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by Maultasche 11y ago
Tales of a Dying Earth by Jack Vance That was a very good book. I hadn't even heard of Jack Vance until recently, but it seems like he's been an influence on many modern authors.
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So from I'm understanding here, the volatile keyword makes sure that the code always has the latest value when it is read by a thread. Otherwise, you might get a cached value. A lock, on the other hand, does the same thing, but goes fu
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by Maultasche 11y ago
Note to self: when manufacturing tanks, use UUIDs as identifiers, not sequential integers.
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There are no rules against roaming charges, so it depends on the plan. I believe that most plans don't have roaming charges within the United States. Mine certainly doesn't. It's hard to have a competitive plan that has roami
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In my opinion, bread and circuses was more of a symptom than a cause. In the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, as the Romans were expanding out from Italy into North Africa, Spain, Greece, and what is now Turkey, the people of influence (generals a
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This is in fact a problem with this program. The participating inmates are released back into society with firefighting training, experience, and a desire to continue doing the job. Unfortunately, they are unable to obtain jobs as firefight
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Well, it's not really Amish science fiction, but it comes from someone who lives a lifestyle with strong similarities to the Amish lifestyle. It's an interesting read nonetheless. I suspect that Amish science fiction would look di
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From what I understand, access to official Apple websites from within China is very slow, so people host mirrors of Apple software (like XCode) for developers within China to download. One of these mirrors had a altered version of XCode tha
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This is really interesting stuff. If you're a man and you're less educated, you're much more likely to be single. It's interesting that as the age increases, the proportion of single women generally increases. The bigges
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I think that this is a complicated question for two reasons. 1. It probably greatly depends on the open source project. Some developers are probably in tune with their users while other barely realize that users exist. 2. Some people have a
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by Maultasche 11y ago
Not only did the V-2 program divert resources from more useful efforts, but the United States got the knowledge (and some unused V-2s) to give their space and missile development a big boost. The first big rockets the US fired were unused V
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Yes, that's true. Americans can be taxed for income earned outside the country. I'm not an expert on this subject, but I don't think that income earned by an incorporation would be taxed if it's incorporated outside the
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A O(log(n)) approach to syphilis testing by using the physical equivalent of search trees. Very interesting. It only works well if a small percentage of the population is infected.
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I was in Belgrade in 1999 about five days before the US started bombing the place. The people there were very friendly to me, even when they knew I was an American. The border guards sure scrutinized me and my passport (I had a transit visa
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I've found that as I've gained more experience, I learn from my previous mistakes, and over time it slowly improves so that I'm making fewer mistakes and debugging the mistakes I do make more quickly. I remember that when I s
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Yeah, I was surprised about how bright the sun is on Pluto. Before this week, I thought that it was pretty much just starlight on Pluto with the sun looking more like Venus at night. It turns out that the day on Pluto is like dusk on Earth.
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So Pluto wears diapirs. Ha Ha. Actually, that's really interesting. I had no idea there was such a thing as a diapir. Your comment on eroded volcanoes made me wonder if water on Pluto acts a lot like rock on Earth and if there are wate
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Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?(washingtonpost.com)
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I read this book around 10 years ago. It was a very good read, and the part at the end of the book where he visits California many years later was quite interesting. Not only does Dana describe what California was like in the 1840s (very em
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I've done development both with and without an IDE and I find debugging vastly easier with an IDE. How do developers who don't use IDEs do debugging other than with print to console statements? Do they all use tools like gdb and l
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You're correct. There was no battle. The ship had to be abandoned only because it ran aground in some shallows and then sank.
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That's true. If you can detect fake data patterns, you can generate fake data that doesn't follow those patterns. That wouldn't detect the researchers who were lazy and published fake studies because they are expected to. It
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I thought of that too. It sure would be exciting if it turned out to be something artificial. However, I agree with you that it's far more likely that it's something perfectly natural like ice. Not quite as interesting.
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I do think it's an experiment worth trying. My hypothesis would be that it wouldn't work, but it would be indeed interesting to see what happens. I think that we'd learn a lot even from failure. I suspect it would have a grea
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Have everyone empowered to dispense justice is an interesting proposition, but there's a big difference between insects and people. People aren't all logical, analytic creatures, especially when they operate in groups. They tend t
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They don't. The files are stored on the server. I imagine that one can upload local files to the server, but when you're saving a file or compiling, it's all being done on the server side rather than locally.