greyfade

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by greyfade 12y ago
I object to nunchuks for C++. It would be more accurate to say, "C++ is a set of nunchuks, powerful and impressive when wielded but takes many years of pain to master and often you probably wish you were using something else, because o
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by greyfade 12y ago
They'll just hang up on you so that someone else will deal with you and get the "disconnection demerit" on their record. They're paid barely above minimum wage, apparently, and they get fired if they disconnect too man
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by greyfade 12y ago
These regulations are pretty straight-forward, too. As messy as the FCC tends to be, their rules are generally easy to follow. 100 pages is nothing.
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by greyfade 12y ago
> So this Uranium is safe somehow? In as much that it's impossible to achieve supercriticality with a pile of yellowcake? Yeah. At worst, they risk heavy metal poisoning (as Uranium has effects similar to lead on the human body.) It
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by greyfade 12y ago
This smells like an antipattern. I can't imagine a reason for wanting to do this that isn't a result of some very poor architectural choices.
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by greyfade 12y ago
> There simply is no non-OOP way to implement these things. Yes there is. You can implement them as an endofunctor.
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by greyfade 12y ago
> Computers are the opposite. They're extremely limited -- they can't physically do anything, they can only perform calculations. Software is capable of nothing but specifying what calculations to perform. I think this is the h
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by greyfade 12y ago
Age isn't the argument that I see. The writer is complaining that HFS+ has failed to keep up with modern needs. HFS+, very much unlike nearly every other filesystem in existence, was designed with only one real feature in mind: associa
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by greyfade 12y ago
Only if the derivative software is based on this 7.2 release, which, given its authenticity is in question, is in violation of the prior license version.
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by greyfade 12y ago
I've heard multiple rumors that the NSA has a backdoor in Bitlocker. I don't trust any of this.
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by greyfade 12y ago
Distributions have improved their NVIDIA packages to such a degree that I haven't encountered problems with driver upgrades in many years, across several distributions.
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by greyfade 12y ago
Oh, this explains why people are so pissed at Butterfly Labs. I wasn't aware of this requirement. Thanks for pointing this out.
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by greyfade 12y ago
> Now our only source of knowledge is Wikipedia, which is great per se, but the vast amount of knowledge it collects is very shallow, there's no real depth and passion in it. Mostly because the Wikipedians won't even allow it (
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by greyfade 12y ago
It doesn't really make sense for them to license the content, though. This content is being broadcast for free over radio. Aereo is providing the service of establishing a remote receiver for the public to pick up OTA broadcasts outsid
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by greyfade 13y ago
Doesn't matter now; he resigned.
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by greyfade 13y ago
I hate this suggestion. What's the point of writing a toy compiler if you skip learning how to write one of its most critical parts?
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by greyfade 13y ago
Personally, I'd like to see a Scheme or ML dialect, but I'm not one to exclude good languages: I'd love to see some way to portably, reliably, and safely extend all browsers to support new language VMs - including languages l
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by greyfade 13y ago
This is why we need to abolish DST. It's just a source of pain.
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by greyfade 13y ago
It's apparently required by US financial services regulations, and Bitcoin services in the US that trade US currency must collect this information. Why, I'm not sure. You'll have to ask FinCen ( http://www.fincen.go
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by greyfade 13y ago
In a way, it's kind of a shame that we don't see this in the US Congress. It really would get more Americans engaged in politics.
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by greyfade 13y ago
And yet Christians have, at many times, rejected science in favor of dogma. See, for example, Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno, Nicolas Copernicus, and other scientists who were tortured, excommunicated, imprisoned, or had their works banned
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by greyfade 13y ago
This reminds me of a couple of games I had on the Commodore-64. One had a helicopter, but the other was Lunar Lander, which has a very similar mechanic. I can recall a few others with similar play style - Star paws and Zaxxon come to mind.
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by greyfade 13y ago
It's not a rainbow table for SHA-256. Bitcoin uses a double SHA2 hash.
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by greyfade 13y ago
When I signed up for Prime 6+ years ago, I felt the same way. I was hesitant to do it, and I expected to cancel it after my free trial. I still have it, and I've never let the service lapse, because I now do the majority of my shopping
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by greyfade 13y ago
But even in situations where pharmaceutical companies don't have patent protection, just providing a better product at lower prices to a larger, poorer market has proven to recoup costs just as well as charging $10,000 per dose on a pa
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by greyfade 13y ago
Well, yes, that's what I mean. But it's apparent that their planning and process was so poor that they could not appropriately schedule the entire project in keeping with the requirements.
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by greyfade 13y ago
Sounds like Lockheed needs to rethink its software development process. It has clearly failed.
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by greyfade 13y ago
> there is nothing special about these people that makes them assholes. Yes there is: They've committed a crime. One of the worst offenses you can commit. Witness tampering. The Judge here has every right to root out who is responsi
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by greyfade 13y ago
They shouldn't need to be fired. Witness tampering is a Federal felony offense . They should be stripped of their position and thrown bodily into prison, both for witness tampering and high treason.
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by greyfade 13y ago
For this reason, I would advocate abandoning the W3C (which is now socially toxic) and creating a new set of standards (I'd love to see a replacement for HTML) which we can advance freely.

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