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by burfog 8y ago
Program and section headers are different things only because ELF makes it so, and this is a bad design. The same mostly goes for having both physical and virtual addresses. Has there ever even existed a loader that would generate page tabl
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by burfog 8y ago
Them being "fundamentally well-intentioned, working to build a more just & equitable society" is a good explanation for why they wiped out lots of job-killing regulations that infringed on private property rights. This might n
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by burfog 8y ago
Count me as being not a fan of ELF. One can have e_phoff or e_shoff or both... or I suppose neither. Because you can have both, they can conflict. If you have e_phoff, then within that there is the issue of p_vaddr and p_paddr. You could ha
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by burfog 8y ago
You make 2 or 3 passes with a supersonic aircraft to get the location, and then one more pass to drop a bomb. In a more civilian context, you have a nice fireworks show and then send the SWAT team.
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by burfog 8y ago
That is really strange. Here, the utility company would be happy to have you buy lots more power. Are you lacking a meter? Is the utility company unable to read your meter remotely and unwilling to send a truck out to read it? This would ex
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by burfog 8y ago
My local utility seems to offer it, though they prefer that you install a transformer. They also offer 3-phase for residential usage. Yes, this is in the USA. From what I can tell, most likely you'd get 480 volts at 500 amps. There is
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by burfog 8y ago
Ah, just like internet service: it is oversubscribed. The utility can not deliver what has been promised for all customers at the same time.
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by burfog 8y ago
At 250 volts, it is only 1000 Amps. Normal houses come with 200 Amp service. Older ones may be 100 Amp, and larger modern ones are 400 Amp. So that is about 5 houses. You could buy that service. I hope Tesla would sell you the supercharger
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by burfog 8y ago
If there is a 5% profit on that, and Trump has $3.9 billion, then this is 1/400000 of his wealth. That is like a profit of $0.01 to $1.00 for a normal American. (who would have $4000 to $400,000 total, including the value of any car or
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by burfog 8y ago
OK, so then you must not object to T-Mobile at the Trump hotel, because there is zero evidence that: a. Trump's political decisions were influenced by T-Mobile or any other hotel customer b. T-Mobile or any other company chose the hote
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by burfog 8y ago
This is getting crazy. If we had elected Larry Page, would it be a scandal that T-Mobile supports Android phones? If we had elected Jeff Bezos, would it be a scandal for T-Mobile to use AWS?
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by burfog 8y ago
I just wanted some decent memory pictures, and this is how I inadvertently discovered that I am a good photographer. We put out cameras and asked for photos. I assumed that everybody would take photos just like I do. I had never thought tha
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by burfog 8y ago
One would expect a massive underestimate. If a spy does well, the victim will be completely unaware.
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by burfog 8y ago
Your complaints about capitalism can mostly be handled without giving up all the benefits. Poverty exists everywhere, especially under communism, but right now a good deal of the source is competition from immigrants and outsourcing, both o
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by burfog 8y ago
Wow, an actual communist. OK, I need to ask you a few questions. Why should we risk it? You might say that previous attempts were "not real communism", but that is what we end up with when we try. We've killed 160 million peo
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by burfog 8y ago
No, the cost of a tax on trade is always split. The way it is split is determined by elasticity of demand and elasticity of supply. In this particular case, Chinese suppliers have been paying about 83% of the tariff.
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by burfog 8y ago
I recall seeing it, but I can't seem to track it down at the moment. It was a study done by Europeans, concluding that China was eating about 83% of the tariff cost. The remaining 17% hits the US consumers. Of course, that 17% can sort
888.
by burfog 8y ago
It's not just employers. It's everything now. Just recently I went car shopping. The sale agreement requires arbitration. Cell phone contracts require it. Come think of it, is there anything left that doesn't require arbitrat
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by burfog 8y ago
It makes sense if the locals benefit from tourists driving down those roads to observe the scenery. A place without roads may be even more pristine, but it also might as well not exist because normal people can't go there.
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by burfog 8y ago
Maybe you could make something to alert yourself whenever a story appears to be related to China. Stories about China seem to always get flagged to death whenever they include anything that could be considered unflattering.
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by burfog 8y ago
So, if you have more than 125 L per week or more than 20 kg per week, you have a huge incentive to dump it somewhere illegally? It doesn't sound like they thought this through.
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by burfog 8y ago
I'd rather it not go to China. It is better that we manufacture our own plastic trinkets right here in the USA.
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by burfog 8y ago
That doesn't seem to have anything to do with the problem. The problem: You have a string. (pointer to char with NUL termination) Depending on what that string is, you want to run different code. You want to do this with high performan
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by burfog 8y ago
No, that entirely loses the expected performance and clarity of a switch. Remember that "arbitrary types" in C are not so exotic. A simple byte-by-byte comparison will do, skipping over any struct padding. Compilers today will gen
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by burfog 8y ago
Somebody, please just fix the language. Extend all the free compilers or, better yet, run the changes through the standards committee. People have been dying for this feature for over half a century. While you're at it, just make the f
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by burfog 8y ago
There have been a few. One ended up removing it for copyright/trademark reasons.
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by burfog 8y ago
Well, to start, almost anything but fascist. I think being non-globalist is literally the only thing in common. About the only description more incorrect would be to call him a communist. Bannon sure doesn't sound at all like Mussolini
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by burfog 8y ago
Count matches, sort, and then put separators between different levels of matching. So the top of the list would be companies with 8 matches, then there is a separator, then there are companies with 7 matches, then there is a separator, and
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by burfog 8y ago
Some people really like donuts and beer. Some people smoke. Some people are fat. Many companies pester people about health habits.
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by burfog 8y ago
Besides not having everything ALL IN UPPERCASE SHOUTING UNREADABLE I'd like to see: dogs at work patriotic IQ > EQ asperger's tolerant stability > risk-taking no inclusion/diversity shaming not taking work home short wo

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