LnxPrgr3

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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
Don't working immune systems create the same selective pressure already? If an infection kills me, I'm not around to pass the infection on anymore… at least, once my corpse has been dealt with. If I do survive and the same pathoge
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
I do a modified version of this, mostly because I find if I start by writing code calling a "magical" API I sacrifice too much in the implementation to make the API exactly match my design. I do start by writing code to solve my p
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
To be fair, first-hand anecdotes don't rank high as evidence. But, for what they are worth, I'll add my own. I am where I am today because my family had enough money to own a computer (and never threw out the old ones, so the kids
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
My medium tech solution: earplugs with holes cut in them that music plays out of, more or less. The isolation puts active noise cancellation to shame: http://graphs.headphone.com/graphCompare.php?graphType=6&gra... Grap
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
There's also the (lower these days, thankfully) risk of half-baked tools other people use proudly presenting your rÃ©sumÃ©.
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
Modern cars have made it a lot safer to be in a crash. I'd hate to have been driving the 1959 Bel Air in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck Still, since not much else is likely to kill the average
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
Korsakoff's syndrome isn't the only kind of brain damage caused by drinking. Other failure modes include hepatic encephalopathy caused by cirrhosis and alcohol-related dementia, which includes but isn't limited to the consequ
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
If I look at it too long, I see "patterns" in the output of OS X's /dev/random too: http://codeanarchy.com/files/yarrow.png Random doesn't always look random. To make matters worse, we&#x2
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
My understanding is architectures are different enough that the fastest SIMD strategy is sometimes CPU-dependent. The author of FFTS, for example, chose a different strategy on ARM than x86_64: http://anthonix.com/ffts/
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
Have they worked out how to improve performance, or have they succeeded in spite of it? I run software that (thanks to poor design, IMO) manages to bottleneck context switching on Linux's monolithic kernel. I can't imagine this no
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
I've seen generally brilliant people be bit by bad process. The worst example was an important hard drive being wiped thanks to a lack of labeling, obviously taking a production server down with it. Other things that have caused outage
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
The closest thing I've seen to a proper study concludes that testing is high cost and low benefit compared to other QA measures: https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/the-best-ways-to-find-bugs-in-...
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
As I see it, it's using a strained metaphor framing his argument in terms of negative attitudes towards people (attitudes I think would be damaging no matter which genders they're applied to, but that are extra likely to hit a sor
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by LnxPrgr3 12y ago
I'm a definite fan of getting mid-day sun, but my understanding is while it'll help maintain sleep rhythm, it won't correct it if it's already out of whack. For that, I'd suggest getting some sun (or failing that, s
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
Paranoid me is stuck between a rock and a hard place—I don't want to have to trust a ton of third parties with my security, but I'm unlikely to be able to ensure it on my own and still benefit from modern technology. That's n
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
Can it be? Specifically, can someone release software under the BSD license, then later legally prevent others from using that version under that license? Also: "Few if any legal systems have a process for reliably donating works to th
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
True, but you can inspect BSD-licensed source just as freely as GPL'd code too. Not that that's much use against a malicious distributor, who could disguise malicious code so that it passes inspection: http://underhande
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
As a pure user (someone who isn't going to modify and redistribute the software), I see no difference in freedom between BSD and GPL licensed software—I am just as able to download, install and run FreeBSD as Ubuntu. I can even burn a
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
I can see why people like the GPL, but it definitely and intentionally restricts some freedoms (such as the ability to link to non-GPL code, or make proprietary changes) so it can guard others. It's a trade-off not everyone's happ
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
I managed to get the blog link to load, and there are halfway decent face shots there: http://www.ahryunmoon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/la... (Being a direct file link, hopefully people hav
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
Depends on the context. If your operation is relaying a 20ms audio packet from one side of a call to another, 50µs to 20µs is the difference between handling 200 concurrent calls and handling 500 (per CPU, minus non-linear scaling with incr
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
I noticed this, but even without race and gender the characters are profoundly stereotyped—intentionally exaggerated for effect. At least, I hope there aren't real-life Certified Red Line Experts running around, nor designers hoping to
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
> Panasonic would NOT pay additional money in licensing to make less money by having their batteries last longer. > Large companies like this make sure the batteries they use aren't interchangable or standardized Li-Ion cells are
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
The existence of Popcorn Time serves as a pretty strong counter-example to the argument that DRM protects IP rights. I have, however, had technical difficulty playing a movie I legally purchased through iTunes thanks to HDCP deciding it wan
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
This—also, C++11 is an amazing improvement over C++03, and C++14 looks like another step in the right direction. For a small example, a friend talked me into implementing a few Scala collection operations in C++11. Here's the result:
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
I can tell I live in a different world—I immediately thought of multi-threaded programming on a single machine. Modern individual machines give us all kinds of opportunity for parallel execution—even my phone has vector instructions and two
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
Even before then, C had the concept of a boolean expression, and ints were used idiomatically as bools. Unfortunately, the type system can't save you, so it's up to you to keep your promise to return the correct thing. Not even C9
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
If anything, I'd assume both Apple and the NSA can find people who can sneak an intentional bug in that's a lot harder to spot than an extra "goto fail;". I've also seen enough silly bugs (1) result from merges or o
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
True for men too. If someone has a "quick question" where I work, I might as well block off the next hour.
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by LnxPrgr3 13y ago
To be clear: are you talking FPU instructions, or more modern SSE(N) instruction sets? Modern compilers on modern CPUs pretty aggressively vectorize my number crunching. If it's something you're worried about, I'd suggest mea

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