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by cjensen 8y ago
Sure. And that's a terrible reason. First, he's binding Linux to gcc forever. I've made that mistake and let me tell you, it's a mistake with surprisingly few benefits. A couple of asms and gccisms? Easily replaced. Seco
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by cjensen 8y ago
The code I wrote was dumb... and yet Stroustroup repeatedly made a variant of the mistake in the "C++ Programming Language." Turns out that the use of operator<< in iostreams is problematic.
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by cjensen 8y ago
No, he's wrong. Aliasing between union members has never been defined behavior. It just happened to work. Now that optimizers are getting better, these long-standing issues are starting to surface in the real world. This is no differen
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by cjensen 8y ago
Correct. Gov Davis made a series of expensive moves which rendered the manipulations ineffective. Enron was caught overextended in the wrong direction when the market shifted which directly lead to the end of Enron.
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by cjensen 8y ago
It's undefined for a reason. size_t size = unreasonable large number; char buf = malloc (size); char *mid = buf + size / 2; int index = 0; for (size_t x = 0; x < big number; x++) mid[index++] = x; A common optimi
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by cjensen 8y ago
So there's a theoretical problem, and a solution available. Why should VirtualBox take the pain now rather than waiting and seeing if the theoretical issue every materializes? I mean, if someone does the work and tests it, then sure, V
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by cjensen 8y ago
I enjoy backseat driving as much as the next person. It's fun to tell someone with money that they should spend it on X and not Y. But it's probably not productive, though it does lead to lots of clicks and outrage. Would it be mo
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by cjensen 8y ago
Sure. But WeWork isn't making any money as a middleman. And their debt is already down to junk.
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by cjensen 8y ago
What do protestors do when the government refuses their demands? Keep lobbying or give up.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Professional organizations provide access to health and other insurance plans. ACM for CompSci. IEEE for Electrical Engineers. I recommend ACM for you. ACM also comes with free access to Safari Books Online which gives me electronic access
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by cjensen 8y ago
Your proposed test would not be conclusive because magnetic fields are a thing which can be pushed against.
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by cjensen 8y ago
"Customer sites routinely have IPv6 disabled on all their systems by their cargo cultist sysadmins"
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by cjensen 8y ago
Well that's just silly. Is your CPU going to work with bespoke hardware connected on the whatever bus? Then you still need to know both software and hardware to debug the connection to the bespoke device. Stuff rarely works the first
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by cjensen 8y ago
Interns are awesome and smart. Never give them garbage work. Give them a challenge and see if they can handle it. Worst case scenario, you throw away their work after they leave, and they have learned some stuff.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Not exactly. This is about how to pass video between interoperable machines. Traditionally within a broadcast house, video+audio was sent between machines using HD-SDI using BNC coax[1]. For the first generation of HD, this ran at 1.5Gb&#x2
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by cjensen 8y ago
Salt ponds being turned into natural wetland is a HUGE win for the environment, particularly water quality and fisheries. Being entirely mud, they are literally the worst place to build in an earthquake-prone region. "Affordability&quo
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by cjensen 9y ago
[Edit: See comment for correction that explains that Radio-Canada includes TV. I'll leave this here because some of the info is valid] From the article: It also questioned why Radio-Canada was preserving its master recordings after ma
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by cjensen 9y ago
There's a creek like this in Banff National Park in Canada [1]. It is amazingly fake. It was rebuilt when I was younger and the rocks that keep the creek in place are not found upstream or downstream of the divide. Before it was rebuil
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by cjensen 9y ago
He is referring of course to the PowerPC architecture. It did not have a performance lead over Intel for as long as you suggest. Even when it had a lead, it wasn't that big. (I bought the best G5 when it came out, so it's a painfu
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by cjensen 9y ago
One of the authors of this piece is Mark Gurman. Lately, Gurman has gotten legit scoops on news, but has then interpreted the small gem of a scoop into a story which is entirely wrong. In other words, take this with a huge grain of salt.
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by cjensen 9y ago
You don't need a license to use x86. Moreover, the x64 was created by AMD, not Intel.
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by cjensen 9y ago
No there are not fewer birds. Ornithologists routinely census areas for species and counts. They notice when species decline in an area. They notice when new species arrive in an area. There have been zero reports of birds in general decl
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by cjensen 9y ago
Driver was obviously on cell phone. Since this is still in development, Uber should have assumed that the self driving software would fail unexpectedly. If a human sees something work 1000 times, they will expect it to work every time. Ub
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by cjensen 9y ago
Sure, but starting and stopping takes time, which means she did not "suddenly" run into the street.
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by cjensen 9y ago
It's standard operating procedure in SF, and not only will the police not bother to look at surveillance, but they will lie and claim they it doesn't exist [1]. [1] https://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/23&#
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by cjensen 9y ago
Which means she wasn't moving quickly.
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by cjensen 9y ago
Short answer it is needed for a few things in all animals, so a source is needed. Most animals can synthesize it. In evolution, sometimes a mutation will take away the ability to synthesize a vitamin. If the organism gets enough of it from
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by cjensen 9y ago
I did not way "it wouldn't help". At all. I said that it super-helps Mexico, but that because of the specific situations in both regions, we should not anticipate getting anything like their results.
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by cjensen 9y ago
Yes. I specifically included trains in my comment.
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by cjensen 9y ago
It works well for Mexico, but would not be as useful in California. Earthquake P-waves travel at 5km/s. To get 60 seconds of warning, you must be 300km (186 miles) downstream of the detector. Mexico has a very unique situation [1]: t

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