bregma

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901.
by bregma 3y ago
We had a floppy vinyl 45 of that when I was a kid in the 1960s (my mother was a high school science teacher and we often had cool stuff like that around the house).
902.
by bregma 3y ago
Not enough is bad so more than enough must be better?
903.
by bregma 3y ago
> Some might also consider it undermining their own industry Especially if that industry has evolved into suckling at the government's teat. Taxpayer milk is the sweetest milk.
904.
by bregma 3y ago
That's right, It's all just stuff that happens when you hit F5 in your IDE. It's like not needing to know how an internal combustion engine works since all you have to do is tell the driver where you want to go.
905.
by bregma 3y ago
Um, no. `gcc` is a driver that runs cc1 (a C compiler from the GNU compiler collection), cc1plus (a C++ compiler from the GNU compiler collection), (g)as (an assembler from GNU binutils) and ld (a static linker from GNU binutils) and someti
906.
by bregma 3y ago
Butter stays hard below 15 C (depending on variable like fat content). Fridge is 4 C. 8 months of the year my kitchen is below 15 C. I do not live in the tropics or even the subtropics.
907.
by bregma 3y ago
Here I was years ago wondering whether the Yourdon formalism or the Gane and Sarson formalism was better for doing your data flow analysis. It turns out doing dataflow analysis is just pretty much scorned by the programming community so it
908.
by bregma 3y ago
It stood for "Waterloo FORTRAN IV" which makes more sense. Well, you know what I mean. I used it professionally for years in the 1980s. It wasn't just a teaching language.
909.
by bregma 4y ago
The cheese is on the inside. You butter the outside of the sandwich when making grilled cheese.
910.
by bregma 4y ago
Where I live, 10 months of the year it makes no difference because it's going to be rock-hard and able to bend your knife no matter where you keep it. The remaining two months of the year butter left on the counter is a glorious yellow
911.
by bregma 4y ago
Rewrite the C standard library in Rust? I'm not sure I understand how that even makes sense. Are there problems this would solve?
912.
by bregma 4y ago
For native English speakers, the German "spontan" translates as "improvised" rather than "spontaneous".
913.
by bregma 4y ago
Given a 2x4 is 1.75 by 3.75 inches, it sure doesn't make using Imperial measure any easier than metric. It's more that certain demographics are oppositional-defiant when it comes to change and they tend to make up the "base&q
914.
by bregma 4y ago
And all the science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week. A rocket man.
915.
by bregma 4y ago
Real patriots fly flags from their honking F-150s, play in bouncy castles, shit in snowbanks, and call to engage in fervent sexual congress with democratically elected leaders who have great hair. Do I win a prize?
916.
by bregma 4y ago
And you know, the boomers felt exactly the same about the generation they were replacing. At least some things don't change.
917.
by bregma 4y ago
Usually line noise like that is quickly followed by a "Remote disconnected..." message and I have to dial in again.
918.
by bregma 4y ago
There is no safety-certified Linux. As far as I know there was no safety-certified QNX 6 either (QOS 1.0 was based on QNX 6.5 SP1, which is not the same as QNX 6 despite the numbers looking eerily similar). With a safety-certified system, y
919.
by bregma 4y ago
We didn't teach our kids to read. We just read to them. A lot. Every day. By the time they were in kindergarten they could read on their own. By the time they started learning to read in school they could bring their own books to read
920.
by bregma 4y ago
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
921.
by bregma 4y ago
I work for a company that ships safety-certified software. We, or often our customers, have discovered bugs in that software. We do not fix the bugs because one single small bugfix means re-certifying the entire software , a process that t
922.
by bregma 4y ago
Richard Stallman pray for us.
923.
by bregma 4y ago
Interestingly, the Lindows software was originally developed under contract by the Corel developers. The Corel developers became Xandros (another Linux distribution) and eventually won the non-payment lawsuit against Michael Robertson. Lins
924.
by bregma 4y ago
Why does this have to be a zero-sum game? Fix the root problems and reduce harm and get out of the pulpit.
925.
by bregma 4y ago
It's no worse than getting food into the cracks on the phone screen, and easier to clean. We will not even discuss problems with USB-C in the kitchen.
926.
by bregma 4y ago
Integer overflow is real and prevalent. To many times have I seen unchecked overflow return a number much much smaller than expected.
927.
by bregma 4y ago
> They'll be timeless decades from now. Hopefully not.
928.
by bregma 4y ago
It's inflation. Now it's leaked out into the general economy as a result. Same thing happens when you inflate a tire: it makes it nice a hard until it goes boom.
929.
by bregma 4y ago
For example, how many showers a day can a person take and "forget" to get dressed?
930.
by bregma 4y ago
Not all libertarians. Any libertarian is of course free to decide for themself if it's a win or not. Some may, and some may not.

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