toadworrier

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by toadworrier 8y ago
I think of it as "The ship foundered on the rocks". Of course I suppose if a fish did the same thing we might have a foundering flounder.
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by toadworrier 8y ago
I agree WASM doesn't bring in anything fundamental to this picture that isn't already there with JS. But that is no comfort. In the ancient web world, the site author wrote HTML to describe the data she wanted presented and the b
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by toadworrier 8y ago
I think they are doing this with temporary loans. Our Maritime Museum in Sydney had a very good exhibition about the destruction of Pompeii. All the stuff there was on loan from some a couple maritime museums in Italy. Though I would leav
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by toadworrier 8y ago
Yes, it's useful for the problems that were around when it was invented and useless for the new problems that have arisen since. I want my old problems back.
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by toadworrier 8y ago
> While legacy code is most troublesome, it still will be at maximum only twice as bad resource-wise, than new and pretty code. This reflects an assumption -- perhaps one nurtured by engineers -- that paying down technical debt is about
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by toadworrier 8y ago
> _immediately move money to a bank account or you are dead_ So the "bank account" you are refering to is (or is a practically automatic gateway too) one of those "more stable financial assets" you mention above. The
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by toadworrier 8y ago
Which of course means it is not literally true, beause the paper those notes are written on is worth a lot more.
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by toadworrier 8y ago
And yet it was print newspapers that had the rule that important stuff must come in he first column inch.
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by toadworrier 8y ago
I don't get it. Do you?
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by toadworrier 8y ago
> but the people speaking the different dialects don't want to change to the new version. Makes sense that these small Alpine valley cultures want to speak the language their ancestors have evolved over the millennia, not some newfa
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by toadworrier 8y ago
> What is a reasonable mean? Be reasonable! Just as even interpreted software must eventually appeal to hardware actions to give them meaning, laws must eventually appeal to human-judged concepts, including reasonabless. A definition li
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by toadworrier 8y ago
Remember, our country founded as a place for storing bad, bad, Britons. In the long run, it doesn't seem to do much harm.
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by toadworrier 8y ago
How many people used any internet technology before there was even in Internet? But some people did use email.
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by toadworrier 8y ago
> Also 'basically an Asian city' sounds, basically, racist. Presumably, ponzored is from Harvard; we mustn't blame him for his upbringing.
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by toadworrier 8y ago
I am no plasma physicist, but the concern I hear about fusion is that whenever we scale a system up we find the plasma is behaving in new ways, resulting in new loss mechanisms. Identifying and understanding those new behaviours sounds more
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by toadworrier 8y ago
I expect so. But there is still an interesting point: witch and heretic-burning likely tap into much the same psychology as ancient human sacrifice. Even the rationales overlap: "Devine will demands these deaths; we will ensure the
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by toadworrier 8y ago
Yes. The Romans they accepted as inevitable that vast numbers of infants would be killed all the time. The Carthagians would have also had to deal with this reality. Perhaps they did so by framing it as a sacrifice to Moloch -- a practic
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by toadworrier 8y ago
The Jews weren't merely fellow Semitic speakers, they were neigubours to the Phoenecians. And rivals. In fact this is a point in favour of the Jews, in that even if such practices were not common among them; they would still have a st
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by toadworrier 8y ago
One of the very few things I know about audio codecs is that they at least implicitly embody a "psychoaccoustic model". The "psycho" is crucial because the human mind is the standard that tells us what we can afford to
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by toadworrier 8y ago
> Expecting journalists to have second degrees in law isn't a reasonable standard Who said anything about a second degree?
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by toadworrier 8y ago
> it's not clear that my Google Map data is 'mine' Yep, definitately not clear. But that's why it's a good for courts to start thinking about such things so that principles can emerge out of real-world cases. My