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by harry8 3y ago
So definitely don't use it if you care about performance? (You can't write it, but anywhere you'd use it you can probably beat it). But we're getting into discussion of sensible benchmarking of actual deployable applicat
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by harry8 3y ago
Nothing Bjarne says would be censored on NPR. Being a jerk is totally allowed and should be. As is pointing it out.
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by harry8 3y ago
I can explain why I disagree with you. Or I can put you down for not already understanding and agreeing with my point before I do that.
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by harry8 3y ago
"I think I understand what you are trying to say and I think that you are wrong." The giveaway is the hoots and razzes from the crowd. No word above needed saying. It clarified nothing. It is pure assholery. (And he may not have e
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by harry8 3y ago
I think you may have missed the point of my raising that fwiw. I genuinely don't care who is right [1]. Bjarne's attitude and manner is very wrong and very normal amongst c++ people. That's a shame. He could have explained hi
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by harry8 3y ago
That kind of blatant ass-holery is really common in C++ circles and you even see Bjarne doing it. "I understand what you are trying to say and I think you are wrong" at a conf to delighted razzes and jeers from the room. Bjarne ha
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by harry8 3y ago
The problem with popups for customers is they pop-off again so the advantage of bricks and mortar is diminished. You need to take the product back in 2 months for reasons, but where? That shop now sells decorative yoga mats and has never he
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by harry8 3y ago
Employees will want many different things and have many differing systems of morals of different strengths including some being totally amoral. Microsoft is an organisation focused on maximisation of shareholder value. Literally anything th
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by harry8 3y ago
Microsoft's only motivation for anything is the maximisation of shareholder value. There are things we in society don't allow corporations to do in their pursuit of profit. We codify those things in law. This thing they want to do
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by harry8 3y ago
So they're willing to "authorize" all 3rd party controllers for no more than the cost of an engineer's time in examining each controller, regardless of who submitted it and paid? Or can we acknowledge this for what it ac
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by harry8 3y ago
> why can't it be spun as Law & Order Law & Order is neither profit making nor competition destroying.
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by harry8 3y ago
They've gone into every xbox owner's house and destroyed their property with prejudice. 3rd party controllers, all of them, including all never used to cheat become non-functional and worthless. At that point I don't give a f
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by harry8 3y ago
"No choice" here means you didn't choose the textbook, you (or your benefactor) simply paid for it. I don't think "normal" is any excuse for any behavior. At one time, not so long ago, <insert evil thing her
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by harry8 3y ago
Yeah sorry that's just total and utter BS. No sale. I am an adult. >99% of students of university subjects are adults. Even assuming your premise totally, anyone so incredibly stupid they can't have it explained in the text whe
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by harry8 3y ago
> Here [2] you can find the solutions to the exercises in the book. > >[2] http://linearalgebras.com/ I have trouble with believing an author has the students' interests at heart when the answers to solutions
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by harry8 3y ago
nymag article is really embarrassing. Reminded me of this: https://www.mediaite.com/online/the-twenty-seven-most-embarr... Zero quotes from Taibbi's article. Zero accurate paraphrasing of any Taibbi argument or cl
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by harry8 3y ago
He provided the source documents for clear first amendment breaches. The story corroborates it further with facebook as well as twitter. How's google doing? Perhaps you think the first amendment is rubbish, should be abolished and so s
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by harry8 3y ago
Upset because of all that was missed out on. The realisation of what might have been. Could I have been a decent mathematician if the opportunity was not missed while I was totally unaware of its existence? Obviously there can be no defi
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by harry8 3y ago
Sorry? You think he fabricated documents?
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by harry8 3y ago
Friend of mine had an idea of an email budget - everyone gets x emails a month. Can't send any after that. Ok it would never work because idiot senior managers would give themselves 100x then dole out extra to their tamed pets but you
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by harry8 3y ago
> In a meeting with a government official, he or she might push for an outcome on one particular issue. If we declined or demurred, the official might threaten to punish the company in another way. That seems like a claim of a very clear
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by harry8 3y ago
The reason we have protections and limits on the power is to /prevent/ the totalitarian state. You'd have to be seriously daft to to think of the next 5 country leaders, similar types to the last 5, /none/ of them w
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by harry8 3y ago
George W. Bush. Hilary Clinton. Legacy admissions exist. There are of course a million other ways people fail upwards.
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by harry8 3y ago
Monty Python's "Today on how to do it" sketch is the classic of the genre maybe? Definitely a worthwhile minute out of your day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM
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by harry8 3y ago
The suggestion is that they got there on merit, intelligence, hard work. Not family influence, money, low key corruption in support of the academic career of an idiot.
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>wannabe right-wing dictator's Don't kid yourself that ideology is a protection. Who turns the key of the turnkey facist state is still an open question. Probably less resistance if you /claim/ to be fighting the extr
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by harry8 3y ago
You have to read it in a normal literate fashion taking into account the very common technique of hyperbole to make the point. This kind of thing is much more common in Scotland than some other places and is well understood. Try reading it
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by harry8 3y ago
>Goa Trance is Trance music at its purest essence, where psychedelia could run wild and free unfettered from the societal norms and bland commercial anthems that corrupted other Trance scenes. Here, and only here, could the unchained spi
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by harry8 3y ago
Battery is at least 20% too small then. The trade off with making it bigger is not for the user it's between engineering and marketing, which is dumb.
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by harry8 3y ago
>Most laptop battery stop holding a charge 2 to 3 years in. Counterpoint. I have a lenovo thinkpad t480s that I bought second hand and is now 4+ years old. The battery lasts at least 6 hours. I haven't discharged it fully in a while

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