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I think the government would call it discrimination.

> The law prohibits discrimination [against people over 40] in any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, promotions, layoff, training, benefits, and any other term or condition of employment.

http://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination

Ah, it appears that is only done for ARM, but not x86. It would be great if x86 were more amenable to FM, or if we had faster formally-specified processors. Can't wait for a RISC-V workstation!

This paper mentions CRN++, a compiler that translates an imperative language into Chemical Reaction Networks. I had no idea this field existed. This stuff is mind bogglingly cool!

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07430

If you still have the SVN repo, there should be a way to actually import all the commits to a Git repo (git-svn). Then, you could rebase the entire master branch of the current GitHub repo. That might show more of your contributions if many of them are hidden by the "guake_root" commit.

To be fully pedantic, 1000 orders of magnitude (10^1000) is really 900 orders of magnitude larger than a googol.

10^1000 / 10^100 = 10^900

Easy, use CRISPR to make trees immune to chainsaws.

Are those the last two characters of stringing NaN?

A while ago, I tried making a Piet compiler in Haskell that emits LLVM IR. Eventually I found an inconsistency between my interpretation of the spec and npiet's implementation, so some Hello World examples would print something like "Hello wowowowowo...".

https://github.com/dmcardle/piet-llvm-frontend

You're still assuming it won't detect this and periodically phone home from an open network.

This assumes a certain (low) level of malicious intent. A fully malicious TV will connect to open WiFi nearby or use even more exotic methods to exfiltrate data.

One terrible but effective solution is to turn your home into a Faraday cage.

Eh, I see this as a form of eventual consistency.

There are some GNU Makefiles that invoke `make` manually instead of `$(MAKE)`. On FreeBSD, where `make` is bmake, this is a pain in the ass.

It's still 100% relevant. I can only speak for FreeBSD, but this is a real pain when building from source (outside of FreeBSD Ports).

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?make(1)

Are you using Tor by chance? Check out https://privacypass.github.io/

With full knowledge I am being an armchair statistician, wouldn't it be difficult to tell the difference between supercentenarians having extraordinary resistance to disease and supercentenarians being the ones who got lucky? Perhaps getting diseases is bad for your longevity!

Probably a joke, but I'm guessing the implication is that lawyers are litigious.

It feels wrong, but profession is not a protected class in the US. Maybe this is a kind of discrimination that is legal.

You would have to sample a lot of people (yes, there is a selection bias in the people that participate) and give all of them IQ tests.

Is there a shutter sound if you take a video?

VP

People can inhibit their negative behavior when they are trying to get people to like them and gain social status. If they feel empowered by having some status or a promotion, they may begin to "punch down".

There's really no excuse for being rude in the workplace. Please get help instead of trying to justify it.

If multiple people have made HR complaints "behind your back", you are not competently performing your job. (This directly affects your claimed 3X performance because you drag down your coworkers.)

Not a real researcher, but perhaps randomized trials could help?

Is this a baby version of dependent types?

What if the OS could dedupe pages?

Life isn't deterministic.

Some of the pressure for parking spots should be reduced by the people who are now biking. It's not clear it will even out, though.

I'm noticing an increasing amount of rude comments on HN these days. Please, keep it civil.

Replacing hexadecimal stack traces?

You can tell if it's raining by looking out the window, but you can't really see the temperature.