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by fhood 9y ago
I agree on parallelism. I came to the conclusion that the author must not be including GPU programming in his assessment which does seem odd given how important it has been in recent years.
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by fhood 9y ago
Well for comparison, GC was a yes right. And basically every popular (modern) language incorporates garbage collection. Functional programming, or at least fairly strict functional programming, still hasn't really caught on. Of the jug
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by fhood 9y ago
Honestly I don't care what is be tracked, but until it is no longer the case that 60% of webpages slow my computer to a crawl for about six seconds I am not turning mine off, no matter how many times the website asks politely.
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by fhood 9y ago
I'm interested in how the author got the sound working. I would have thought that external usb dacs would work just fine, as they seem to be plug and play compatible with just about everything, but apparently that isn't the case.
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by fhood 9y ago
Have there been any updates on low power RAM though?
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by fhood 9y ago
You have to allow for some level of pragmatism. They found a method that seems to provide better data without actively biasing their results. Rodents make convenient test subjects, and no scientist wants (or more likely it doesn't even
577.
by fhood 9y ago
In case you were unaware, Apple and infosec come up together very frequently, often because 0days for iOs are exceptionally rare and valuable.
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by fhood 9y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. For a community of fairly intelligent people, hacker news comenters fall back on false equivalence near constantly.
579.
by fhood 9y ago
Having ridden with them in Germany I wish them the best. A fantastic service.
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by fhood 9y ago
Yeah, but you may be parsing standard error regardless.
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by fhood 9y ago
BUT IT IS 12:30 AT NIGHT, THE CLIENT WAS PROMISED DELIVERY OF THIS FEATURE TWO WEEKS AGO, AND I CAN"T FIGURE WHY TF STDERR KEEPS OUTPUTTING GIMME GIMME GIMME!
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by fhood 9y ago
Could someone explain to me why on earth 15ms of lag for a key press is considered good? It is a switch for gods sake. It should be near instant.
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by fhood 9y ago
Also use c++ on a daily basis. It is a dark place, full of nooks and crannies inhabited by venomous insects that only get more dangerous with age. Also you cant declare a variable without constructing it or making it a raw pointer. Which. i
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by fhood 9y ago
> Social media firms are thus following in the path of other media firms and are (like The NY Times) putting ad revenue ahead of the first amendment. This isn’t unexpected, these firms are the “tories” of our day.
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by fhood 9y ago
My goodness, this is a work of art.
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by fhood 9y ago
I think the major fear is the precedent he sets for divisive politics in the future. He also may cause the US to loose ground to China as far as foreign influence goes, but the first point is what worries me.
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by fhood 9y ago
About the free speech thing, people should say free speech when they mean free speech and not the first amendment. The first amendment is a specific thing with a specific meaning, and invoking it implies the weight of law. Facebook can cens
588.
by fhood 9y ago
If you are talking about the ideal of free speech then call it that. Not the first amendment. I am idealizing a process in which social shaming encourages conformity. That is the only reason society works, we learn how to interact with ot
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by fhood 9y ago
Sure, but you used to be able to just browse the front page. Try looking at the reddit frontpage from five years ago and comparing it to right now. And yeah, there are good subreddits but not very many of them are highly active.
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by fhood 9y ago
First off, the first amendment is specifically with respect to congress, and I don't understand why I have to say this so often. Second, society has always been self censoring, but the internet has thrown a wrench into that by allowi
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by fhood 9y ago
Oh absolutely. That car is almost certainly a tube frame with a fiberglass shell.....was what I was going to say but then I looked into it and actually it's still sheet metal and weighs 3800 pounds. It has run a 6.987, and probably has
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by fhood 9y ago
Don't underestimate the importance of these flagship cars. They serve a purpose. Why do you think Ford has the GT? They are a test bed for new technologies and increase brand prestige.
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by fhood 9y ago
The car in the image has some monster tires on it. Doesn't give you the compression (or whatever you use to describe the give in the tire) friction you get with serious drag tires, but with a good four wheel drive system?
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by fhood 9y ago
Wing shouldn't matter all that much in this case. Grip is most important in the initial moments of acceleration on the drag strip where having a wing isn't quite as important. This car[1] runs in the 7s without a wing at all. [1]
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Jay-Z: Meek Mill and the Absurdity of the Criminal Justice System(nytimes.com)
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by fhood 9y ago
Sorry, this is my personal nitpick but suppression of opinion by facebook does not violate the bill of rights.
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by fhood 9y ago
Should I get out my tinfoil hat or is it more likely that Chrome is just taking advantage of optimizations that other browsers don't have access to or knowledge of.
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by fhood 9y ago
Sure, >This is why the U.S. intelligence budget of over $75 billion did not prevent most American’s personal details from being leaked This was the one that most annoyed me. Why would you expect the US intelligence budget to be spent on
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by fhood 9y ago
There are some valid points here. Too bad the author felt like taking the least objective possible tone and liberally using half truths and false equivalence was the way to present them.
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by fhood 9y ago
> The Independent has contacted Apple for comment but none had arrived at the time of publication. Not sure why you would expect a comment from Apple when an off-brand chinese (I assume) charger turned out to be unsafe.

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