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by ncmncm 4y ago
Seems like you ought to be able to buy bismuth foil tape to put over the mag stripe, and block any sort of reader. It's not like most of us ever need to use it. Or erase your stripe.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Of course they scale. Incidence X times scale factor W. W = Y^Z, size Y and scaling Z. But zero times W is zero.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
In the desert, you typically have to build expensive transmission lines out to the site to get the power to where you actually want it. So, (1) you have to acquire single-use land, (2) the panels produce half as much power as they could bec
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by ncmncm 4y ago
> "avoiding the sexist term" Sexist term... "freshman"? You reveal that you had no intention of engaging honestly.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
They know they have management problems. News at 11.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You reveal that you never had any intention of engaging honestly. This is the very first line from the very first post in the thread: >> It’s hard, if not impossible, to avoid use-after-frees in a non-trivial codebase.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I think you didn't get the point. Data structure choices are dictated by requirements. The type system doesn't demand pointers. When the type system accurately represents relationships, there is no need for users of a data structu
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It is, ultimately, a management problem. You cannot solve a management failing by adding technical people.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
We are not talking about bugs in general, but about a specific sort of bug common in C and Google code.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The topic is, specifically, use-after-free bugs.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The win is that one entity owns all the nodes, and does not need to follow edges to manage them. Edges are just edges; what else you imagine about them is on you. (CS grads do love their pointers!) If size varies much, a deque-like structur
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Your assessment is at odds with their own statements. Google can be assumed to know the hole they are in. The mistake is thinking everybody else is in it too.
703.
by ncmncm 4y ago
... and then abandoned it and fired everybody.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
There is a substantive difference between "rarely" and "never". The principle about trees, if you must use one -- they are very slow to walk -- is that you either use it, or mutate it, not both at the same time. Generall
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Yes, "big, big, biggity-big". But not an excuse. Nobody forced hypertrophy on Google. Google has access to plenty of money to manage its problems. But size is not the problem, and access to money does not seem to forestall it. Ins
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by ncmncm 4y ago
They are wholly unsurprising in C code. C offers literally nothing in the way of automation to eliminate the problem. But there is no excuse for writing C code today. "Scale of your codebase" is a clever excuse, but it doesn'
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The notion that marketing doesn't work is, itself, an example of marketing that is working. The manufactured perception is essential to keep it from being regulated. Scott Adams is a clever functionary. How have the 0.01% managed to ge
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by ncmncm 4y ago
> It’s hard, if not impossible, to avoid use-after-frees in a non-trivial codebase. Nice excuse. But just wholly untrue. Most of us have not had any of these faults in years . Zero. I cannot even remember the last time I had one. Or e
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Not to be confused with Terraform Industries. One hopes the Labs name will be retired before the other needs to scale up.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
On an A310 you don't even need the servos. But you probably want better than 8 bits resolution on sensors and output.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Bowing to someone who bows back is just a greeting.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You wrote that if you were ever to code with exceptions, you would do a useless, disruptive thing no one recommends, and get undesirable results. Trolling.
713.
by ncmncm 4y ago
Thank you, I had not encountered this term before. Could be a very significant revelation.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Trolling still unwelcome.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Manufactured electrical outages were used to remove Gray Davis from office. The crooked system they used ran up a fake bill of $80+ billion, which Davis refused to pay. Schwarzenegger made the state pay it, which he must have promised in ex
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by ncmncm 4y ago
A very great deal of solar and wind generating capacity will need to be built out in any case. EVs get cheaper all the time.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Tangentially... Most California solar farms under construction today are sited, rather stupidly, in deserts. Why stupidly? Because deserts are hot and dusty, conditions that curtail output and shorten panel life. Why build there anyway? Ign
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by ncmncm 4y ago
And knives can be used to cut yourself. Yet, we all use knives. Every language becomes a legacy language before it achieves maturity. The next immature language is promoted as lacking all its flaws. But new flaws are always invented.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
This does not match my experience. It has been literally years since I shipped a memory usage bug. It just doesn't come up. There is no temptation to make memory usage bugs, because they would be extra work to code. I understand that t
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by ncmncm 4y ago
MacOSX has a great deal of BSD in it. iOS, maybe not, although it is a fair bet that its TCP/IP code originated in BSD 4. But anyway that code did not come from Bell Labs.

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