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781.
by bregma 3y ago
So it's not dead yet?
782.
by bregma 3y ago
So... you can build something out of Lego?
783.
by bregma 3y ago
> The failsafe is backups. Backups are not a failsafe. Firstly, backups are not an emergency plan. Restoring backups is the emergency plan, and that needs to be tested and verified on a regular basis. Making backups without validated res
784.
by bregma 3y ago
> what you "really want" is a stream API with three arguments: the stream, the object or value, and a pointer to a function (or function object) that takes the value and transforms it to a stream of characters. Or maybe a form
785.
by bregma 3y ago
One of the problems with much of the modernizing drive of going all-digital is that there is no failsafe. No workable fallback. Usually skipped for "efficiency" (meaning some Excel spreadsheet was used to manipulate the numbers an
786.
by bregma 3y ago
With all the money generated by the porn industry I'm surprised there isn't more spent on research and development of applicable technology.
787.
by bregma 3y ago
Just wait until you see what my friends can do with one cup.
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by bregma 3y ago
De-escalation is entirely possible without guns. You can crack a skull with armoured gloves or steel-toed boots until resistance ceases. You can use any of several body holds like "the sleeper" until resistance ceases. You can kne
789.
by bregma 3y ago
Given that the "I" in "AI" is already a strong misnomer, why not just go with the lies people get told and make a fast buck?
790.
by bregma 3y ago
I think the right word is "bullshit". LLMs are neither delusional nor hallucinating since they have no beliefs or sensory input. The just generate loads of fertilizer and a lot of people like to spread it around.
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by bregma 3y ago
No. A slide rule is all scientific notation (2 or 3 significant digits on the rule and you carry the mantissa in your head). Very good for accuracy but not so much for precision.
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by bregma 3y ago
Below the kernel is the hardware. QNX is a nanokernel in which the kernel itself is just a tiny executive and all the real work is done in userspace processes, including process management. Pid 1 is procnto, the usespace process manager, an
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by bregma 3y ago
Neutrino still exists and it's running your car. In fact you can still buy it for home use. It's just not Free. Or "free" as in Windows.
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by bregma 3y ago
I spent a lot of quality time in the 1980s recording with 4-tracks and editing with splice blocks. I do not miss it but I miss the live performance it necessitated.
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by bregma 3y ago
Technically that's a subtly incompatible ABI change. ABI changes can be notoriously tricky to spot. That's handled properly on an ELF-based system by bumping the SONAME major (if the library developer knows what they're doing
796.
by bregma 3y ago
It's the assumption that the hardware operation is the same as the C abstract machine operation. Hint: they're not, and that causes all kinds of subtle problem when programmers assume they are, especially when it comes to atomicit
797.
by bregma 3y ago
... and it's been sustaining it at such unsustainable levels for decades now and probably will decades into the future.
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by bregma 3y ago
I've been programming since I was 10 and I'm over 60 now. I spend 8 to 10 hours at a keyboard. When should I expect these problems to start?
799.
by bregma 3y ago
And this is why the USA exclusively uses the metric system today.
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by bregma 3y ago
"PROD" is an acronym (a shortened form of a more formal name for something). What it isn't is an initialism (a word coined by taking the first initial of a descriptive phrase). Traditionally, both initialisms (eg. CPU) and ac
801.
by bregma 3y ago
So FreeBSD can run only on simple single 32-bit CPUs with no cache (or no registers)? I would argue that outside of a few select embedded controllers there's almost no hardware out there that meets that requirement.
802.
by bregma 3y ago
A case of beers is 24. That's definitely more than a couple.
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by bregma 3y ago
Perhaps they are just less judgemental about polyamory.
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by bregma 3y ago
There is a TS for reflection, but reflection is really not part of the compiled-to-native language paradigm.
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by bregma 3y ago
__PRETTY_FUNCTION__ is a GCC extension that was copied by clang. It's not a standard language feature and won't work on something that is not GCC or mimics it closely.
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by bregma 3y ago
Mmm, hard-coding std::clog, using std::endl, not professional-grade stuff.
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by bregma 3y ago
We know what neolithic European peoples ate by analyzing Otzi's stomach contents. It's a thing that has been done.
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by bregma 3y ago
The potential station in Georgetown was skipped for geotechnical reasons. The original town was sited on an enormous and very hard rock above the river and surrounding swamps and that made blasting the huge station cavern prohibitively expe
809.
by bregma 3y ago
Yeah, where I live lamb comes in tiny shrinkwrapped imported packages and sells for about $40/lb. You can also get similar small frozen packets of camel and ostrich meat in the freezer section. You can not buy mutton anywhere (unless y
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by bregma 3y ago
That's because there is a difference between trichinosis from undercooked pork and E. coli from the unhygenic handling of cut meat in general. E. coli mostly infects just the surface of cut meat so as long as it's cooked well on t

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