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by dpwm 9y ago
It appears to be part of the spec, [0] although there appears to be no requirement for the SVG User Agent to support any particular scripting language. This is interesting from a security perspective, because it effectively means SVGs can c
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by dpwm 9y ago
You have to be mindful of the fact that IE8 was the first IE to have console.log[0] and that as a result it is possible that it wasn't used by the developers. It's also possible they always had the console open during development.
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by dpwm 9y ago
Regarding the early days of Ubuntu, you've got to consider that where Ubuntu came from is not where we are now. When I first encountered Ubuntu, it was one of the first to try to make something polished for the desktop and not try to c
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by dpwm 9y ago
When I was 16 I changed sixth form[0] following a house move and I was accidentally put onto a maths course that was basically algorithms without computers. I think the name was something like Decision and Discrete. This course started with
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by dpwm 9y ago
Well, if TechCrunch called him co-founder in articles he contributed or was mentioned in[1-5], that may make things a little less clear. I wonder why they don't seem to show up in the search now? [1] https://web.archive.org&
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by dpwm 9y ago
There's also a profile of Arrington in Wired from 2007 [0]. It also gives the impression that Techcrunch grew out of his personal research for new business models whilst he was working with "Arrington's longtime associate and
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by dpwm 9y ago
It does muddy the waters somewhat and allow for a claim that he is "credited as being part of" that he was listed as an editor on the about page. [0] In fairness to the author, he does point this out. If this individual really did
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by dpwm 9y ago
I had no idea this was contentious, but it really does seem it is. Robin Cook, a former UK Minister who I had immense respect for due to his stepping down over the invasion of Iraq, had this to say shortly before his death: > Bin Laden w
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by dpwm 9y ago
> Most people do not have the capability to appreciate the criminality that has gone on in Washington, London and elsewhere over the years. So this criminality goes on and the Western democracies exist in their special lawless way, prepa
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by dpwm 9y ago
I first learnt Blender about 12 years ago. The interface improvements that have been made since then have been amazing for discoverability and they have kept (most of) the old keyboard shortcuts too. This is not a bad thing at all, but it d
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by dpwm 9y ago
I thought GADTs would be useless to me when I first heard the explanation of GADTs as imposing additional constraints on ADTs. Whilst technically true, it feels like it's missing the point. The real power of GADTs comes from the fact t
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by dpwm 9y ago
The problem seems to be that software is viewed as a trade secret. Big old companies have CEOs and boards that see embedded software in the same way many legislators and judges see it. Firstly they don't really understand it. But in an
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by dpwm 9y ago
I sometimes wonder how much of the UK economy is actually built on this fraud. The vast majority of these accounts are with UK institutions, it should be rather trivial to track down. Just the sort code alone tells you the bank and very oft
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by dpwm 9y ago
Right. I have an analogy I prefer in many of the cases where there is a clear smell of gross negligence, which does seem to be most. Consider if a bank that takes safety deposits has accidentally given open access to their vault to the stre
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by dpwm 9y ago
And fundamentally he did the most important thing: told them about it. They seem to have got the message that they needed to shut this thing down ASAP. It seems highly unlikely from the nature of the alleged negligence that they found this
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by dpwm 9y ago
Whilst I agree the policy is reasonable given the amount they charge per month, it's something I've only learnt about from reading comments and not from their marketing. In fact, their marketing claims "Never lose a file agai
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by dpwm 9y ago
I think you've nailed the problem for me as well: possibilities and opinions are presented in the same style as facts. This is more like what is done by news reporters than history documentarians. I am not happy when opinions and possi
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by dpwm 9y ago
I have this problem too. I have the problem that even though I admire the complexity and the hopping from location to location, to me it's the fact that it's spun into a narrative that makes me feel uncomfortable that some people
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by dpwm 9y ago
I want as much as anybody to believe that the DPRK and its people deserve what is being considered for it, because it will ease my conscience a little bit that I tolerated the people who seem to want to help agentically propagate the same o
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by dpwm 9y ago
If it's neither pushing an agenda nor trying to manipulate nor influence, why is it that submissions to libertarianism.org are being made mostly from two accounts that do not seem to otherwise engage in this community? No comments, no
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by dpwm 9y ago
> Yeah, and Amnesty International is a group with a "clearly stated agenda" to promote human rights. We still tend to trust their reports. Amnesty International's reports are about human rights abuses. If this was an Amne
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by dpwm 9y ago
Since when was the Cato institute an accurate source of information?
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I think the podcast was designed to shock you. The person interviewed in the podcast has a name, which you can google. He seems to have made a career out of shocking audiences of news sources at how bad the DPRK is. It appears that most is
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by dpwm 9y ago
For those who might not have twigged from the domain, this is published by the Cato Institute, a think-tank has a clearly stated agenda to promote libertarianism. Whatever your stance on libertarianism in general, it's not hard to imag
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by dpwm 9y ago
Even with intrinsics that do have a degree of portability, I prefer the more explicit form of the bit counting just for readability. Nobody has to learn what popcnt means. These optimizations really mean that as software writers we can decl
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by dpwm 9y ago
That talk really revealed some brilliant optimizations that Clang does. In addition to what you mentioned, the bit where Clang recognises the summation loop, removes the loop and replaces it with a closed-form solution feels intuitively mor
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by dpwm 9y ago
Your comment has taken me from having mixed feelings about Julia to making me convinced I want to try Julia for something numerically intensive that I would be inclined to turn to C for.
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by dpwm 9y ago
Pretty much, except with more parameters taken from a file. The substituting in of parameters was done in Python just so that I could manually check the output for a few cases. I think if I had to do something similar again today, any scrip
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by dpwm 9y ago
It was a hack. I knew the C compiler could do these optimizations at compile-time that would take me longer to implement at run-time and would probably introduce mistakes. I could well have used the C-processor, but the parameters needed to
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by dpwm 9y ago
As an anecdote of just how powerful this can be, I once wrote a prototype of a simulation (written in C) that used a lot of integer divisions and needed to be run many times with different parameters. As a quick and dirty hack that took abo

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