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by firethief 12y ago
I don't think Kay was claiming popular music is _universally_ tasteless; that would be ludacris. He's lamenting that taste is not important to music's popularity. That you could think of a particular example of developed popu
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by firethief 12y ago
I wonder if the 600 people working from home are doing it all in one four hour block like the original in-person group. It seems like that would be enormously biasing the result - if you give people something to look at for four hours, they
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by firethief 12y ago
"Just as cryptographers have perfected ways to transform a seemingly arbitrary message into a “hash code,” a sequence that can only be interpreted in one valid way,"
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by firethief 12y ago
50 years? We must not allow a mineshaft gap!
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by firethief 12y ago
"Exceptions"??
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by firethief 12y ago
In pre-C99 C, that can be shortened to the equivalent: main=0;
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by firethief 12y ago
Common libraries in C could easily be used via FFI in most languages; they generally aren't because different languages have different paradigms (you might even say that's their purpose), and translations from one language's
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by firethief 12y ago
That's a good (and standard) practice that solves the problem if your project never has more than one PR open at a time.
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by firethief 12y ago
I think that highlights the difference for me: you come to the orchestra to hear the music. People like the sound of a car revving because they associate it with engine power, but the revving itself isn't inherently desirable; can you
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by firethief 12y ago
For a pedestrian hit by a car, legal liability is often not the main concern.
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by firethief 12y ago
Of course. Debilitating a few dozen people is nothing compared to the harm caused by cancer and heart disease, and if we had a choice between the two it would be wrong to pick the greater evil. Is the premise of the question that choosing i
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by firethief 12y ago
Really? Have you tried it? If your shell expands globs and you have any directories below / (both very common conditions), rm will not receive any arguments that are the root directory, and your --preserve-root will not alter its behav
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by firethief 12y ago
Anyone considering putting customization like aliases where they'll execute even for non-interactive shells should go home and rethink their life. Thankfully, I've never encountered such a system.
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by firethief 15y ago
Yeah, it has DAAP support.
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by firethief 16y ago
This sounds like a well-thought out reply; that's bad, because it is wrong. > Indeed, the money supply in the bitcoin market increases steadily over time, This is partially correct - the money supply increases asymptotically; the deflat