chbarts

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by chbarts 16y ago
> If you think your hands are clean in any of that, then you are sorely mistaken. Oh yes, original sin. Wonderful. That makes sense. Can I buy some plenary indulgence from you, or is it a 'salvation by grace' thing now? > They are
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by chbarts 16y ago
Are you insisting that Darfur and North Korea are representative of the world as a whole? Do you really have that little conception , child?
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by chbarts 16y ago
> I think the idea that humans are getting smarter and nobler is hogwash. OK, find me a duel and a bear-baiting match in America and I'll believe you. Otherwise you're just mindlessly cynical, like any number of other teenagers.
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by chbarts 16y ago
> I'm not sure if Americans "expect to be bailed out all the time," but I do know that we expect as consumers not to have our rights trampled on arbitrarily. Right. Personal responsibility means companies must be held responsible if the
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by chbarts 16y ago
http://us.metamath.org/ Do you know about Metamath yet? It's something similar to what you want, but it's all in a single program as opposed to being web-based.
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by chbarts 16y ago
Can I be the first to say, "About time!"
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Once you realize that the caged animal has more in common with you than any other specie, you start to put yourself in his place. The same applies to chimps, and then recursively down the chain from other apes all the way to bacteria.
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by chbarts 16y ago
I thought this would be a riff on the 'machine that goes "ping"', but no, it's completely insane. Wheel of morality, turn turn turn, tell us the lesson that we should learn.
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by chbarts 16y ago
The 'Noble Savage' myth is the last vestige of racism still taken seriously by educated Westerners. It seems harmless enough, because the stereotype is positive, but it's still an assumption about moral character based on race.
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Without their culture, community, and absolute freedom to roam the planet and carve a corner for themselves, they would be another zoo/museum curiosity, a biological anomaly paraded before us for pennies. By this argument, we should d
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by chbarts 16y ago
This library thinks Franz Kafka and Charlie Chaplain were the funniest people ever, particularly as epitomized in The Trial and Modern Times , respectively.
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Nope, these are actual guidelines Microsoft uses to make hiring, promotion, and compensation decisions. city41's comment is 100% accurate about how these things are used. So... it's edgy humor in the form of a terrifying practical jok
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by chbarts 16y ago
Dr. Dobb's is certainly closer to being dead than 8-bit microcontrollers are. It ceased publication as a standalone magazine in February 2009; it's now online and a monthly section in InformationWeek called Dr. Dobb's Report.
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by chbarts 16y ago
Jack Crenshaw's book Let's Build a Compiler http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ is probably too far to the pragmatic end; it essentially walks you through the process of writing a recursive-descent compiler in Pascal for a Pascal-like l
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Of course, Scott Adams has been at this for years and having to come up with a new joke each day for that length of time would be rather challenging. Definitely the case. This comedy degradation happened to Garfield and Peanuts as
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by chbarts 16y ago
> I plan to be one of those parents that don't own a TV. The modern equivalent is denying your kids Internet access. According to a (somewhat) recent Variety article, the median age of TV viewership is 50. (Yes, I do trust Variety t
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by chbarts 16y ago
A few happy prison owners, a few happy cartel kings, and a lot of happy DEA agents and police officers who will never be out of work.
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by chbarts 16y ago
> I was actually talking about the chemical mixes that are actually toxic / poison that are being brewed in trailers in the rural areas or kitchens in apartment complexes. I wasn't writing about addictiveness. Right. Well, legalization
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Killing someone while drunk should be considered premeditated. I agree. > Some of the current drugs out there need to stay illegal. Not because they get you high, but because they are toxic. OK, I'll replace 'toxic' with 'potenti
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Drug violence is rarely about cartels vs cops -- more often it's cartels vs cartels and dealers vs dealers. Precisely the point: If the cartels come to intimidate grandma, she calls the police, because her operation is legal and the i
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Not your usual textbook exercise. Textbooks do seem to exist as if the Internet weren't usable, don't they? At most they seem to have a few URLs to the publisher's and author's websites. It's actually kind of sad, as if textbook au
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Make it one huge html file Make this one option. The other option should be one HTML file per chapter (or subchapter, or thereabouts) for the people who want to use the browser's bookmark functionality to pick up where they left off.
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by chbarts 16y ago
Nedit http://www.nedit.org/ might be too much like ass for you, but it's pretty simple in the default state and isn't just a GUI wrapper around a character-terminal editor.
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by chbarts 16y ago
Take a look at the data file (/usr/share/misc/units.dat) some time. It's an interesting little declarative non-Turing-complete DSL, in addition to being a handy reference manual.
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by chbarts 16y ago
Best Practices, n.: Making the same mistakes everyone else does. However, what are the odds of someone being able to make special-purpose machines to do everything COTS boxes are used for, and making those machines as fast, cheap, and reli
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by chbarts 16y ago
The problem with this is that it assumes it's always safe to destroy a drive, as opposed to the scenario where the mere fact you destroyed storage media is enough to implicate you. The other problem with this is that the NSA is paranoid, an
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by chbarts 16y ago
> What is your evidence for that claim? Common usage, which you can see as easily as I can. For example, do news agencies typically use FBI or F.B.I.? Do they typically use UN or U.N.? > That is, what is the evidence that current pr
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by chbarts 16y ago
> I think without Wintel, probably we would've had more competition and innovation in the area, and cheaper/faster machines. Maybe. Or maybe we'd just have locked on to CP/M-86 and Digital Research, which was just as tied to x86. Howeve
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by chbarts 16y ago
> the authoritative source of rules No, it isn't. It is influential, not authoritative. And, in this instance, it is outdated.
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by chbarts 16y ago
> I think we'd be better served with simply issuing z-scores and normalizing grades completely, so there's some real context. So should we punish people based on who happened to be in their class with them? That makes sense if you're pi

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