if not most people, there's no reason to chat.
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by yason 11y ago
I suppose one correlation is missing: the price of a number of goods generally considered valuable has gone down and the quantity and availability has gone up since the 80's. Think TVs, car radios, stereo systems, computers. If you rea
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by yason 11y ago
But trains generally don't. Trains are signalled so the waits and delays take place between stations and not at the platform: it takes a while for the delayed train to reach the next station so it won't just sit behind the first t
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by yason 11y ago
The reason why the charm of C++ wore off on me early on and why C is like my wife who I love more and more each year is that there's a lot of hidden "knowledge" in C++. The language is always playing a game of its own and a l
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by yason 12y ago
Yeah, purely functional programming can approach an academic exercise. Real-life programs are different, the hosting of mutable state is inherent in many tasks and programs, and cannot be avoided so it makes no sense to trick the language
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by yason 12y ago
Yes¹. I don't think I've ever heard of using the word mutex, namely, for synchronizing access to data over a network. Mutex kind of implies that there's the synchronization primitive and there's the data, and both can be
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by yason 12y ago
I would assume that a longer programming task would only take place in the very final rounds of interviews, where it's clear that the candidate is a potential hire and the company just wants to be sure that the candidate can do non-tri
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by yason 12y ago
Meanwhile, in Finland, you could just tell the company that: "If you really want to know, then please visit the tax authorities' office and look up my previous year's taxable income from their public terminals."
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by yason 12y ago
But you might not want someone to vandalize or steal the battery either which can happen if it's outdoors. Maybe it would be best to put it in a separate shed with lock or something.
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by yason 12y ago
These things just make me more determined to stick by my music collection in mp3/ogg format, stored locally. Until the digital rights to copy bits are globally declared we can't trust any company to provide continuous service, reg
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by yason 12y ago
There are no objective metrics nor particular reasons in life in general. It's an ad-hoc mesh of people interaction. Some consider it a game. People choose their friends and put them on some scale of close friends vs. acquaintances bas
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by yason 12y ago
One reason I've observed is that the quality of printed text isn't necessarily that good. I can't not let go of a good book, I'm only bounded by the time of day and night: if I weren't, I'd read it on one sitti

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