trapperkeeper74

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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Call a spade a spade. It’s nutty, libertarian, billionaire propaganda.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Totally what that guy on Gold Rush needs to get his barge up the Yukon. ;)
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
What seems the most likely is that, effectively, memory is like very lossy, probabilistic compression spread with redundancy across a billion analog storage nodes, similar in some ways to a Bloom filter. It’s not binary though, it’s analog.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Yup. Think of C as a rusty straight razor and Fortran as a barn full of rusty implements about ready to fall at any time. C++ maybe a rusty safety razor. Originally, Fortran had manual memory management, as per the times. Thankfully, the la
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
I knocked out a bunch of lower division CS classes at a JC (taking 5 at a time). I think I went to the first class and a few before midterms and finals. Just got the labs and handed them in the next day. Hurray for attendance-optional JCs!
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
In the late 90’s, I helped port a nuclear reactor simulator to Win32. It was around 20 million lines of Fortran and was actively developed by physicists and engineers (none were really software engineers). And, at that time the codebase was
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Don’t get lost barking up the partisan tree, most Americans aren’t the enemy. Both parties are different flavors of corrupt (Gore Vidal’s Property party): one ignores their base while taking corporate money and the other panders to extremis
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Wow. Cool. I wonder how hard are the synthesises of the useful antidepressants like mirtazapine. Also, I found ASX-05 (Phase III) uses a DM metabolite that is retained much more by the addition of brupropion. DM is the stuff in some cough s
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Spectrum isn’t an axis. There is much grey in the world statistics can’t capture. Looking for data to fit a narrative is political science, not science.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
People often conflate nebulous “evil” with more specific rational self-interest, good investments and cheating/underpaying/stealing from people. There are a lot of middling rich people whom do underpay people because it works and
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Excusing greedy behavior won’t make it right, ever.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Fuck, I’d try this right now. Just stopped mirtazepene because it was less and less effective. Now I’m back to the black dog. I know of a university in the US that has someone with the even more magical DEA exclusion certificate, wouldn’t t
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
There are many, many BS papers because of the mass-production death-march researchers are told to produce, low p-value and sample size standards and ”Is Most Published Reseach Wrong?” (Veritasium, 2016) https://youtu.be/42
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
There are three activities: - critical feedback on papers - hypermonetization (and deleterious siloing) of works often produced with government grants, leading to primarily academics only having ready access to papers, whom don’t see the su
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Cool! Google Drive integration on iOS stopped working. Other than that, works awesome.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
VLC is awesome! :D I use the iOS and macOS versions often. Thank you^10.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
The current answer is we don’t yet have full functional pathologies of types of depression, noninvasive, specific mood disorders classified down to exact neurological dysfunctions, accurate and precise knowledge of how existing antidepressa
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Umm, not sure this is universal but partial. Depression seems evolutionary psych for multiple, overlapping purposes: - Reducing aggression (and hence conflict) in larger groups. - Focusing on existential re/purpose by turning inward (i
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Doesn’t address the problem by shifting externalities elsewhere and reinforces prejudices. Maybe instead of arrogant “quick fixes” it’s worth considering, lower TCO permanent solutions like micro apartments, real and integrated drug, health
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
They could open source everything but secret keys for cloud, secure enclave, secure booting, etc. It’s not like it would help knock-off iDevices or putting something other an iOS on an iDevice. Jailbreaking is almost dead and there hasn’t
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sw
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
It seemed risky but innovation demands taking risks. Mozilla could use another “product” category than mainly just a browser.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Aaron’s still at it, fixing bugs in bundler, nokogiri and maybe still teaching even. I’ve stopped using MRI because the toolchain and ecosystem aren’t conducive to economical scaling or profiling like C or JVM. JRuby is much easier to profi
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Scrypt is tweakable for RAM and runtime constraints. From that PBKDF, it would make sense to use something like HMAC-SHA2 with another magic nonce, and then private information plus previous PBKDF output hash together as the authenticated p
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
You're looking in the wrong place. Install the homebrew version, it has 3 patches for macOS that aren't in the upstream. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
As an aside: Back in the day, I worked for a nuclear sciences consultancy whose hostnames for machines were Simpsons' characters. They strived to make control-systems fail-safe with extensive planning, processes safe as possible and si
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Ask HN: Does Intel's CET Proposal Conflict with Protection Keys?
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Purple and some quasi-paid reviewer are fighting on youtube about talc.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
$ecretary of $tate ;)
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
There's no need for herbicides or pesticides if the growth medium, plant food, etc. are tightly controlled, like in a hydroponic vertical factory farm in a climate-controlled, air-locked building.

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