humbledrone

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by humbledrone 17y ago
There's no way that real memory allocation is faster in C# than in C++. I don't know much about the CLR, but if it appears to allocate memory faster, it is probably because it is taking the memory from a pool which it has already allocated
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Same here. Basically, I don't want music while I'm in the process of figuring out how to go about doing something, but there's nothing better than a good beat (Infected Mushroom for me) while actually doing it. When I'm doing design, m
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by humbledrone 17y ago
My grandad runs a local auto shop, and I would have been hard-pressed to not learn how to repair my car. I did all kinds of work on my '83 Ford Ranger, and a good amount of work on my '90 Daytona, but I've gotta say that I'm a bit afraid
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by humbledrone 17y ago
I always thought the moniker "time travel" was not specific enough. I'm traveling through time right now. I can't help but travel through time. Maybe a more appropriate term would be "time navigator."
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Unless the poster's clientele consists solely of HN readers, they would probably end up getting different results.
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Yeah, some ads are definitely over the top. For the most part, I could survive without AdBlockPlus, but there is one type of ad that I detest more than any other: the audio ad. I can't even find words to describe how severely I detest adv
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by humbledrone 17y ago
I blanket-block all ads. I get advertised to enough when I leave my house (billboards, etc).
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by humbledrone 17y ago
According to POSIX, after a SIGSEGV, the state of the program is undefined. This is the reason that a SIGSEGV usually causes an immediate abort. Allowing a program to execute when its state is undefined is a huge security hole.
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Command-restricted users are NOT the SSH default. If the sysadmin is taking the trouble to restrict the user's privileges, they need to restrict forwarding as well. By the argument that you and others make, the SSH server should not allow
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Actually, I read the full article and not "one throwaway line." The one line that I quoted is the crux of your argument against the implementor's decision to allow forwarding by default. Don't know what you mean by the "actual meat."
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Allowing TCP forwarding by default is not "insecure." The author of the article states that the SSH manual's justification for leaving it enabled by default is not valid because, "have you ever tried to install a forwarder on some random s
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Electronic drums, banjo, guitar, piano, trumpet -- in order of increasing skill (not that it increases to any significant level).
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by humbledrone 17y ago
The Starbucks naming conventions drive me crazy because of the fact that they all mean, essentially, "big." So it's impossible to remember which "big" you want for a medium-sized coffee!
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by humbledrone 17y ago
I'd try to make a living building custom arcade machine cabinets.
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Actually, most of the people I've met who campaign against GM are against it because they're scared of the concept of some mad scientist in a laboratory making abominable lettuce with "toxins" in it. Those are the people my "10,000" years
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by humbledrone 17y ago
What do they call that? Genetic Rights Management? GRM? I've gotta say that the idea of GRM makes me more angry than DRM ever could...
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by humbledrone 17y ago
The thing I always like to point out to people who are against genetically modified foods is that breeding is genetic modification. Mankind has been genetically modifying plants for 10,000 years, to great effect, by performing artificial s
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Maybe I'm too laid back, but I don't really get the impression that the DEA is trolling the Hacker News comments, recording usernames, sending subpoenas to ISPs, obtaining search warrants, and busting down doors. Somehow I just don't see a
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by humbledrone 17y ago
I've found that I'm terrible at laying down code when I've been smoking. My short term memory goes down the drain, which makes it difficult to remember, e.g., variable and function names. However, I've also found that I'm quite good at ot
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by humbledrone 17y ago
My take on this is that if you're not interested in the subject enough to learn it on your own, then you'll probably never gain a deep understanding of it. That's not to say that a formal education is bad -- it will just never be a substit
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by humbledrone 17y ago
I play music in many different styles; from electronica to folk. When I recently bought a banjo, my girlfriend forced me to count how many musical instruments I had. I lost track around 14... The only problem is that with my time divided
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by humbledrone 17y ago
I am just finishing up something akin to what you described in your last line (for my employer). It's just a simple daemon written in Python that is told what to do via XML/HTTP. Implementing such a daemon was made much easier by using th
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by humbledrone 17y ago
A real vaporizer is certainly smokeless. It vaporizes the oils in the marijuana bud; the marijuana is not supposed to burn. If you've used a vaporizer and it was producing smoke, that means that you had the heat turned up way too high.
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by humbledrone 17y ago
Git won me over when I found out that I could make all kinds of commits willy-nilly. I make a lot of small commits to my local repo throughout the day. At the end of the day I then take the time to go through them, merging related commits
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by humbledrone 17y ago
I'm working on a program that renders Julia/Mandelbrot set fractals using the GPU. I know there are a few other such programs out there, but I'm trying to make gpufrac really configurable. It has a bunch of features already (normal mappin
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by humbledrone 18y ago
``potentially bringing a new mass of users that will contribute very little to the website'' I guess that I'm one of those users. Is this community really that elitist?