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by cbd1984 10y ago
Maybe if you went to more than two places in the US you'd get a different picture.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
We've forgotten how hard of a problem RAM used to be, and how far into the Rube Goldberg we went to solve it. Things We Actually Did: Mercury delay lines were tubes full of mercury we sent vibrations through. Those vibrations would ref
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> This is simply a failure to sufficiently define a word. That's the point: How do you "sufficiently define" the word involved here? Also, how do you "sufficiently define" the word 'ethical'?
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Friendlier link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_language
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> a course in IPA, which may I remind you precisely nobody understands. Plenty of people understand IPA. > No, "car as in character" is still. It's still completely incomprehensible unless you know which vowel sound is
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> Conversations like this are hard because accent doesn't transmit through text. It does if you use IPA.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
It's IPA. It's the closest thing we have to an actual way to write down how people pronounce things which has any chance at all of being useful. This "'foo' as in 'bar'" stuff is worse than useless mo
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Had I written it in IPA, people would be complaining about that, too... It's /kɛər/, as you can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English And, for the record, I have the Mary-marry-mer
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by cbd1984 10y ago
The goal of a business is to make money. They got bought out. That presumably made them money. How is that not a proper business?
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Pronounced care as in the first syllable of character.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
This predates the stdint.h header, which gives you int32_t and so on.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
I don't want to what a slave-labor-using company has to say to be featured here.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
It's too bad they rely on slave labor.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
You are obviously too biased to be reliable on this subject.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
He is, though.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
These are factually incorrect, as has been proven: http://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-1-is-sugar-real... http://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-tr...
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Are you going to uncensor it?
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Nothing I said was wrong.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
It could be unflagged by the moderation staff.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
The problem is that as long as the kernel is proprietary, people have no reason to trust it to run that kind of hardware.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Flagged for insults.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
So you censor his side and leave the rest up?
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Too bad it's advertising for a company that uses slave labor.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Or use Kelvin like a scientist.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
"Hey, 98.6, it's good to have you back again... " One of the best-known numbers in biology came about due to a similar confusion over significant figures: > The first systematic measurements of human body temperature were
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> What is science? natural philosophy! It was, back a long time ago, but the natural philosophers fell away as more technical knowledge came to be required to advance the field. > What is mathematics/computer-science? modern phil
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Aside from the fear and trembling eventuated by religion, we have happy atheistic philosophies. This just came up from the fortune program, for example: If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> Isn't it normal for compilers to just no-op functions that can be proved to have no side effects and no return values? Yes, which is why the volatile qualifier exists: It makes modifying specific variables a side-effect, which the
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Why is most of your mail sent in envelopes as opposed to on postcards? Why don't people default to postcards, and only use envelopes when they have something to hide? This isn't about traffic analysis, it's about social expec
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Consider donating it to the Internet Archive. This is precisely the kind of thing they really do a good job with, and it's worth saving.

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