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garrison
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About garrison
I have prior experience working as a theoretical physicist in government and academia, and also as a software engineer. Before that, I worked as public relations coordinator at the Software Freedom Law Center.
On the web: https://jimgarrison.org/
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Comment #45787606
This reminds me of an earlier blog post by the same author: https://web.archive.org/web/20121111234839/http://www.altdev...
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Comment #40542422
There is https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resources-information-approved-dru...
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Comment #40542397
It also inherently takes at least 5 years from when a study starts to show that progression-free survival is at least 5 years.
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Comment #38702620
Looks neat. A screenshot or video would be much appreciated.
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Comment #38378069
If OpenAI remains a 501(c)(3) charity, then any employee of Microsoft on the board will have a fiduciary duty to advance the mission of the charity, rather than the business needs …
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Comment #34852134
My recent solution to this problem -- for an entire static site -- was to use HTTP Basic authentication with CloudFlare Pages: https://github.com/garrison/cloudflare-pages-shared-p…
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Comment #34304144
The final point, involving labels and references, could be improved by mentioning cleveref: https://ctan.org/pkg/cleveref?lang=en
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Comment #31429600
Similar correctness issues are a big part of the reason that, several years ago, I submitted a series of pull requests to Julia so that its entire test suite would run without memo…
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Comment #26982183
> I'm giving Basecamp the benefit of the doubt It's not clear that they deserve the benefit of the doubt, if we are to believe Casey Newton's article, "What really happened at Base…
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Comment #26173639
I have had great luck with "reMarkable Connection Utility." It bypasses reMarkable's cloud, which I have never once connected to. http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
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Comment #24704368
I tried deploying a static site. DO App Platform makes the file page1/index.html available both at /page1 and at /page1/. If the page contains any relative links or images, it is i…
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Comment #24172388
It sounds like MDN could benefit from being the work of a 501(c)(6) business league, which is how the Linux Foundation's work is funded. Money could initially come from the big exi…
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Comment #24109075
Brad Smith in 2007: Linux violates 235 MS patents, and the FOSS community must pay up. https://web.archive.org/web/20070514143032/https://money.cnn... Brad Smith in 2020: We Need a…
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Comment #22997971
Several years ago, I gave a presentation on quantum computing to the Los Angeles Hacker News Meetup. The slides are at https://jimgarrison.org/quantumcomputingexplained/ . Unfortun…
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Comment #20266530
> the much more powerful, out-of-order, Cortex-A72 core Does this mean the new Raspberry Pi is now susceptible to Spectre-type vulnerabilities?
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Comment #15725696
This is effectively how Amazon Smile works, although the technical details are different: instead of soliciting "donations" they promise that 0.5% of each purchase is given (by Ama…
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Comment #13674615
There was a long thread about Julia / Julia Computing here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/1zIlXQYb... . Viral said in the first post that "We will respond [to…
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Comment #10830997
As for an ATM card, I make a special point of keeping my wallet in my hands while I am using the ATM and my ATM card (or anything else that belongs in the wallet) is not in my wall…
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Comment #8432984
I see many mentions of YAML in the comments, but why not TOML? ( https://github.com/toml-lang/toml )
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Comment #6573821
> The only option is to revert to the original title, which is at least what the author intended. This is true when linking to blogs, but frequently in the media it is the editor o…
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Comment #6052559
I don't believe that quote is what she had an issue with. See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137390362508794&w=2
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Comment #3018993
I don't know much about the MIT project, but a criticism of a related project is available in a nytimes op-ed at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/opinion/01srivastava.html I have …
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Comment #2909850
> The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. More likely, it's because all said software is proprieta…