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by nickodell 8y ago
Everything above and including #define C1 returns a single value, and therefore could be done with constexpr. More to the point, constexpr would be a heck of a lot more efficient - changing M4 to M5 increases the preprocesed size from 80 MB
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by nickodell 8y ago
>Do drug cartels even care if the DEA has installed cameras everywhere? Back of the envelope math shows that they can't be installed everywhere; not on that kind of budget. The only thing that one could do with 10-1000 cameras is in
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by nickodell 8y ago
>have hidden an undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights It's not impossible to figure out, though, is it? The article talks about a total of $50,000 of cameras. It mentions that these are pan-tilt-zoom
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by nickodell 8y ago
There are both business and public policy arguments for not banning political ads, as the article notes.
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That seems like a lot of work. What would be the point of that? If Amazon is being spied on by foreign intelligence, wouldn't the NSA want Amazon to know about it? Particularly since government data is hosted on Amazon's servers.
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by nickodell 8y ago
I'm not the parent commenter. Ask him. If you want to justify the claim, "future generations will look at modern medical procedure X and remark at how primitive and pointless X is," you don't need to show that all medica
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by nickodell 8y ago
>You do not think that established medical treatments generally improve outcomes? That's not what the linked article claims. The linked article claims that there are specific procedures that do not help in specific situations, yet t
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by nickodell 8y ago
I agree. I recently tried to port an ~11k SLOC object-oriented Perl program from GTK2 to GTK3. The lack of types was maddening. I would have some simple goal, like "find the path of $image." I would immediately run into a roadbloc
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by nickodell 8y ago
I can see how the clause could be read that way, but if you read that clause in the context of the entire document, you'll see that it has a much narrower meaning. For example, the contract clause also has a different part that prohibi
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by nickodell 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U
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by nickodell 8y ago
Are you really comparing the same thing, then? Do you have the same consistency guarantees if the system shuts down unexpectedly?
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by nickodell 8y ago
>Verizon's throttling was described in fire department emails beginning June 29 of this year, just weeks after the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules took effect. Does throttling in this manner violate network neutrality rule
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by nickodell 8y ago
I'm sorry about that. Maybe you can switch tracks without losing what you've already accomplished. There's a paper by Phillip Guo about conversational programmers. These are people who do not program, but seek to learn progra
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by nickodell 8y ago
>My experiment, such as it is, consists of how many bans I can collect by simply going about my ways, communicating like a reasonable – but sometimes passionate – person. I've spent lots of time on reddit. I have never been banned o
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by nickodell 8y ago
That would be true if the pricing were based on the business's location, but not if the pricing were based on the map's location. If you say that you're in Khartoum when you're actually in New York, you won't get a
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by nickodell 8y ago
I think this page needs more explanation of the motivation behind this request. Why should browser vendors give a shit? Yeah, it's a standard, and at least three people want to use it, but what else?
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by nickodell 8y ago
I have had good luck with Apple support treating me like a real person. For example, I once called them about getting rEFIt and dual boot working on a Mac Mini, and the support guy did his best to figure out how to help me, even though it i
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by nickodell 8y ago
>Money can be routed to the address through a Bitcoin mixer to increase anonymity. [...] That's a cool solution to the problem, but you didn't need attach bitcoin addresses to it at all. For example, in Bitmessage, the source a
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by nickodell 8y ago
It looks like every message in this system create a new Bitcoin Cash transaction. Is that a good idea? You don't really need the consistency guarantees of the blockchain, so any gossip protocol would work equally well, and you wouldn&#
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by nickodell 8y ago
>The first thing that we need to do to accelerate our program is to improve the memory utilization of matrix B. Why not put matrix B in column-major order?
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by nickodell 8y ago
>The law has been in effect for two years. "It was adopted on 14 April 2016, and after a two-year transition period, becomes enforceable on 25 May 2018." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_P
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by nickodell 8y ago
>It didn't make sense all along. Let me rephrase. What I mean is, "or it would make sense to do it, but homeowners will be too stupid to do the math." My hypothetical is about people who 1) would not install panels but 2)
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by nickodell 8y ago
Is this a net financial win? Presumably, homeowners have been doing the math and adding solar panels if it is a net financial win. Now, homeowners are required to do it whether or not it's a net financial win. ie. the new solar install
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by nickodell 8y ago
1) She's criticizing the creation of a government-run media organization, not the creation of an org that punishes media organizations for false news. These things have different costs and benefits. Also, believe it or not, government-
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by nickodell 9y ago
You're not talking to other sites directly. Alice can tell you, "Here's a message from Bob. His public key is 0x1234," when Bob's public key is actually 0x5678. This opens a new avenue for trolling: publish a fake k
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These safety modules sound really complicated. Let's say a security vulnerability has been discovered. An attacker has wormed their way into as many cars as they can. They send a 'go' signal from their command and control ser
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by nickodell 9y ago
>With their immense data collection architectures and ties to large tech companies, they could easily filter the keywords and images they want, and get measurements of how quickly this information propagates and how people react. Ok, but
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by nickodell 9y ago
Innocent users might be caught by this, but so far that's entirely hypothetical. The user that posted this has a pinned repo named "AimTux." The second guy is a contributor to "catbot." Ditto the third guy. One of
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by nickodell 9y ago
This isn't just a rename. The structure dm_bio_details was changed to remove one field that points to a block_device structure, and add a field that points to a gendisk structure, and an integer called bi_partno. This change copies the
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by nickodell 9y ago
Why does this point to a github repo?

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