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by cbd1984 11y ago
I never got how that was supposed to be so much worse than someone in ratty clothes in a ratty apartment reading books. Do people think any new technology is automatically The Matrix?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If the comment says where to find it in the repository, when you change repositories you have to remember to change the comment. If enough time has passed since you changed repositories, that becomes a problem. Emacs is an old codebase. It
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by cbd1984 11y ago
C was a lineal descendant of B, a language in which every variable had the same type: machine word. It was meant to be a step up ( one step) from a macro assembler. The existence of B always makes me laugh when someone claims Python is typ
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> That we have an entire industry where humans in the past could do anything in freeform (pen and paper) we are now limited to representing that as text only. So, how do I get pen-and-paper notes from Montana to New Mexico in less than a
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If you think undergraduate electives are "The Humanities" you're part of the problem you decry.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The things the Egyptians actually verified hold true today. The rising of Sirius would correlate with the flooding of the Nile if not for the Aswan dams, for example. Things don't stop being true just because our opinions about them ch
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Which is why a number of interpretations don't feature any such thing.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> But we had music piracy before 1mbps , only limited. Quality has a quality all its own. Music piracy in the era of Old Napster (before they went legitimate) was terrible. Horrible mislabeled MP3s at a bitrate best described as "wa
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If it's business, it's business. There's a contract, with clauses agreed to by both parties on what happens if one party fails to live up to its end of the agreement. "Permission to fail", then, means "Permissi
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> You're telling me that you can't find the workers you need anywhere in the country? Do you expect someone to move from Michigan to Louisiana to perform unskilled labor? Do you have any idea how expensive it is to move, and al
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> in Washington state, where marijuana's legal. As long as marijuana is illegal at the Federal level, it isn't legal in any state of the Union. People can think it's legal. People, even law officers, can act as if it'
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Debian and Slackware are the two oldest distros still around, beating out Red Hat by roughly a year. They form the inspiration and, in some key ways, the basis of many modern distros, and Debian especially created apt-get and greatly increa
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> So there is nothing to be gained unless you have a 68K or PowerPC Amiga or one of the PowerMacs that could be hacked to run AmigaOS. Or, you know, an emulator, which you could likely run in a browser now that MESS has been compiled to
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Region allocation (Ada) - used in some real-time systems. Rare. Equivalent to solving the halting problem unless you're writing toy software with extremely well-defined inputs and outputs. Good for device drivers, maybe, but not i
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Only a racist hates someone because of skin color. Are you saying blacks as a group are racist? Edit: I guess the answer to my question is "Yes".
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The article link is to a PDF.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If you think science is a religion, you're grossly misinformed about what science is.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This is how science keeps people safe. Bullshit kills: http://whatstheharm.net/
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This is how homeopathy has hung on as long as it has. Thinking like this kills people. http://whatstheharm.net/ Also, am I the only one who sees a massive conflict of interest in a practitioner saying their field doesn&#x27
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by cbd1984 11y ago
No, God forbid I forgo some better therapy.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This is how pseudoscience takes root. You are the easiest person for you to fool.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Can this be marked as a PDF?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
These two sentences seem to be in tension: > It is named Handmade Quake thanks to the inspiration of the Handmade Dev community, and following the spirit of their manifesto, we will be starting with a blank Visual Studio project, nothing
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Next, they proved that the C standard didn't define a programming language but a variety of rutabaga, and died of starvation by trying to eat source code listings. Seriously. There's a basic concept involved here called "Qual
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Whole OSes were written in Lisp, too, as well as other GC'd programming languages (Smalltalk, Mesa, perhaps a few others), and they ran on rather underpowered hardware by modern standards as well. I get your point, but having to check
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I'm not sure that either of those languages are usually GC'd, but they'd be good choices, too, if they were. (I just don't like Wirth languages. I don't like their type systems and I don't like the definition-b
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by cbd1984 11y ago
That solution is good, but it assumes you can break the message up into those parts for every language and use the same iostream sequence for every language. With printf, we have gettext. I don't really see how there's any analo
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Something else the article gets wrong, and this is a nitpick, is that it implies every scanline is redrawn every single time. This is called progressive video, and CRTs didn't do this. CRTs did something called interlaced video, where
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Am I being downvoted for asking an honest question?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
He says this: > Claim that a boring C compiler can't possibly support the desired system _performance_. Even if this were true (which I very much doubt), why would it be more important than system _correctness_? If correctness is mo

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