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811.
by qb45 10y ago
> Now that almost works, except the `git branch; git checkout` flow is not the proper way to push changes in the working directory to the new branch. (The context of the conversation was stuff that was already being developed, presumably
812.
by qb45 10y ago
> I could be totally wrong, I don't read a huge number of CS research papers, but aren't most published CS papers fully self-contained? They contain the algorithms or ideas within them. Perhaps in pseudocode, but fully reproduc
813.
by qb45 10y ago
Agile principles vary from place to place. Some I have seen: * We hold daily meetings because we are agile * We don't think about the future because requirements may possibly change * We don't make detailed implementation designs
814.
by qb45 10y ago
There is actually a thing called ion thrusters, which use propellant only as reactive mass and consume electricity for energy, but they are too weak for use in Earth-launched rockets.
815.
by qb45 10y ago
> It just caters to the demands of novelty-seeking users Not even sure if users or just developers and website owners. As in - oh man, that looks so cool, let's do that!
816.
by qb45 10y ago
> I haven't used virus scan on my main desktop for over 10 years because I don't click on weird emails and I don't go to sketchy websites ever. Haha, I used to be like that as a teen in Windows 9x era until one day I ran t
817.
by qb45 10y ago
As opposed to disabling the knockoffs and genuine chips. Sorry for the confusion. I noticed that English speakers place "only" before the verb in such sentences and I'm monkeying them even though it doesn't make sense
818.
by qb45 10y ago
Welcome to the Internet and let me be your guide: http://www.bing.com/search?q=sarcasm I sincerely wish that the post you linked was sarcastic as well, but it was probably serious which makes the (former) QBasic programmer
819.
by qb45 10y ago
0x378 is probably routed to the onboard LPT by the BIOS. However, I wouldn't be surprised if those PCI cards used the same IO port protocol, only at some different address assigned in the standard way with PCI BARs.
820.
by qb45 10y ago
Two issues you are completely ignoring are "barrier to entry" and "PITA factor". I can control a bunch of LPT-attached LEDs with two lines of shell script or bitbang SPI/1W/whatever with a screenful of C. No re
821.
by qb45 10y ago
> USB-to-parallel module Those have awful latency so bitbanging is less efficient. > FTDI now has a track record of punishing their legit customers for the existence of knockoff chips. At least they only bricked the knockoffs. Prolifi
822.
by qb45 11y ago
> I wish there was during my teens (in the nineties) an option at school to learn programming. That was in France and I don't think it has changed since then. That's funny, because I learned programming basics (and was self-tau
823.
by qb45 11y ago
Not sure if humor or legitimate vengeance. In a group it's important to punish individuals infringing on your sense of entitlement ;) Anyway, it's impressive that the bird managed to connect so many dots correctly and creatively p
824.
by qb45 11y ago
Yeah, I was looking for information on pre-industrial deforestation and found that too. Apparently, deforestation was also a problem in the vicinity of some ancient cities.
825.
by qb45 11y ago
> there was no debate about feminism. Women were expected to work There is something to it. In the soviet era, those three girls would have been praised for their success and presented as a proof that the world (or at least the commie wo
826.
by qb45 11y ago
Heh, I'm officially dumb. I knew that something was fishy when the news reported more lead being recovered than gold and tin combined but I dismissed this feeling. Stupid, stupid, stupid and naive :)
827.
by qb45 11y ago
But then you become a slave of those pesky humans and their whims, while trees grow freely in forests where they didn't face much danger from humans before the industrial revolution.
828.
by qb45 11y ago
The meaning to you or the meaning to the ancient? If the latter, I'm not sure if people back then were so megalomaniac to consider being useful to humans as an advantage. The world was much less developed before steam engines gave us c
829.
by qb45 11y ago
Maybe the bots would develop some curious interests if training progress required sexual interactions with humans and there was brutal competition between bots ;)
830.
by qb45 11y ago
Those pictures look lame because the algo is trying much too hard. Is there some way to locate areas most suitable for "enhancement" and process only those?
831.
by qb45 11y ago
Oh, OK. I was imagining something like that happening more recently and couldn't quite believe it.
832.
by qb45 11y ago
WTF? Who did that and when?
833.
by qb45 11y ago
I think flags shouldn't work after submission's score gets past some threshold. Real flagworthy crap doesn't receive hundreds of votes.
834.
by qb45 11y ago
> lie to herself whilst making sure to never ask again. How is this a good thing? It just confuses people.
835.
by qb45 11y ago
The exact paragraph you quoted from section on "sexual harassment" is copy-pasted from section on "sex-based discrimination". And it's not law, but some guidance/advice/faq/whatever. You are overinter
836.
by qb45 11y ago
Not the gov but you. The paragraph you quoted says "harassment doesn't have to be of sexual nature" and you are using it to support the claim that "sexual harassment doesn't have to be of sexual nature".
837.
by qb45 11y ago
For some people religion is all they have ever known. You won't find them on any other "ground".
838.
by qb45 11y ago
ATS claims to support memory safe functional programming without GC. I never used this language, though. IIRC the idea is that allocating memory or writing something through a pointer returns a magic "cookie" value which certifies
839.
by qb45 11y ago
Echo chamber tourism isn't just sitting in yours and waiting for others to come.
840.
by qb45 11y ago
Sometimes it might be beneficial to hear voices from outside your local echo chamber ;) For one, I like reading about "weird" stuff, in reasonable quantities.

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