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by DArcMattr 7y ago
The article's first example is of a person using a metaphor common to the ex-Mormon community about breaking "the shelf". "The shelf" is where the facts that bring one to question church doctrine go to be explained
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by DArcMattr 8y ago
Economically, the fairest tax system is one that does not affect people's behavior. The most straightforward means of doing this is a head tax, but that's not politically feasible. The best thing to do is a sales tax on price inel
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by DArcMattr 8y ago
I was assigned a new manager, and they curbed a lot of the unofficial perks I'd been enjoying, like being able to work from home some days. When it came time to turn in self-evaluations, I turned in a quitting notice. I couldn't b
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by DArcMattr 8y ago
Keep in mind, this is using terminology that comes from courses appropriate for advanced undergrad/beginning graduate level math courses.
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by DArcMattr 9y ago
How petty of them.
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by DArcMattr 9y ago
I have a Master's in Economics. In graduate classes, much of the work done in intro-level courses is tossed aside for more capable models that require a fair bit of calculus to understand. The easiest being the Solow growth model. The
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by DArcMattr 9y ago
This is almost the plot of a scifi novel published in 1994, The Deus Machine, by Pierre Ouellette. The malicious code was placed in introns by nature itself. Need to sanitize those inputs!
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by DArcMattr 9y ago
If only this were true. I worked at the Ayn Rand Institute, and still keep tabs with their activities and their progress. If Ayn Rand's ideas were as widespreadly acknowledged and held, then we'd see a distortion free economy, not
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by DArcMattr 9y ago
At the very least, vendors should provide something like a data sheet with all the register information a developer would need to write their own driver. There's no need to give away the recipe to the special sauce.
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
The ARM SoC marketplace's common hardware denominator is the CPU. The rest of that system differs widely between vendors, and documentation for the pieces is poor-to-nonexistent. Two OpenBSD devs run the Garbage.fm podcast [1], and the
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
The certification comes through acquiring and maintaining the Professional Engineer credential: http://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
The Aristotelian treatment of causality is what's needed here. Objects act in accordance to their nature. Cause and effect is the course of how objects interact with each other. For a given situation, objects A & B will produce the
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
You mean using a taxicab metric to construct a circle? Been done.
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
Even if somehow tomorrow, all the cars on the road switch to a power source that had nothing to do with petroleum, we would still need loads of oil. Petroleum is a raw material input for many necessary products in our day-to-day lives: plas
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
The article said he used two books, one of which was free. Ordinary Differential Equations make use of linear algebra concepts, but can be self-contained. It's entirely plausible to go with Strang, and another book for this type of cou
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
Kay was referencing an idea originated by Stigler, the Inventor, to use as a contrast to Feynman's stance. There was no attack on Stigler as such.
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
And here's some discussion on making OpenBSD's sleep more efficient (starting with a proposed patch from tedu): http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144280057027331&w=2
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
Shull doesn't mention the book by Krause [1], which provides exercises for the reader to develop an understanding of Taxicab Geometry. [1]: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486252027.html
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
Theo is objecting to the view that VMs are a security necessity.
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
I'm still going to use tail -f, in tmux. I get the log stream, and I get tmux's search & movement.
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
After a brief skimming on my lunch break: The approach this author takes is similar to the one that Baruch Spinoza uses in formulating a system of ethics, and which David Hume tears apart. His works cited don't reference anything writt
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by DArcMattr 11y ago
It's proving a negative assertion, which is impossible. The burden of proof is on the person making positive claims.
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by DArcMattr 12y ago
If the Pull Request has to do with a bit of UI/UX, images and animations are appropriate, to demonstrate user interaction with the interface.
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by DArcMattr 12y ago
Then there's also this: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...
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by DArcMattr 12y ago
Sadly this seems to be the state of the higher level discussions on the various Stack Overflow sites that get shared through Y Combinator. Fundamental questions are closed off because they're out of scope of the site they're asked
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by DArcMattr 12y ago
The current source for OpenSSH no longer requires linking to (Open|Libre)SSL http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140430045723
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by DArcMattr 12y ago
The Haswell refresh has been full of laptops where corners have been cut in the form of lower production quality, many convenient features being removed, and questionable keyboard layouts. There have even been a couple of ThinkPad-branded k
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by DArcMattr 12y ago
WebSQL yet another web spec that the Mozilla Foundation won't implement because of "problems". There are a few bits of CSS that I would love to use all over the web, like "display: run-in", but Gecko is the only hol
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by DArcMattr 12y ago
The FED is in a regulatory gray area where it is, yet is not, a government department.
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by DArcMattr 13y ago
And this is why I can't understand why people don't use matching braces in my control structures. Not using them is asking for this kind of error.

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