paulrpotts

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by paulrpotts 7y ago
How about an editorial on how the insufferably smug NYT writers harm the 99% who are just trying to keep themselves and their families housed, fed, and healthy?
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Reading the details, it _sounds_ like the court ruled on fairly narrow grounds - that is, that the claim for compensation under "eminent domain" isn't applicable to this situation. This doesn't _necessarily_ mean that th
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Izotope RX can do a pretty credible job of this, although it depends a lot on the source file. This is a commercial product, though, so I'm not sure if it is what you are looking for. https://ask.audio/articles/iso
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
I write this with all due respect to the poster: what the fuck?
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
I'm not sure if you've ever tried using Chromebooks with your kids, but I have... and a lot of schools try it. They don't last long. I currently have four Chromebooks, and after a few months of use, only one of them is in ful
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
There have been a couple of years where I worked several different out-of-state contract gigs, and a couple of years where I received unemployment due to me from an out-of-state employer. I was not trying to do anything monstrously complica
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
I've been programming in C and C++ for a long time and so I got the answer to the quiz right. This kind of looseness in the language definition is why embedded programmers learn to stick to the fixed-size integer types, like uint8_t, i
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Finally getting around to watching Downton Abbey while I walk on the treadmill.
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
I think this is good and wise commentary. I've met RMS and while I do admire his work, there is no denying that in inter-personal matters, he is a repulsive troll. I've sat in an audience and watched in disbelief as he rambled on
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
No, not everyone owns smart TVs. I looked long and hard to find the best option for a dumb TV without Wi-Fi, without Alexa, without Siri, without any of that, because I don't actually want to stream anything to it and I don't want
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
>$183.75 I'm good, thanks.
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Some early compilers such as THINK C for the Mac weren't very strict about typing when taking the address of an object. So for example you could do: unsigned int x; unsigned int * x_addr = &x; unsigned int x_addr_addr = &(&a
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Hmmm... I would not prefer using "and" and "or" because that syntactic sugar obscures whether the bitwise or logical operations are intended. You get really used to reading && and || as "and" and "
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Wow, I'd like to read the study. That really doesn't match up with my experiences reading and re-reading... at all. I usually get much more detail out of a text the second time, and some books (especially some fiction) rewards rea
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
You had _me_ until you claimed this was a "good deterrent." $5 billion is a bit over ten percent of 2018 revenue. It's not enough to keep anyone up at night or, more importantly, convince them to do anything substantive _at a
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Sure - they are called stack-based or concatenative languages (although they don't actually have to use stacks for implementation): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack-oriented_programming The historically interes
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Oh, FFS. It's not the damned screens. Software engineers need screen real estate. This will be used by managers to refuse to provide them with enough pixels to avoid constantly juggling their windows. This really should be titled &quot
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
I have semi-automated the process of creating XML files for podcast episodes and tagging the MP3 files for upload. I'm using BBEdit and bash on MacOS X to do both; I have a "worksheet" which is like the old Macintosh Programm
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
Interesting stuff, thanks. I am a big fan of Henry S. Warren's book _Hacker's Delight, 2nd ed._ and have used his algorithms several times - for example, when I need a 64-bit divide operation on a 32-bit microcontroller with singl
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
TL;DR/spoiler: it's kelp
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
The title is highly misleading. They've run a new model suggesting a likely area of ocean to investigate, apparently "from 33 to 17 degrees south latitude along the arc of the last satellite to contact the downed plane." Whic
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
No, but they _do_ have to do with giving money to Lenovo, a company which has shown they don't deserve your money.
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by paulrpotts 7y ago
I think this is the most likely - you "post" items on a bulletin board. I remember both the blizzard of 1978 and bulletin boards :)
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by paulrpotts 8y ago
"% i" might(???) be interpreted as "print a decimal number without including the sign," where "% I" is (I think?) not a valid format string. This is pretty speculative though. And it still doesn't make a l
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by paulrpotts 8y ago
I've been using Macs since 1985 and programming them, too. I work with Windows and Linux as well, but Macs have often been my "daily driver" - my first was an SE, I had a PowerBook Duo, and then a Titanium PowerBook G4, and t
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by paulrpotts 8y ago
Wow. I'm guessing the parsing of the .xml feed file is badly broken? If the string was getting passed somehow as the first argument to something like sprintf(), I could see a crash happening, but the first argument should be a fixed fo
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by paulrpotts 8y ago
I have the 43UD79-B. I just bought it a few weeks ago and I have it on a Gator "Quadpod" floor stand with an air piston for lift assist . My idea was to use it in an open space basement to watch movies (a mix of DVD, Blu-ray, and
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by paulrpotts 8y ago
In case you don't know, this all started with ELIZA, so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA You might follow that into background of other "chatterbots" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by paulrpotts 8y ago
Hard to say... I'm not sure that you can get 64GB PC4-21300 sticks anywhere else at the moment.
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by paulrpotts 8y ago
You can get a 128GB from OWC for $1679. I have used their RAM sticks for my old Mac Pro not once but twice (as prices came down) and they work great, and they will give you a credit for RAM you send back to them. That's not 256GB but i

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