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by edmccard 10y ago
My guess is that "packages" is shorthand for "binary packages", as opposed to being able to redeploy from source.
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by edmccard 10y ago
>Let's concoct a toy. You own 100% of a company. A suitor offers to buy it for $100bn. Not negotiable is that they will use 1,000 child laborers post-acquisition. >[by] refusing the $100bn ... one turned down the opportunity to g
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by edmccard 10y ago
https://mariadb.com/bsl
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by edmccard 10y ago
>Because the article is pretty much saying that the boss cannot offer any criticism at all FTA: "What if the work is all wrong? Obviously, if there’s more than “2 cents” worth of stuff that needs to change, then this rule does not a
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by edmccard 10y ago
>An independent/small family bakery, or photographer, etc. who may not even have a retail storefront who won't service gay weddings, I would consider "not a real problem" So a "No gays allowed" sign on a wal
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Fast Deterministic Selection [pdf](arxiv.org)
1 points by edmccard 10y ago|0 comments
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by edmccard 10y ago
>Are the rest of us on variable incomes which we can scale up and down at will? Are you on an income which is, by law, tied to changes in the Consumer Price Index? That's how Social Security works. From the 2016 benefit letters: &qu
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by edmccard 11y ago
>Java choosing IEEE754 floating point. Which isn't natively supported on x86. IEEE754 was based on the design of the 8087, and it's been native on x86 since the 80387. The problem with Java choosing IEEE754 was, according to th
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by edmccard 11y ago
>I sort of assumed this would be discordian up front, just from the title. Wouldn't that have been "fnord" instead of "fjord"?
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by edmccard 11y ago
That case involved a maternity test, not a paternity test. It's even mentioned in the article: "A similar case in 2006 saw a 26-year-old chimeric woman, Lydia Fairchild, almost lose her children after maternity tests required for
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by edmccard 11y ago
In this case, the notebook was long known to be there, but the relevant section had been cataloged as a "verse-by-verse bible commentary". What was discovered was that the verses are part of a draft for a new bible, instead of jus
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by edmccard 11y ago
>I really have no idea where this crazy idea that 2005 was the pinnacle of consumer CPU power comes from... As 'tormeh said, single-threaded performance has not improved as much since 2005. For example, the Passmark single-thread ra
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by edmccard 11y ago
>3d view is though is not. it works on a 2d grid but it gets weird when you move in 90 degrees in a 3d game From 1980-ish to the mid 1990s this was how "3D" dungeon crawlers worked; anyone who played Wizardry, or the Bard'
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by edmccard 11y ago
>NBL? Next Big Language
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by edmccard 11y ago
>I make it 2 weeks in a 20 year old car. I used to go for two weeks between fill-ups in a '78 Buick but that was mostly becuase it had a 24-gallon tank (and I only drove about 20 miles a day).
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by edmccard 11y ago
>I've wondered about doing this before for copy protection Something similar -- using functionally-equivalent machine language instructions instead of synonyms -- was (is?) used by the shareware A86 assembler[1] to detect unregister
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by edmccard 11y ago
>Sixteen out of a hundred thousand? FTA: there were about 1400 exit nodes each tested about 95 times (that's where the 100,000 number comes from). And in addition to the 16 logins, there were a number of page views without login tha
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by edmccard 11y ago
In the J programming language, '%' is the division operator (not the modulus). So the identity is correct
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by edmccard 11y ago
>I reflexively ^S every couple of words... Why not just decrease the autosave interval in your editor :) >What's the purpose committing more often than logical chunks of code which can be considered in some sense "done"
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by edmccard 11y ago
>where mixed race is the norm ... brazil ...the largest japanese population outside of japan is there. i think they might have a concept of hafu there Yes, but I'd bet that the connotations of "hafu" in a society where mix
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by edmccard 11y ago
Other comments have mentioned LLVM (and its optimization passes) as a reson for slow compile times; just for comparison, using LDC (the D compiler with LLVM backend) on an older computer (1.6 Ghz Athlon 2650e, 2G ram, spinning rust), for a
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by edmccard 11y ago
>if you can force the target to e.g. boot from a malicious USB device. If you can control the boot media, aren't you already past the point where you need further exploits to control the machine?
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by edmccard 11y ago
The article describes events in Idaho, which is one of only 7 states (Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, New Hampshire, North & South Dakota, and Vermont) that distributes food stamps on the 1st of the month. In the other 43 states, different peopl
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MenuetOS, an operating system written in assembly, hits 1.0(computerworld.com.au)
23 points by edmccard 11y ago|2 comments
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by edmccard 11y ago
>When I read your comment, I'm imagining Adventure... "You run 'git push --force'. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
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by edmccard 11y ago
uint64_t thisVariableIncrementsByOneEvery10msSoItWontOverflowForAReallyLongTime (then you'd know it was safe)
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by edmccard 11y ago
>it's looking like the next release will have dmd written in D. Is that going to make it trickier for GDC/LDC to stay in sync with DMD? (Either way, it's exciting news!)
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by edmccard 11y ago
>WalterBright uses it in his compiler. Ironically, the dmd compiler is written in C++.
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by edmccard 11y ago
Facebook uses Warp[1] as a fast replacement for the c/c++ preprocessor. [1] https://github.com/facebook/warp
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by edmccard 11y ago
>more sane than doing it on an AVR. Well, the point of using special-purpose chips like the ATAES132, which has a hardware implementation of AES, is so you wouldn't have to implement the algorithm in AVR.

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