glurgh

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by glurgh 13y ago
You can but I don't think that's a particularly fair, representative or insightful comment on why the difference exists. The developers of MRI are focused on developing an interesting and useful language first and everything else second. T
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by glurgh 13y ago
Oh I didn't mean as a matter of compatibility, although compatibility is (mostly) achievable and they share a syntactic and structural origin. I just think that their names, common syntax and saying things like 'C++ is a [sort of] superset
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by glurgh 13y ago
Heh, I will, with some effort, resist the urge to debate analogies - my point was: I don't think that, interesting as it is (especially with Sanglard's excellent reviews) is what the threadparent was asking for.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Sure but that's true for almost all software. It's turtles/C[++] nearly all the way down, if you pick a particular way of looking at it. Besides, a modern JVM JIT does not emit C.
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by glurgh 13y ago
He seems to be specifically interested in that, done in C++, while learning C++. The code of the various id games is definitely worth looking at - starting with Fabien Sanglard's code reviews is probably more informative than the raw github
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by glurgh 13y ago
They're both interesting and worth knowing something about but it's important not to conflate C and C++ - these are two languages that are probably more different than Python and Ruby are. Nor does merely writing in C or C++ guarantee perfo
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's C, not C++
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by glurgh 13y ago
Sure but then it's not a contest of moral turpitude. Gitmo is probably better than any camp in North Korea, it doesn't make it any less despicable. Calling VC 'human garbage' is, at the end of the day, just nerd message-board hyperventilati
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by glurgh 13y ago
It doesn't really matter what you or I think or whether we agree on the moral status of 'our ruling elites'. We do have, though, concrete empirical evidence of the eventual consequences of casually thinking of and referring to others, any o
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by glurgh 13y ago
The entire notion of calling a broad class of people whom you seemingly know nothing of beside accusing them of 'running the world' (itself an idea worthy of closer examination) 'scumbags' and 'human garbage' ought to be giving you very, v
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think it's reasonable to assume, by this point, that anything he does should fall under the rubrik of http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/christ-what-an-asshole Except, unfortunately, without notably increasing the humor value, so far.
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by glurgh 13y ago
This pretty much destroyed my engagement with politics That's certainly your privilege and right but surely you have to recognize it automatically makes any discussion of politics with you impossible or at least, deeply unproductive. And
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by glurgh 13y ago
PHP and Windows are often enough at odds that not having a nice REPL is probably going to be the least of your problems. The other poster is right, bring up a VM and be happy.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Didn't need to claim it. US citizens get killed without a trial all the time, as they have been since just about forever, in the course of law enforcement. There's no shortage of perfectly defensible complaints one can have with this or any
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by glurgh 13y ago
So one administration came into power with surpluses at hand, cut taxes, increased entitlements, launched a couple of wars, established some rather questionable detention and surveillance programs, damaged relations with a number of allies
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by glurgh 13y ago
Yeah, the extra bit of detail theorized there is that atta came from children's vocabulary and the derived word, for whatever reason, replaced the PIE pater-oids. This change is carried forward in all Slavic languages. But whatever the deta
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's because ojciec is not a cognate of father (neither is tata). Take a look at: http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=%2Fusr%2F... Google translate does an ok job of the Russian if it ends up looking too confusing.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Hayes Valley is arguably _in_ the Western Addition which, in turn, is not an extremely high-crime area, even in relation to the rest of SF. The visualization does show drastic transitions but the majority of them seem to be the buses crossi
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by glurgh 13y ago
Surely these utterly fall apart (perhaps that is what you meant to begin with) when considering actual usage rather than arbitrary geographical boundaries. Oakland is very much not the geographical equivalent of Brooklyn (you might be able
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by glurgh 13y ago
> Hmm, who is in charge of Cyber Command? Why it's the Air Force! Is that really the case, though? Their own verbiage makes it sound different. "Who is assigned to USSTRATCOM? The men and women of USSTRATCOM come from all four service
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by glurgh 13y ago
Especially if they added some way to plug in your old SNES carts. Super Mario Web - not as capable as the semantic web but a lot more fun.
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by glurgh 13y ago
You probably want its successor, the 65c816. Has a handy single instruction for getting a first pass of your web app running - MVP.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Hah, that is surely one of the many differences between reading about a sub and serving on one. Me: US navy nuclear submarines are a much-cited example of the successful design, development and deployment of high-reliability systems. You: I
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by glurgh 13y ago
Well, for one thing a non-constant second seems like it would break just about all of physics in deeply unpleasant ways. I think 'btilly is right - it's an unpleasantly difficult problem. I suppose my point is 'it just happens to be unpleas
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by glurgh 13y ago
This is a genuine question - do you really believe the (to me, seemingly obvious and much greater and potentially more dangerous) costs of switching away from astronomical time for measuring something inherently astronomical like the length
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think it's mostly batteries, a sub operating at constant depth and in motion is negatively buoyant. If something goes wrong and it loses propulsion, power has to be available immediately to operate the systems that can handle the emergenc
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by glurgh 13y ago
Big ole batteries - you'd need them anyway to run systems in the first place, should the reactor be shut down at depth. It looks like something like, say, a Los Angeles class sub can actually run its generator from batteries "[...]power c
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by glurgh 13y ago
It looks like the Galactic Coordinate System (which, sensibly but to the confusion of the casual reader is centered on the Sun) is also 'backwards' with respect to the right hand rule. The galactic north pole is actually the galactic rotati
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by glurgh 13y ago
By that logic, the introduction of the Brushed Metal look in 1999 signaled Apple's many subsequent years of decline and abject failure.
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by glurgh 13y ago
> reconsider either the length of the second This one is done - the definition of the second is not based on astronomical observations. "Since 1967, the second has been defined to be: the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radia

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