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by KaeseEs 14y ago
As the wires get smaller and smaller and smaller, resistance becomes a huge problem, and you wind up needing a crapload of repeaters and wasting a ton of power. Consider that r= (rho * L / A), and that you need a ~4nm tantalum sheath around
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
This is true of modern torpedoes, but was not true of WWII vintage torpedoes, which generally smacked into the side of the hull and blew up.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
No, that is indeed not Orwellian - are you familiar with what the term means in the context of language? Calling something 'free', the purchase of which is detrimental to the freedom of many human beings by strengthening those who keep the
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
Calling a Loongsoon laptop more free than other available alternatives is a downright Orwellian perversion of language. I understand the specific meaning of 'free' you are using, but juxtaposing such speech with China's horrific human righ
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
Incidentally, Hailo is in pretty much every way a much better Megahal (esp. when your text corpus is large): http://search.cpan.org/~hinrik/Hailo-0.70/bin/hailo
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
I'm incredulous that one of the goals of the redesign was to make more powerful themes. New-style themes are much, much less powerful than the old-style themes - cf. the new Terminal theme, which can't even change the text color or font,
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
People still say that, and there is a tremendous market for things like tube amps based on the idea that the lower-fidelity stuff 'sounds warmer'. And it does, because you're passing your signal through a filter than adds a small amount of
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
Almost all schools do publish these exact statistics broken down by major.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
I must say that for no-frills hosting, prgmr has really done right by me. I was broke and didn't pay for a few months and they were able to set my vps right back up once i had cash, despite the fact i was no longer using the same credit ca
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Are they coming to Clojure soon or did I misinterpret Rich Hickey's latest interview?
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
There are numerous laws on the books that do absolutely nothing. For instance, it has been illegal since 1986 to manufacture a handgun containing less than four ounces of metal. No such practical design existed at the time, nor was any be
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
PHP is not a good tool for quickly getting a minimum viable product. Despite its flaws it is a good weapon for fighting 'the last war' - that is to say, it makes it quick and easy to make what are essentially the CGI pages of 1996 - but if
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
I see they made the same mistake as POSIX threads in implementing recursive mutexes. Disheartening.
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Human Bird Wings video was indeed a fake(foxnews.com)
3 points by KaeseEs 15y ago|1 comments
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Oh yes, the math certainly turns out the same. I guess I should have been clearer in the last paragraph, that normalizing to 0 or some positive dollar value is more of an issue of mental framing, as though it makes sense to use the type of
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Those things are all worth $0 because they are the baseline for an employer. When accounting for these things in a total comp calculation, I do it something like this: $comp = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5) - (6 + 7 + 8) where [1] Salary / cost of liv
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
To whomever downvoted this: if you think I'm wrong, I suggest you look at question 6.3 from the comp.lang.c faq: http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptrequiv.html If you think I'm being too pedantic, a reply rather than a mere downvote would be ap
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Another error: At this point you’ll have to remember that in C, arrays are represented by pointers to their first value. No, they aren't. Arrays can _decay_ to a pointer when passed as function parameters, but arrays and pointer
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
A pointer doesn't necessarily have an address - think of the semantics of the register storage class ;) Or perhaps more commonly in C, when a pointer to a variable is passed by value as an argument to a function in a register. Of course, t
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Open-source projects with non-recursive makefiles?
1 points by KaeseEs 15y ago|0 comments
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
It would seem that, even though these languages weren't made from soup to nuts in academia, they mostly incorporated ideas therefrom; for instance, Ruby and (eventually) Python got closures that had been pioneered by Scheme. There's still
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
While I empathize with all of his pain points here, I disagree with the idea that taking control away from the user is a new phenomenon in Apple products. That's kind of the whole point of them.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Well, no. Currencies as we know them are not only for exchange, but also are supposed to be reasonable stores of value. If a currency loses 85% of its worth in a period of weeks, it has failed at this fundamental task. Now, for merchants
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Am I imagining things or has there been an increase in the frequency of releases of gcc (I understand that this is a bugfix point release) since clang started to become popular?
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
If you have to ask why violating an NDA and lying in the context of a financial transaction (aka "fraud") are abuses, no one will ever be able to explain it to you.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
If you read a bit of Brooks, you'll see why this is indeed more or less inevitable - the addition of hierarchy reduces the communication costs in a growing organization.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
A quad core i7 has 1.16 billion transistors, for reference. The question posed was whether each instruction might touch 10 million, or .86%, of these.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Think of how complex merely fetching and decoding an instruction is on a current x86 machine. Now consider how the pipeline, multiple issue, hazard detection and mitigation, and out-of-order execution are implemented. Ten million is probabl
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
This seems to ignore every branch but one.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
This does happen, though. How much of Apple's kernel code has made it back into other BSD kernels?

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