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by probablybanned 10y ago
Good points, but also consider the question of survivability in a world with increasingly sophisticated anti-aircraft threats. One F-35 might be inferior to four F-16s militarily speaking, and more expensive to boot, but are you willing to
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by probablybanned 10y ago
The iPhone 7 is obviously inferior to the 3GS. For one thing it's larger, which is ridiculous, I mean I thought the whole point was to make phones smaller. And, can you believe it, it doesn't even have a headphone jack! Obviously
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by probablybanned 10y ago
Supplemental: Listen to this and tell me how enthusiastic these "moderates" are about a democratic future for Syria. At this point you cannot convince me that they are anything but utopian Islamists who want to manipulate the Unit
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by probablybanned 10y ago
Sorry for the belated response. https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225 The "it's a big mess" excuse is just a fig leaf to cover the functional US policy in Syria, which has been to suppo
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by probablybanned 10y ago
Yeah absolutely, they're called negligent discharges for a reason and I wouldn't personally hesitate to buy a Glock. However, there is a distinction in that the essentially safetyless, essentially SAO trigger system is fundamental
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by probablybanned 10y ago
After over a hundred years of iteration on the semiautomatic combat pistol, the top tier offerings from the respected manufacturers are all equivalent and fit for purpose. They pass the stress tests. The various pistols I've owned from
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by probablybanned 10y ago
Yeah, instead of writing a small tool to solve your own problem quickly you ought to spend your time pushing this giant boulder up a hill. Good luck with that pitch!
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by probablybanned 10y ago
I would say the same things if they were merely pitching a fit about being on the losing side of a free and fair election! You've got one thing right, which is that not all of the outrage is feigned, and some peoples view of the world
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by probablybanned 10y ago
I'm not a nuclear engineer so I hesitate to shit up the thread with my armchair opinion, but I'm a big fan of small, low maintenance reactor designs like the Toshiba 4S. I feel like that's the way it ought to go: Away from la
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by probablybanned 10y ago
It depends on the definition of negligence, of course. Sometimes you take all appropriate precautions and still get screwed -- OK. We have a situation where companies are releasing products that every competent professional would recognize
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by probablybanned 10y ago
I already see your comment turning gray for daring to suggest a role for regulation here. Sorry people, if your company releases a negligently insecure IoT device into the world in any sort of quantity, you are a polluter.
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by probablybanned 10y ago
The latter set of annoyances are of course what Apple are intending to solve with the W1/AirPods -- intelligent switching between all iCloud devices without re-pairing. I personally favor Bluetooth headphones even with all the annoyanc
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by probablybanned 10y ago
This is sometimes the case, but the most popular cards on the market are indeed single chip ASIC solutions. Also, don't forget that small FPGAs like those from Lattice Semi are very cheap these days and find a lot of use specifically i
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by probablybanned 12y ago
Hey, I picked this username for a reason.
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by probablybanned 12y ago
Yeah, I would argue that both of those functions are re-entrant. The question is whether you can have two calls to is_not_reentrant executing concurrently without interfering with each other. So a typical example would have a non-reentrant
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by probablybanned 12y ago
That's a vacuous statement. She said "big" gaps. And I'm saying that she's making errors that no one with a background in CS (e.g. a degree) ought to make. I have no idea what your agenda is in lavishing all this un
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by probablybanned 12y ago
Really? Go take a look at the two code snippets in "The Reentrant Kernel." I can't tell what the salient difference is supposed to be between them, much less how they are meant to illustrate the concept of reentrancy. I mean,
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by probablybanned 12y ago
For me, AOT compilation is not about shipping binaries vs. source. The software I write is mostly used for internal research, so it's not going anywhere. It's difference between getting compilation errors from 'make' or
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by probablybanned 12y ago
I agree with you. I'll bet this is coming to OS X sooner rather than later, and people are largely missing its significance as a GPGPU programming environment. Despite Apple's best efforts, OpenCL uptake seems to be sluggish. CUDA