neckbeard

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by neckbeard 15y ago
Apologies for the tangent, but I had that and needed to drop into single user mode and do a fsck to fix some errors.
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by neckbeard 15y ago
GCC 4.4 isn't very recent, but it generates a popcnt with -msse4.2. GCC 4.5, using popcnt on my Core-i7 860 takes the trivial loop mentioned using "Complement and Compare" from ~10.5s to ~7.5s
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by neckbeard 15y ago
It is incredibly easy to arrive hours before you leave. Just fly East across the dateline (like Aus to North America). And I've even lost a birthday flying back in the other direction. Great scheduling, that.
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by neckbeard 15y ago
Update: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/6854208028
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by neckbeard 15y ago
The general level of reader commentary on the SMH website is pretty pathetic, no matter what the subject matter is. This isn't helped by the current trend for their articles to be link bait or scraped off a real tech source, rather than any
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If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot(rusty.ozlabs.org)
160 points by neckbeard 15y ago|47 comments
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by neckbeard 15y ago
He shouldn't hate the JVM, he should hate his lame system. Rule #1 is "Never trust students' code". One of the strengths of threads is that they don't have strong protection. If he wants runtime safety like that he should learn what a proce
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by neckbeard 16y ago
Freelancer? You mean the Swedish site (GetAFreelancer) that was bought by some Australians? Sure, it has been cleaned up a bunch, but doesn't seem like a massive entrepreneurial success (other than as a vehicle for self-promotion).
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by neckbeard 16y ago
Cheezburger Network acquires Charlie Stross' blog: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/04/administ...
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by neckbeard 16y ago
I said no such thing.
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An Aussie startup mentor network(pushstart.com.au)
26 points by neckbeard 16y ago|8 comments
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by neckbeard 16y ago
I hear expertsexchange.com is the place to go.
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by neckbeard 16y ago
Careful, that's a form of heresy around these parts.
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by neckbeard 16y ago
It is better to have pwned and lost than to have never pwned at all.
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by neckbeard 16y ago
Already done, and now waiting to see how they go with the Victorian flooding!
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by neckbeard 16y ago
Yeah, 200 hot dogs would leave a stench that time can't erase. (But congrats for getting out there - you have the support of those of us in the other states.)
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by neckbeard 16y ago
No, LCD screens work upside-down here, just like our drains are the "wrong" direction. (Tip for the sarcasm impaired: that's a bad joke.)
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by neckbeard 16y ago
Not really - El Nino cycles followed by La Nina mean that drought followed by flood is a common theme along the East coast of Australia. One of the more patriotic pieces of poetry in Australia (My Country, Dorothea Mackellar) even refers th
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by neckbeard 16y ago
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002667
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by neckbeard 16y ago
Story is from 2009, old news is old (not that the issue is completely dead and buried).
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by neckbeard 16y ago
Or C and C++, which tend to be popular with people that get real work done.
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On the concept of “tractor beams”(opticsinfobase.org)
5 points by neckbeard 16y ago|0 comments