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631.
by coldacid 8y ago
Tape drives don't really support random access, though, which is reflected in the design of the tar format and its offspring. That is, in fact, the problem here, and why formats designed for random access instead of sequential access a
632.
by coldacid 8y ago
Far from it. There are plenty of us still dreaming of a Winphone resurrection.
633.
by coldacid 8y ago
If a site has broken email validation and I absolutely positively NEED to use it, then I'll grudgingly create an explicit alias just for that site. Otherwise, I find a competitor that doesn't screw this up. In both cases, I end up
634.
by coldacid 8y ago
I'd only do that if I could force every compiler to _always_ inline those methods. The cost of a method call for a simple bit operation is magnitudes greater than just doing the operation itself (tens to hundreds of ops versus 1-5).
635.
by coldacid 8y ago
The first part of your idea would certainly go a long way in clearing up the trade deficit vis a vis China.
636.
by coldacid 8y ago
Please do yourself a favour and read "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
637.
by coldacid 8y ago
>Contrary to what a lot of people think these are generally not robots. They're just people with a very short training period governed by an extremely didactic decision tree. That's essentially a bot made of flesh and bone. If
638.
by coldacid 8y ago
And this pisses me off every time a schema change needs to be made in mobile apps I develop.
639.
by coldacid 8y ago
Structured storage isn't embedded database tech. It's actually FAT (or close enough) inside a file, with a bunch of helper COM objects.
640.
by coldacid 8y ago
There's instructions for working with Trello in the repo's README, but so far it seems to be just that or JIRA Enterprise (not Cloud).
641.
by coldacid 8y ago
Too little, too late, methinks. They've already blown all the trust they had.
642.
by coldacid 8y ago
Everyone in Ontario on TekSavvy should have IPv6 now without having to pay for a static IP address but at least for me it's still wonky at best.
643.
by coldacid 8y ago
Humans are a species of extremes. The comparison between this article and the one about the murdered kangaroo is a great example of that.
644.
by coldacid 8y ago
Hell, where are the social justice warriors trying to get more women to work as plumbers, construction workers, or garbage collectors? Let's see more women working in mines, while we're at it!
645.
by coldacid 8y ago
If you keep your toolchain up to date, I'd assume you'd be able to at least update each unit to more modern syntax as you go along.
646.
by coldacid 8y ago
>It will literally take you months to do something in COBOL on the mainframe that would normally take you a week in COBOL on anything else. Fixed that for you.
647.
by coldacid 8y ago
Probably smaller. Modern COBOL isn't nearly as verbose as classic.
648.
by coldacid 8y ago
And I'd add to that advice: Never be afraid to add corrections and show them.
649.
by coldacid 8y ago
I could say that "black is white" and yet it won't be so. The EU could say it, and afterwards black would still be black and white would still be white.
650.
by coldacid 8y ago
>While I don't know if the real world will be that extreme, I don't think it's at all impossible. I think over the long term -- and maybe not even all that long -- it's probably inevitable. I think that we're alr
651.
by coldacid 8y ago
This is why I like archive.is, it tends to avoid falling for any of that kind of BS. Something gets archived and it's there forever.
652.
by coldacid 8y ago
`javac` is a compiler. The JVM is an execution platform, just like modern x86.
653.
by coldacid 8y ago
PlantUML[1] is pretty decent, especially if you like keeping the contents of the diagram in easily-versioned text. [1]: http://plantuml.com/
654.
by coldacid 8y ago
What's with this app's name when there's already an imageboard site very similarly named 8chan?
655.
by coldacid 8y ago
When simply including an IP address in a system log file counts as tracking a user's private information, "not [being] a jackass" is meaningless.
656.
by coldacid 8y ago
Except in China it might be a literal cornfield. Or some other place where you get "reassigned" to slave for the state.
657.
by coldacid 8y ago
Cheers to this kid's drive and inventiveness, but I won't be at all surprised when his house becomes a Superfund site.
658.
by coldacid 8y ago
Blackhole all connections from Europe.
659.
by coldacid 9y ago
Anyone not using a space-cadet or Symbolics keyboard could have remapped the mouse buttons to Ctrl and Meta to avoid Emacs pinky, but I still find it hard to believe that GNUmacs prior to the rise of Lucid/XEmacs had any real mouse sup
660.
by coldacid 9y ago
Eh, it's good for building up the immune system.

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