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by oofabz 12y ago
This position taken by Chomsky is exactly what the article is denouncing, and I think Chomsky comes off as a smug jerk here. If Chomsky believes cheering for your classmates is stupid, then he must believe that we should be perfectly object
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by oofabz 12y ago
The security community has a long history of releasing flaws publicly. Take this recent libc gettimeofday() exploit, for example. I administer some servers and I am glad that I was alerted to the problem so I could address it. If that infor
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by oofabz 12y ago
He has the solution to his own problem. He just needs to use the unsafe array. People have been writing quality games for decades using unmanaged memory access. It is not some ticking time bomb that will inevitably blow up your app. It just
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by oofabz 12y ago
The problems she had were entirely due to her inexperience, not to any UEFI design flaw. And despite not understanding her tools, she was able to set up dual booting anyway. I'm counting this as a UEFI success story.
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by oofabz 12y ago
After reading this list, I'm still satisfied giving it to the Altair. The only bad thing the article has to say about the Altair is that it was linked to Microsoft. Well, Microsoft had a lot to do with the early history of the personal
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by oofabz 12y ago
I don't believe we have failed. We have simply not yet succeeded. It's not like things used to be great, and then got screwed up. The tools and libraries we have now are so much better than they were ten years ago, and infinitely
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by oofabz 12y ago
Storing HDR images, where the brightest parts are greater than 1.0. That way, when you later edit the image and adjust the levels, new detail comes into view. OpenEXR is the best we have for this now. It uses half-precision 16-bit floating
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by oofabz 12y ago
>Updates that deleted non-Apple music files were intended to protect consumers from those system break-ins. How convenient that Apple chose a security solution that just happened to give them an unfair advantage over their competition. Q
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by oofabz 12y ago
KDE looks more like Mac or Windows than Gnome 3 does. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I like Gnome 3. But KDE doesn't look particularly alien to me; it looks like a normal, boring PC desktop.
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by oofabz 12y ago
I bet you could handle refraction by tracking the target optically, using a camera of the same wavelength as the laser light. The refraction would be the same in both directions.
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by oofabz 12y ago
I don't believe Blake is the owner of the 400 sites they took down.
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by oofabz 12y ago
Was anyone charged with a crime? It disturbs me that the FBI has free rein to seize people's property without even giving them their day in court. The Fourth Amendment says "nor shall any person [...] be deprived of life, liberty,
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by oofabz 12y ago
And if there were no licenses, we wouldn't have this troubling situation where the licenses are secret.
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by oofabz 12y ago
The tilde (~) is also invalid in a URL according to the RFC, but that doesn't stop everyone for using it for user names. I doubt your browser will escape that one either.
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by oofabz 12y ago
I'll try. This is a constant-current power supply, so the voltage depends on the resistance of the load. The LED on the left is the load. The circuit does not work well and I do not advise building it. It had extremely noisy output and
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by oofabz 12y ago
There are circuits that can survive high voltages, but they are rare. You can buy power transistors (BJTs) which can handle 400V (VCE). The base can't take high voltages but it's simple to protect with a resistor. Here is a power
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by oofabz 12y ago
Why does it need separate parity formulas? It would be easier to put the same simple xor in both parity blocks.
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by oofabz 12y ago
The USA spends more on health care than socialized healthcare countries do. Therefore, socialized healthcare systems have less money, and money is an important resource.
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by oofabz 12y ago
> Blosc comes with a pre-filter (also called pre-conditioner) called shuffle which rearranges bytes in a clever way for the compression stage. This sounds like the Burrows-Wheeler transform, which bzip2 uses: https://en.wikipe
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by oofabz 12y ago
Centrally planned economies operate on that assumption, that deduplication of effort will lead to efficiency. However, capitalist economies are more efficient, even though millions of people all have to make their own decisions.
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by oofabz 12y ago
There is not much correlation between the graph of crime rates in the article and this graph of marijuana usage: http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2k11Results/NSDUHresults201...
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by oofabz 12y ago
I use RAID-Z, a feature of ZFS. It works great.
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by oofabz 12y ago
But it drops your political capital to zero because now you're the new guy.
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by oofabz 12y ago
Are you sure he's not Japanese? I've never seen any evidence of his location. He is fluent in written English, but that doesn't really narrow it down.
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by oofabz 12y ago
It's legal to sell guns, muscle cars, whiskey, swords, hydrochloric acid, and fireworks. But magnets? Someone might get hurt!
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by oofabz 12y ago
Wide bandgap transistors have two relevant advantages: they work at higher temperatures, so you need less cooling; and they can switch higher voltages, so you don't need a bulky transformer. The only downside is, they are more expensiv
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by oofabz 12y ago
Fortran is fast because it has implicit "restrict". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrict
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by oofabz 12y ago
This is how I got my first programming job. I spent two days writing a simple project with the employer's technology of choice and they were impressed. Demonstrating that you can get something done puts you ahead of most other candidat
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by oofabz 12y ago
It sounds like the leap seconds all have the same sign. If corrections are always being applied in the same direction, that implies a second is not as close to 1/86400 of a solar day as it could be. Maybe we should redefine the second.
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by oofabz 12y ago
INT_MIN / -1 works fine for me on amd64 with gcc 4.9. It produces INT_MIN, just as you would expect. INT_MIN * -1 is also INT_MIN. #include <limits.h> #include <stdio.h> void main(void) { int x = INT_MI

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