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by nknight 15y ago
The entire concept of variable-length C arrays is at best iffy, but including them in structs is pretty crazy. Consider these two questions: 1) What is the sizeof a struct containing a variable-length array? 2) How do you create an array of
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by nknight 15y ago
Citizenship is utterly irrelevant to labour law and, for that matter, most other legal issues. Even legality of presence is usually irrelevant.
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by nknight 15y ago
But that has nothing at all to do with anti-authoritarianism, and doesn't seem to resemble what Mansyn was talking about in any way. I can't stop thinking, while reading his and rprospero's comments, of the stereotypical parent screaming at
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by nknight 15y ago
> I've seen the inside of (admittedly only one of) them, although not as a patient. My father is a psychiatrist. So you lack first-hand knowledge, and your argument is easily seen as a biased defense of a family member -- an authority
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by nknight 15y ago
Uh, it's also not my job to go over to the ATM and find out why it's broken. On the contrary, trying to do so would probably get me arrested. I have no reason to fix or even analyze a process until it is somehow relevant to me. Calling me i
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by nknight 15y ago
> You were prescribed anti-depressants by a medical doctor (most likely without even the most rudimentary training in mental health), and you blame psychiatrists? Psychiatrists are medical doctors. Many of them work in hospitals. Why
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by nknight 15y ago
When else would you analyze a process than when it's causing you a problem? Do you routinely attempt to fix things that aren't broken?
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by nknight 15y ago
Yes, but that doesn't always help. If your opponent is rich, they can hire an army of lawyers, and you'll generally need a correspondingly huge law firm prepared to invest their own time and money in countering that. The kind of law firms w
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by nknight 15y ago
As far as I know, they'll only do that for really expensive items. I've never been given the pickup option for my returns (the most expensive was worth a bit under $300).
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by nknight 15y ago
The only reason merchants get any business on Amazon is that customers are at least partly protected by Amazon's support infrastructure. I'm sympathetic regarding some of the more egregious stupidities Amazon has foisted on some merchants,
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by nknight 15y ago
You (and I, for that matter, at 17 packages) are outliers. Even amongst Prime members, most people won't get anywhere near 30 packages in a month, ever. The only reason I do is that I don't leave the house much (and hate doing so anyway). M
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by nknight 15y ago
You have utterly lost the context of the thread, which was an insufferable fool whining about developers welcoming patches instead of doing whatever is demanded of them.
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by nknight 15y ago
Has the entire population of HN suddenly lost the ability to comprehend English? Demanding unpaid labour has nothing to do with you or anyone else volunteering labour. My words cannot possibly be construed as saying volunteer work in open
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by nknight 15y ago
Now you're just being deliberately obtuse. Nobody needs to be told that demanding unpaid labor of open-source contributors is condoning slavery, and nobody is owed an explanation of why unless they're a small child or mentally handicapped.
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by nknight 15y ago
If you really need an explanation for why slavery is wrong, I think you're beyond reasoning with.
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by nknight 15y ago
I think if you'll look back through the thread, I've made two brief comments demonstrating how your assertions that we should all know about prorated battery warranties are faulty. Others have made similar comments. This is neither ranting
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by nknight 15y ago
Speaking as an American, there's not a damned thing wrong with his comment. It's accurate, to-the-point advice that needs to be given.
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by nknight 15y ago
> Consider my brand new Samsung TV set: I could not believe that program numbers are not unique! You can have two stations registered with the same program number!!! As someone who has spent his career in DVRs and smart TV stuff, I ha
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by nknight 15y ago
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/help/faqs_flavorings/index.asp
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by nknight 15y ago
Sounds like the Stepan Corporation has an effective monopoly on the manufacture of cocaine-free coca leaves. That really says nothing about a restriction on their use.
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by nknight 15y ago
Every rechargeable device I've ever owned has had various warnings in its documentation about battery care. If you've never read the manual, that is 100% your fault . No one can force you not to be stupid, it's up to you.
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by nknight 15y ago
They did something outrageously stupid. No conventional car should be left sitting for months at a time without appropriate preparatory steps, and neither should an EV unless it's connected to power. The EV actually has a distinct advantage
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by nknight 15y ago
It says "3 Year Free Replacement". First, what does this have to do with the assertion about prorated warranties? Second, I don't know many people who have to replace their battery within three years.
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by nknight 15y ago
> I am sure you have heard of prorated battery warranties and are familiar with them, aren't you? I'm not. I've never heard of any such thing. Perhaps it is you being misleading?
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by nknight 15y ago
First of all, the warnings in the manual are anything but vague. Second, again you're proving the point. If EVs were the norm and suddenly internal combustion engines burst onto the scene, people would be breaking those because they're
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by nknight 15y ago
And plugging in the damned car is part of the daily routine of owning an EV. You're only making his point for him.
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by nknight 15y ago
Nah, the code for that is simple and generic in any sane language (and C# is reasonably sane). But I think the guy I was responding to is at least partly wrong, a quick grep through the repo he linked to shows they have everything necessary
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by nknight 15y ago
Well, first of all, he's not talking about a Microsoft-written library, he's just speaking generically of C#/.NET libraries written by others. But Redis's authentication is very simple in any case. There's a password. A password, one. Tha
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by nknight 15y ago
That may sort-of answer my question, but it presents another obvious one: Why haven't SUSE's optimizations been merged into mainline LibreOffice?
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by nknight 15y ago
Whaaa? Authentication is one simple command, sent upon connecting. Why on earth wouldn't they "support" that? It's not even a five minute task...

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