GFK_of_xmaspast

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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Seven digit accuracy is only single precision, and if speed-of-implementation is your concern (and you're not in a situation where you have a c99+ libc available), there's a perfectly good license-unemcumbered version in cephes.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Freedom of assembly is a hell of a thing.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
That's not what Leninism means tho (it's not "smash the state" as Bannon says, it's about having a vanguard party and control of political power by the working class).
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Gas stations, if you're up for eating gas station food, have had that kind of computer ordering for many years now.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
The Numerical Recipes code isn't really meant for HPC, it's for small scale individual researchers.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
What have you done this week to make this country a better place.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Those machines generally had instructions on the attract screen and the ones that were too hard to figure out didn't get played. (Source: I was one of those kids too)
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I get GM cars as rentals pretty often and while they're better than Chrysler I don't have a lot of faith in their product.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> Max Buddha would mean sitting until death Not totally sure about that, considering that the Buddha got up from sitting underneath the Bodhi Tree.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> quiches were quiches Kind of interesting how remnants of culture wars of 35+ years ago linger today, and from the perspective of 2017 how anybody could have gotten annoyed at people who eat egg-and-cheese pies.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
You mean the ones who made the bad loans and immediately turned around and sold them to be somebody else's problem?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
To say a thing like this betrays the lack of just about any knowledge of the historical record.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> You can't just punch people in the face because they're Nazis Sure you can.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
The perl6 problem wasn't 'backward compatibility', the perl6 problem was 'this thing doesn't exist at all but it's sucking up all the momentum.'
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> 2. I mean, wouldn't many of them have been Obama/Clinton loyalists? Third paragraph: """All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.""&
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Perl was doing just fine until they fell in the perl6 hole and stagnated. Scala's getting its data science niche, and lisp has a lot more problems than just being multi-paradigm.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I'm not, but why would I care what Torvalds thinks?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
One suspects the real reason he's incel is that he's the kind of dude who would write this kind of article.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Professionalism doesn't get left at the door at 5:00.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
None of which are particularly appropriate for embedded programming.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Haven't you heard that when you want to get close to the metal you drop down to node.js?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> I put a "i am the greates babysiter meme" in PR and that was considered very disrespectful Not sure I can think of too many situations where it would be otherwise.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I don't know how anybody can look at basically the entire history of Wal-Mart labor relations and think 'oh that won't happen to me'.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
We've officially had "Loyalty Day" for 60+ years and George Washington was posthumously promoted in 1976.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Lots of those kind of people right here on the hacker news forums.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
It'd be a hell of a commute.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I originally had a lot more text here, but I'm going to cut it all out and leave just the coda that it's a real jerk move not to blur out that lady's identifying information.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> Quantum mechanics can and does predict every element on the periodic table. Given that we can't confirm that, how do we actually know this?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
From the comments, the banned person in question is a supporter of Milo Y. and it's not too hard to imagine that that is not congruent with the values of the community.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance

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