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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's the only reason this study exists, or got the results it did.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Does anyone really believe this wasn't paid for by a chocolate maker?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Something that leads to fights and loud arguments sounds like a pretty unsavory vice...
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> honey on toast some mornings so baby had a bit of that with me Great way to give your kid botulism.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
And I'm certain absolutely nobody lies on the Internet.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Adults generally prefer richer interactions. I suppose that's why TV is now the province of the 50+ set. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/09/05/t...
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If you take that to a logical extreme (and humans do take things to logical extremes... ) it becomes a game more about electronics intelligence (jamming, jam evasion, cryptography, steganography... ) which, don't get me wrong, would
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Something that leads to fights and loud arguments sounds like a pretty unsavory vice...
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by cbd1984 11y ago
OK, program in a language where an array's size is an immutable part of its type. No casting, no autoconversion, no manual conversion. Now write reusable functions which operate on arrays. Remember that a string is a kind of array, and
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Yep, I'm sure going to be influenced by that thing I block assiduously.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
We don't need this sexism and racism.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
A heap is a data structure used by the malloc() and free() functions to find appropriately-sized chunks of RAM to give to the rest of the program. The defining feature of heap-allocated memory is that it's persistent up the call stack;
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by cbd1984 11y ago
What came first in modern systems was the ABI standards documentation, which for Linux is the System V ABI, which is apparently followed even on BSD. http://wiki.osdev.org/System_V_ABI So System V came out in 1983, which po
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by cbd1984 11y ago
So does the New York Times, and Fox News, and any number of legitimate news sources.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> The web was better in the early days, when it wasn't full of corporate dreck. You mean it was better when it was full of corporations which weren't trying to sell things to you . The Web, and the Internet as a whole, were fo
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by cbd1984 11y ago
But that's not important right now.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> I really find it hard to believe that security is really wonderfully provided for in a unikernel I think you've missed the point: The hypervisor provides security. The unikernel does not. Everything in the same unikernel guest is
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> How secure were these devices? How much work was put onto application developers to maintain isolation? I mean it wasn't feasible back then since we didn't have MMUs (ifaik) I'm almost willing to bet money VM has been us
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The best argument is this: We've done it. We did it on hardware which was cutting-edge in the 1960s. It worked acceptably then. This stuff is literally a half-century old now. IBM did it with CP/CMS back in the mid-1960s on the or
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by cbd1984 11y ago
People say this and it's not really true. Scheme has mutable state. Scheme has unmarked side-effects. Scheme has variables, as opposed to tags applied to constant values. Scheme was an entirely new kind of language back when lambda exp
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by cbd1984 11y ago
4. You best read code by trying it out and seeing what pieces of it do. Try it with an interpreter running.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Is it really free if you're using a hotspot named NETGEAR? Because I'm assuming that one isn't really open on purpose. EDIT: Removed part about trailer court. I was wrong. That's actually a restaurant next to a trailer c
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Good to see he practices what he preaches: This is entirely readable in lynx and w3m.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
How do you own land without government intervention?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
You're trying to solve a social problem with technology. That can work sometimes, but I seriously doubt it will work here. The problem with this is that the content producers have incentives to add content they get paid for, and people
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Yep, now they show full-screen ads on the OS itself. Huge improvement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167964 I'm sure there are Officially no privacy implications here.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> This forced journalists and writers to be concise and to the point. ... and remove any context, even more than they already do. Don't we always complain about how computer and tech pieces are too simplistic and outright wrong, but
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Now, you can be the customer and the product! Innovation: Only From Microsoft.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If the closed-source world is so great, let it build an equivalent to the Internet without any of the open pieces the Internet relies on.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Alan Truing Poor guy. His name autocorrects to one of the best-known names in computing.

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