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by bregma 3y ago
It's also getting worse just as fast in the rest of Canada without the lack of enforcement of the wet coast. Doesn't sound like a causative correlation to me.
872.
by bregma 3y ago
When your employer and the owner of the intellectual property you are employed to work on decide to move that intellectual property to a different server, you either acquiesce or you look for another job doing something else. You have to as
873.
by bregma 3y ago
Ten thousand bilious blue blistering barnacles that's a tremendous idea! Or by "full range" did you mean "limit it to a few well-worn cliches"?
874.
by bregma 3y ago
Not just woodworking tools. Everything you need to make your own casket except the oak, from tools through the specialized hinges and latch for smooth closure action and a silent and dependable last click. And the project plans to go with i
875.
by bregma 3y ago
Yes. These advertising companies extract the excess wealth created by the labour of the news-reporting media without compensation. The people of Canada decided that this is unfair and not in their best interest. The advertising companies de
876.
by bregma 3y ago
Pointers are just indexes into memory space. Seems to me that if Rust is trying to solve a general programming problem the borrow checker needs to handle all indexes, not just those specialized for memory space.
877.
by bregma 3y ago
The government of Canada is of the people, by the people, for the people of Canada. You're saying it's the people of Canada who are responsible for a business interest refusing to extract their wealth if it can not be done for fre
878.
by bregma 3y ago
The nudity was tolerated as long as the subjects were natives. No naked "regular people" appeared in the pages of National Geographic. Which does point to one of the causes for people complaining that it's gone down hill and
879.
by bregma 3y ago
Hey, home', I can dig it. He ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap-up on you, man. [Subtitle: Yes, he is wrong for doing that]
880.
by bregma 3y ago
Well, "the sky" is nearby hills and mountains. This is a flat plane between some hills and some very tall mountains. If you've flown over the area you can see they even carved a human figure into the side of one of the hills
881.
by bregma 3y ago
It should read "extract excess wealth".
882.
by bregma 3y ago
Well obviously the enlightened consumer would simply choose not to have cancer when the price of treatment is too high or the supply too low, thus keeping everything in balance and the theory working perfectly. Ceteris paribus of course.
883.
by bregma 3y ago
Email is a text medium. If someone can't be arsed to communicate properly in a medium, then they're just poor communicators. If I can't read the text of an email, it's just spam and goes directly in the trash. I already
884.
by bregma 3y ago
It's much more preferable to drink alone at home than to go out to a bar. I understand people who wax enthusiastic about bars will disagree, and are far more likely to read the headline and post a comment here.
885.
by bregma 3y ago
> Birth rates are plummeting everywhere. Birth rates are plummeting in many first-world countries but it's skyrocketing in most places.
886.
by bregma 3y ago
> Boggles my mind that people do that. $ uptime 15:39:13 up 359 days, 2:02, 16 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.15 16 users is 16 tmux sessions, all me doing different tasks.
887.
by bregma 3y ago
Wasn't it Terry Pratchett with his L-space?
888.
by bregma 3y ago
I am 60+ and always worked for small organizations until the last 5 years or so. Never had 1:1s until recently. Biweekly half-hour meetings where we chat about nothing. Mostly harmless but there just in case.
889.
by bregma 3y ago
I'm pretty convinced space aliens send the cosmic rays down that cause the bizarre runtime bugs in my software. I have never found a more amenable or rational explanation.
890.
by bregma 3y ago
Secomd edition. Before they took out the illustrated section on how to skin a squirrel. Essential knowledge, after all.
891.
by bregma 3y ago
I interview a lot of students for co-op roles. Almost none seem to program outside of assignments -- or even show an interest in programming outside of assignments. We use that as a weeding-out criteria. Some terms we don't hire any st
892.
by bregma 3y ago
Ah, yes. In English we used to spell that R-T-F-M.
893.
by bregma 3y ago
It's humour because the "halting problem" has a simple and elegant proof that it is impossible to solve in the general case. TFA's request for general computing to use unlimited stack operation for every thread of execut
894.
by bregma 3y ago
Stack limits exist because of the halting problem. If we knew in advance which thread would need extra contiguous memory for deep recursion using variables of automatic storage duration we could allocates its stack at an address with enou
895.
by bregma 3y ago
I'm in my 60s. The only downsides I see are a bit of stiffness in the morning and putting up with know-it-all 22-year-olds.
896.
by bregma 3y ago
My wife (who spins and knits) has a number of acquaintances who engage in sheep-to-shawl competitively. They're all uber-geeks of the textile world. It's just like those build-a-game-from-scratch-in-a-weekend contests. Except for
897.
by bregma 3y ago
Here's how the US Constitution works: the Executive is solely responsible for negotiating and signing international treaties and trade deals with no input from Congress or the Judiciary. Once signed, a treaty or trade deal is a piece
898.
by bregma 3y ago
Your daily beers would have been a "small" beer like the kind they served school children in Belgium until very recently [0]. Maybe 1.5% alcohol by volume tops. It's not the alcohol that prevents the spread of disease but the
899.
by bregma 3y ago
> electricity is so useful, and has the property of colocating emissions at the generation plant, that I don't see a lot of reason not to use it for all forms of heating and transportation Microwave ovens are fine for reheating take
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by bregma 3y ago
So, what PRNG does Random() use? LCG (linear congruential)? LFS (lagged Fibonacci)? MT (Mersenne twister)? In each case it's a linear function of some global variable, not any kind of random number generator. Treating it as if it'

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