rab_oof

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by rab_oof 12y ago
Most living animals aren't usually bleeding because many predators are highly attuned to that smell, so kissing bugs, bed bugs, mosquitos and other parasites had to evolve other correlative signal receptors including IR, CO2, etc.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Interestingly, all life and "life" (virii, prions) serve the purpose of increasing entropy of the universe faster. But from an anthropocentric perspective, they're as useful as cancer.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Yup. It's important to have functioning code that mere mortals can understand most easily. Because the code represents system behavior and people need unambiguous conventions to reduce misunderstanding and prevent introduction of err
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Styleshedding: bikeshedding on programming language style and declaring only a particular one true way is the only "universal correct" answer. (The tech equivalent of the Islamic State (because Godwins Law is deprecated since Naz
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by rab_oof 12y ago
What evidence do you have? Excess gas is routinely burned off nearby oil derricks to this very day because it's not cost-effective to capture for resale.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Lifting up constants into defines/consts and DRYing up C code makes for shorter, less error-prone and easier-to-understand codebases. Eg there's no reason to continue writing code like it's 1960's because we can steal g
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by rab_oof 12y ago
The Rust and Go clones popping up as Show HN will predictably follow.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
There are several pipeline projects in the US and Middle East that are in flux, and this would be an opportune time to kill them.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
It's often burnt off because the quality / quantity / opportunity costs for capture and resale are often insufficiently compared to other extracted products.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
There's plenty of add'l howtos for cross bootstrapping Linux on the LFS site with everything step-by-step and with patches: Here's the PPC (might be big endian-mode): http://www.clfs.org/view/CLFS-3.0.0-S