himom

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by himom 8y ago
But first one must be able to connect with people... since I can’t do that, the rest is considered behaviors of an pointless, unrespectable, unworthy fool, while everyone else is mostly “take, take, take.”
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Bye HN: Existentially-rational, self-termination
32 points by himom 8y ago|16 comments
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by himom 8y ago
#ifndef SUCCESSFUL_H_ #define SUCCESSFUL_H_ 1 #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif int will_code_for_awesome_benefits(void); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* SUCCESSFUL_H_ *&#
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by himom 8y ago
No, read the source article. The validation data are taken at baseline from three previously published studies investigating pharmaceutical interventions to normalize metabolic abnormalities of children with ASD31: (1) a combination of met
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by himom 8y ago
Ever since the JDK 1.0 days, I didn’t get why there was this C/C++ carry-over inconsistency of manually-boxed types and non-Objects primitive types separated from Objects. A type hierarchy, patterned similar to Ruby’s as an example, ma
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by himom 8y ago
It’s called an use tax. It’s equivalent to a sales tax, reporting is required but voluntary. Not paying use taxes on internet purchases is tax evasion. Here’s what CA’s state tax collectors have to say: https://www.ftb.ca.gov&#x2
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by himom 8y ago
It’s absurd how much goes into the bin. Why can’t restaurants especially use cloth napkins that are cleaned off-site and also silverware, plates and cups like what was done for centuries? Getting all restaurants’ service paraphernalia away
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by himom 8y ago
Stanford / Palo Alto gave up on a lot of recycling and went to “off-site sorting.” Stanford used to have 5! bins. Another fail is “recycling” at Costco, where basically no recycling happens and people just throw things in carelessly in
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by himom 8y ago
Future home of The Island of Doctor Moreau or a Four-Assed Monkey (s01e05). Srsly: At some point, a sizable-enough brain develops a degree of consciousness. Are we really going to test the mad scientist hypothesis that your brain might be i
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by himom 8y ago
Corruption: It’s What’s For Dinner™
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by himom 8y ago
CB is a YC alum.
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by himom 8y ago
Yeah, it seems like more and more people are delaying kids until it’s “now or never” scenario. Not good. Have kids as early as possible because of the work and energy involved. It’s not just fertility that declines, but IQ and a rise in bir
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by himom 8y ago
US immigration detention centers are now listed as concentration camps. It’s also interesting a number of them privately-owned (ie GEO Group, etc.) and also that many businesses, per article, enable their existence for blood money. It’s the
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by himom 8y ago
Except for case, bolt already is a puppet project. Not a huge deal since both projects are widely-spaced.
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by himom 8y ago
Ouch. Sounds like a failed state scenario: anarchy by services disappearing and unconcern for community. When a government ceases to provide a fundamental function, such as protecting its citizens, it risks irrelevancy... and citizens bette
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by himom 8y ago
It seems like there oughta be an app that can make it easy to pick non-/emergency numbers for a given location, type of service and jurisdiction (highway/state, unincorporated/county sheriff, incorporated/municipality, p
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by himom 8y ago
I realize you can’t necessarily comment on individual deployments, but I’d like to publicly shame Vacaville, CA’s e911 combined with Verizon and/or iPhone plain doesn’t work. Contacting the FCC, Verizon determined they were sending val
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by himom 8y ago
Q: America has minor drug users incarcerated for life, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, save Seychelles. How many Wall St. bankers, corrupt DC lobbyists or public officials are in jail for their crimes? A: very fe
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by himom 8y ago
Regardless of medical / health insurance purposes, actuaries have been doing this for over a century esp. to price life insurance, among other things.
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by himom 8y ago
With deep learning, actuaries were inevitably, mostly obsolete, at some point. It’s unpleasant to think, that in a way, tech can now readily disrupt nearly any arbitrary office-worker knowledge industry at will, destroying businesses and sp
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by himom 8y ago
Whatever software Pizza Hut used in the 90’s for their antique terminals to take orders and serve as cash registers. It was so slow, you could watch individual characters draw and clearing the screen was a multi-second operation. Oh and it
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by himom 8y ago
A book? I can’t color between the lines on this one, maybe I can’t read between them either. Here’s 3: Collapse by Jared Diamond The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon Brevísima relación de la destrucción de
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by himom 8y ago
Swift closure syntax, at least in <= 2.0, made for awkward API calls, since it wasn’t clear whether inline or after closures were used. In Ruby, a.map(&:succ)
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by himom 8y ago
Technically, any Turing-complete language can be mapped to any other Turing complete language, so it’s possible to have non-trivial syntatic sugar do anything. (Use brainfuck as IR, lol.) >:) But yeah, SS is more like: ++x; /
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by himom 8y ago
Donating blood gives me anxiety now, or were blood cells transformed into neurons inducing nervousness? Hmm. ;) Give life, donate blood etc.
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by himom 8y ago
I don’t think either offer much assurances unless there’s good test coverage, mocking, stubbing, fuzzing, property testing and so on to ensure code is solid. Trust but verify (automatically)
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by himom 8y ago
It is. One procedural solution is increased rigor, i.e., formal methods (a-la seL4) and unit/integration testing to prove isolation properties. I still don’t understand how Linux or Docker get a free pass, be so popular and complex whi
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by himom 8y ago
If a container system were formally-proven to provide all of these: - hard limits, priorization and accounting metrics of all resources, incl.: IO, storage, compute, mem, net, kernel structures - provable isolation / no side-channel le
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by himom 8y ago
Almost like The Eraser (1996), just add squad railgun rifles and X-ray-like targeting.
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by himom 8y ago
Ah yes, this oldie newsgroup post from ast, the guy whom wrote a bunch of mandatory CS textbooks and MINIX 2 (before the course moved to FreeBSD) which we had to hack on in ECS150. I’m sure he’s crazy rich by now from passive income. A hypo

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