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by bcrl 3y ago
That's a different book than the one I was referring to. I was referring to The Annotated ANSI C Standard: American National Standard for Programming Languages-C : Ansi/Iso 9899-1990.
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by bcrl 3y ago
The difference is that ads in magazines, newspapers and on TV are curated by humans, so that the kind of clearly illegal and unethical ads peddled by platforms never get published. Free speech comes with the obligation of responsibility. Y
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by bcrl 3y ago
Until recently, it was costly to fake a video of someone talking. Recent advances in generative AI have changed that. One definition for disinformation is "deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts;
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by bcrl 3y ago
I found the Annotated ANSI C Standard by Herbert Schildt to be far more helpful in understanding C syntax than the K&R book ever was. I was lucky enough to find it in a local book store while still in high school in 1993.
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by bcrl 3y ago
It's still disinformation. It doesn't matter what segment of the population falls for it. It's not a real video of Elon Musk, and the get rich quick claims are as fake as always. Showing these ads is still immoral and unet
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by bcrl 3y ago
I have no expectation that everyone will fall for it, but I've seen my own elderly father get confused and drawn into scam ads. My irritation is that what little accountability in advertising that existed in the past is now gone, and
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by bcrl 3y ago
Well, yesterday Youtube served me up an ad for an "AI" algorithmic trading service "only available to Canadians" and "backed by Elon Musk. It used "AI" generated audio and video of Musk to peddle an unreg
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by bcrl 3y ago
It was also a great way to break into buggy SunOS systems and gain root access... Oh, the early days of the internet!
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by bcrl 3y ago
Police don't do anything. I had 3 fibre optic cables cut by a Bell technician a couple of months ago that resulted in a significant ~30 hour outage for 60 customers. We knew when the cables were cut, we knew the cables were cut at a
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by bcrl 3y ago
Starbucks just added a mandatory tip screen one has to navigate thru to pay when tapping a credit card to several of the locations near me in the last couple of months when using the drive thru. It's bonkers.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Irrigation for hay even in Colorado is something that shocked me the first time I visited the state. Where I live in eastern Ontario in Canada, hay is just something that grows in fields unattended, no special work required. Driving aroun
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by bcrl 3y ago
Neither is long term functioning of the electric grid if you read the IEEE. Go read the IEEE journal where every few years someone writes an article warning that the electric grid will fail catastrophically when an 1859 level solar flare o
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by bcrl 3y ago
Depends on the role. When it's a highly complex system where it will take 6 months for the person to become a productive contributing member of a team, I have most definitely heard and been part of conversations where we considered if
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by bcrl 3y ago
To a point. People who move around too much will not get the job if there's a comparable candidate that has stayed around longer at previous jobs.
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by bcrl 3y ago
As Lily Allen says in The Fear: And I'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless 'Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous We are such an odd society with so very many double standards.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Eh? Every single bitcoin transaction is publicly visible to anyone that looks for it in a way that bank account transactions are not. Correlating transactions with an individual is not exactly difficult if you're determined. It&#x27
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by bcrl 3y ago
Bitcoin sustains about 7 transactions per second. In 2022 there were roughly 168 million registered voters in the United States. It would take 24 million seconds to publish 1 transaction (vote) per voter using a bitcoin style blockchain.
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by bcrl 3y ago
They should just buy it from the developer.
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by bcrl 3y ago
If you've been on HN for more than a couple of months, surely you have seen the horror stories that people post regularly. Having Google as a single point of failure for one's business seems risky. There are oodles of DNS provid
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by bcrl 3y ago
Those of us that live outside the US really wonder why the debt ceiling dance happens like clockwork without any effort to remove the most obvious of pork barrels.
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by bcrl 3y ago
I truly wonder what the world would be like if businesses and people were liable for the cost of externalities discovered after an initial transaction. It downright saddens me that we're able to punt these massive costs onto future ge
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by bcrl 3y ago
I did some integration work with QuickBooks online, and oh the horror! Simple things like reconciling transactions against a bank account couldn't be done via the supported API. There was basically no way to automate clicking on ever
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by bcrl 3y ago
Check out angel investor networks in your area. They often hold events that are a good place to meet other founders, and are a great place chat with peers going through the challenge of building a business.
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by bcrl 3y ago
At least with barter exchange tends to happen in person so you can figure out if you're being scammed before you hand over your goods. Bitcoin gives you the worst of all worlds by making the exchange completely impersonal while lackin
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by bcrl 3y ago
The radio costs very little, but the antenna needed for AM has to be much larger than for FM to get similar performance. I can imagine that auto manufacturers would love to get rid of the cost of installing the antenna by only supporting B
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by bcrl 3y ago
The way Intel did it was absolutely horrible. Had the left shift of segment selectors on the 8086 been 8 bits rather than 4, the extra 15MB of address space would have given DOS apps substantially more headroom. Having programmed C and as
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by bcrl 3y ago
Try watching the demo using that technique called the "Apple II 64k Cycle-counting Megademo" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McKAcKVTIQs . There are not any artifacts with the changes between text and graphics
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by bcrl 3y ago
Can I register the TLD .c? Anyone with me on that?
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by bcrl 3y ago
Not really. Clock speeds for CPUs have stagnated because they hit the power wall back in the P4 days. Part of what enabled the relentless clock increased from the 1970s until the early 2000s is that each generation of CPU ran at a substan
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by bcrl 3y ago
I wonder if this would be considered a violation of Intel's copyright on the manuals?

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