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by jff 12y ago
I think we've come back to "original author doesn't actually know how to write logic, thinks he's writing sequential code" as the core problem
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by jff 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. When I saw "Perhaps the Verilog language is not so good, because some nice standard language featuers (forever-loop etc.) are missing in the Xilinx-Tools.", I had flashbacks to VHDL class, students writing loo
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by jff 12y ago
Only if you put too much value on every little thing lining up. Your indentation levels will still work out, and beyond that people have better things to do than futz around lining up all their comments perfectly...
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by jff 12y ago
The communists are against them? Fucking go Alcoa, I say!
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by jff 12y ago
This particular smelter uses hydroelectric power, mentioned in the article.
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by jff 12y ago
Compare the footprint of your single static binary to a python program + the appropriate python 2.7.whatever & specific library versions which must be shipped with the program since odds are the user doesn't have the right version
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by jff 12y ago
Oh no, not Defcon! The world's premier mohawk-and-utilikilt cosplay event! When I used to go, it would have really livened things up to hang out with some PLA guys at the bars on the main casino floor...
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by jff 12y ago
I seem to remember reading about people living in a hobbit-house type thing (I think it may have been this one) leaving after a few years. I don't remember if the house had become unsound or if the local government finally caught wind
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by jff 12y ago
Sorry, I was being sincere. We had "recess" in elementary school, where we'd go out for 15-30 minutes and play. If you meant the 5 minute breaks between classes I don't remember what we called them, probably breaks. I wo
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by jff 12y ago
> In the Italian city of Milan, taxis have been sitting idle for the past five days in protest at what they say is "unfair competition" from Uber. They just make the Italian jokes too easy... Anyway, nobody actually likes takin
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by jff 12y ago
> In Europe, the pervasive attitude towards a lifestyle like this is quite contrary to being exemplary. Failing to take vacation time is frowned upon to say the least and often is forbidden depending on your location. Even something a sm
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by jff 12y ago
You had recess in high school?
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by jff 12y ago
Something like 50% of them have Crossfit signs on the wall behind them. So, kip much?
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by jff 12y ago
Here's a crossfitter who severed his spine with a poorly-done lift, be warned it's a bit disturbing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qc3kDCB7bA Crossfit! http://i.imgur.com/AoClAei.gif Crossfit!
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by jff 12y ago
A friend of mine was experiencing multiple-second launches for Terminal. When he looked, he saw that it was occupying about 1 GB of memory. Turns out the option to maintain ALL HISTORY EVER as scrollback was turned on. So he had the last ye
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by jff 12y ago
Well, it fits my personal narrative that I should move out of California... :)
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by jff 12y ago
Oh, I was just talking about how much contempt drips from the voice of a coastal city resident when they talk about those backward states in the midwest, but then we see Montana, North & South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin all in the
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by jff 12y ago
Look at those contemptible Republican idiots in the shitty flyover states, with their "kids who can do math" and such.
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by jff 12y ago
"Like a busker's hat... BUT WITH BITCOIN!"
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by jff 12y ago
I'm supposed to be working about 30% time on a project at work. That translates to about 12 hours. This project has two meetings a week and the meetings almost always take 2 hours each. That means that out of my 12 hours/week on t
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by jff 12y ago
> Your mainboards almost always have proprietary firmware. Coreboot is woefully underutilized and underfunded in this regard. If you care about this, buy a Chromebook. The new ones have Coreboot. Of course, Google blah blah evil, but you
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by jff 12y ago
I can understand why but DAMN the article from the Threes! people comes off really bitter.
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by jff 12y ago
The guns thing really is pretty epidemic. There's a huge thread over on Something Awful about this, hundreds of pages of people pointing out how the movie's "M-16" is actually an SKS dressed up funny and how it doesn&#x2
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by jff 12y ago
Bitbucket shows you the README followed by a list of recent commits on the front page of a project. I have grown to really like their UI as a whole, although both github and bitbucket suffer from placing the clone URL in a tiny little box t
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by jff 12y ago
Different antibiotics.
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by jff 13y ago
Great username/post combo there
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by jff 13y ago
Just lie back and think of England
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by jff 13y ago
The Gruber flowchart: New idea -----> Is Apple doing it yet? -----Yes----> Brilliant! | | +----No----> So stup
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by jff 13y ago
> the smell of the air best described as "an open sewer"
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by jff 13y ago
"91 percent say they feel they are the “most valued” employees at their company." Nice Edit: does this mean they think engineers are the most valued, or that they personally are the most valued?

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