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by mpyne 12y ago
Yes, extern "C" is still a thing to interoperate with the C FFI. It is required if for nothing else than to use C headers.
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by mpyne 12y ago
Beyond the issue noted with UTF-16 permitting surrogate pairs, it's also important to understand that UTF-16 does not free you from normalization form concerns. For instance, even within the 16-bit Basic Multilingual Plane, it is not s
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Your making the point that because they weren't outright communist, they must have been right-wing. That wasn't the point I was trying to make. And after re-reading, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the point I actually
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I think within the context of civilized discussion your style borders on abuse. I don't have a dog in this fight, but you're replying to this comment in a thread that contains a literal unsourced accusation that Taleb was a
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by mpyne 12y ago
Might I suggest "hormetic", which comes from similar hypotheses of biological processes? E.g. the idea that low levels of radiation might even be beneficial overall by forcing your body to continuously use strong healing mechanism
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by mpyne 12y ago
I think the "but it was never implemented correctly" socialists always seem to forget the strength of a state required to simply "implement" socialism, and then enforce it. Failing said state, it would require a very siz
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by mpyne 12y ago
You'll note, however, that many of those platform points were polar opposites to policies enacted in practice once the Nazis came to power. War profits continued (indeed, Nazis who tried to actually push for getting rid of the profit m
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by mpyne 12y ago
Certainly some cultures need less pretense, but then being social in public in America (where the things you list simply aren't that weird) is not quite the same as being part of a long-lived communal social group. Certainly I don&#x27
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by mpyne 12y ago
That's one of the reasons I've started thinking recently that things like churches are useful in principle independent of any spiritual benefit. I've often wondered about the stories I'd occasionally read about agnostics
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Anti-copyright people would likely support the claim that such behavior is immoral. Yes, that is my point. But GPL works in practice because the immoral behavior it is meant to defend against is also illegal due to copyright. The o
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I'm sure most Americans enjoyed it however. As an American I was interested enough to keep researching Airbus models on Wikipedia. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Airbus has manufacturing even in the U.S. for its airline p
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by mpyne 12y ago
> It's the exact opposite of "agile," but it makes sense if reliability is what you want to model and optimize. One of the more interesting aspects about that classic story was that the software developers, despite having
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Go find products whose ship date was "when it's done" and look how late they were. Many of the best Nintendo games were delivered under this rule (as in yes, they actually shipped), and went on to be incredibly successfu
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Copyright infringement is another kind of evil, which is important because the law explicitly says so; It's not just the law that makes copyright infringement of various sorts immoral. It is the law, not morals, which gives GPL
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by mpyne 12y ago
> But it didn't stick because there's absolutely no point—it doesn't improve anything, it's just churn. This is pretty much it, though I'd throw on that Europeans acting like they're morally superior for usi
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by mpyne 12y ago
Interception of phone calls in Afghanistan is a very easy example. It practically by definition fails to implicate any domestic liberties concern for American citizens, and has completely defensible purposes to include counter-terrorism a
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I like to see it as ISPs and butt providers increasing their security and patching vulnerabilities thanks to Bitcoin's growing adoption :) They'd have every reason already to increase their security. So I'll take the oth
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by mpyne 12y ago
If Snowden had only ended up engaging in whistleblowing it that pardon might even be pre-signed and sitting in a folder somewhere so Obama can wow his base. As it stands Snowden did so much more than whistleblowing that I figure Obama wil
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by mpyne 12y ago
Don't mind me, but this is giving me flashbacks to 15 years ago when this was the Qt user's response to the FUD about license prices given out by certain developers who may or may not have later founded and joined Xamarin. Fascina
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I'm curious if reservists deemed to have critical skills would be called upon to act beyond an amount comfortable for them, considering that they typically already have full-time day jobs as mentioned in the article. Yes, that is
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Basically the problem with the military is that they won't (or can't) pay enough to retain any of the talent they have and are unwilling to compensate for the low salary by changing the "culture" they've develo
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by mpyne 12y ago
> So, you say that US has the right to support one side, including an anti-constitutional coup against democratically elected president, and Russia has no right to support the other side? All outside parties have the right to be supporti
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by mpyne 12y ago
That's the key word that should let you know an attempt at humor was imminent.
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by mpyne 12y ago
I don't doubt that there are people in Ukraine actually supportive of, and legitimately participating in, that separatist movement. But that is not, by itself, justification for Russia to intervene, especially unilaterally . It's
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Torture is not permitted under international law last time I checked, but US doesn't care and neither does EU. That was the reason I said "(now, just)", is because it turns out the U.S. agrees with you that torture is no
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by mpyne 12y ago
> you only get ahead by asking yourself what the right response should be to such actions How appropriate, as that is all the world has asked for from Putin. I mean, Obama could figure out why you don't give advanced weaponry to the
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by mpyne 12y ago
I'm presuming that saying "a fig for the nation" wouldn't have necessarily sent you to the guillotine under Napoleon, as compared to the Jacobins shortly before him.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Because there are no forces of Russian federation, probably apart from some Spec Ops, logistics and reconnaissance units. Or in other words, Russian military forces have invaded a neighboring nation, unless there is permission from Kie
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by mpyne 12y ago
To be perfectly fair I think that, at least in the U.S., it's more fair to say that the "revolution" occurred even before the first British troops had landed, and was as nearly bloodless as it might be possible to be. The blo
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by mpyne 12y ago
> The US did not punish those responsible. That's because no one person was directly responsible. Even for assholes like CAPT Rogers (who certainly did everything he could to get his ship into a bad situation [1]), no Navy comma

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