jonathanstrange

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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
Probably just a secret deal with the DHS. Don't worry about it.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
Money, lots of money. Microsoft gives away special deals for OEM versions of Windows that cost manufacturers of devices peanuts in comparison to the ordinary pricing. I've heard figures like $20 per Windows license. So people have sugg
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
Well, here is you answer: It's not okay to lock down anything.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
I'm really not much of a conspiracy theorist, but such things (which require extensive engineering) do not happen by accident in large companies.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
Yes, both are very likely. At the same time.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
It makes a lot of sense, though. Like many new languages Swift was invented hastily and without much care with the main goal of locking in developers and preventing cross-platform development. If Apple made major releases backwards-compatib
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
How does the market solve the problem that it is morally wrong (or at least dubious) to delete an iconic picture that exemplifies the cruelties of the Vietnam War? Do you believe that billions of Facebook users will switch to another social
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
This is a well-known fact. Random link after superficial Google search: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace-after-1945/ Don't pin me down on this one. Statistics differ because they count differently. However
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
Not really, you can always improve upon an existing PRNG by XOR'ing the random number stream with the output of your own PRNG without thereby weakening security. So if you think /dev/urandom does not produce enough entropy, r
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
It might be a good idea to additionally check the interface for failure of the PRNG, e.g. that not all random numbers returned are 0.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
You forgot to mention the reason why it won't. The Chinese writing system is too complicated to gain widespread popularity among foreign second language users. It takes years of learning to just get to the level of being able to read
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
GNU lightning would be a better choice. However, it does not optimize.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
If by "to agree" you mean "clicking something away that nobody ever reads in order to be able to use something for which you've already paid" or "silently assuming that some hotel's house regulations that
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
Nothing against hot potatoes, though. With butter.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
For added effect, put the fan on the floor and paint inside the balloon.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
I don't think this circularity exists or plays any substantial role. Skeptics and some philosophers seem to have a hard time understanding how dreadfully difficult it is to come up with theory of anything that is analytically insight
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
Sorry, I can't agree with you on this one. Lisp has multiple dispatch - how many languages you know have multiple dispatch? Many Lisp implementations compile to machine code that is very efficient for a dynamically typed language, e.g.
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by jonathanstrange 10y ago
The C64 was vastly superior for games, and the Amiga anyway. Macs never played a role for gaming at this time, because of their price and distribution channels. Only fairly rich professors and graphic artists were able to afford one. Ataris