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by antimagic 11y ago
My personal favourite is HMAS Harman - located about 100km from the ocean... https://encrypted.google.com/maps?q=HMAS+harman&hl=fr&ll=-35...
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by antimagic 11y ago
Hah :) I was expecting you to come back with something about typecasting, which Pascal, as conceived by Wirth, was determined to make as difficult as possible, if not flatout impossible. This limitation made writing performant software in
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by antimagic 11y ago
Please do try to reproduce it - the company that is responsible for this "discovery" also happens to be selling a product that is supposed to prevent this attack, and the tone of their PR has got my BS-detectors ringing. An exampl
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by antimagic 11y ago
OK, you've piqued my curiosity. I followed a very similar path to your own, but I have ended up as a C programmer professionally, and I'm curious as to what differences you see in the two languages. To me, they are essentially t
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by antimagic 11y ago
Life expectancy is a tricky statistic to use correctly, because it is significantly dragged lower due to the high rate of death in birth / infancy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy ). Once that hurd
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Ask HN: Why does HN show total karma in the header bar?
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by antimagic 12y ago
Oh dear. I now have images, thanks to numerous police/murder TV series, of a robot finding a dead person on the bed, carefully folding them up to stick in the waste chute, replacing the bloodied linen with clean linen, and going on it
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by antimagic 12y ago
This is a good question. After too many years experience of fighting with build systems, I have come up with one overarching requirement - the build system needs to be debuggable. I need to be able to easily identify why a particular file
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by antimagic 12y ago
I don't understand what the article is actually criticising. Today's "deep links" aren't really about the links at all - after all they're just URLs, nothing special there. No, today's deep links are abo
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by antimagic 12y ago
If your goal in learning C is to write largish systems in it, then yes, "Learning C The Hard Way" is a good option. But the poster has said that s/he wants to learn for the purpose of reverse engineering. From this point of
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by antimagic 12y ago
Not really - it just does the conversion to RGB on the GPU - you still need to create a buffer containing decompressed pixel data...
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by antimagic 12y ago
waterboarding allowed on planes maybe?
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by antimagic 12y ago
OK, I'm going to get grumpy here, sorry about that. Your comment is a perfect demonstration of middlebrow criticism, and adds exactly zero to the discussion. Firstly, I'm Australian. We use SI measurements - your comment is not j
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by antimagic 12y ago
So how do you go about creating the commits like the example given? Even though I live in France I've not much looked at French law - the only exception being a few articles relating to immigration. In those examples, there are modif
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by antimagic 12y ago
Um, I should have elaborated in my original post - it most definitely is still heavily used in the UK by, for example, architects when evaluating how much heating a house will need. My original post wasn't terribly clear about that, m
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by antimagic 12y ago
I'm trying to figure out if you're joking or not. BTU = British Thermal Unit and is pretty much the standard measure used around the world when talking about energy use associated with heating. It's the amount of energy ne
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by antimagic 12y ago
It would be funny to send a cheque to Sierra Entertainement for HiRes Soccer, just to see what they do with it :D
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by antimagic 12y ago
Background information for anyone not aware, Thierry Legault is a guy that has built a reputation around getting amazing images of various spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. Here's one that he took during last Friday's eclipse
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by antimagic 12y ago
And how many launches can a single R7 make? That's the difference that has all of our jaws droppping, because it's going to reduce the price for access to space by an order of magnitude.
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by antimagic 12y ago
Yup, that line sent my eyebrows north at a rapid rate! I would never have thought that it was possible to see such rapid advancement in the field of rocketry - it'd been close to stagnant for pretty much all of my 40 years until Space
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by antimagic 12y ago
Hah, my first though on reading this was that the software stack implementation must slow the machine down horribly. Then I remembered that this was back in the day before cache memory and other optimisations existed, making the technique
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by antimagic 12y ago
Yup, personally I don't see the point of doing anything if it's only going to give me one synergy...
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by antimagic 12y ago
"Apple has shown no interest" Um, that's an assertion, without which the rest of the piece makes no sense. I would have expected a little evidence to back the assertion up, or are we all supposed to get our pitchforks out on
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by antimagic 12y ago
It doesn't necessarily follow. I can think of at least two other reasons as to why skates would be less used: 1) skates require much more skill than bikes, reducing the number of potential users. 2) the skateway network isn't as
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by antimagic 12y ago
I'm not sure that this is particularly interesting news. For starters, when "the government" wants to spy on you, they generally want to do so in such a way as to not reveal that they are doing so - using their own CA is a b
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by antimagic 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9067377 So I guess it's time for an article with the nicely recursive title: "Is Betteridge's Law true?"
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by antimagic 12y ago
You might try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legacy_of_Heorot - unlike most of the books down by Niven and Purnell, this one tries to keep the science realistic (possibly due to them having a third author for this b
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by antimagic 12y ago
Those are my favourite two Ursula Le Guin novels too :) Very well thought-through effects of technology on culture.
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by antimagic 12y ago
You might try Mordant's Need by Stephen Donaldson for a fantasy-skinned, scifi-like approach. The magic in the books is based around mirrors, and a large part of the book is spent researching how the mirrors actually are working, what
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by antimagic 12y ago
It's great that Jordan says what he really thinks. But we also like it when players are humble. We want both, there's no contradiction. So yes, that means we want players to say humble things, and mean it .

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