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by kevinnk 11y ago
I thought the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine meant that any evidence that is found by examining evidence collected illegally still cannot be presented. The problem with parallel construction is that the police/NSA lie
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by kevinnk 11y ago
If by Bitcoin you mean a block chain based cryptocurrency, then yes, since Ethereum is already a blockchain based cryptocurrency. If you mean the exact protocol of bitcoin, the answer is also yes (Ethereum is turning complete, so it should
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by kevinnk 11y ago
I was skeptical so I just attempted this on my Galaxy S5 and it turns out you're right! Very interesting.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Chrome has several different caches (HTTP, DNS, SSL session data, etc.) but looking at just the on disk HTTP cache my laptop is currently using 201MB with the default settings. For anyone else who is interested, you can see the cache stats
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by kevinnk 11y ago
I left my wallet and phone on a subway in Manhattan. Both got returned to me (including about $50 cash I had in the wallet). My girlfriend's iPhone 6 fell out of her purse in a nightclub in San Francisco. It got returned to her the nex
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Looks like they use AWS, MySQL, and Python. They also use Stripe for payments (all their secret keys and source are in the dump).
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Rust has pointers all over the place - one of the core features is memory safety with pointers.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
The ld program distributed with binutils refers to this process as relaxation pretty extensively - you can see it in the ".map" file output or by greping the source for ld. EDIT: The term is even in the wikipedia article for linke
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Actually, it can already understand some hand gestures [1]. Compared to all the other things an autonomous car has to deal with, gesture recognition doesn't seem like such a stretch. [1] http://road.cc/content/news
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by kevinnk 11y ago
GNU software? It's hard to imagine big coroporations pushed that.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
My family has a reverse osmosis filter and it tastes identical to bottled water despite the tap being extremely hard well water. Depending on how much water you drink, it should pay for itself in a couple months. I think ours was $250.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
For gcc see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Integer-Overflow-Builtins...
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> All reported cases where the user consumed greater than 5 g/day reported symptoms of the lower urinary tract. That only implies that if you do 5g/day, you will with near certainty get urinary tract problems. You can definitel
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Try http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_header_files.ht...
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by kevinnk 11y ago
It turns out that while Java byte code is very nice as a compiler target, it's horrible as an instruction set. Theres been quite a few experiments with hardware accelerated java byte code, and all of them turn out to be slower then jus
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by kevinnk 11y ago
The real problem with FPGAs is that for 99% of use cases, CPU/GPGPU is good enough. And in the cases you really do need the extra speed, its rare you also need the flexibility, in which case you'd make an ASIC. There is a niche fo
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Ironically, painting broad swaths of people with labels like "non-virtuous" is how we got extreme sentences In the first place.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Nope. Many languages are written in themselves. C, C++, and many Lisp implementations come to mind :) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting
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by kevinnk 11y ago
As I've pointed out in a previous thread, virtually all of it is from a) iostreams and b) glibc. If you don't statically link glibc (as is the case the vast majority of the time) it's much smaller. Edit: You made my point for
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by kevinnk 11y ago
The US military kills people with high powered machine guns, uses tactics like suppressive fire, trains constantly with live ammunition, etc. I'm not the comparison is very relevant.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
The question here is what did the police aim for not what did they hit.
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by kevinnk 11y ago
For C++ most of that is iostream. $ cat hello.cpp #include <cstdio> int main(void) { puts("Hello, World!"); } $ g++ -static hello.cpp $ du -h a.out 857K a.out Compiling for size (-Os -fdata-sections
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by kevinnk 11y ago
"I was not able to figure out how to pass a static option to rustc"
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by kevinnk 11y ago
A few of my relatives do this and it's always immediately obvious when you drive with them. The ride is substantially more jerky (although they claim there isn't a difference) and the break light is on half the time we're on
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by kevinnk 11y ago
> In a real democracy what you should have is oversight by the people, in an open and transparent system. In this context what exactly would that entail?
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by kevinnk 11y ago
Maybe someone with more D experience can chime in, but D has conditional compilation (ie "static if") http://dlang.org/version.html
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by kevinnk 12y ago
If you have a banking system that runs all day every day, why are you not compiling ahead of time and running super optimization then? JIT is most useful where the application or the target is highly dynamic and you aren't able to comp
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by kevinnk 12y ago
JIT compilers are time constrained so super optimization isn't a very good match.
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by kevinnk 12y ago
There isn't much question that helmets reduce injury. The larger question of "should they be mandatory" is still open (with a strong lean towards "no.") From the first article. "Even most opponents of mandatory
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by kevinnk 12y ago
There's actually an official "study group" looking at compile time refection proposals, so this is definitely something in the works. However, the proposals have ranged from mediocre to downright horrible so it's probabl

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