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by greyfade 13y ago
The failure of the Dreamcast was the pitifully small library, not piracy.
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by greyfade 13y ago
American English speaker here. I've said "themselves" in this context my entire life, and have only ever heard this word from my peers. I have never heard anyone say "themself" or "theirself" and both word
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by greyfade 13y ago
Of the two hundred or so games I bought on humble bundles and so forth, I've tried a few dozen of the games I've bought (haven't had time to try them all), and with the exception of two Early Access games, they work just fine
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by greyfade 13y ago
Is it just me, or does this page skew down to the right? It bugged me and made the page harder to read.
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by greyfade 13y ago
It's actually a fork of luckycoin-qt, which is a fork of litecoin-qt.
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by greyfade 13y ago
I'm probably an outlier, but I learned BASIC at 4 years old (under my own initiative), and began to grasp essential concepts well enough that I was programming 6502 assembly on my C-64 with an EPYX FastLoad cartridge, at the age of 6.
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by greyfade 13y ago
It doesn't. The price is set by a Chargemaster list that is drawn up by a committee. Hospitals are free to charge whatever they want above that, without any downward market forces. Paying more sometimes means better outpatient treatmen
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by greyfade 13y ago
> Basically bitcoin removes the bank's ability to derive profit from debt and that's why they're pissed off. Then why don't they just mine? They can profit off network transaction fees, and can set up value-add servic
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by greyfade 13y ago
We Americans are a panicked bunch. We scare easily the last decade or so. It has nothing to do with actual risk here. It's all about "protecting us from the terr'ists." Never mind the fact that the terrorists we fear so
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by greyfade 13y ago
Think of it rather as redenomination. There has been no change in value. We're just talking about it with smaller numbers.
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by greyfade 13y ago
That $15M figure is wildly speculative, and assumes an average wattage per gigahash that's more in line with the state of mining as much as 2 years ago, when GPUs dominated mining. ASIC units (like my 14.5GH/s from two BFL units w
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by greyfade 13y ago
Not in these cases. The plants are going to be sent in sealed containers which themselves will be free of external contamination. Barring physical damage like a meteor impact or a crashed lander, the chance of "contaminating" the
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by greyfade 13y ago
Bezos pointed out something rather salient in the interview: Currently Amazon is a disruptor. They are doing things that no other online retailer is doing, and they're doing it better, because they chose to shoulder that risk. But mere
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by greyfade 13y ago
I buy waffles every Saturday morning with bitcoin.
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by greyfade 13y ago
"psychotic black market pyramid scheme currency"?
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by greyfade 13y ago
The Westboro Baptist Church. It's a rather infamous church in Kansas (with a small membership - about 15 or so people, all related by marriage or direct heritage) whose members go about to various places across the country to protest &
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by greyfade 13y ago
Are you saying that with each fuck, you have less fucks to give?
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by greyfade 13y ago
That's one aspect to it. The article summarizes it well at the end: > "It means something like 'I'm so busy being totally absorbed by X that I don’t need to explain further, and you should know about this because it&#
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by greyfade 13y ago
Indeed. Arkanoid had better graphics and sound.
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by greyfade 13y ago
You'd love to live in a Mace pepper spray cloud?
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by greyfade 13y ago
Awarding contracts to a handful of large government contractors is always a recipe for disaster, no matter what it is.
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by greyfade 13y ago
The primary difference is Comcast's indifference to improving their network and services or lowering prices, despite their astronomical profit margin.
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by greyfade 13y ago
What does that matter? What's important is that this fiber infrastructure will compete directly against Comcast, and Comcast is working hard to eliminate or at least hamper that potential competition in order to maintain the status q
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by greyfade 13y ago
You mean like nyud.net? Above link as an example: http://www.fluentin3months.com.nyud.net/no-usa-for-me/
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by greyfade 13y ago
That would be fairly easy if each line were prepended by a semicolon.
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by greyfade 13y ago
That has changed a great deal over the last 10 years. Modern C++ implementations are quite stable, and the push for and uptake of C++11 support has been quite rapid. Most of the new standard was implemented before the final draft was even p
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by greyfade 13y ago
None of these features, except the capture clause, are things that anyone has to learn to use C++ lambdas; they should know these other features anyway, from other parts of the language. The late return type syntax (`-> type`) works wi
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by greyfade 13y ago
But we should certainly be aware both of what the language requires of the compiler and of potential pitfalls.
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by greyfade 13y ago
I've always thought that that effort had value, even if it is a failure. I think BeOS had something going right when BeFS was introduced with indexed extended attributes. Tagging and other metadata are exceedingly useful, so why isn&#x
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by greyfade 13y ago
It doesn't have to spawn a subprocess. Some shells (like those in Busybox and Toybox) reduce common POSIX userland tools to a function call.

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