benj111

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by benj111 3y ago
Yes the crime of breaking and entering. If I took a piece of potato peel out of your bin that was on the pavement, that might technically be a crime (I don't know). But are you going to pursue a civil suit? What compensation are you go
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by benj111 3y ago
That shouldn't be needed though. "We are displaying you text that was served to/stored by our program as text, but we won't let you use it as text, unless you jump through the hoop of ocring it"
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by benj111 3y ago
>but diamonds aren’t worth what you’re paying >Value is defined in free markets by what you can sell something for So if someone can sell you a diamond for X, it is worth X. So the diamond is worth what you're paying. Was Christm
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by benj111 3y ago
So you've never watched an old film? Listened to music from before you were born? Read a book from before you were born? There was more than enough of this stuff when I was young, but instead of watching police academy 26 I watched som
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by benj111 3y ago
I believe it's called 'playing devils advocate' or in this case sarcasm. Unfortunately sarcasm doesn't come across very well on the internet.
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by benj111 3y ago
Legal or not, the BBC obviously put a value of zero on these things when they threw them away. So who has lost, what value needs to be recovered? There's no reasonable reason for anyone to pursue legal action, it would just be vexatiou
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by benj111 3y ago
This drives me up the wall on Android, don't use Windows. I like to feel that I actually own and control my powerful general purpose computer. Instead I've got a phone that's good for reading HN and not much else. There shoul
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by benj111 3y ago
Interesting. I do run an adblocker and didn't have any issues
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by benj111 3y ago
I wondered if it was a hardware fault, and the fpu is allowing enough electrons to flow where they need to be. Although the infocom 'boot' step suggests a race condition somewhere? Or some register not being properly set by the os
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by benj111 3y ago
Define value. You might not value it, but I dare say you value things that I don't value. Define artificial tradition. Yes someone can invent it, but it requires people to actually adopt it. All the trappings of Christmas were invented
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by benj111 3y ago
I concur. For me, raising a child is about raising a functioning future adult. Bunging them £x000 when (hopefully) they're in their 60s seems a bit too late for me to have done my job properly. Further, what does the parent expect from
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by benj111 3y ago
We are a pack species. No one is immune from trying to fit into a group, by valuing things that the group values. You can tell your self that your Audi is objectively the best car for you, or that Mac is required to do your job most effecti
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by benj111 3y ago
There's an 'is it legal' link on the linked website which would suggest the opposite. I've come across them fairly recently.
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by benj111 3y ago
int 0x80 was/is the x86_32 way of doing syscalls in linux. im not sure if sysenter, used on 64bit systems is classed as an interrupt. the sdk is just a layer on top of that. ive never used c on dos, it woukdnt surprise me if they used
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by benj111 3y ago
>I'm afraid I'm going to be very unproductive on my side projects for a while I infer that your main project is discovering things that may one day help you be more productive in your side projects. It could be worse. Ben Eater
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by benj111 3y ago
They have these in the UK, but at a higher frequency that supposedly only teenagers up to no good can hear. I'm far too close to 40 though, and I can still hear them. https://mosquitoloiteringsolutions.com/
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by benj111 3y ago
There's a possibility. Seems more of a risk to transatlantic routes. I don't know how easy it would be to reroute them though.
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by benj111 3y ago
>Carriage return is a carriage return To be fair it isn't. On typewriters it also adds a new line. On Mac, it is (used to be?) the new line character. I don't know how non vt terminals handled it.
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by benj111 3y ago
A negative ROI (return on investment) suggests it won't pay for itself ever, be that in cash or carbon. If you're actively trying to cool the building then painting it in something that lowers the energy needed to cool it. And as
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by benj111 3y ago
But currently we aren't on a course to actually unwind that carbon production in time. It's like saying there's an oasis 2 days walk from here, so don't worry about having a shower and possibly using all your drinkable w
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by benj111 3y ago
White paint (if cheap) on a building you are actively trying to cool would seem to have a very good roi.
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by benj111 3y ago
That over writes though. It doesn't delete. Foofoo\rbar\r Should show as barfoo With the cursor over the start of that line.
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by benj111 3y ago
A general rule was extracted that 'useless' code is buggy code I'd expect the compiler to optimise out If(somedebugflag) Not tell me off for writing buggy code.
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by benj111 3y ago
but theres 1000s of doctors and dentists that we don't know the names of. they might be aware of Dr Joe Bloggs in 6939, just because he carved his name in some rock, that doesn't imply they will have a deep knowledge of our famous
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by benj111 3y ago
Wouldn't microfilm have been made from celluloid in this era, and so probably wouldn't 50 let alone 5000 years?
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by benj111 3y ago
Tell me you're a lisp programmer without telling me you're a lisp programmer. The thing for me is my text editor visually matches the braces, so the second option makes that harder.
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by benj111 3y ago
I wouldn't call it a bug either. I quite often write 'useless' code, just to make the intent more obvious. Int Foo,bar = 1,5 Int baz = foo+bar I could just make baz 6, but then I don't know why it's 6.
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by benj111 3y ago
nasm has better goto labels you can use sublabels within a block that don't need to be globally unique. The data generation stuff is better aswell. This was a while ago, and I could have missed these features else where, but that'
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by benj111 3y ago
Hypothetically yes. The problem is, if you pull a cable out of your drawer, you don't know if it'll be the correct one. This is strictly worse than the 'bad' old days. If I pulled a SCSI cable out, I would know before ha
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by benj111 3y ago
I thought it was a parody piece about employers wanting you to jump through more and more hoops.

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