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by burfog 6y ago
It's light-hearted, but not sarcastic. Seriously, don't assume there is racism under every rock. That is a dismal, pessimistic, miserable, negative, and hateful way to go through life. Bad people exist, yes, but it is terrible to
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by burfog 6y ago
You quoted his motivation, right at the end. Lots of people really hate jazz. Really! It not racist just because jazz musicians, by random historical accident, happened to mostly be black. It is unethical, without any racism, to go looking
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by burfog 6y ago
For ARM, can we have the "." separators? They are standard for Aarch64 anyway, and they make the 32-bit code far easier to read. Like so: add.s.ne ldm.ia.cc (in both orders, for those cases with two suffixes)
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by burfog 6y ago
Yes, ideally the labels would be strings in the style of C source code. That includes using \0 to put NUL bytes in the middle. It also includes wide character strings. This allows for unusual languages like LISP and FORTH, without mangling
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by burfog 6y ago
The EPA did not suspend all enforcement. Some things don't need to be checked. Some reporting can be postponed. You don't get to dump truckloads of barium perchlorate into the Hetch Hetchy reservoir.
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by burfog 6y ago
Unthinking respect for the humanities is embarrassing. Exactly why do they deserve respect? (hint: they don't)
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by burfog 6y ago
It replaces NASA's M113 armored personnel carrier, a tracked vehicle which dates back to the Vietnam War. The fire crew sits in there for protection from an exploding rocket. The vehicle is great for evacuating astronauts. https:&#x2F
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by burfog 6y ago
It just doesn't matter in Africa. People are dying of disease every day. They have river blindness, tuberculosis, HIV, cholera, west nile virus, parasitic worms of every type, malaria... oh, and also the Wuhan lab virus, which usually
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by burfog 6y ago
That word "far" shouldn't be used to describe what half the population supports. If you bend the definition of "far" well past the breaking point, then these are all far-left positions: universal healthcare, voting
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by burfog 6y ago
Obama has a huge advantage over Trump and Modi. When you make a new account, Twitter normally suggests following Obama. That gets him followers for zero effort. On the other hand, new accounts that immediately follow a bunch of people like
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by burfog 6y ago
Without even digging up a list, just the most offensive couple actions I can remember: 1. 2015 "Waters of the United States" (WOTUS) rule, which grabbed federal control over private property which happened to sometimes drain into
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by burfog 6y ago
Counterexamples: Suppose a phone company (Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc.) decided to scan your speech for political content, then degrade your phone call quality if the algorithm decides that you seem to oppose the lobbying efforts of the
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by burfog 6y ago
They practically do have a democrat on each show. Times have changed, and Fox News is not at all what it once was. They even hired Donna Brazile, famous for slipping CNN debate questions to Hilary Clinton in advance and then being given the
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by burfog 6y ago
Journalists are generally, as a group, far from the political center.
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by burfog 6y ago
Riiight... Verizon's phone network is a platform that is privately owned and financed by the owner. I think you're failing a litmus test here, unless you really believe that Verizon should have the right to drop phone calls that a
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by burfog 6y ago
I'm disappointed that gcc's nested function extension doesn't let me use a switch to have a second entry point for the inner function. I also can't seem to get there with a plain goto. I can't jump out either. Proba
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by burfog 6y ago
Something like it works for if...else...if...else too. To my horror, this was more readable and maintainable than any alternative I could imagine. switch(override){ default: printf("unexpected...\n"); &#x
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by burfog 6y ago
We invent a new technology by which to transfer things, and suddenly the existing law doesn't apply? New technology is inherently lawless? Being "with computers" makes it different? I don't think so. It's the same o
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by burfog 6y ago
An interesting thing about the old system is that it could have checked data types just fine. This would have required linker support, but in the early years C didn't have the influence to make that happen. It would have been the tail
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by burfog 6y ago
That could enable optimization. The compiler could remove many NULL-pointer checks. On many platforms, all that is required is a change to the compiler. It could emit a ".quad 0" or equivalent, in a common data section at absolute
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by burfog 6y ago
Some of that capability is there only to overcome optimization problems that were created by C++ features. You don't need to make the compiler aware that some values are "going away" soon if that is clearly obvious. Without l
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by burfog 6y ago
Language would be better. The monolingual nature of the USA has long been a huge economic and cultural advantage. So instead of an equal number of Icelandic nationals and Indian nationals, we could strive for an equal number of people speak
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by burfog 6y ago
In current law, the distinction is called common carrier status. Enforcement is lax and irregular, and it mostly isn't being properly applied to the tech giants. We don't let the phone company disconnect phone calls in which peopl
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by burfog 6y ago
For your use case I believe the standard is to write in Matlab, and then use a tool that converts Matlab code to C.
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by burfog 6y ago
Individuals use them to communicate. Personal messages ("Happy birthday to Root Axis!") are passed around by ordinary people. FedEx, T-Mobile, Google, and Facebook are all similar in this way. Individuals who decide to run news se
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by burfog 6y ago
The government could even want this. For example: The tablet leaves the country. The government is aware, but pretends otherwise. Money flows into the country to pay for the tablet. The government reports the tablet missing, then gets it ba
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by burfog 6y ago
No. I'll classify Fox News with other media, like Vox and Slate and Buzzfeed. (for the articles and shows at least, not necessarily the paid advertisements) I'll classify Google and Facebook with other communication platforms, lik
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by burfog 6y ago
That's kind of the whole idea, isn't it, if you want Americans to get those jobs. For the typical country, it's fair. The typical country does not permit an American to easily go over there and take a job.
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by burfog 6y ago
I think you've proven that the language is a lost cause. It's never going to perform OK. With all the breakage of Python 3, it's a shame that the causes of slowness were not eliminated. The language could have been changed to
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by burfog 6y ago
Code gets reused, even if you don't plan for it. Prototypes go to production. Chunks of code from one project, where performance doesn't matter, wind up in another project where performance is important. For this reason, starting

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