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by alricb 11y ago
when was the last time the UK government was giving 65 hectares to anybody that asked? I think it was a bit after 1066, if you had the good luck of being Norman and if William was feeling generous that day.
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by alricb 11y ago
I don't really think it's the case. You're adding surface area, yes, but not that much, and you can easily compensate by being more careful with windows and avoiding wasteful features like bumpouts &c. On a 35*50 (1750 sq
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by alricb 12y ago
XProlo? Extreme Proletarians? So they like, eXtremely don't own the means of production?
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by alricb 12y ago
Currently, by having a single implementation, so that there isn't really a "Rust standard" besides what this or that version of the Rust compiler does and what the documentation says, and if there's a discrepancy, it&#x2
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by alricb 12y ago
This has been more helpful than most of the presentations and guides I've seen so far.
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by alricb 12y ago
Tons of it is just boilerplate, because Mantle has no default. For instance, createTargetStates() is a ~50 lines function to set the MSAA, viewport, color blending, raster and depth stencil states, which mostly have default values in OpenGL
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by alricb 12y ago
Also an obvious inspiration for the storm troopers, the Teutonic knights in Eisenstein's Alexander Nevski: https://youtu.be/mr3S6ItLMTo?t=21m9s
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by alricb 12y ago
The M24 and Monster groups mentioned in the article are examples of the "sporadic" groups, which are 26 exceptional finite simple groups. John Conway (mentioned in the article, inventor of his game of life) discovered four of thes
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by alricb 12y ago
Not in civil trials, no. Well, they aren't "innocent", they are either liable or not, depending on the preponderance of evidence.
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by alricb 12y ago
What about '{}'? It's a nice pair of opening/closing characters.
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by alricb 12y ago
Did you hear about that new language Microsoft has come up with? They call it "do dièse" (and they have a project called "fa dièse" for some reason).
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by alricb 12y ago
I think it's partly because when spelling was standardized in the 17th-18th century, it was done with a "learned" view that spelling should reflect a word's origin. So you get "doigt" for finger because of the
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by alricb 12y ago
There are regional variances: In Québec, we say "une job", but in France they use "un job", but it's "un suprise party" here, versus "une surprise party" in France. Sometimes, when the translatio
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by alricb 12y ago
Class 2 wiring isn't "plenum" wiring. See http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/inwallrating.htm and the NEC.
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by alricb 12y ago
There's a song that goes: "Revenir d'exil comporte des risques // comme planter une aiguille dans un vieux disque" (coming back from exile has its risks, like sticking a needle in an old record)
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by alricb 12y ago
Some of the frontloader's sleekness is aesthetic, but it's also more functional, with a better view for the driver and no distracting bars in his front FOV.
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by alricb 12y ago
No, the vulnerabilities are in the ASN.1 code, in places like libssl/src/crypto/asn1/a_set.c, tasn_dec.c. There's also stuff in the PKCS 7 and X.509 code, but that code is still very much ASN.1 code, since it contai
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by alricb 12y ago
Now now, there's an LL(1) parser for ASN.1, and it's easily found in the following reference: Fouquart (P.), Dubuisson (O.) and Duwez (F.). - Une analyse syntaxique d'ASN.1:1994. - Internal Report RP/LAA/EIA/8
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by alricb 12y ago
Six vulnerabilities in the X509/ASN.1 code! Inconceivable!
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by alricb 12y ago
FWIW, they call it "Industrie 4.0": www.plattform-i40.de/
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by alricb 12y ago
Auguste Comte, little-known? Le Bon, maybe, but Comte? The best explanation I've seen for the lower homicide rate in the developed world is that it's mainly due to a more powerful state with better policing, leading to fewer peopl
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by alricb 12y ago
The biologist in question is Stefan Lanka, who's also an HIV-denier: http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/index/slanka.htm
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by alricb 12y ago
> Seriously, if you were interviewing a filmaker who proundly said, "I haven't owned a TV in 15 years, because I know it's all shit", would you take their opinion seriously? If he were French, I would. French TV is sh
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by alricb 12y ago
For reference, here's a tutorial on drawing a triangle in Apple's Metal, which follows some of the design principles as Vulkan, Mantle and DX12: http://www.raywenderlich.com/77488/ios-8-metal-tutorial-swif...
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by alricb 12y ago
For decent, modern amps, not really, as long as you're not getting something like the interaction between the output filter of a class D amp and the loudspeaker (as happened with some Crown class D amplifiers and some EAW speakers)
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by alricb 12y ago
Speakers still add orders of magnitude more distortion than your amps, much like they did in the 1960s, unless you're using something insane like a servo-controlled Meyer X-10 (with an integrated amp, natch).
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by alricb 12y ago
Champagne was an incredibly important trade region in its day, and a large source of wealth for the kings of France. One artifact of that is the unit we use to measure the weight of gold: the Troy ounce comes from the city of Troyes, of whi
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by alricb 12y ago
Note that all cited universities are located in Southern Ontario (Toronto and Hamilton). Tuition has gone up in Canada, but not as high as it has in the States, not by a long run, and it has stayed quite low in Quebec, at least for resident
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by alricb 12y ago
But in this case, it isn't. Two's complement signed fixed-size integers are completely different from their unsigned brethren, and confusing them is an endless source of bugs.
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by alricb 12y ago
One potential issue with Web fonts: security. The formats are notoriously complex, and FreeType has had a lot of vulnerabilities related to that.

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