cbd1984

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by cbd1984 12y ago
If it's distributed without a license, it's illegal to redistribute the software, or to distribute modified copies. You can only distribute patch kits which can be applied to the original codebase, which everyone must acquire from
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by cbd1984 12y ago
'Cheating' is not playing the game the way your competition regards as fair. It's getting an unfair advantage by using techniques that your opponents wouldn't use. Consider this: Imagine a fighting game which is unbala
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by cbd1984 12y ago
This link comes with a bit more context about Mel and the machine he programmed: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> I think he's also talking about my mythical C-like language that has somewhat sane rules for these things. Oh, OK. It's important to realize, though, that if things get defined down too strictly, compilers will be hard-put
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> it's not allowed to just delete code that invokes undefined behaviour. In your mind, what does 'undefined behavior' mean? Because to the rest of us, it means "The standard says the compiler can do anything at all&qu
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Except the interrupts are not the efficient way to make a system call anymore. The specialized syscall (sysenter) opcode is much better.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Who thinks in terms of CPU registers these days, for instance? The people for whom it makes sense, same as the people who think about RTCs or deep sleep modes or programming single-board computers to read temperature sensors. It isn&#x
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> If you want to help poor people eat, you should give poor people money to help them eat The more food we can make per unit resource, the more food we have, given that resources are finite. Giving the poor more money does nothing to cha
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Removing the subsidy will increase the price of food. Then it would be wrong to do remove that subsidy. Poor people need to eat, too.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Right. They're at exactly opposite ends of the spectrum, from what I understand: A container uses OS-level namespace techniques to allow different environments to run on the same kernel, whereas a hypervisor runs underneath the kernel
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Unless we're just using "bloated" as a snarl term, it has to mean "too big for what it's being used for", which is distinct from "too big for my preferred way of solving the problem". For example, mos
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by cbd1984 12y ago
And this is why nobody takes anti-GPL zealots seriously.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
What are the yields like? What would doing that for all food do to the price of food?
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Except refusing the request on those grounds is against the law.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Ever read the book Going Postal ? I thought it would be about using pieces of clothing or other accessories to get people to trust you more.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Look up when "The Crucible" came out. Go on, I'll wait.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Free Software includes BSD, always has, and certainly does under the Free Software Definition. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html (This statement is void if the BSD license is old enough to contain the Obnoxio
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Except CPU designs from three years ago are no longer considered current, and robots are built around CPUs (that is, if it lacks a CPU, it is not a robot), so three years is long enough to obsolete a vital component.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Trying to shut down discussion by abusing that rule is a terrible thing to do.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> This month is long term use of antipsychotics on Schizophrenics: maybe these drugs affect the long term quality of life? So does untreated schizophrenia.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
And, if they're Americans, they'll be taking the exam, as opposed to sitting for it, or writing it. (After all, professors or other entities write exams. The whole point is that the students didn't write it, or else they&
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> I think you're overly focused on immediate emergency announcements, where you should not depend on normal consumer AM and FM radio Except this is precisely the claim I was responding to: The idea that consumer AM/FM radio sho
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Radio is worthless in an emergency unless there's: - Someone in the booth. 24/7. No downtime. No autopilot. No sign-offs. No bathroom breaks without someone to cover. No excuses. If the weather gets bad, have at least two shifts
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> You still need linear radio for things like emergencies. If radio is going to be for emergencies, make sure it's guaranteed to work in emergencies: - Mandate local control. No more networks piping music in over a network line. Net
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by cbd1984 12y ago
These diagrams make no sense.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Flagged for sexism.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Down votes don't make me wrong.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Down voted by fans I see.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> During the beta period you will be charged only for the Google Cloud Storage storage and network egress consumed by your Docker images. Is there any guarantee the cost will be a linear function of those things? Quadratic? Quartic? Expo
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Something like Aspartame, at least in a subset of the population, induces headaches. Possibly, probably not: > Headaches are the most common symptom reported by consumers.[8] While one small review noted aspartame is likely one of m

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