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by queuebert 2y ago
Completely depends on the program of study and school. In astronomy and physics programs, graduate courses are far more advanced, but grades are based almost entirely on homework sets. Undergraduate course are less comprehensive, but have a
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by queuebert 2y ago
Well that Windows 11 article is laughably short, considering it's a major version. But I appreciate you taking the time to compile all those links. My point is the vast majority of this stuff is either "fluff" or cosmetic cha
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by queuebert 2y ago
Simple patches/upgrades vs tricking people into thinking you've made a whole new piece of software. Linux, BSD, and Apple roll out OS upgrades with new functionality without charging for the new versions.
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by queuebert 2y ago
All of this could've been added to XP, right?
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by queuebert 2y ago
As long as they aren't photino birds. -- Stephen Baxter, probably [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(Baxter_novel)
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by queuebert 2y ago
I would be very hesitant to say "cannot" in a million-line C code base.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I believe the term you are looking for is "rent seeking". Other than visual changes, what new functionality does Windows 11 actually have that Windows XP didn't have? (I'm being generous with XP, because actually 95 wa
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by queuebert 2y ago
This will be a huge time saver for shady accountants everywhere.
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by queuebert 2y ago
That team was probably laid off because they weren't shipping product fast enough.
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by queuebert 2y ago
So it's using a new stack that hasn't been vetted like OpenSSH? I'd rather use OpenSSH + LibreSSL for this application.
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by queuebert 2y ago
.plan was the original status update.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I don't even think Linux is the definite answer. The majority of these critical apps are just full-screen UIs written in C, C++ or Java with minimal computing and networking, so they could just as easily run on Qubes or BSD without all
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by queuebert 2y ago
And they all invariably use Windows instead of a high-reliability OS.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Niklaus Wirth has entered the chat.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Probably not. It's hard to be certain about a classical object with a singularity (e.g. infinities) at the center, but, so far from gravitational wave observatories, we aren't seeing anything not predicted by classical bendy space
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by queuebert 2y ago
I appreciate the elegant blog design. Reminds me of Edward Tufte's books.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Do you think we the people chose the presidential candidates we keep having? There are multiple levels of representation, and all of them are tainted by special interests and partisanship. The primary system can choose candidates however th
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by queuebert 2y ago
You're right that political systems are far too complex to get perfect in a thought experiment, but I would argue that thinking about it ahead of time can't possibly be worse than blindly forging ahead.
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by queuebert 2y ago
> I'm talking about America, with a so-called democracy far older than the USSR Technically America is not a democracy -- it's a federal republic composed of states with widely differing interpretations of democracy.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I was expecting it to be someone like Vernor Vinge and was excited to learn about a new author I could read, but instead we got some lazy box ticking.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Science fiction allows us to explore the ramifications of theoretical political systems in a way that is not possible in reality except over very long timescales and with extremely cooperative citizens.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I read the author's short story from the article, and your comment is by far the better piece of writing.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Boeing's bad decisions were not based on shareholder votes, but rather a cabal of bad actors. You could have this happen in any economic system. In fact, Boeing planes, even with all the cheating, are statistically safer than those pr
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How the Toba Supervolcano Changed Human Evolution(atlasobscura.com)
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by queuebert 2y ago
I should print this and put it on my wall for all those times when I'm frustrated with Rust lifetimes.
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by queuebert 2y ago
> e is the unique real number satisfying 1 + x <= e^x for all x. I think if you replace e by 2e, this still holds. Therefore your definition of e is not unique.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I always suspected Emacs would achieve sentience before vim. Maybe I'll be wrong.
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by queuebert 2y ago
New crontab job incoming...
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This also works with other government agencies, such as the ATF.
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One job requires much more specialized training than the other. My father in law was a revenue agent, and the size of the books he had to use to do his job was astounding.

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