cix_pkez

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by cix_pkez 8y ago
As mentioned in other comments, "them" works fine. It has been such a convention for hundreds of years.
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
And I find it ironic that in this discussion of choosing words carefully, we still use the basically meaningless (because of all of the different ways to use them) words "conservative" and "liberal". The words have nonp
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Love Rust, but there's room for garbage collection over borrowchecking if we're talking about replacing scripting languages. It would be hard for a decent statically-typed FP language to be slower than Ruby, for example.
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
I mean, you could definitely convince me that it's not an aside worth including in the article for the sake of staying on point. I'll still take Ars at its worst over most general news sites' tech reporting at its best.
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
While I found your comment funny, I could stand to be a bit more charitable. I think it's an interesting side point they're trying to make about analog computation, but to be accurate should maybe be written more like "A the
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Everywhere I've lived with this "service", there's been no respect for potted plants either. They get the full violence of the wind. There was even a group of these guys who came straight up to my door, open except for
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
I agree it's better to let them decay in lots of cases. Also, I try to give the benefit of the doubt to the people outside doing this every week, but I'm extremely annoyed. I don't really have a choice; I rent and everywher
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
https://www.crypto101.io/
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Hey, non-mathematician computer science type here. If I follow correctly, the issue with randomly picking any real number in that interval is that irrational numbers would require infinite computational steps to resolve. So the probability
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Thanks for serving and glad to know someone with your passionate commitment to knowledge is helping advance medicine.
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Having multiple versions of dependency libraries was a pain on DOS, Windows, ... It just is what it is. For the record, you can have multiple versions on any OS, but it's important they have a version in their name and that the depen
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
I haven't had the same experience. Which distros have you tried? Perhaps another would be a better fit technically or community-wise. I'd recommend Manjaro for a rolling release (no major reinstall every year), a focus on user-
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
I've really not had any issues finding what I need for Arch Linux. If you want to install to a different disk, you could still install the raw binary, or mount a directory in your applications directory. Those are just hard situations
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Yeah, I agree. I've really taken the time to look at the pros and cons of each, but even a bundled list like that would likely not be useful to anyone else. But at least I can fix the flaws I see on Linux (often).
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Ah, yes, but my package manager covers every piece of software I use. No specialized update services. It seems like a small thing, but it's more pleasant.
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Exactly. I've used all 3 major OSs and when we get into these discussions, you have to look at how each has its own pain points to be fair. Overall, Linux is a clear win for me. But YMMV, indeed.
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
I switched from Windows to Linux before I had a smartphone and appreciate the package manager. I got a Macbook for work and lamented the lack of package manager (homebrew is a weak substitute in several ways).
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
I'd call that a good thing, really. Not needing ever more dependencies. I think this is a solid direction to go. Let's just say I give the React devs... props.
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhZB7rQ7iA
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Some do. But in those cases, you might be better served with Ryzen. If you're playing games, you'll get better performance with this i9. But if you're playing games, you're probably not CPU-bound anyway. I'd be int
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
I leave it to future readers to decide who's missing the point between the two of us.
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
This is disingenuous. Quoting the abstract: ``` Language design does have a significant, but modest effect on software quality. Most notably, it does appear that disallowing type confusion is modestly better than allowing it, and among fun
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
In spite of all the statistics that suggest I'm doing pretty well toward retirement compared to most of my generation, I feel quite a bit of anxiety about how much I'm saving. I'm not confident that I'll receive social s
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Designing patterns on shirts is high-skilled work?
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
Some amount of military is good. I will not deny ours is quite large. Perhaps having the largest is also a good. But so much larger than everyone else's? I don't know. But that's not really the tradeoff I meant. In the s
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
More affordable education would be nice. Certainly not free for everyone, like Bernie proposed. Not everyone needs college and there are definitely some degrees that the state shouldn't pay for. The arts are valuable and I'd lov
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
I actually agree totally, but perhaps not for your intended reason. I have a hunch that the clear syntax and relative simplicity of web programming is what drives a certain kind of developer to long for complexity and turn something simple
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by cix_pkez 8y ago
The programming I love and web development are very different things. Sadly, the latter is the most prevalent.
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by cix_pkez 9y ago
2. Governmental incompetence is all a great charade meant to make their flawlessly-executed deceptions and conspiracies more believable.
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by cix_pkez 9y ago
Why is it so easy to spoof a phone number and robocall people, yet not to spoof an IP? Everyone's talking about the machine attribution as a given.

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