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541.
by drfuchs 9y ago
Because always allocating them on the stack costs zero cycles in the typical case, while alloca costs more than zero cycles in the typical case. And assuming that "struct pollfd" isn't big, and the function isn't very re
542.
by drfuchs 9y ago
Fruit smoothies and sneakers? Here you go: http://www.zombierunner.com/about/palo_alto_store/
543.
by drfuchs 10y ago
12 hours later: Well, this has now garnered me more karma than my original posting; thanks, winestock!
544.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Hey! I don't get the karma points?!
545.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Right; the question is "Why is it not the policy of United to keep doubling until they get enough takers?"
546.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Why didn't they just keep doubling the offer for volunteers? Surely by $1600 or $3200 someone would bite. Then everyone is happy, it all gets finished quickly, and there's no chance of this sort of PR disaster (even docile remove
547.
by drfuchs 10y ago
30-year mortgage? Wouldn't a 15-year one be affordable enough?
548.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Um, the graph doesn't match the given list of vertices and edges. At all. In the very first paragraph. Added later: they fixed it. Quietly.
549.
by drfuchs 10y ago
No, safety and fuel regulations did not send prices of cars into the stratosphere. In the 1960's suburbs of Philadelphia, gas was 30 cents a gallon, a nice new car was $3k, the house cost $30k, and Dad made $10k as a VP of engineering
550.
by drfuchs 10y ago
At least as far back as the 1970's, every time our civil servants in the treasury ask congress to let them stop making pennies, the John Birch Society types raise such a stink about how this is a communist conspiracy to enable world go
551.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Worse still, at the time of this episode (1963), there wasn't even a notion of a "Smoking Section". Smokers lit up anywhere on planes, anywhere in restaurants, anywhere in the office, on line at the bank, in any sort of waiti
552.
by drfuchs 10y ago
How does that work out for people who eat only halal, kosher, vegan, etc.?
553.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Our teen could hold her iPhone under the dinner table and 2-thumb touch-type texts while keeping eye contact with us, hoping we wouldn't notice. When caught, she demoed that she could be almost 100% accurate even with the phone complet
554.
by drfuchs 10y ago
The founders have a fiduciary duty to all existing shareholders (angels, early employees, etc.) to exactly be pursuing VC3 at the same time as VC2, before anything is signed, and to take the best deal. They already have no choice. Your poin
555.
by drfuchs 10y ago
By that logic, even if VC1 is dead and buried, VC2 still will never make an offer, since VC3 might swoop in and steal the deal, so it's always a waste of time to make an offer. Additionally, it's implausible that two VCs will calc
556.
by drfuchs 10y ago
If VC1 chooses to steal the deal, then VC2 underbid on the valuation, no? Plus, even without any ROFRs, there are bidding wars all the time (between VC2 and VC3, say, where neither has a chunk yet).
557.
by drfuchs 10y ago
On the face of it, it seems that if existing investor VC1 has a ROFR, it only means that VC2 can't under-bid on the next round, and that minimizes dilution for founders on that round. That is, if VC2 says "We'll give you $2M
558.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Not if the "customer" paid $0. If I give you something for free, you have no recourse if I didn't describe it to you properly.
559.
by drfuchs 10y ago
I think so; I'll have to look through storage. Drop me a line at {myid} at yahoo.com. Let me point out that the description here is as understood by a pure-digital person: I didn't seem to inherit the analog gene, and as a teen co
560.
by drfuchs 10y ago
My dad designed Frequency Response Analyzers in the 60's and 70's that used OpAmps to compute Fourier Integrals and then "solve the right triangle". That is, relative to a sine wave it generated, it would take a return
561.
by drfuchs 10y ago
San Jose, not San Francisco. That's quite a change.
562.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Great, but now how will you find out that a particular optimization pass hasn't been completely obviated by earlier passes, since you won't be looking for C code that actually triggers it?
563.
by drfuchs 10y ago
... but in practice, there is. - Jan van de Snepscheut
564.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Does this mean Groklaw will come back?
565.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Unlimited doubling of wait time puts you right back to being vulnerable to DOS.
566.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Yes, if your source of entropy is worth its salt.
567.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Originally, calloc was the function Unix programmers were expected to use by default, since it avoids any sort of intermittent bugs due to your forgetting to initialize some field in the data structure you're allocating. But clearing t
568.
by drfuchs 10y ago
Sure, it's allowed, and makes sense in this particular example. But someone reading this might think that the scheme depends on using a random coloring in the second round, which is precisely not the case. In ZKP, usually the claim is
569.
by drfuchs 10y ago
He should change "Next they fill in the graph with a valid solution, but using the new random ordering of the three colors" to "... with the same valid solution, but using the new random ordering of the three colors."
570.
by drfuchs 10y ago
From the documentation, it doesn't seem clear that there's any guarantee that a particular queued item will ever eventually be dequeued (in a program that runs forever). Consider the case where each producer thread queues N items,

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