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511.
by zorked 9y ago
Linux VTs is all we had for a long time. Even if X was around, not everybody had computers powerful enough to comfortably run X. I had a computer that would swap just by having X open with fvwm.
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by zorked 9y ago
Is due process that has been eroded over the years still due process? Where do we draw the line?
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by zorked 9y ago
"Hack" also has that same bad connotation. E.g. type in a changelog that you added a "hack" to fix a bug.
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by zorked 9y ago
Accurately translated in English as "hack".
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by zorked 9y ago
It's kind of not important because nobody measures the kinds of things that require the level of precision applied to the kilogram definition using pounds.
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by zorked 9y ago
And the new generation is always lazy.
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by zorked 9y ago
And another generation of programmers learns that there is No Silver Bullet[1]. This will happen again and again. [1] http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~xswang/Research/Papers/SERelat...
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by zorked 9y ago
> You don't think you're jumping the gun here, maybe? Do you even know what the compensation will be? Walmart is known for high wages.
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by zorked 9y ago
Is that really the case? I think Silicon Valley is perceived as _specially_ unwelcoming to women, not necessarily every computer subculture out there. My personal guess is that as a traditionally underground community the ROM/emulator
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by zorked 10y ago
Why would you not want to embrance modern C++? That's what makes C++ (potentially) worth learning today.
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by zorked 10y ago
Many things are a real art.
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by zorked 10y ago
For some reason odd numbers are used more often than even. Ports 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 are all unassigned to this day.
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by zorked 10y ago
BBS software was very regionalized. Being from a different part of Brazil Remote Access reigned supreme, while PC Board is something I saw once that one day when I dared dial long distance to some BBS in a different state. The same goes for
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by zorked 10y ago
I was also confused by their ancient product "Windows Services for UNIX", which does not run on Unix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
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by zorked 10y ago
Nope, invest in what will make you money. If you like what Tesla is doing buy their products.
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by zorked 10y ago
I assume it's http://www.nextbike.de/en/prices/ , which I also subscribe to. There is advertising on the bikes.
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by zorked 10y ago
Also you may end up working at a place full of bad eggs. Prospective employees in Europe who have an interest in a productive life also have to vet the company to make sure they select employees carefully and put the effort to get rid of wh
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by zorked 10y ago
The problem is that we can't trust open source software either. Software being closed source doesn't make it impervious to analysis. Software being open source does not mean it has been analyzed.
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by zorked 10y ago
Contrarian view: I love AMP and I find myself clicking AMP links far more often because I can get the information I want much faster. And this is on LTE. AMP should be supported by CDNs and toggleable in the browsers though.
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by zorked 10y ago
My thoughts exactly. He had a good intuition, but teachers want substance not opinion - as they should.
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by zorked 10y ago
Being from a country that has commercial news (clickbaity, alarmist, etc.) I'm finding it ok to watch the news from European public TV. You get to know what's going on in the world but avoid most of the emotional drain.
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by zorked 10y ago
Why?
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by zorked 10y ago
I am from a non-US, non-EU, non-UK country and the Economist coverage about my country isn't perfect but it's pretty decent.
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by zorked 10y ago
You may be interested in the fantastic Microcorruption CTF, which uses the real-world MSP 430 microcontroller. (Also anyone interested in TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O should at least take a look) [1] https://microcorruption.com&
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by zorked 10y ago
And this is how incredibly smart people can over-engineer a solution to a simple problem...
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by zorked 10y ago
My question as well. This doesn't look like something that will have a long life - and that uncertainty is bad.
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Least Squares(holyshit.tech)
3 points by zorked 10y ago|1 comments
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by zorked 10y ago
There are plenty of exceptions to the "resource curse": Canada, Norway, Brunei. There is, however, a lot of infighting in Venezuela.
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by zorked 10y ago
Calling for government regulation of devices is all fun and games until the government comes along and mandates closed source, irreplaceable firmware like the FCC did with Wifi access points.
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by zorked 10y ago
Presumably from European governments in the case of Airbus and from the Brazilian government in the case of Embraer. In the late 1990's Embraer and Bombardier sued each other in the WTO which found both governments guilty of subsidies.

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