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by bregma 2y ago
Well, you can start by tearing down all the fences and firing that Chesterton guy's sorry ass. After all, even a 32-bit ARMv7 uses .eh_unwind sections to crawl the stack for a backtrace, right? Then, you can focus on resolving edge cas
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by bregma 2y ago
But aside from the iodized salt, sanitary sewers, shoes, vaccines, and whatnots what have the Romans done for us?
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by bregma 2y ago
Well, most shampoos have a warning label about external use only so there is at least some effort to keep it out of a person's system.
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by bregma 2y ago
Those are photographs. The other kind are portraits. Incidentally, the word "selfie" used to be an acronym for "self-portrait." Now it refers to any kind of portrait (posed, but not necessarily of the picture-taker), so
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by bregma 2y ago
SDL can provide a context in the native windowing system, if you ask it to. Or not. You have to ask for it though, it's not the default.
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by bregma 2y ago
We had it on an Apple II+ in 1978. It definitely stored everything on the floppy. Including the typos and poorly-phrased questions ("Is it geen?").
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by bregma 2y ago
The policy gets the street people out of the line of sight of the wealthy and vocal while minimizing their participation in society (ie. their tax burden). In other words it buys them their own peace of mind while letting them keep more for
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by bregma 2y ago
So if I have an empty page table 0x00000001 can be referenced as a valid address? Memory mapping on all hardware with which I am familiar (which is not a small integer) is done by pages. If you have to fault on one address in a page (eg. ze
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by bregma 2y ago
So, FORTRAN IV except for the else.
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by bregma 2y ago
The granularity of virtual address mapping is usually a page. On many systems, that's 4 kilobytes of address space. In order to trigger a fault when the address 0x0000000000000000 is dereferenced, it's necessary to map the entire
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by bregma 2y ago
Well, that's a problem on many of the devices I've seen: zero is a valid memory address and dereferencing it does not cause any kind of crash. In fact some hardware requires reading or maybe even writing to that address. In an age
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by bregma 2y ago
In modern common usage both the terms "AI" and "algorithm" are just newspeak for "a computer does something" so combining the two into a single phrase just superlatively multiplies the value, like how using a d
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by bregma 2y ago
I had the same complaint over 20 years ago when the phrase "game AI" came into widespread use to describe a computer opponent. Now that we have an entire generation raised on the concept that anything a computer does is "AI&q
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by bregma 2y ago
Net neutrality is more about backhaul and peering. None of that goes away with more competition at the subscriber level. In fact, it become far more significant.
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by bregma 2y ago
Do you think no one has ever wanked to Michelangelo's "David"?
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by bregma 2y ago
Even just a robot arm with an appropriate sensors and hand attachment could replace human employees in the world's oldest profession. Consider what drove the video industry if you're looking to invest.
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by bregma 2y ago
National ID cards are evil. They are not a thing in my country and there would be very very strong opposition if they were seriously proposed (including riots, like when vaccine mandates were imposed on a subset of the population a few year
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by bregma 2y ago
I'm old. I use vim with no plugins, no LSP, no autocomplete. I use the command line for everything but editing. Works just fine. Now get off my lawn.
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by bregma 2y ago
So, your argument is that AI does not replace programmers, it just... replaces programmers?
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by bregma 2y ago
Shakespeare often spelt the same word differently at different times. If it was good enough for Billy Shakespeare, it should be good enough for modern-day mathematicians, forsooth.
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by bregma 2y ago
Q: What do you get when you cross artificial "intelligence" with "dumb" animals? A: I don't know. Further research required.
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by bregma 2y ago
Most Windows apps ship with copies of all their dependencies. The DLL Hell problem was solved by disk and bandwidth getting cheaper to the point where many dozens or even hundreds of copies of MSCVRT.DLL and friends on your system pass unno
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by bregma 2y ago
I thought the central point was the porn played on a loop. Maybe I was distracted and missed the real plot. Also maybe mixed up by the fact that one of the principle actors died in real life while the movie was being made.
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by bregma 2y ago
Why do my cannabis-sector ETFs keep going down then?
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by bregma 2y ago
Young people don't vote. Boomers were still young and just past the "turn on, tune in, and drop out" hippie summer of love when their elders passed the War on Drugs legislation. Now that they're the ones voting and sitt
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by bregma 2y ago
For example, every apple variety out there. Every potato variety out there. Every garlic variety out there. Grape varietals. All gone because their clone lines expired. Not being able to propagate clone lines is why we can't have seedl
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by bregma 2y ago
Well, sometimes.
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by bregma 2y ago
All the way down.
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by bregma 2y ago
Some men have honor. FTFY
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by bregma 2y ago
Serendipity favours the prepared mind. That's all.

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