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by zeveb 11y ago
> And I think Erlang programmers sometimes, if not frequently, forget the Erlang is not magic, it runs on the same CPUs as everybody else with the same access to memory protection, same assembler, etc., and consequently, it can't ac
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by zeveb 11y ago
ComputerCraft is amazing, and OpenComputers even more so (although by default OC's computers require power, which is a bit of a drag). I've been spending the past couple of years writing an operating system to run in a computer in
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by zeveb 11y ago
Interesting that it's named 'AIX,' which is also the name of IBM's Unix-like OS. I guess it says something about IBM's AIX's prospects in the market when no-one associated with this project even thought about
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by zeveb 11y ago
> Dialogues like this make me feel like I'm in some surreal universe where all software evolved around one giant mainframe, and now, centuries later, everyone is still programming in COBOL, and it's illegal to not be backward c
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by zeveb 11y ago
> The interpretation of "gerneral Welfare" varies of course, but providing SOME sort of standards and funding at the federal level for education is well within accepted US federal authority. You are correct that it is generally
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by zeveb 11y ago
> Look at the Republican candidates all crowing about how they'll shut down the Department of Education if they're elected. Please explain to me where in the Constitution the United States are given any authority over the educa
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by zeveb 11y ago
> Even if I buy for a service or buy a product from a company, I'm not going to be excluded from tracking. Exactly! I subscribe to SiriusXM for my car, because I really like the music options. Last night I looked at installing it
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by zeveb 11y ago
> Why does it matter how a web page is constructed? If it is fast, secure, and does what the user needs, what is the problem? Because by definition if it is constructed with JavaScript it is neither fast nor secure.
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by zeveb 11y ago
> When Firefox is an unsupported browser, and it isn't the year 2000 anymore, I stop using your website. But all the hip kids in San Francisco are using Chrome on MacBooks! And as far as they're concerned, the world consists o
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by zeveb 11y ago
What I hate is that the locales assume that date & number preferences are specific to one's physical location. I live in America, but I prefer German (9. March 2016 or 09.03.16) or British (9 March 2016 or 9/3/16) dates.
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by zeveb 11y ago
> OSHA rules require that workplace bathrooms remain clean and dry and a mop can slide right under partitions. Well, that explains why so many public bathroom stalls in Europe are nice, private, fully-enclosed spaces and none in America
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by zeveb 11y ago
> Is using GitHub for your CDN a dick move and going to cause problems, regardless? Yes! I don't know about that. Both oh-my-zsh[1] and emacs prelude[2] use git repos as their code distribution mechanisms, and that works really we
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by zeveb 11y ago
aplay is part of ALSA, which is old enough that I wouldn't expect any differences between it on Ubuntu & on other Linuxes. FWIW, I really dig the demo: it's cool.
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by zeveb 11y ago
> I only expected this to work on Ubuntu And yet here's the command: cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i =
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by zeveb 11y ago
> This is the case in Lisp, for example, but Lisp is not (or not typically) compiled … Say what? Lisp is often compiled; the standard extensively discusses compilation[1] and — to address your point re. performance-improving metaprogram
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Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.(spectrum.ieee.org)
333 points by zeveb 11y ago|408 comments
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by zeveb 11y ago
dang, where is he being uncivil or unsubstantive in the parent post? I simply don't see it. I don't see that he's 'blaming a million people for their own prospective drowning,' but rather blaming a million people f
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by zeveb 11y ago
> … because society still sucks at gender equality when it comes to enabling parents to equally contribute to certain aspects of parenting. You're assuming that even if society enabled the sexes to take equal time off that the sexes
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by zeveb 11y ago
I bought a System76 years ago. It was great as long as I was running Ubuntu, but requires proprietary drivers which have been extremely flaky under Debian. Now I recommend zareason to folks who ask. Typing this comment on a zareason syst
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by zeveb 11y ago
> To the blind this would be a godsend. Actually, I'd imagine that a good old-fashioned tty is pretty good for a blind person: it's TUIs and GUIs that get progressively more painful. Source: am blind without my glasses; can ima
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by zeveb 11y ago
What are the traditional organised crimes? - numbers games: this is just a lottery, only with better payouts - drugs: already addressed - prostitution: legal in many countries - loan sharking: this is just lending to risky borrowers at mark
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by zeveb 11y ago
> if drugs are harmful and addictive, why can't society ban people from selling them, like it does for all sorts of other harmful products? That begs the question: should society ban the sale of harmful products? I can buy: a swo
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by zeveb 11y ago
> > The issue is that the prices are too high for perceived value. > How much do you value your favorite authors eating or having health insurance? I give to charities to take care of those who can't take care of themselves; I
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by zeveb 11y ago
> Some UUIDs are cryptographically secure. Not if they are RFC 4122 UUIDs (more accurately, they are insufficiently cryptographically secure): even the random ones are only 122 bits, which only provide 61 bits of security. UUIDs are stil
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by zeveb 11y ago
I imagine that our ancestors have been eating dogs for millennia. It's certainly less wasteful than euthanising them, roasting their corpses and grinding their bones to dust, which is what we do now.
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The [WiFi] lockdown is here(metamesh.org)
2 points by zeveb 11y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 11y ago
> What I find most interesting about this is that most of the changes they implemented weren't necessarily targeted towards women and benefited everyone (emphasis on group work, research projects, splitting the into classes by exper
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by zeveb 11y ago
> They redesigned the intro computer science course to focus more on creative problem solving. Instead of traditional homework, the faculty assigned team-based projects so that students coded together. And, most important, they made the
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by zeveb 11y ago
> Chain of command is important on the battlefield, but in corporate environments the best ideas come from anywhere. Many good ideas in the military and on the battlefield come from the ranks, too. The chain of command is about decisio
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by zeveb 11y ago
> Why would an open-minded team enforce conformity (via 'cultural fit')? Because being open-minded is their enforced conformity.

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