khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
> So a young nomadic Mongolian girl and I (UK, middle-age, male, working in craft/retail) don't represent different cultures because we can both speak English? I think the person you responded to went too far in their argument.
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> Do you feel stunted or unsatisfied because your ancestors didn't pass their native tongues down to you? Yes, although I realize that I'm likely in the minority. That's why I started learning one of them at the first oppo
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As I've seen them exercised in my area and in others I've visited or lived in, I don't have problem with gun rights. I've been raised to see them as tools, though. I wouldn't want to stay somewhere where people carr
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"How many centuries, did you say?" "0.01 centuries."
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> If our shared understanding was that the outcome of these laws would be vast numbers of swarthy men carrying AR-15s in all public places, an armed minority teenager behind us at every ATM, our public debate around guns would be very di
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> If they are amoral entity, I'm sure they won't care for Spanish government doing unethical but not illegal things to them as well. Why would that be true? It would be inconsistent for them not to fight for their own self-inte
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gst was talking about a mobile plan offering unlimited tethering/hotspot access. You're comparing that to a much more expensive plan with unlimited on-device LTE but limited hotspot access (8GB on Boost).
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> so we expect them to make a moral choice. We do? Why? Because, by one interpretation, they pay lip service to it by saying "Don't be evil"/"Do the right thing"? I take those as marketing (both to the publi
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Unethical != Illegal. If acting in an unethical manner causes a company fewer liabilities than acting ethically, which choice do you expect them (an amoral entity) to make? I expect that they'll keep pushing boundaries until it starts
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And old PC hardware, where you aren't guaranteed to have an FPU, or where integer operations were a lot quicker than FP ones.
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by khedoros 10y ago
A developer that uses a narrower integer data type, or who wants to be clear that the argument is a member of an enumerated set of options, not an integer. What kind of developer represents non-integer data as an integer data type? > I t
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It's perfectly possible to write a function with a small enough set of arguments to make it practical to exhaustively test.
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That's essentially what "Works For Me" means. Generally, the dev would ask for reproduction info, and if it can't be reproduced by them using the information supplied (maybe after a few passes, and after investigation of
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One classic way to handle it is to load the binary into IDA Pro (a graphical disassembly suite). That starts from the entry point of the binary and traces through as much of it as possible, noting the locations of strings, function calls, t
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by khedoros 10y ago
It depends how much you like reading a whole ton of X86 assembly language, with all the variable names replaced with numbers. Something that looks like the UI code has its source included with the game, so there's some info to be glean
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by khedoros 10y ago
Consider a run-length encoded image. One possible implementation is to have a command, a length value, then a sequence of 1 or more pixels. A "run" command's sequence would just be the color to repeat, while a "dump&quot
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by khedoros 10y ago
> You're the minority. I understand that my opinion is in the minority. Maybe I should rephrase it that the actual instances of data on the phone aren't as important. Cloud backup is ubiquitous, easy to use, and gratis from mul
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by khedoros 10y ago
I don't like programming with proportional fonts as much because they tend to be narrower than monospaced fonts. To get the same on-screen indentation, I end up using more spaces, and it's easier to have an off-by-one different in
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by khedoros 10y ago
These don't have to have anything to do with school. > anything taught in school becomes mundane, dry and boring at somepoint. I disagree. My better English classes interested me in literature that I wouldn't have touched other
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by khedoros 10y ago
It seems like an invitation to explain what this package brings to the table that others don't. You don't use a piece of software just because it's newer than the alternatives. I'm not familiar with any of the libraries
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by khedoros 10y ago
It's trivial with music, and I don't think that DMCA violations count as "piracy" as such. The biggest argument ethical argument against piracy is the theft of someone else's work. If I've paid for it, that&#x2
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by khedoros 10y ago
An English equivalent might be multifunctional then, or flexible, as other comments have suggested.
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by khedoros 10y ago
> What use is kodi if not watching pirated media? Watching non-pirated media, presumably. A lot of people use it as a front-end to their media libraries.
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Why is it okay that my iOS and Android devices essentially require an update several times a year but not my PC OS? In my case, two points come to mind, for me. First: My phone isn't as important as my PC. It's just a conveni
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With all the complaints about Windows 10, I haven't seen a demand for ongoing Microsoft support. I've seen a lot of people say that Microsoft can't and won't support previous versions of their OSes forever, and I don&#
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Except that clicking the "x" is the same as clicking "Not now". The current pop-up is basically a notification that the upgrade has been scheduled and will happen. There's some other, smaller text in the window th
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And "Gypsies", describing the Romani people, is sometimes considered derogatory because of its negative connotations, and because it is reflective of the mistaken belief that they were itinerant Egyptians.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Do you expect that they wouldn't be either calling from their own phone, calling more than once, or leaving a voice mail? There are two people who I would lay money on knowing my phone number by heart, and only one of them lives with
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by khedoros 10y ago
It would be extraordinarily unusual for someone to have my number but not be able to call from the phone storing it. Anyone I'd be an emergency contact for, I have their number(s). There are theoretical problems with not picking up, bu
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by khedoros 10y ago
That's one sense of the word. There are others. I was thinking of "the action of working artfully to bring something about".

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