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by cbd1984 12y ago
It's interesting to note that the median age of TV viewership in America is mid-40s or so, depending on the network. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/09/05/tv... > Th
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> So sex is not a basic human urge? It's a basic urge for non-asexuals.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Evidence firmly points that "neither" is the correct answer by a large margin Why is this being downvoted? It's inarguable that it's the safest answer, and it fully follows the precautionary principle organic food i
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by cbd1984 12y ago
My point is, it can hardly be a basic human urge if only some humans feel it.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
So... if I don't have that urge, does that make me non-human?
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by cbd1984 12y ago
The problem with eating weeds is that people spray them with toxins which aren't meant for things humans are going to eat. Do they wash off? Who knows? They haven't been evaluated for that use-case.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
This site is still totally unreadable.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> I have no idea why the blog is fetching a Markdown file via JavaScript from GitHub and then using JavaScript to render it... I can guess: Make pushing changes out to the blog one step (upload fixed Markdown) instead of two (compile Mar
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> I mean, what if Linus hadn't posted what he did when he did about his little "toy" OS, and what if several others hadn't started sending patches? In addition to what's been said about BSD and Hurd, Minix could
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by cbd1984 12y ago
April Fool!
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by cbd1984 12y ago
It's an April Fools website. That means it, and all of its content, is wrong.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
This is obviously incorrect, and a seizure trigger to boot.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
This is one of the few times it's actually appropriate and non-insane to use the phrase "cultural appropriation": "Using something from some other group's culture in a way that makes life for members of that other c
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by cbd1984 12y ago
This is still an April Fool's joke.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
And Linux (and all Unices, as far as I know) have done the same thing without DLL Hell by using versioned share object files, the .so.0.1 and so.1 and so on you see on the end of binary libraries.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
April Fool!
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by cbd1984 12y ago
If the person is engaging in April Fool stuff, we obviously can't take any of this information seriously anyway.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Flagged as seizure trigger.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
The site is a possible seizure trigger.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> I thought Linux also had a very strict ABI compatibility policy also. Yes, it does. > But if you had a fully-statically-linked binary (and enabled a.out support if necessary), I think Linux should also support very old binaries. And
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by cbd1984 12y ago
In this case, I honestly think the hardware solution is the better UI. A very naïve person would expect that changing where the keycaps are would change which switch corresponds to which keycode. Only they'd think of it more like &quot
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Normally keys are scanned group-by-group digitally, but Cherry recently came out with a keyboard that uses analogue readout of the key matrix. They now put different resistors at each switch and measure the voltage (so they save delays
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by cbd1984 12y ago
That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> the included keypuller makes it simple to swap keys around if you are so inclined. You know what would be nice? If the keyboard had enough intelligence to read the keycaps and modify which codes it sent based on which keycaps are attac
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Good documentation includes examples. Good documentation does not rely on examples. An example can provide a base to start from, a beginning point from which further hacking can ensue. However, an example, like a picture, can't say &
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Flagged as obvious linkbait.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Sometimes partially perfect and released beats better but later. Especially since "later" implies a new market, with new demands on the product. "Better" then becomes a moving target, and with "Best" you m
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Historical interest, mainly. Gopher is still used, but not by any large number of people; however, it occupies an interesting place in the history of the Internet as the main implementation of the idea of hypertext before the Web caught on.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Languages aren't optimized, compilers are Actually, specific pieces of code get optimized, and compilers that can "undo" optimizations put in to the source code by hand are so rare I daresay they don't exist.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Assuming the FORTRAN77 was optimized for hardware circa a period when FORTRAN77 wasn't considered an ancient language, is it still optimized on modern hardware? Because it seems the vast increase in the relative importance of cache alo

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