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by nwallin 7y ago
This. Respect is a two way street. I have zero problems pirating content from companies who don't respect me. Refusing to pirate from shitty companies on ethical grounds is like refusing to switch from a shitty job to a better one ba
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by nwallin 7y ago
East Asian HTML and XML documents are typically smaller in utf8 than utf16 because the of the markup. (on mobile so u can't prove it right now. maybe when I get home tonight) utf16 is a bad default for almost everybody. The actual reas
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by nwallin 7y ago
This is about GDM, which is the last thing that gets started. Hardware devices are initialized before init is started, so you should still be able to gather entropy from the various input devices. Lack of entropy can't cause the kernel
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by nwallin 7y ago
This is why you're supposed to use getrandom() instead of /dev/random. It doesn't block on "low" entropy. What were you using that uses /dev/random?
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by nwallin 7y ago
They're fairly unstable. The trouble is that at the wingtips, if the wing twists up, aerodynamics forces tend to push it more up. So there's a positive feedback loop. Another problem is that if you yaw slightly, the yawed backward
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by nwallin 7y ago
When I was in fifth grade, we had lunch break, and a mid morning break. Other than that, we were in the same room all day. "Don't go to the bathroom" when you have a ten-ish year old bladder under those circumstances is a com
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by nwallin 7y ago
We have railroads. The three trips listed by the previous poster all include LAX. LA is surrounded by mountains. The train from LA to SF takes ten hours. The flight is one. California has been trying to build a high speed rail to connect LA
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Every regulation is a response to societal pain. This pain has been cutting in too deep for far too long. I feel like the societal pain and the regulatory response cycle in healthcare in the US is out of control. We have an itch, and w
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by nwallin 7y ago
Since there are only a small number of such chips, the emulator will also have a library of cartridges it supports. You emulate those chips the same as you would emulate the CPU or PPU. Sometimes it's easy: the add-on chip is just a re
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by nwallin 7y ago
Games are often CPU limited these days: updating game state from one frame to the next is one of the hard problems of modern game development. I don't think splitting the work between two consoles connected by such a slow link would wo
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by nwallin 7y ago
By and large, the US doesn't use physical checks for paying employees. (we use the word "paycheck" colloquially) It's required by (possibly state?) law that companies allow direct deposit if you so choose. But it's
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by nwallin 7y ago
> given that the parents are going to be the drivers of change in this situation I'd say it's reasonable. (Note: I shortened your quote, and the shortened bit does not give your intent. But it's the part I want to respond
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by nwallin 7y ago
> responsibly disclosed it, That's the problem here. The disclosure as represented by the author themself is decidedly not responsible.
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by nwallin 7y ago
The division case is optimized for size. The code for using a division instruction is smaller than the code for a shift followed by the magic to make it well behaved for negative integers. So it uses the division instruction. In general, al
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by nwallin 7y ago
The brains in almost all intelligent animals, from humans to crocodiles, evolved once. The most recent common ancestor of you and the average salamander had a brain that wasn't that much different than ours. It's not particularly
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by nwallin 7y ago
The cynic in me thinks they leaked names, addresses, and credit card numbers but not the CVV number. Without the CVV it's not technically possible to make charges, so it would not be a lie. I think it's been clear since Equifax th
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by nwallin 7y ago
The UK has different bankruptcy laws than the US. Once you declare bankruptcy, that's it: all your accounts are frozen, all your employees go home, the company's assets belong to the courts. It's similar to, but even worse th
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by nwallin 7y ago
> The question at hand is whether or not things have gone too far. I think it's fairly clear that it has, at this point. 1. Sexual assault is defined so broadly it's virtually impossible to legal have sex. "Can I hug you?&
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by nwallin 7y ago
Bedridges law of headlines: If the answer to a question posed in the headline of a news article is either "yes" or "no", the answer is "no". (paraphrased) I think the problem here is that this is ultimately lef
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by nwallin 7y ago
BBs are metallic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB_gun Airsoft is plastic. The goal is to shoot your friends with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft Regardless of BBs vs airsoft, the articl
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Square SQ 1.65% Inc. has lent $5 billion to small businesses and consumers and applied for a banking license. "Applied for a banking license". That application was rejected. Square doesn't have a banking license. Square
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by nwallin 7y ago
> but for most user-facing applications that tend to have complex object lifetimes, I just can't see why you'd want to deal with RIAA when modern GC's are so darn good. My day job is ~half c++ and ~half c#, and I couldn&#x
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by nwallin 7y ago
Can you elaborate on why Tricare and the VA aren't government run healthcare? I define government run healthcare as healthcare that is run by the government. The fact that it's poorly run is actually the point. Few Americans want
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by nwallin 7y ago
All of the people I know who are strongly opposed to government run healthcare are veterans. They are people who have spent 4-20 years of their life with government run healthcare. One guy I knew went to the doctor complaining about blood i
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by nwallin 7y ago
> The actual 'bug' was caused by an integer overflow occurring due to the velocity variable not being wide enough to handle the higher horizontal velocities of the newer rocket. This caused the rocket to go off course and requi
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by nwallin 7y ago
The software in the case of the 737 max performed exactly according to the spec. The problem is that the spec was buggy. The language can't fix a buggy spec. Note that the bug which caused the Ariane V disaster was written in Ada. And
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by nwallin 7y ago
Venezuela? Chavez took power fair and square in an election, and then turned it into a communist authoritarian dictatorship later. The modern revolution in Czechoslovakia turned out fairly free of violence, at it was not communist.
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by nwallin 7y ago
> You're blaming people who probably don't get to call the shots. I think he's blaming organizations, not engineers. I also think organizational dysfunction is a problem that isn't a technical problem that the Python
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by nwallin 7y ago
replacing sum 1..n with n\*(n-1): https://godbolt.org/z/nLV1vb
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by nwallin 7y ago
I did the same thing! But they didn't like it. So I wrote the naivest possible popcount and returned 1 == naive_bitcount(n). They didn't like that. I explained to them that the compiler will optimize or the loop so this will be fa

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