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by bnolsen 11y ago
This is getting as bad as the washington redskins non controversy.
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by bnolsen 11y ago
so if mosquiotos are oblivious to rain is there some way to make artificial rain with different properties that could destroy mosquitos en masse?
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by bnolsen 11y ago
that would be BS. the new deal was a big push into socialism, programs of the FDR admin. FDR and esp his wife were socialists. Thes type things depressed he economy for years an needed a war to alleviate those problems.
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by bnolsen 11y ago
our whole system has it internally. very very useful for least squares systems and covariance propagation, etc.
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by bnolsen 11y ago
you left out the most important..national defense...oh sorry, most of the EU dumped that on the US so it could afford all these social programs!
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by bnolsen 11y ago
i'm surprised no one has mentioned this but it seems like the koreans are now driving automotive style. The 2000's cars pretty much hit jellybean status, toyota/lexus in particular. A few years ago I started noticing some of
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by bnolsen 11y ago
i think we have a winner. notice the uncontrolled mass influx of non citizens into the country of late and the preferential treatment they get, especially regarding privacy issues?
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by bnolsen 11y ago
i cant upvote you enough. people blaming corporations for controlling everything is lame. the politicians who are elected have the free will to choose, the electorate can easily review the politician's record if they like. just beca
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by bnolsen 11y ago
on linux a couple of compiler flags (FORTIFY_SOURCE, etc) and providing a memcpy wrapper would get you compatibility back to about 2006. To go back further the glibc you compile against can have an earlier version of the linux kernel speci
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by bnolsen 11y ago
pile of crap. women in the US are incentivized to divorce. In all cases they get primary custody of the children even if they have drug issues and walk away with substantial income. 80% of divorces in the US are initiated by the woman.
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by bnolsen 11y ago
unit tests are more effective than using a debugger. I use a debugger a couple times a month and unit tests with sprinkled asserts and debug prints in the code.
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by bnolsen 11y ago
Adding -Wall would be a very good addition that would help with fixing a few things as well.
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by bnolsen 11y ago
Because the "inner city" culture demonizes people who live and work hard in the suburbs. I noticed this in high school, when it started becoming popular for inner city families to ship their kids out to the suburban schools to get
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by bnolsen 11y ago
The US congress was supposed to be made up of ordinary citizens who part of the time lived at home in their districts. ran their businesses and affairs and occasionally went to vote on federal government issues. What we have is a political
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by bnolsen 12y ago
cause and effect have been misidentified. the craptastic business environment in the US has led to fall of the system. unions can't survive because they've helped price american labor out of the market. union money has gone uni
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by bnolsen 12y ago
no. hard working europeans leave europe to escape the system where they have little hope of bettering themselves in the european system. lots of them showed up in china working as part of outsource or manufacturing firms. talked to severa
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by bnolsen 12y ago
in fact it is related to outsourcing. in the past outsourcing processing involved shipping drives of data overseas. The risk and schedule hit were big, the offshore companies had crap hardware that usually cost a lot more than it cost in
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by bnolsen 12y ago
losing access to health insurance != losing access to health care. they aren't the same thing. I like having access to health care. obamacare has been making sure people are insured (sort of like having stock options) while actively
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by bnolsen 12y ago
his macros are truly evil. i wish he would have stayed with nicer c++ stuffs ut on compiler challenged platforms...
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by bnolsen 12y ago
windowmaker on my dev workstations and xfce (or chromeos) on my laptops.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
The short of it is: Apple wants their record breaking profits and they get those profits by telling you little guys "to hell with you". People keep buying Apple, people keep developing for Apple. They're massively profitab
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by bnolsen 12y ago
Gen John Thompson should know better about how to hold a weapon. If you don't mean to fire the weapon your finger shouldn't be anywhere near that trigger.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
Interesting facebook doesnt have 2 separate apps. A "stable" version and a "beta" version that people can use. When a beta version runs well enough make that one the stable version. People running a "beta" t
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by bnolsen 12y ago
that's the arch style "deal with it". i run it on several machines but that's always the feeling i got from the arch devs.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
i bought some kitchen gadget at one. An interesting store, purple inside with just lots of strange things. Not surprised they didn't last.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
based on my experience with bpg compression of 39 megapixel image takes 2s with jpeg turbo (the original is a raw tiff but already cached). same image bpg is 8m30s. this is on an ivy bridge xeon. i was wanting to smash a few hundred thou
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by bnolsen 12y ago
Just go watch the movie "idiocracy" and there's the language that will be used even before 3000AD.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
Dumb Dumb Dumb. If allowed the economy will shift to compensate, in ways that people can't predict. More automation means more efficient wealth generation, food production, etc. This allows more people to do something other than wor
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by bnolsen 12y ago
i switched from fvwm95 then to afterstep and then settled on windowmaker for my work systems. Come to think of it I ran enlightenment when I had dual sony trinitrons since that supported virtual desktops per head with xinerama. When I got
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by bnolsen 12y ago
i run the alsa version of that mixer and wmclock.

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