hetman

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by hetman 11y ago
No, just less common. Humans tend to get used to even terrible things if they happen frequently enough.
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by hetman 11y ago
No, Rust invokes the equivalent of a memcpy() when moving ownership for types with the Copy trait. A borrow is just like a pointer (and indeed you have to dereference it with a * to get access to the contents).
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by hetman 11y ago
I use MSYS2 which is probably as close as you'll get to a Linux environment for native windows programs. There is a port of pacman fire package management, and it has an xterm compatible terminal called mintty. There's also Cygwin
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by hetman 11y ago
mintty is excellent. I also find ConsoleZ works well for running cmd.exe but it's not fully xterm compatible like mintty.
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by hetman 11y ago
One must be very careful when determining the level of influence as this can often be quite an emotionally charged topic with interests that go beyond the purely academic on both sides. Some of the ideas that area said to be influential, hi
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by hetman 11y ago
For anyone looking for the original link: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-awa...
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by hetman 11y ago
Except gamers will upgrade because of the performance implications of the DirectX 12 API. With an incentive like that, no one will care about the few holdouts that refuse to upgrade because they're uncomfortable with a few UI changes t
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by hetman 11y ago
Throughout most of human history there was also no way to listen to a specific artist unless you attended their live performance. Since technology has made the impossible possible, it shouldn't surprise anyone that new social contracts
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by hetman 11y ago
In my experience, maths grads can be really good at very specialised engineering problems like digital signal processing. Beyond that though they tend to produce poorly structured code that will be difficult to maintain. If their problem re
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by hetman 11y ago
You're probably better off installing standalone MSYS with something like mingw-get-installer which also gives you a convenient GUI for installing other common GNU/Unix utilities (and a somewhat crappy command line package manager
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by hetman 11y ago
This really is an audacious proposal and will be an awesome tool if they pull it off. For now there is still a long way to go. There is no command for upgrading a package version yet for example; in fact, when I looked at this a month ago,
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by hetman 11y ago
And if we can prove that ionising radiation is the only thing that can cause cancers then we're golden in applying this model.
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by hetman 11y ago
Complex systems exhibit all sorts of interesting emergent behaviours. Many things in living systems, like the way proteins fold, can be incredibly intricate. There are thousands of complex chemical pathways that need to work in synchronicit
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by hetman 11y ago
The problem with JavaScript is that it has a complex grammar which means startup times can suffer. Beyond that it does a pretty good job of substituting for a real bytecode (though it requires a bit of hoop jumping).
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by hetman 12y ago
That shouldn't be very surprising. I tend to licence small projects under MIT style licences because of the relatively small investment of effort. But if I was starting a much bigger project I would seriously consider something like GP
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by hetman 12y ago
Because this is still a new, and somewhat controversial idea, and the article spent a lot of time considering the alternatives and explaining why their proposed idea seemed to fit the data best. Without it there would be no reason to take t
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by hetman 12y ago
Except unicode also has invididual codepoints for "ǒ" and "ì".
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by hetman 12y ago
What the linked article fails to explain is why the politics of the Netherlands should influence the farming practices of an entire continent. Also, since this is posited to have been a political statement in support of William of Orange, o
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by hetman 12y ago
My suspicion is that it will never be possible to parse asm.js as quickly as bytecode simply because it is structurally different. However, a quick search does suggest there are still some improvements possible in Firefox to speed things up
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by hetman 12y ago
Except you gain better startup speed which was kind of the premise of this article.
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by hetman 12y ago
True but dash and bash are mostly interchangeable. I should have clarified that what was strange to me was the choice of shells with incompatible syntax.
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by hetman 12y ago
I would be interested to know the reasoning behind using different shells for interactive sessions vs. scripting on FreeBSD. Wouldn't it be easier to pick one for both? Is this just historical legacy?
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by hetman 12y ago
I do not believe vandalism is covered under freedom of expression.
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by hetman 12y ago
Samuel Huntington's thesis about the Clash of Civilisations has been thoroughly criticised since he originally proposed it, and yet in some ways the world is increasingly taking the shape he imagined. It would have been wise to treat i
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by hetman 12y ago
Technically Fortran does compete. For computational applications it is faster than C and hence why it's so popular in supercomputing.
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by hetman 12y ago
If you had been trained in sending and receiving Morse code, as some of these soldiers had been (rather than just knowing about it conceptually), your brain would probably catch on to the patterns much more naturally.
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by hetman 12y ago
Popular culture in a country at war is probably going to somewhat differ from your personal experience where Hollywood is a primary authority on conflict. These hostages would have context you're probably missing.
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by hetman 12y ago
The article seems to suggest these studies were controlling for other factors (though obviously one would need to read the study to find out how extensive that control was). But the article points out another study where people were able to
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by hetman 12y ago
That would result in a broken pipe and the command being aborted. We're not dumping raw datagrams here...
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by hetman 12y ago
Perhaps I missed something but I was under the impression only those Christians who would be unwilling to pay the Jizya tax would be killed. Not that I'm condoning what's happening there, but the title seems a bit sensationalist.

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