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by flogic 9y ago
I think `set autoindent` works across most versions of vi. It's not language aware. It just indents the next line to the same place as the previous. For me, that was enough.
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by flogic 9y ago
Efficiency is a problem in it's own right. It drives down cost. Which means that surveillance will be used more often and for less important reasons. It's not uncommon for people to need to skirt the law from time to time. This is
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by flogic 9y ago
Assuming it worked well enough, you could use it to run legacy Java applets without having the Java plugin installed. That would at least improve the security situation a bit while still allowing for legacy applets.
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by flogic 9y ago
Art certainly has a place here. The purpose of this are isn't to look cool. The purpose of art is express and/or provoke a reaction. In this case, it's a reminder that these people exist and are suffering due to war. Most of
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by flogic 9y ago
On one hand, I get editor wars. On the other, it's rather silly. In order to evolve, editors require a certain amount of mind share for their plugins ecosystem. That said once you have a Turing complete language to extend the editor, t
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by flogic 9y ago
The paper is dated 94 which is the same year as the original implementation as the C++ STL ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library#Impl... ). So it's a fair bet they didn't have access to that
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by flogic 10y ago
Playing against a bot programmed to fight intelligently and efficiently just wouldn't be fun for long. A friend and I tried playing against the Reaper bot in Quake years ago. It mopped the floor with us. Which in terms of my skill prob
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by flogic 10y ago
I think there needs to be a grain of salt with the billion dollar mistake thing. The really dangerous part isn't dereferencing the null so much as what happens afterwards. If you dereference a null and the program terminates, that suck
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by flogic 10y ago
Looking at the crane though. Approving it as a mobile crane seems a bit on the bonkers side. Mobile cranes are self contained units and provide their own stability through mass. This bolts to the building. Which, if memory serves, was where
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by flogic 10y ago
As someone who would "need" this only once or twice every few years at best. I vastly prefer the idea of using this. I will likely never care about nitty gritty typesetting details. Getting things to "remotely legible" i
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by flogic 10y ago
That's really 2 questions in one. The first is "is there demand for another shift?". The second being "does the capability exist?". My inclination is to say the answers to those 2 are "yes" and "maybe
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by flogic 10y ago
More importantly if the population of earth is facing critical systems collapse, what are the odds of the next critical resupply mission the Mars colony actually launching. It's not like a martian colony would be self sufficient anytim
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by flogic 10y ago
"Slavery". That sort of system requires a fair amount of legal and propaganda support. Our election system gives the old slave states a boost. And our more bigoted politicians are constantly rehashing and reusing the propaganda to
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by flogic 10y ago
"zero" is one of those cool words. You'd have to beat the promotional types off with a stick.
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by flogic 10y ago
That depends on whether it's priority is to be a clock or a piece of art first. As an artwork, it more than succeeds. In it's current form, prioritizing art seems the correct choice. It takes up a fair chunk of screen real estate.
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by flogic 10y ago
Not really the same thing. The Perl version is generally used as an early abort either from a subroutine or a loop. return if($number > 2); Is equivalent to: if($number > 2){ return; }
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by flogic 10y ago
In my experience, the exponential time thing isn't really a big deal. I've used Perl regular expressions on a very regular basis for about 16 years now. Exponential time has been an issue only once. Obviously if I were accepting r
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by flogic 10y ago
I agree that we need to solve climate change. It's the single most important issue facing humanity at the moment. Where I don't agree though is the general idea that it's mutually exclusive with space exploration. A common th
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by flogic 10y ago
To be fair, I meant it in both contexts at the same time. A more polite term might be "opinionatedly retro". Go's conservative bend is both a positive and negative.
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by flogic 10y ago
I can see how it would imply that negative connotation.
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by flogic 10y ago
Go isn't a research project. It's more a manifesto on programming philosophy born of "old man rage" in language form. This works out mostly because the old men in question happen to include Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. How
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by flogic 10y ago
I don't program in C but I use the ternary operator quite regularly. It's quite handy when you're populating large data structures. For limited use in that case I don't find the readability that diminished maybe even enh
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by flogic 10y ago
Not really though. If it's important, you have the option to do a dive and read up on something. At least for me, it's not about not paying attention. It's about not being force fed. The world can be an awful place especially
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by flogic 10y ago
The problem is that while potentially more immersive, VR is more exclusionary. By definition it's not an experience that shares well with meatspace. So it's easy to cut off and be cut off from other people in the same room. That&#
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by flogic 10y ago
They're not really mutually exclusive problems though. Especially homelessness where the issue isn't technical so much as will. Other issues like say global warming may dovetail rather well with settling Mars. Our rovers run on so
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by flogic 10y ago
I think what killed Google Glass was more price and availability. Combined with concerns over the camera, that solidified the whole glasshole thing.
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by flogic 10y ago
There's more to it than that though. Christianity for example exists in multiple aspect in people's lives. The aspect you're talking about is the actual belief. But there are other aspects. There is a set of traditions and ce
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by flogic 10y ago
Physical security doesn't have the same parameters as digital security though. The pool of attackers on the internet is much larger and more sophisticated than those looking to break into the average person's home. To put it in mo
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by flogic 10y ago
I think there are 3 fundamental issues that are coming together. The first is a discounting of the fact that programming and using Excel are in their own way doing higher level math. You're not doing the lower level grunt work but com
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by flogic 10y ago
The problem is that these people are going to be living out their entire lives on the ship. While you can maintain genetic viability by supplementing from frozen stock. Maintaining a viable culture and a society that the caretakers will act

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