blucoat

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by blucoat 10y ago
Perhaps the filtering would also be done by a third party. This isn't entirely foreign now: if you write an article online, you can't control the comments on reddit, HN or 4chan. However, users have some control over which comme
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by blucoat 10y ago
>SIGSEGV is a very important signal. It happens when your program tries to access memory that it does not have. An appropriate reaction might be to allocate more memory read some data from disk into that memory do something
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by blucoat 10y ago
I think most arguments for abortion rely heavily on the right of the mother to bodily autonomy. That is, once the baby is delivered, those arguments fall apart. Breastfeeding your child because you want the "experience" is compl
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by blucoat 11y ago
I agree with you that Trump gets a ridiculously disproportionate amount of news -- not a surprise, considering how much money covering him makes -- but that's not how I interpreted the article's complaints. It read to me like the
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by blucoat 11y ago
> [The media] simply do not see that as their role. For most of them, a posture of “neutrality” and “opinion-free” blankness are the highest values. > ... that’s all one can expect from large sectors of the U.S. media: cowardly neutra
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by blucoat 11y ago
It seems like everyone here has this mentality that "of course he's evil, he's a thief!" Can someone explain what actual harm this causes anyone? I think it's ridiculous that people pay so much for his "work&
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by blucoat 11y ago
Does ohshit stand for something else clever? I know the Android API uses "What a Terrible Failure" to serve a similar function.
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by blucoat 11y ago
This is what confuses me, so maybe someone with a better understanding of this market works can elaborate. How is it that the drug is not patented but the manufacturer has the exclusive right to sell it? It blows my mind that one company
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by blucoat 11y ago
Gcc with default options does. I was curious about this and tested it, expecting to get a segmentation fault, but to my surprise string constants are executable. A mutable string, however (char data[] instead of char *data), is not execut
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by blucoat 11y ago
Something to keep in mind: Of all Tox clients, uTox is written in C, using its own UI framework that directly interfaces with X11 and WinAPI. This makes the code itself a mess. The reasoning behind this is that it's somewhat of a mem
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by blucoat 12y ago
I have no experience using Active Directory. Is this common practice? I would personally not even classify this as a bug; it seems like common sense that running code downloaded from an unauthenticated connection is bad. How is this diff
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by blucoat 12y ago
I'm not typically a gun person, but this seems like a really flawed idea. As the article describes it, it's a gun that only works against an unprepared enemy. Anyone with an RF jammer could completely stop its use, if I understa