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by claudius 11y ago
> unjust illegitimate laws created to serve a monopoly It’s not unjust illegitimate laws, it’s a largely valid contract you entered into and by which you are very naturally bound. There’s nothing morally wrong about “don’t use this acces
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by claudius 11y ago
It doesn’t really matter what excuse they bring forward, contracts are contracts and terms of service are terms of service. Boycott them or stick by their rules, but don’t make your own. If you release something under the GPL and some shop
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by claudius 11y ago
I don’t quite see the issue here. Elsevier’s terms of service for subscriptions very likely explicitly ban bulk downloading. As such, they have every right to expect subscribers not to bulk download and further every right to ban specific s
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by claudius 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest_terror_attack http
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by claudius 11y ago
> challenge mapping one MAC address to one individual given the hundreds of people milling around the security area at times. You don’t have to work on a static set of MAC addresses and individuals, rather, you can dynamically track arri
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by claudius 11y ago
What a brave new world you seem to want.
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by claudius 11y ago
The justice system in Nigeria (if it exists…) is not bound by US precedent. Further, deliberately concealing safety defects is usually at most (grossly) negligent manslaughter, not a active participation in an abduction. In this particular
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by claudius 11y ago
> $5.2B is too much, but they really do deserve a massive fine. Apparently it’s just double the annual profits – as a private person, you can easily end up in prison for two years for facilitating the kidnapping of someone, I don’t see w
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by claudius 11y ago
No.
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by claudius 11y ago
Oh, absolutely. But equally absolutely, there are no absolutes. There’s still plenty of areas where fast code is infinitely more valuable than anything else, including developer time. As I said, whether you should optimise for the former
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by claudius 11y ago
Is it efficient to wait 6 weeks for results rather than half a week because you preferred Python over C++ during the half-day (half-week) respectively of coding? Is it efficient to use thousands of kWh in electricity rather than just hundre
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by claudius 11y ago
Addresses don’t need @ signs to be valid, though…
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by claudius 11y ago
> Isn't this a lossless process of the sort forbidden by thermodynamics? It is lossless on the single-particle level, but not in large thermodynamic ensembles of many, many particles. There, only most photons interact losslessly,
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by claudius 11y ago
It appears the article is referring to tholins[1], which are actually molecules containing nitrogen rather than atomic (or even diatomic) nitrogen. Nitrogen atoms themselves are essentially always the same size, except when either a) more n
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by claudius 11y ago
It opens the file. In which particular way it opens that file of course depends on the system in question – I don’t have Emacs on my phone, I don’t want xdg-open to attempt to open text files with Emacs on my phone. Whether or not the appar
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by claudius 11y ago
> xdg-open, which as it turns out opens text files in Firefox, even though light weight editors are present on the system. It opens text files in Emacs here – did you configure your system to associate the text/plain mimetype to Fir
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by claudius 11y ago
The Intel compiler has various options to report autovectorisation success. You still have to go through them and follow the advice, of course, but by and large they are not entirely useless.
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by claudius 11y ago
> Non common law countries have consistently suspended almost all civil rights from time to time. Some civil law countries have suspended civil rights during the last 400 years. Some common law countries have suspended civil rights d
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by claudius 11y ago
> As an SRE/SysAdmin I struggle to believe that C or C++ can be written safely. It doesn’t make sense to talk about C and C++ together like that and the idea that it would possibly maybe make sense to talk about two fairly different
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by claudius 11y ago
There is no extra “discipline“ or “mental effort” required to write safe C++. Don’t use new/delete/free/malloc and don’t use operator&. Of course, you can say that we might as well remove them from the language entirely,
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by claudius 11y ago
Came here to say this. "Modern" C++ with move semantics may still be fairly verbose in some cases, but claiming that you need to manually care about memory management (i.e. call new/delete/malloc/free) is a bit weir
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by claudius 11y ago
The debit card of Berliner Sparkasse works that way (paying in shops and domestic, Sparkasse-owned ATM is free, taking out money abroad isn’t). However, you can’t pay too much with that debit card outside Germany, so they have this “travel
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by claudius 11y ago
Hmm, interesting. It works in a simple test case, but fails to compile my codebase and throws an error ./inc/bla.h:163:9: error: unexpected '#pragma omp ...' in program [-Werror,-Wsource-uses-openmp] #pragma om
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by claudius 11y ago
This: ./clang++ --version clang version 3.8.0 (trunk 246030) Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Thread model: posix does not support OpenMP to my knowledge.
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by claudius 11y ago
> It's state of the art Does the officially released version support OpenMP by now? A few weeks ago at least I still failed at installing that properly from official sources. There seems to be an OpenMP-in-clang project going on, bu
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by claudius 11y ago
There is also the Intel compiler (a bit pricy, but comes with enough bells and whistles that for anything performance-related it is easily worth the money). At least in my experience, its code is a couple percent faster than GCC on modern I
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by claudius 11y ago
> If a company sets up a promotion, it's their responsibility to ensure that the terms are favorable to them. If an animal sets develops a new organ, it is its responsibility to ensure that the functionality of the organ is favourab
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by claudius 11y ago
> (after all, how would you vouch for an input device without using an input device?). Allowing the first keyboard after boot by default seems not unreasonable. It would still make it possible for evil maids to plug in something and wait
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by claudius 11y ago
Pretend to be a FAT-formatted mass storage device and see what files are accessed on automount. Possibly also pretend to be ext2 and see if e.g. the mount time in the filesystem superblock is updated. You can probably also learn a bit from
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by claudius 11y ago
It depends on your usecase, I guess. Of course it won’t work for an entire operating system, but it doesn’t have to work for an entire operating system: It’s enough if it works for your current coding project, your directory of private docu

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