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by kaslai 8y ago
Just because the OS _can_ mark any page as executable doesn't mean that it does. Typically, unless there is a very specific need for an executable allocation, the executable flag is intentionally turned off.
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by kaslai 9y ago
In photosynthesis, the carbon dioxide is merely a source of carbon. The energy that fuels the reaction comes from light.
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by kaslai 9y ago
I get on a bus right before a time stop. It's only about 30 blocks after the previous time stop (Northgate TC) but has arrived as soon as 5 minutes before the posted time. That's always fun when combined with a 10 minute late bus
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by kaslai 9y ago
Most drive filesystems essentially have two parts: A hierarchical index and a bulk storage area. The index stores a small amount of file metadata (such as the file name, child index nodes, etc) as well as references to chunks of data in the
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by kaslai 9y ago
The C preprocessor is the least of your worries with regard to compile times. Parsing a #if 0 can be done almost as quickly as a memcmp operation. Even my naive implementation can process an #if 0 at around 600 MBps. Even if you had a gigab
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by kaslai 9y ago
My friend has a car manufactured in 1982 and the speedometer is practically useless below 30mph because of how bad the tremble is. He can be driving at a fairly constant 25mph and the needle will fluctuate rapidly between 30mph and bottomed
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by kaslai 9y ago
It's not so strange when you consider the fact that the point is defined with respect to the inch.
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by kaslai 9y ago
I just had to take the opposite jump. I was very happy with my uncapped gigabit symmetrical connection from Centurylink, but my new address is only serviced by Comcast. I'm paying less, but once the promo expires it won't be by mu
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by kaslai 9y ago
Is it really reasonable to expect users to buy a new router every 2-3 years? 50mbps 802.11g is still plenty sufficient for casual web browsing and streaming, especially considering the fact that most people still don't even have intern
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by kaslai 9y ago
I needed to create a circle drawing algorithm for some purposes a long ways back. I was in middle school at the time. While speed wasn't a huge issue, consistency was. Simply using sin/cos to draw the circle works, but it can lead
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by kaslai 9y ago
Good, it correctly finds my favorite local intersection: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Kitchen%20dick/Woodcoc...
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by kaslai 9y ago
Is there really any reason to multiply the downloads by 4 just to have different compression methods? It seems to me like that just needlessly dilutes the seed swarm and wastes space, since pretty much any modern archive reader can unpack
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by kaslai 9y ago
All phones services I've used charge for total usage, regardless of the initiator. If someone calls me, I still get dinged for every minute I'm on the line, same as if I placed an outgoing call. (Granted, I've only used pay-a
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by kaslai 10y ago
It's also worth noting though that there is no need for an AAC license to transmit AAC data. You are only required to purchase a license to use or distribute codecs, which is a one time fee of about a dollar per codec (AKA per device w
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by kaslai 10y ago
Location: Seattle, WA Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C++, C, Linux, nginx, ffmpeg, RTMP Résumé/CV: http://kaslai.com/resume.php Email: kaslai@kaslai.com Github: https://github
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by kaslai 10y ago
I was hoping that this was a donation intended to lessen Wikipedia's nagging for donations...