cbd1984

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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Easy, we just kill off the idea of leap seconds. OK, now everyone who cares how much time has passed in terms of the Earth's rotation needs to keep a time separate from everyone else. Astronomers come to mind, for example.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Hey, it committed to a specific century. Given how long it took the UK to decimalize and, therefore, decimalise the pound, that's pretty ambitious.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It also uses the int 0x80 interface instead of the faster sysenter opcode. (AMD calls this opcode syscall.) http://wiki.osdev.org/SYSENTER I say "faster" above, and that's true for all chips since the Pentium
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by cbd1984 11y ago
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1310
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by cbd1984 11y ago
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1303 It's extremely misleading at best. It might even be fiction if you're strict enough about the facts.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
And if you develop jails, you get the kernel intrinsics that Docker leverages, which brings you back to Linux...
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by cbd1984 11y ago
You're acting like this wouldn't be interesting if it were an adult doing it.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I think your autocorrect is transphobic. /s
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> I'd think "I do web development" should be a sufficient signal that "this person is not non-technical." Not to a systems software developer, sonny. /s (Besides, "I do web development" could easil
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by cbd1984 11y ago
So far as I know, nothing under the Microsoft "Visual" brand name has ever supported visual programming as such; it's all always been text-based source and other normal IDE stuff. The most visual part would probably be the dr
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Any information you can get online or over the phone can be forged. (Passwords can be discovered, as can private keys, fingerprints, and the results of genetic tests.) Certain kinds of physical evidence, such as dead skin cells with usable
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It being a "Git issue" implies it should be fixed by modifying the Git software. I'm not entirely sure how someone would go about doing that, assuming you can't assume that each machine generating contributions will only
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> "(For related information on SDF and the history behind this public access UNIX system, read "The HACKER CRACKDOWN" by Bruce Sterling)" @ http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/hackcrac.pdf (use someth
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Obviously, no human is without sin Objection: Not obvious in the slightest. Sarcasm aside, though, it's such a wonderful little rhetorical trick to introduce an otherwise indefensible point with the prefix that it is "Obvio
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by cbd1984 11y ago
That's always been true. Look at Standard Oil for an example.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> You can stick with Windows 7 if you want Not indefinitely. It will get EOL'ed, and at that point it might not be possible to opt-out of the upgrade. Which isn't bad given that MS isn't going to keep supporting W7 forever
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's a good thing Open Source programmers aren't too hot on trademarks; we aren't always very creative when it comes to naming projects. :)
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Flagged as spam.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The music sounds terrible.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I wasn't warned beforehand.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
We have justification if we're not warned beforehand.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It has AUTOPLAY SOUND (Tacking on because this is currently the highest comment.)
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by cbd1984 11y ago
WARNING: AUTOPLAY SOUND
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by cbd1984 11y ago
You can't know how intrusive or loud sound is. It has an area effect that normal website media doesn't.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Flagged for autoplay sound.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html DWIM: /dwim/ [acronym, ‘Do What I Mean’] <snip> Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> What if it's not random but π? π is known to never repeat (that is, it's irrational); it is not, however, known to be normal. That means the digits in its decimal expansion (to pick a base) are not known to be normally dist
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I'm voting for "bowl of petunias", and it got cut off before it could say "not again". The relevance of the "not again" is immediately apparent to people who've gone through a few GUI toolkits.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> They aren't seen as "hacker's languages" but "ewww yuck big bank enterprise-y languages". They're seen as "Languages this evil SOB of a company owns and who knows if it could decide to patent som
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> When the big one hits, this might be the only Internet left. Unfortunately you have to have a license to use Ham Radio. "The big one" implies nobody's going to care about licensure or not using the public airwaves for en

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