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by kmm 15y ago
I did the same thing, some five years ago. But what if someone can't go to Linux or OS X because this person needs software that is Windows-only or doesn't have the time or knowledge to learn a new operating system? Just shouting "don't buy
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by kmm 15y ago
The law is nothing but a piece of paper. I'm glad it exists, as it provides a framework that protects me from harm and allows me to life my live, but I feel no moral obligation at all to follow it. This style of argumentation is starting to
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by kmm 15y ago
Actually, it was. You can't judge the morality of practices from the past from your present point of view. You shouldn't be convicted that your morality is absolute and will always be the only correct one. Not to mention that software pirac
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by kmm 15y ago
Do notice that these achievements give exactly 0 points. They're not discouraging bad behaviour, but not exactly encouraging it either.
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by kmm 15y ago
Wouldn't it have been easier for them to redirect everything to a static black page instead of overlaying this with fancy CSS magic? Not to mention the fact that every page still gets loaded before the banner pops up, which is not only visu
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by kmm 15y ago
An interesting corollary of this is the possibility of curing AIDS[1]. Of course, the procedure is way to dangerous nor are there enough AIDS resistant donors for this become a viable cure, yet it is fascinating that these few people are on
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by kmm 15y ago
I don't agree. This is only a possibility for some people. I gave up on Windows about five years ago and have been a happy Linux user since. I don't have any pirated software at all on my system. But most people aren't ready or capable of l
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by kmm 15y ago
Mine contains 194.71.107.15 (thepiratebay.org) because a judge had it blocked here in Belgium. I could just as well use depiraatbaai.be but it's a matter of principle, I like my world wide web to be "complete". I think the people of the USA
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by kmm 15y ago
> The legitimate option is GO WITHOUT IT. You have no RIGHT to anything here... Legally? Indeed. Ethically? I disagree. I have the RIGHT to partake in what is part of my culture. Whether I like it or no, series, games and movies changed
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by kmm 15y ago
I'm 20 years old what will make my original post sound a little exaggerated but it's still the truth. I also don't live in the USA which might explain the relative lack of educative books in my libraries (although I don't really know the si
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by kmm 15y ago
I'm happy for her but I hope she realises how lucky she got. I've been considered to be pretty smart since I was born and when I was younger I devoured all knowledge around me. But the problem was that I didn't have parents that knew a lot
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by kmm 15y ago
I've heard the argument before that in need, one can use a FFI to optimize bottlenecks in high-level code, but I've never understood. Won't using a high-level language incur an omnipresent speed slump? And even if a bottleneck exists, how w
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by kmm 15y ago
Don't forget that the Amiga demo was probably (optimized) machine code while this demo is in JavaScript. That should add a factor 1000 to 10000 to your estimate. Which sounds correcter, as so much more has happened other than increase of pr
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by kmm 15y ago
I had to do a raytracer for a class in university this semester, too bad I didn't think of portals. It's almost a trivial example of recursive raytracing. The interlacing is a nice touch too. I shuffled an array of pixels and filled it sequ
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by kmm 15y ago
Fascinating that the printer and the toner communicate with light. Isn't the technology to do that way more complicated than a simple metal contact? Is it because a laser printer manufacturer already has optical sensors and the like lying a
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by kmm 15y ago
Of course! I hadn't considered that inserting an element can mean updating an already existing element. In C you don't need a pointer to the last element though, you can just replace the pointer to the first element with the new element and
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by kmm 15y ago
I could see lookup becoming slow but why is insertion affected? Isn't insertion into a linked list a O(1) operation?
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by kmm 15y ago
No, you're wrong. The old code will have something like typedef char bool And thus compiling this code in C99 would not work if bool were a keyword of the language. That is why the boolean datatype is called _Bool, so it doesn't clash with
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by kmm 15y ago
Apparently, an URL like http://images2.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/ad-blending/... is blocked by the rule -images/ad- This is a false positive and a surprisingly broad rule.
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by kmm 15y ago
This looks like a self-referential issue. If anything, it's a bug in mathematics.
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by kmm 15y ago
I think you're projecting. I have never been enthralled by any of Apple's products and certainly not multi-touch. Calling people anti-intellectual because they're against Apple is ludicrous. My problem with Apple and especially Steve Jobs i
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by kmm 15y ago
The only way to do that is to have the software ask the permission of a central server to be allowed to play a certain music file. Scary stuff.
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by kmm 15y ago
Not exactly. The text-to-speech is done in the cloud, but the hard part (algorithmically speaking) is natural language processing, which apparently (I don't know for sure) is still done on the phone. I don't know what Apple's excuse is thou
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by kmm 15y ago
Me too, considering how hard it is to trigger a kernel panic. The first and only times I ever saw them were when I was building my own kernel modules.
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by kmm 15y ago
It surprises me how little information about the Voyagers is on the internet. I'd love to know everything about what makes them tick.
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by kmm 15y ago
It's a prime example of humanity being stuck in its old ways. During both World Wars, the Germans put Belgium to their timezone, UTC+1. Almost 70 years later, this still hasn't been changed. With as result that in the summer, we're two hour
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by kmm 15y ago
I didn't make the code, nor do I want to take credit for it. I only changed a few lines to make it compile. The code explicitly say one can redistribute the code as one wants, so here it is http://pastebin.com/EnJi86hF Would you mind post
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by kmm 15y ago
It was faster before 2000, but is it still faster now? On my computer it is indeed four times faster, but the marvellous method is on its own again four times slower than SSE, using the rsqrtps instruction, with the advantage of a way lower
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by kmm 15y ago
1e12 rad/s is 10e9 Gray/s. Sieverts measure something else, dose equivalence. Interestingly, in this radiation field, every kilogram of mammalian tissue absorbs 10 GW. If this blasts lasts for more than a few nanoseconds, your puddle of goo
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by kmm 15y ago
I noticed it because the first voice you hear sounded like gibberish, and a second later my brain recognized it as Afrikaans and I understood it. It's crazy how what is at one moment unintelligible noise can suddenly have a meaning.

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