jumpingmice

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by jumpingmice 7y ago
I was briefly excited to see this in the article but it looks like these are $10-$30 on ebay, still not worth putting them in a box and mailing them around.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Indeed the ENTIRE basis of the EULA is that the user copies the software by executing it, whereupon a copy exists both on-disk and in-memory. This is long settled jurisprudence. I’m sure that if Microsoft downloads and runs an AGPL-licensed
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
It can be a backronym and the official name at the same time. Your assertions are all true but your logic is faulty.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
"Cheating" is doing all of the work here. They are sending transactions to their "home location" which is worst case all the way on the other side of the planet and then they are only counting the time to apply the tran
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
From `perldoc perl`: """Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, except when it doesn't."""
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Nothing specific to which I can point but I’ve never seen a language with quite the utility of Perl’s format feature. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlform.html
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
I immediately mentally inserted “Netcraft confirms” before the title of this submission. Glad I’m not the only one afflicted with this meme.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
An expert Perl user will always be able to show some nifty program that could never be replicated in another language, or would be ten times larger and full of bugs if it were. If you play to its strengths, it is amazing. There is no better
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
There has been an endless parade of these guys but only the one was public, in recent history. Obviously I am not aware of the disposition of the others. Maybe they were all roaring successes.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
I like your upbeat attitude, but: """U.S. Helicopter Corporation (the "Company") has put substantially all of its operations and business activities on hold as of September 25, 2009 due to the Company's inabili
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Also not exactly new. There has always been some company that will take you from NYC's heliports to its airports. Of course every one of these companies eventually went out of business, but some other group always stepped in to try to
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Accepted by some people, yes, but how will you know in advance whether it is acceptable to your audience? You could be treading on someone's preferences just the same as if you use the term "themself" in reference to a person
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Thanks, I'm aware of the etymology. This is the exact way that people with particular self-expression view attempts to claim that "*" or "people" is as inclusionary as LGBTQIAGNC.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
The problem is the people who object to LGBT would see a wildcard expression in the same way that "black lives matter" folks see "all lives matter": as an attempt by an oppressive majority to erase their minority identit
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
I've seen first-hand people whining online that someone used the initialism "LGBT" which apparently can be considered exclusionary by some people. It seems that "LGBTQIAGNC" exists and may be more expansive, however
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Most of the BeOS was written in C++. Nobody at Be would have tolerated the code quality you find in Linux binder.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Yes that is the point. In the relatively rare case of failure this particular function uses a goto to return without releasing a held mutex. Error paths within the kernel are a rich vein of malfunction.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Goto is only de rigueur in terrible languages that are unable to release function-local resources automatically. It is an intentional choice by kernel authors to ignore all progress in our field after 1988 and insist on writing everything i
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Yeah that’s the rumor but allocations of any size can fail when kmem cgroup accounting is enabled and the container is out of space.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
The Linux kernel is a glaring example software malfunction due to its combination of moderate defect density and incredible extent, along with a culture intolerant of competence. People who became subsystem maintainers because they happened
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
The prominent developers of deep learning techniques within google were quite upfront that they were applying old techniques that had not been practical until massive datacenters expanded the parameter space and training power.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
What about Hynix? Didn't they drive all of the the Japanese semiconductor makers out of business? I know it was a national/political move, but it was still dumping.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
A full-size exterior door as a desk seems like an impossible luxury to me now. I'm a high-ranking engineer at a famous, rich company and I'm well-paid etc but my desk is 24"x44". The conditions under which modern softwa
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Yeah I mean it’s pure theater. For one thing, plenty of actual, authentic laptop batteries have exploded on airplanes. So the whole dichotomy between battery and explosive is false.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
That strikes me as pure security theater. There’s no relationship between what the machine is doing and what is contained on an apparent copy of the machine’s purported storage device. Just like TSA booting my laptop ... when they do it my
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Implied consent passed in California in 1998.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
No, the two are isomorphic.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Why do you think you should be able to drive, in public, but anonymously?
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
That is not really inconsistent with the principle of implied consent for drivers. Driving is dangerous and destructive and not a natural right. Cars _should_ be under suspicion at all times, moving or parked.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
This is such a tired argument and reflects your superficial comprehension of this topic. Yes, NY to LA is too far for rail service. It is the same distance from Paris to Moscow. Nobody takes trains between Paris and Moscow. However the t

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