Asbostos

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by Asbostos 11y ago
Sure. That "If" kind of makes it moot. That's all I was trying to point out - that it's a documentation thing rather than something in the design of the chip and how it works. Edit: What do you mean "still treat it
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Opcode 0x90 only means xchg eax,eax on paper. If no documentation ever called it that then it would be a non-issue. It would always have been nop and still be nop. Somebody could also have called it xchg ebx,ebx as well and it would have be
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It seems more a matter of wording than anything in the CPU " An assembler would translate the mnemonic “nop” into “xchg ax, ax” (opcode 0×90)" But 0x90 also means nop, so it's not really translating anything. And now it still
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Anyone who's upgraded their phone or replaced it because the battery stopped holding charge. Internet access would be free via wifi which most people have in their homes. So I'd doubt that an IP camera is cheaper. If anything, a p
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by Asbostos 11y ago
What I find a bit of a shame is how dependent on the cloud it is. I live in a country where the internet isn't reliable, fast or secure so any cloud services are a barely worth the hassle or simply no-go if the government blocks them.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That text doesn't seem to be there anymore. But still scary, the first paragraph says: "We won’t share or store any personal information unless required for the operation of Perch" Then later on: "We receive and store an
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That's unfortunate about your drug conviction. Was the heroin really so attractive that you knowingly risked your career, livelihood and a year of your life for it or did you not understand the risks? I can appreciate you're angry
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yep, but that turns out to take more words than a blanket restriction.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
My product has an EULA less than 200 words so I feel I'm not being too awful. About half of it is just there because of the requirements of the licences of all the libraries it uses. No reverse engineering - really? I don't care b
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Prices for anything don't have to be justified. The market decides them. It turns out that people really want to pay those publishers, so they can charge high fees. It also turns out scientists really want to publish their work in thos
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Scientists still love giving up their rights to Elsevier though. They're as much to blame as the publisher. Maybe something would start to happen if scientists preferentially avoided citing non-openly published papers. They won't
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It may have practical short term benefits but bending medicine to suit culture is not generally great. If somebody invented a way to prevent measles without a vaccine. It might be a good idea but not for the reason that it respects the will
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Try as they might, physicists haven't found any way to adjust it that allows for an infinite time while also being consistent with so many observed phenomena. Of course we could make up an ad hoc model that says "It just is"
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It'll be great if Collabora is going to fix some of the notorious bugs that workers will inevitably come across like having the pictures deleted from their documents or their page layout silently changed.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I wonder what the novel feature is here. Surely somebody would have thought of renting space in a solar powered fridge before? Maybe it's only recently become viable because of improvements in the economy?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
What I mean is passively let them take up the problem themselves if they want your newsletters. Since it's something they expect and want, they might choose to pressure their email provider into solving it. Of course if they don't
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Saving syllables has to be balanced against the cost and difficulty of confusion. More units mean more confusion. So do inconsistent factors like 1/100.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It probably won't be a problem because people sometimes walk like that one stairs too (at least I do!). For walking the loads would be higher because they're concentrated on one foot on one edge of one step. The failure mode of th
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by Asbostos 11y ago
How about let your members keep missing their emails. If they really want them, encourage them to sort out the problem with their email provider which is apparently failing to do its job? Since the recipients are the ones who choose to rece
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That person was doing manual copy and paste. So yes, they didn't code.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Freelancing in IT is kind of a fantastic global phenomenon really. It allows foreigners like this guy to work "in" another country without being blocked by the artificial market distortion of immigration restrictions. Perhaps ther
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Does it matter how he'd handle those other issues if he gets his reform done? You seem to be saying that continuity in handling those issues in a way you like is more important than the reform he's proposing. Wouldn't it be w
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Wow, it seems like you can do it with a simple DC circuit too! That paper's a bit complicated but if you just make the road network with constant voltage drop diodes and resistors instead of constant travel time roads and time-proporti
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Taken to the extreme, if you made such a dense network of roads that it was effectively just one giant paved surface, then I think it's obvious that it'd be inefficient since everyone is barging through trying to go in their own s
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Imperialism can be fantastic, but in much the same way a one-party political system can be fantastic. Only if it happens to be run well. There's no safety valve in case the powerful group goes off the rails oppressing the weaker one. P
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by Asbostos 11y ago
No. The people already there can afford it because they have a job and get paid in the local currency. It's just like what's happened in New York or San Francisco. Don't go there if you're unemployed or it'll be ver
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That won't work for all the people who'll suffer car sickness when they spend time focusing on their phone while in a vehicle. Intermittent messaging is OK for most people but have you tried reading a book as a passenger? We might
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The best part about this batch of changes is they push the mole and Avogadro's constant out on their own where the belong, not linked to any other units. Now we'll have only a single mass unit (kg) instead of two (kg and unified a
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Pedophile and child molester aren't the same thing. Looking at pictures of naked children is something parents and doctors do all the time but pedophiles go to prison for it. "kill, enslave or otherwise harm" is OK for animal
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by Asbostos 11y ago
One trouble is that we don't know what's right when we're in the thick of it. Who would have guessed it was OK to be gay? I mean it's not OK to be a pedophile or zoophile, which aren't fundamentally different. The r

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