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301 Moved Permanently
It's been over six years since I opened this livejournal. At the time, it was the best option available to me, and a huge step up from my previous web presence, which was a geocities page which sat at the end of a 40 digit url.
The time has come for me to move again. coriolinus.net is open, and this time it's going to stick around. The difference ( Read more... ) -
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Guantanimo prisoner, whose case had already been dismissed in 2006, is back on trial under the Military Commissions Act.But Hamdan's central question remained: "By what law will you try me ( Read more... ) -
the blinkenlights in the dashboard are not just there to look pretty
Today was a pretty decent day to fly. There was some instances of heavy turbulence--at one point, I got a sudden descent of more than 1000 feet per minute for about ten seconds--but I thought things were going well. I was on short final, getting ready to land and switch out, when the "Main Gen Fail" light came on ( Read more... ) -
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It seems that the ALSE people rock ( Read more... ) -
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For the first time in weeks, I have woken up before my alarm on a work day. I seem, finally, to have internalized a sleep schedule. I would be more inclined to see this as a good thing if I still had to wake up at 3am.
I could not help but hoot out loud after seeing today's xkcd. -
the below is 100% true
Last night I vomited on the inverter ( Read more... ) -
Engineered vs. Organic Code
The code I posted this morning is nothing I'd ever show to a prospective employer. It is sparsely commented, convoluted, and nearly impossible to expand. All I actually wrote of it last night was the part to prune down the source tree, so that the best-rated categories weren't being spammed out by a bunch of one-hit wonders while leaving good bands ( Read more... ) -
because i'm a nerd, that's why
I've been dutifully putting song ratings into iTunes for years now, rating each song individually according to its merit. iTunes actually died a while ago and forced me to start the entire rating process over again, but I still hope that one day I will have a fully rated music library ( Read more... ) -
Hypothetical Question Time
Say that you are buddies with a top computer scientist. He has been working for DARPA on an AI project. He succeeds! True AI! Over the period of a few months of shakedown trials and training of the new AI, you befriend it. This time ends when your buddy announces to DARPA project success, so they immediately install it into a robot chassis and ( Read more... ) -
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Everyone has heard of holding patterns. They are those little racetracks in the sky that aircraft fly around while waiting for space to clear up so they can proceed with what they want to do, which is nearly always to land. Until quite recently, I hadn't put any thought into exactly how pilots maintained those patterns; if it wasn't just looking ( Read more... )