lordlicorice

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by lordlicorice 14y ago
In high school I had to write a long apology essay in part because my computer teacher testified to the principal that the Windows command line is "a high-security area of the computer that students have no business accessing." I tried to e
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
> Although each of these counts bordered on the preposterous, Ortiz and Heymann clearly reckoned that at least one or two would stick during the jury-room bargaining process. ... Prosecutors were also revealed to have offered a reduced
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
For me, external documentation is the absolute worst scenario. It takes me at least 4 times longer to read through and understand code without comments explaining in English what's going on. Here's a real-life example: // Toggle between
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
Unless the shared object file also includes an override for the function that expands environment variables to lie about the true value of LD_PRELOAD.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
I think it has more to do with bureaucracy than with fear of litigation. In an ecosystem as complicated as medical care, lots of policies and procedures accumulate over time and there's nobody with the authority to cut through the bullshit
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
The screenshot at the bottom is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
The "Dear Sir" and "Mr." built into the form letter on page 7 caught my eye. That's not something you see anymore.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
The difference isn't just replacing {} with <>. Notice that the tag name is only specified once. The end tag is only an end } not a </tag>. This is more satisfying to programmers because the SGML style allows mixups like &#6
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
`pass` is uncracked?
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
> Books need to be written, edited, typeset, 'printed' / 'put into ebook format', distributed, etc. The author writes the book. Typesetting and "putting into ebook format" are a copy-and-paste affair, taking at most a day. Pirated books
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
There's nothing stopping people from uploading the files to bittorrent. It's only the hackers' anonymity that matters.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
"What struck me most about the entry was Van Riesen's philosophical approach to the matter, which is remarkably prescient of the challenges we, as the human race, face with how to deal with the computer" His opinion wasn't at all prescient.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
Then again, maybe AI-based surveillance could eliminate crime without embarrassment from other people violating your privacy.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
I typically take the classic step of choosing "What is my password?" as a custom security question.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
> We calculated these times from the report's "Inventory Turn" metric, which estimates the number of times a company's inventory is sold in a given time period. Apple's number is 74, according to Gartner (or 76, according to Forbes). Fr
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
Amnesia was creepy, but I wouldn't call it excellent. Psychonauts is the 3D game that really shines in this pack. It's extremely memorable and utterly original. Fun fact: the Metacritic user score for Psychonauts is 9.4 compared to Amnesia'
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
"Take the most significant part, rip off the constants, and that's its growth rate." Well, it's an upper bound on its growth rate. And only after some possibly-gigantic n.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
Academics are notorious for their code, but I suspect the parent was talking about people in industry with a CS background.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
> Is it possible – just possible – that Edison honestly believed that AC was dangerous and honestly did not think it should be use? This strikes me as pretty naive. Edison had the patents that effectively controlled the market for DC el
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
The families of solutions are described by the puzzle's author here: http://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=Thread&threadID=...
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
Are there supposed to be instructions to this somewhere?
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
At research universities most of the budget comes from research, and most of the work in research gets done by grad students. Undergrad programs are an afterthought.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
I know! People get so attached to the idea of free will. What free will? You do what you want, but you have no control over what you want.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
Great book, but I don't think the treatment of virtual hells was very convincing. First of all, the characters in hell would have gone insane with agony, but they just kind of wince it off and keep chatting. It reminded me of Niven and Pour
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
The "rate limited" option in the video reminds me of slow clubs from that book. For people who haven't read it, in the novel there are virtual parties called slow clubs where poor consciousnesses go to meet. Everyone agrees to limit themsel
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
It's hard to overstate the value of a university education... Why are you so vehement? Never went to college?
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
Certificates are fine for IT work, but they can't replace degrees for programmers. A degree at a good school shows that you're smart, not just knowledgeable.
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
He's not suggesting that you subpixel antialias manually. He's pointing out a benefit of leaving your images as vectors: the browser knows the subpixel order of the display, and can make the image prettier than you can without that informat
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
Would a sphere of water that size be massive enough to hold a gaseous atmosphere heavy enough to allow liquid water far enough down?
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by lordlicorice 14y ago
This reads like a thinly-veiled advocacy for CISPA.

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