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by bitbiter 5mo ago
Respectable journalism calls this an "editorial stance". The Wall Street Journal has always been openly conservative in their bias that is most on display in editorials while they maintain a high quality, generally center-right ne
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by bitbiter 11mo ago
Electronic gambling machines are highly regulated because they deal with real money and random number generation. There are a lot of safeguards in that industry across various jurisdictions that seem like they should apply to electronic vot
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by bitbiter 1y ago
Steam dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Vista at the same time, about 5 years after Microsoft ended support for Windows XP and 2 years after support ended for Windows Vista
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by bitbiter 6y ago
> Video calls? Microsoft NetMeeting[0] was released in 1996 and actually included with Windows 95 through Vista > USB thumb drives? Windows 98 didn't have drivers for them, so they came bundles with CD with drivers? Zip drives an
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by bitbiter 8y ago
The Nexus One had preinstalled apps that could not be removed, specifically Amazon MP3, Twitter, and Facebook.
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by bitbiter 10y ago
From the docs: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/insert.html#i_%3CEsc%3... End insert or Replace mode, go back to Normal mode. Finish abbreviation. Note: If your <Esc> key is hard to hit on your keyboard, tr
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by bitbiter 10y ago
Vulcan, DirectX 12, and Metal are basically like C. They're made to be as low level as possible while maintaining hardware portability. With the PS4 hardware is locked so their API is more like assembly (or maybe inline assembly in a C
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by bitbiter 10y ago
C++ has std::valarray that has aliasing rules similar to the restrict keyword, allowing the same types of optimizations.
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by bitbiter 12y ago
Unfortunately the only C++ comparison is with g++, which makes me wonder how much we're actually benchmarking the llvm backend versus the gcc backend. Perhaps even more interesting is how gcc C consistently outperforms g++ C++ (and Rus
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by bitbiter 12y ago
From their main page[1]: > Does Privacy Badger contain a "black list" of blocked sites? > No, unlike other blocking tools like AdBlock Plus, we have not made decisions about which sites to block, but rather about which behav
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by bitbiter 13y ago
You make a good point, but there is a faint odor of survivorship bias in "we all came out OK".
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by bitbiter 13y ago
Thunderbird is "done". Mozilla's development efforts are limited to security and maintenance updates.
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by bitbiter 13y ago
I am unique among the millions so far. It took me a moment to realize that means I am completely trackable. A little surprising since I just built this computer from scratch a couple weeks ago. I'll take this more as a commentary on th
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by bitbiter 14y ago
The obvious problem with the multiple return paradigm is that Go returns: result AND error whereas it would make much more sense to return: result OR error After all, if the error is true the result is invalid. This is one thing exceptions
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by bitbiter 14y ago
Isn't this really just an ad homeniem? Would the author have the same reaction if it was made by Brewster Kahle, founder of the non-profit Internet Archive (www.archive.org)? After all, the same points can easily be made in regard to non-pr