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by breadbox 12y ago
I loved having the debugger separated out onto its own screen, even if it was a monochrome screen showing a bunch of tiled windows drawn with CP437 text-mode characters. To this day I miss the perfection of that setup. One of the first time
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by breadbox 12y ago
Franklin is the closest thing we have to a scientist on our currency now -- so, maybe.
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by breadbox 12y ago
No, that's not too obvious. As has already been pointed out, you're going to need a circle the size of a building if you want to get more than 2-3 digits of precision (assuming that you can make your measurements with millimeter a
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by breadbox 12y ago
You might think that if you've never tried it. But how do you get a giant circle on the ground in the first place? I mean, sure that giant circle you've drawn there looks circular, but how do you know that it is? Normally you&#x
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The Teensy Files: Creating teensy ELF executables for Linux(muppetlabs.com)
44 points by breadbox 12y ago|7 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
A nice little page with some very helpful examples for someone just starting out with using assembly on Linux. (There actually isn't much that's specific to Nasm, though. Based on the page's title, I would have at least expec
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Lopsided: Sifting through the election results(bit-player.org)
3 points by breadbox 12y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
Only a reminder that the OCR process looks nothing like what humans do.
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Sunshine in = Earthshine Out(bit-player.org)
15 points by breadbox 12y ago|1 comments
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On sexism, sexual assault and the threat of the ‘non-bro’(deathandtaxesmag.com)
1 points by breadbox 12y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
The issue is that pointers with the high bit set are commonplace, whereas pointers that are not aligned to the processor's word size are easily avoided (and on some architectures, outright invalid).
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by breadbox 12y ago
Setting the high bit would mean that the integer values are no longer automatically distinguishable from pointer values, which is kind of the whole point.
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by breadbox 12y ago
This is a good perspective -- pointing out e.g. how when the media even tries to report on how casual sexism affect the industry, it usually mangles the real issues beyond recognition. The title doesn't really do the article justice.
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by breadbox 12y ago
I think a lot of people would agree that both statements are true.
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by breadbox 12y ago
At one time there was; it was called the Internet. The archive still exists, but it's been made harder to browse through due to being jumbled up with javascript and cat gifs.
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by breadbox 12y ago
It's not necessary per se, but many programmers do it out of good habits. It becomes much harder to e.g. find memory leaks in your code if you never free the memory you haven't leaked. And normally the extra overhead it entails is
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by breadbox 12y ago
I'd argue that a survey of the literature shows quite the opposite. A young adult novel is more likely to address a specific subset of questions, yes, but if anything they are more likely to address e.g. ethical issues and moral dilemm
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by breadbox 12y ago
Leaving aside the typical silly assumption that a "young adult" book is somehow less likely to grapple with important questions... You shouldn't be at all surprised that a list of books characterized by "what has stayed
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by breadbox 12y ago
It would probably be easier to write a program to transcribe your piano playing from a silent video aimed at the keyboard, than from an audio recording.
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by breadbox 12y ago
I believe they were just considered to be blemishes, and as such not part of the shape. (Perhaps just a coating picked up from being too close to the earthly realm?) The telescope, however, showed that there were shadows that changed as the
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by breadbox 12y ago
I'm familiar with the difference between the two. It's my experience that what I said is largely true for both, and thus my comments.
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by breadbox 12y ago
Actually, most of C's "undefined behavior" is left undefined to permit compilers to define whatever behavior is most natural for the target's assembly. Undefined behavior is an issue when you're trying to write port
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by breadbox 12y ago
Ask ten women/minorities if they feel the same way, then ask ten white dudes. If you find a discrepancy between the two groups, then ask yourself if that isn't actually an indication that that call-out is in fact doing the job it
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by breadbox 12y ago
Perhaps a better comparison than US currency would be with currency with a nation that had only recently formed, and that many people doubt that it will be around in 20 years. The volatility of their currency may attract people into making
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by breadbox 12y ago
I'd like to also see a comparison with reading vs audiobook, (and maybe vs being read to by a live person). That would also help address their hypothesis about the feedback of the book pages.
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by breadbox 12y ago
"Someone said something that actively works against improving the direction of the conversation." This includes what I assume the "mean/racist/sexist" choice refers to -- obnoxiousness that raises the level of
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by breadbox 12y ago
It differs from an automatic trigger in that the photographer is still the one exercising the decision to take a photograph. In the case under consideration, the monkeys stole the camera while the photographer was distracted. (Perhaps it&#x
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by breadbox 12y ago
I guess the problem for me is that the lazy thinking that's required to accept the general premise is uncomfortably close to the kind of lazy thinking that people are prone to anyway, that makes it all too easy to treat each other badl
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by breadbox 12y ago
Well, to be precise, the author is frustrated that other people are taking it much too seriously. I'm inclined to defend this: The time to stop being dismissive of a stupid story is when everyone else around you is holding it up as pre
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by breadbox 12y ago
Agreed. The recent spate of compiled languages says more about C++ than anything else.

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