Elrac

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by Elrac 10y ago
Literally nothing has happened? * Within the first week of his Presidency, a de facto Chinese government press organ threatened military action against the USA. * Legal US residents were detained and turned back at US borders, as a result o
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by Elrac 10y ago
I'm happy to let opinions stand as such, but in your support of Trump's mental competence you're denying reality. Sarah Palin was McCain's pick for VP, and thus well on her way to "having navigated her way to the po
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by Elrac 10y ago
I'm assuming that changes to any given position X on the map happen much less frequently than pathfinding operations that touch on said position X. Is this the case? If so, then investing the pre-calculation effort (updating the precal
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by Elrac 10y ago
The US government has been increasingly dysfunctional for several years now. I'd like to remind you that Congress has actually shut down the government's operations on more than one occasion, tried to blackmail the Executive with
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by Elrac 10y ago
I don't find the article's "deep state" narrative very convincing. The message I got from the article was, "there's a shadow government and it's using dirty tactics to subvert the normal operations of our
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by Elrac 10y ago
or simply "host" !
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by Elrac 10y ago
You've reminded me of the reason I loved Delphi's help. I think what I found most helpful (and most unusual for the "state of the art") was that most help pages had "see also" links. This allowed me to look up
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by Elrac 10y ago
Absolutely! The glucose mix initially produced from corn is about 50% glucose and 42% fructose, which is roughly the same ratio as you get from beets or cane. You can then _optionally_ raise the percentage of fructose to 55, 65 or even 90%
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by Elrac 10y ago
First of all, governments are for the most part able to differentiate between refugees and economically driven immigrants - the main influx of refugees in Germany and other European countries these days is from Syria, and it's not easy
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by Elrac 10y ago
I'm sorry, but I'm too lazy to dig up those statistics for you. Part of the reason is that I consider your question to be fundamentally misdirected. First, I'd like to point out that medical staff form just the tip of the ice
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by Elrac 10y ago
To argue that, you'd have to demonstrate that the fats in animals raised on what you call healthy food differ chemically from the fats you'd find in animals fed otherwise. Related example: The glucose from sugar beets is chemicall
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by Elrac 10y ago
Immigration is keeping health care affordable in Germany and probably a bunch of other European countries. Until the Brexit, cheap foreign labor helped keep prices low in the UK. The USA don't have a problem with immigrants - they have
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by Elrac 10y ago
I don't have detailed knowledge on how UNISYS microcode works, but I was told that addition was implemented as subtraction of the negated number. So the "real" implemented instruction was subtraction, while addition wasn&#x27
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by Elrac 10y ago
"Thanks, Captain Obvious!" Is there an option to turn this off, for those of us who feel we need it like a hole in the head?
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by Elrac 10y ago
Oops! I stand corrected. But no, the Raspberry Pi does not necessarily run a full OS. It can, and it certainly makes sense to do that, but it's very possible to run a standalone boot-loaded program on a Raspberry, just as OSes like Fem
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by Elrac 10y ago
I program a UNISYS 2200 mainframe at work. It uses 1's complement. Yes, there are two zeros. Not a problem in practice because all arithmetic operations normalize -0 to +0 at no extra cost in execution time, so -0 practially doesn&#x27
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by Elrac 10y ago
My first real job was programming a Commodore PET for a merchant - in BASIC. When I needed searches to be faster I wrote a routine in 6502 assembler. Unfortunately I didn't have an assembler, so I hand-assembled my code using the instr
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by Elrac 10y ago
I think it's becoming painfully apparent what happens when this isn't the case.
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by Elrac 10y ago
I used to host SquirrelMail on my little $10/month personal server. My users (OK, friends and relatives) were quite happy with it! There's a lot broken with the recent model of browsing, essentially, applications rather than conte
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by Elrac 10y ago
Like fossil fuels, fossil water is not a self-renewing, i.e. sustainable resource. When it's used up, we're back where we started. Also, it seems this stuff isn't really convenient to come by. Granted, though, if 100 centurie
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by Elrac 10y ago
Nuclear power has been ideologically poisoned, partly for good reasons, partly for bad (I'm not taking sides here). Whatever the reasons, the effect is that most politicos won't risk a voter stampede to the guy who didn't sup
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by Elrac 10y ago
Once you put an NTP server on the 'net, it's public - pretty much like most Web sites. Sure, there are reasonable expectations of decency like for anything in the Commons, but I don't think there's any legal defense agai
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by Elrac 10y ago
Context, dude! People go to parties to enjoyably waste time with and around other people. People read tech blogs to learn stuff to help them do better work. The author is mistaking his tech blog for a party. He can do that if he wants, it&#
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by Elrac 10y ago
Here's a tribute to the tutorial as such, independent of the topic: After having consumed thousands of tutorials, I found this one exceptionally lucid and instructive. Kudos to the author! His approach of stepwise expansion and refinem
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by Elrac 10y ago
I've hated AV products for decades for being intrusive, cumbersome, slow and often nagware. Thanks to this post, I can now add "insecure" to my list of reasons. But I'm commenting to ask you to expand on > "There
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by Elrac 10y ago
Not that difficult, but it doesn't accomplish the same thing. First, have you noticed how long it takes for a tree to grow to a size where it's "working" at near capacity? Second, the new pathway seems to sport higher ef
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by Elrac 10y ago
That this is how jury duty works doesn't inspire me with a lot of confidence. Case in point: A couple of weeks ago, a jury acquitted the Bundys after they'd occupied a federal building and used threat of lethal force to keep feder
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by Elrac 10y ago
I'm a bit hesitant to burden you with feature suggestions - sidetracking the developer(s) can easily kill many small projects. But I'd like to mention a feature I would find compellingly useful that I have yet to see in "mode
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by Elrac 10y ago
Just for backup on the large lines thing: Many years ago, one compelling feature about Lugaru's emacs-family Epsilon (recently discussed here on HN) was the fact that you could quickly load _any_ file, with maximum sizes several times
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by Elrac 10y ago
Here's a "me too!" I spend a lot of time less-ing around in log files, but then every once in a while I need or at least want the full power of an editor to act on those files. Be it converting one kind of line delimiter to a

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