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by bcoates 12y ago
Wouldn't it just be simpler to fuse off the part of your linker that handles vtables? IIRC That'll kill every C++ feature that's objectionable to someone who likes the idea of 'C with templates' Unless you want a tr
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by bcoates 12y ago
They aren't that smart, some little old ladies in my town made a couple of million dollars by buying multiple life insurance policies on bums, then running them over. They apparently got caught by cops for the hit-and-run, because no
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by bcoates 12y ago
Even the non-realtime data is dicey, I keep having apps showing weekday schedules on weekends for BBB lines. I want a waze for buses that treats buses as an observation problem instead of a data-entry problem.
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by bcoates 12y ago
The article makes it sound like there's no place at all to attach the pen on the Pro 3, is that true? I'm a heavy pen user w/ my Pro 1, that would be a dealbreaker for me.
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by bcoates 12y ago
I thought the problem was with the statement was the "we've got a strong correlation here" bit, as if that were a meaningful thing. Correlation is weak evidence for a proposition (and sometimes weak evidence is all you&#x27
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by bcoates 12y ago
I'm not in SF, but the whole taxi experience is shitty in LA: 1. Long waits (~10m minimum usually) 2. Unreliable (they'll take calls and never manage to show up) 3. Bad attitude/customer service 4. Constantly trying to rip yo
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by bcoates 12y ago
All user mode code has been in OS-enforced, security-bounded, per-process VMs that access each other and hardware through virtualized interfaces since forever (well, since the 90s for mainstream microcomputer OSes). "Containers" a
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by bcoates 12y ago
DikuMUD came out before M:TG and had mana, and is the CRPG ancestor of World of Warcraft (by way of EverQuest).
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by bcoates 12y ago
There's nothing keeping a properly implemented secure erase from working -- all the data on disk should be written out encrypted so secure erase is just cycling the key. It has the advantage of being much faster and something you can d
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by bcoates 12y ago
It sets a stack limit proportional to log(n) and gives up and heapsorts the subproblem if the limit is exceeded. You get no more than n log(n) quicksort operations, plus heapsorting any partition of the input which is also n log(n) In other
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by bcoates 12y ago
Interesting point I haven't seen discussed directly before: System administration, which includes operator actions, system configuration, and system maintenance was the main source of failures -- 42%. Software and hardware main
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by bcoates 12y ago
That does not sound like a practical solution for any language that offers a standardized toolchain or no explicit compilation as features. For those languages adding a homebrew translation step results in discarding unrelated features that
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by bcoates 12y ago
Given that paper waste is apparently compostable (or at least not harmful to the composting process), would it make more sense to change the system to the blue bin being "plastic, cloth, and metal", green being "food, paper,
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by bcoates 12y ago
I was holding out for this announcement to upgrade my Surface Pro, which I've been happily using as a main work PC for more than a year now. I'm not big on the size/aspect ratio change--I don't carry a bag around, and th
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by bcoates 12y ago
Lots of people are comparing it to meal-replacement alternatives, but I'm unimpressed with how it compares to much more mundane foods, like a 7-11 burrito that has a very similar nutritional profile, retails for $1.69 in single quantit
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by bcoates 12y ago
Calling it "healthcare" is a Democratic shibboleth, it's not a word you hear Eric Cantor use a lot.
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by bcoates 12y ago
> I'm having trouble reconciling the two. Why? It's extremely common for industry/standardization groups like the IETF to come to conclusions that are contrary to the position of one of its members, and it usually doesn&#x
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by bcoates 12y ago
Well, in the case we're discussing, saying mean things about America and Obama on YouTube was the guys major claim to fame. There may have been credible intelligence that he was going to start putting al-Qaeda associated .gifs on Tumbl
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by bcoates 12y ago
IANAL, but I don't think there is any particular law allowing the police to use deadly force -- they just have the same self-defense and defense-of-others exception to murder laws that everyone else has. Self defense doesn't apply
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by bcoates 12y ago
The last time I had to do fast, large sequential disk reads on Linux it was surprisingly complex to get all the buffering/caching/locking to not do the wrong thing and slow me down a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if non-optimi
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by bcoates 12y ago
Re-use them for shipping out the finished product, so they become someone else's problem.
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by bcoates 12y ago
Separate authentication from message delivery. The problem with both spam and spam mitigation measures is that the message is considered as coming 'from' a sending system instead of the actual originator of the email. Splitting th
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by bcoates 12y ago
I have to agree with the deleter that called it "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion". Suggestion: Cut out all the adjectives and stick to a 'just the facts' style. Find an article that isn't about DO's f
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by bcoates 12y ago
This essay was written in 1958, before the 'Invisible Hand' was replaced by the Coase theorem which actually explains why externalities don't happen in free markets as often as you would think they would (instead of just obse
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by bcoates 12y ago
They're just ahead of the curve, a century from now people will be amazed that 20th century first-worlders went to so much expense and effort to bring filth and vermin as close as possible to where they live. Water isn't cleaning
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by bcoates 12y ago
Does Agda provide tools for program extraction? I'm curious where the state of the art is for using proof checkers/dependently typed programming languages to derive correct-by-construction programs in lower-level languages like C.
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by bcoates 12y ago
Wouldn't it make sense to lower the exposure by having the server only have access to its own ephemeral private key? So instead of having the key to the hard to change site certificate on many vulnerable front-line servers, it rolls up
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by bcoates 12y ago
This strikes me as 100% backwards, isn't the entire point of the IETF RFC process to memorialize existing practice, not be a design studio for new protocols? Wasn't it followed here (RFC6520 existing to document the OpenSSL implem
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by bcoates 13y ago
cperciva's competitive advantage is almost entirely reputational; if Bob the Fast-Follower made a tarsnap v2 clone it'd be too dodgy to do anything but compete with the tons of existing friendly backup and online drive services.
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by bcoates 13y ago
That's just the lambda abstraction, not the lambda calculus. The idea is that a lambda abstraction, in a math sense, is much less general than a single argument function. 'sin θ' is a single argument function that's defi

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