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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... I sort of figured it out years and years ago, and I do work in plain vim. (Hence to me there's no difference whatsoever between one Linux distro and another, because in any case I can only get plain vim and plain grep to work
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"Been around for a long time" - yes, but that doesn't mean hair-pulling will not result from upgrading emacs and having files in .emacs stop working. (I have a very simple vim configuration so I never had a problem there, I d
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, yeah, but this guy gained whatever rights he has in the US just by breaking US law and being kept in prison there. Not only didn't he forfeit rights just by breaking the law - he gained his rights that way! Sounds a tad buggy and
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The idea that you arrest someone to serve time in your prison because he broke your laws, and then you cannot send them back because of another law is just mind-blowing.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, I dunno. The Soviet military refused to back the Communist Party in 1991; Churchill wrote that the German military was planning to overthrow Hitler in 1938 in what they thought was the likely scenario of his policies resulting in the
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Are you sure about that? (I hear they use low-end x86 cores and ARC cores but I haven't heard about ARM. ARC in general is very hackable while ARM is not hackable at all, so those rumors made sense to me.)
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... if it were the mob, I'm not sure changing the cell phone is enough, sounds more like the witness protection program kind of deal. Confrontational or not, I think few know what they'd do in such a situation, and I certainly
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The thing is, reading past the bounds of an array can be harmless at the machine level and useful for optimization. So it being UB means you've got a compiler which can optimize better but the cost is that you tied the programmer'
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The funny thing is, returning it just to discard it constitutes "use", apparently.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Widespread building restrictions limiting supply and huge subsidies for those holding financial assets ("QE") together with low yields caused by near-zero interest rates fueling demand will do that. (How it will end I can't i
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Perhaps. An article currently trending on the front page about "C in practice" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799069 ) helps make my point (that we barely understand the dark corners of our tools, so perhap
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Economists have a term "economic imperialism" which means applying economics outside its traditional domains - in areas such as economic analysis of law or say family relations. I think you've just suggested "software im
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Actually fracking doesn't look like a very good business as long as Saudi Arabia can extract oil from the ground at $6/barrel and thus lower the price of oil to a level where fracking does not pay off. I think a lot of these busin
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It would also encourage CEOs to replace low-paid workers with expensive to maintain, buggy robots - sure, the company/shareholders might be somewhat worse off, but the CEOs wage could go up, and you can always misrepresent the costs an
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Just the tech bubble?.. I dunno. I'm not that good at these things, but fracking comes to mind, and subprime auto loans. "Couldn't make it happen politically?!" That part I don't get. You mean they couldn't jus
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... I think asset price inflation actually did happen. With stock prices (which anti-austerity economists say are "fair" in that you cannot expect P/Es around 15 under ZIRP, so get used to 20) the result is wealth redist
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by _yosefk 11y ago
What's a realistic and rewarding goal for a startup then? :-) (Picking up a keyboard and writing some code at a campfire?.. might not go down all that well.)
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I had a problem with scripts (reeeeeally hairy scripts with intertwined tcl and shell code, the tcl being used to drive some really obscure software) that failed when called from tcsh scripts which didn't have "-f" in them, a
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I was joking (could I say deadpanning?), the serious part being that Snowden showed a need for freedom from US-made software (regardless of citizens' freedoms), and that the rest of the world tries hard to look so bad that it makes Rus
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Hang it near the screenshot of Edward Snowden getting political asylum in Russia.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I dont distinguish between billionaires and middle class folks in this respect. Overconsumption by the middle class us likely much more environmentally damaging. Does it drive the economy? Perhaps; if so, it's a problem. And certainly
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I'm not sure I got the grammar right, but - being based where isn't a deal breaker for privacy? Any government might compel a business to do stuff and to keep quiet about it. The fact that the US actually did it kinda suggests t
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Imagine you're on a lonely island. Would you rather eat all you can or conserve food to the extent possible? Earth is humanity's lonely island. (I realize it's more complicated than that because billions of men on Earth do no
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"No other options" than investing one's savings? Go to Russia to find out some of those other options, or any other place where people don't count on their wealth not to be confiscated at an unpredictable moment. Basical
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The thing is, almost all hardware accessed through drivers has tons of bugs, at least it's nowhere near as close to "bug-free" as are things like CPUs or DRAMs which cannot hide their bugs behind drivers. The thing that one c
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... you can "rent" it from TSMC, you could before AWS existed, and in fact some of Apple chips are manufactured by TSMC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_system_on_a_chip#Apple_A8... ) Now "an idea f
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by _yosefk 11y ago
But the people who're governing young taxpayers now will no longer be governing those taxpayers when they get older and will suffer from diseases caused by today's policies - policies which will raise the standard of living of the
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"Incentive"? Really? You mean a president looking to be reelected for another 4-year term has an incentive (as opposed to a moral imperative) to prevent future illness in people who're 20 today where the symptoms will becom
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"Different" stage - maybe, but... "not even considering" something that then happens on a huge scale is not a sign of being at a sufficiently advanced stage of "civilization"/whatever you call it. Cert
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I'm not saying I know what to do about unpayable sovereign debt, just that defaulting on such debt is not a sensible example of a democratic right. "We had a referendum and decided that you can all wipe your asses with our bonds&q

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