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by cuspycode 8y ago
How about working with Taiwan? I think they too have a space program, although I have no idea how big it is.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
Why does anyone feel the need to take on a new name just because you change your religion? I never understood that. I have had epiphanies that dramatically changed my world-view, but I never thought "Now I must take a new name". I
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by cuspycode 8y ago
People who spy on their own countrymen should be regarded as traitors, in my opinion. And they should be prosecuted as traitors, and punished as traitors. However, the theory of the "Deep State" and its influences makes it difficu
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> What you shouldn't do is try to self-study by reading a book. I say do try self-study first and see if it works. You have absolutely nothing to lose by trying. It doesn't work for everyone, but you will quickly figure out if
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by cuspycode 8y ago
I distinctly remember when I became aware of NNTP, the new protocol that allowed Usenet to be distributed almost in real-time, using TCP/IP instead of UUCP. Electronic mail, file transfers, and remote terminals already existed using va
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by cuspycode 8y ago
> The key idea of imaginary numbers is to consider multiplication -1 to be a rotation by half a turn rather than a reflection. That is a lot easier to do half of! As soon as you have multiplication by -1 as a rotation by half a turn, it
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by cuspycode 8y ago
> Also can't think of any portugese scientist, or portugese based lab renowned for anything in biology or computer science. Fernando Pereira comes to mind: he made significant contributions to the early development of logic programm
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by cuspycode 8y ago
A classic example is daemonizing a process. While still attached to the terminal you first parse command-line options, read config files, and do some sanity checks. Any errors caught at this point cause an error message and exit(1). Otherwi
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Also, Sweden was the first European country that was connected to the U.S. Internet, or more specifically to NSFNET [1][2]. This was because the adoption of TCP/IP protocols for wide area networks came earlier in Sweden than in other p
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Negative in what way? In my experience they were excellent machines that had much better overall performance than the original "toaster" models. Their main problem was that they had non-square pixels, but people put up with that f
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by cuspycode 8y ago
I think it's "Cargo Cult Security". My hypothesis is that someone once realized that having a password stored in the clipboard could be bad, so let's just ban pasting passwords. The logic here is obviously completely b
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And that is why I never do automatic OS/platform upgrades on a development machine. When something stops working that was known to work before, I want to know exactly what things have changed, and not have to troubleshoot multiple conc
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by cuspycode 8y ago
Do you have a gist or similar link for this code? Copy & paste doesn't work due to indentation issues.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
The article uses two example theorems to justify this: a * (b/c) = b * (a/c), which can be extended to cover the c=0 case, and a/a = 1, which can be extended to cover the a=0 case. I can see how this can be useful in some sit
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by cuspycode 8y ago
Ah, the memories! I did some third-party development for Macintosh in 1985, and we used Apple Lisas as our development workstations. These Lisas usually booted into Apple Pascal, which looked very much like the UCSD Pascal development envir
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by cuspycode 8y ago
This is a good story that illustrates the problem very well. I don't want to be treated according to what my statistical cohort in a certain particular context suggests. But I have no problem with a personalized treatment from my bank
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by cuspycode 8y ago
Inflation makes money lose one of the primary purposes of why money exists in the first place: money is a store of value.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
Yes, I have used it to mount document servers as remote drives via WebDAV, and then use standard Unix one-liners to do queries and updates. Much more convenient than working with custom APIs. I also once integrated an open-source WebDAV ser
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by cuspycode 8y ago
But Article 27(2) explicitly excludes the requirement of designating a representative according to 27(1), if the processing of personal data is limited within perfectly sound limits.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
A designated DPO is only required for companies that have over 250 employees. Surely that can't be a huge burden? Just appoint the head of security to be the DPO. He can google the GDPR requirements and then be all set after 15 minutes
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by cuspycode 8y ago
This is a hasty conclusion. For example, the city of Kiruna in northern Sweden (latitude 67 degrees north) has about three weeks of total darkness each winter. So there is no sun exposure at all during that time. And even south of the arcti
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by cuspycode 8y ago
Assume a really fast rocket is traveling from galaxy A to galaxy B. Due to relativistic length contraction, the distance between the galaxies is less as seen by the rocket than it is for a stationary observer in either galaxy. So the travel
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by cuspycode 8y ago
What makes "mere hacking" different from true enlightenment? Is it just the perspective of the one who has the experience? As Tim Leary said: The caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
Agreed. The fact that JavaScript lacks reasonable numeric types means that I never use it except when there is no alternative.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
That's a strange comment considering that most people who get hurt in a blood-thirsty revolution are generally not the rich and powerful.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
I think scalable income is a more useful concept than passive income. What I mean by scalable income is when you can increase your income by investing more capital, but keeping time commitment and effort at the same level. In my view purely
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Servlet containers have two levels of isolation: individual apps are mostly firewalled from each other as you say, but when running multiple servlet containers they are as isolated from each other as multiple docker processes are when it co
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by cuspycode 9y ago
The JVM is a container by itself, and it has been able to isolate dependencies and memory requirements for many years before docker was conceived. The JVM doesn't do everything that docker does, for example it doesn't provide over
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by cuspycode 9y ago
Animals have grunted at each other for hundreds of millions of years, and human speech has slowly evolved from this. Text however was an instant revolution, a complete game changer. I don't think text is going away. The immediate benef
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by cuspycode 9y ago
How about a review of one that is marketed as anonymous or privacy-friendly? For example Monero or PIVX. Many people still incorrectly believe that Bitcoin transactions are anonymous (yes, I know they can be anonymous if you make an effort

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