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rbanffy
194,608karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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To be fair, we Brazilians also like her very much. She’s a Mexican Lula and we wish her success.
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> speaking with locals? Why? Are they experts in bootstrapping industrial bases? Or healthcare? Or transport?
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That’s how industries start - integrating, then copying, then designing their own.
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I think mine tops out at 4800.
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IIRC the Minitel had a TTL level serial port that’d work at 4800 bps.
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> He also famously rejected quantum mechanics due to his philosophical beliefs What you accept or not is irrelevant. It’s the math that guides you. I too believe we only perceive randomness because…
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All we needed to do would be to introduce game theory to them. It doesn’t matter what we say. We deal with zero trust all the time.
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The uncertainty increases and predictions are reliable only up to a couple hundred years but those hundred years are good enough at any point in time, because you redo your predictions all the time. T…
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I can’t imagine aliens better suited for space travel than the Trisolarans. For them, deep hibernation is a natural state and they could easily build space ships to explore other nearby systems and se…
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> What about tipping? Please find a way to punish restaurants that don’t pay living wages and force staff to live from the tips. This is just wrong.
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> cease and decease letter I don’t know if it was an accident or a pun, but I love it.