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by rdancer 11y ago
> C's stdlib, `math.h`, `string.h` are good but don't have string padding functions Of course they do; how would you align printouts otherwise? $ cat main.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { (vo
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by rdancer 11y ago
McCarthy was right, and the criticism based on his conjuring daemons that weren't there, as popular as it has been, is misguided. If anything, as the archives open after all these years, they show the Soviet threat and the extent of in
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by rdancer 11y ago
You cannot have 100% platform support of 100% quality 100% of the time. Compromise has to be made. If you're not making an explicit compromise by mercilessly cutting platform support, you're implicitly compromising schedule and qu
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by rdancer 11y ago
The e-books case. You cannot very well settle an FBI request or subpoena. http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-07/apple-...
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by rdancer 11y ago
Why that convoluted title? It's called, rather unambiguously, "sex". (That's a rhetorical question; I understand perfectly well why it is phrased like that.)
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by rdancer 11y ago
How about a service that would do my thinking and market research for me? Maybe even something that could gauge my aptitude and expertise? But I'd only pay £3.50 max, because I'm a cheapskate and don't like people.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Very constructive, I feel I learned something from you.
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by rdancer 11y ago
No later than Snowden.
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by rdancer 11y ago
If for every F35 they made three of each, with different capabilities, and ceremonially dumped the two without the desired capabilities out in the ocean, it would still be cheaper overall. Which is hopefully what Apple would do. It's n
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by rdancer 11y ago
It runs at hardware speeds, and only some of the time, so not really. You can perform timing attacks, and see if you're running under a modified hypervisor, for example. But if you have a sniffer chip on the PCI bus or Northbridge, you
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by rdancer 11y ago
No, this is post-9/11. It only started with the PATRIOT Act. I vividly remember the Clipper chip debates in Congress. This is that on steroids, with no disclosure what-so-ever. In the communist block, that was different, of course. But
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by rdancer 11y ago
> I doubt Apple would go so far as designing a low volume server processor for their datacenters. It is probably not cost effective. They have the luxury of having enough cash, and enough profitability, to do things that have negative RO
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by rdancer 11y ago
The Taylor series and Coolidge effect want to have a word with you.
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by rdancer 11y ago
That's the flyback transformer. It also means you're still young.
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by rdancer 11y ago
You know your latency is high when your mental model switches from vi(1) to ed(1).
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by rdancer 11y ago
To add some real-world numbers: The resale value has dropped about £100 per year for the entire line-up ever since launch. So if I can buy a second-hand used model at a price that I can currently afford, and re-sell it in a year's time
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by rdancer 11y ago
Why's your father's business not bankrupt then, and why are you pissing away a fortune and going into debt when you shouldn't? Add denial to the lot.
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by rdancer 11y ago
After 12 years of primary and secondary school, one would think they'd have gotten some, wouldn't one?
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by rdancer 11y ago
Your family is too proud for the business to declare bankruptcy and go through Chapter 11 debt restructuring? When you're looking to pay tens of thousands in tuition, it helps to have a smart accountant, and plan a few years ahead. Is
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by rdancer 11y ago
Vote in people who would change that. Or get out while you still can get exit visa.
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by rdancer 11y ago
The choice is to either (1) hold all three branches of the government accountable for enforcing the Constitution (or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights outside U.S.), or (2) let slide even further towards tyranny, or (3) there is no
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by rdancer 11y ago
You won't likely have the opportunity to ask the attacker either. This uncertainty is an inherent part of the problem.
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by rdancer 11y ago
The attacker is not going to keep the SHA256 hashes, but the whole of the original /boot. (Where, you're asking? Anywhere you forgot Ring 0 could store data, and a few places you never even knew about.) Subsequently, he will int
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by rdancer 11y ago
You're still missing the point. She may have gotten the job, but she didn't manage to get any love her new boss. When he got the new toy, he made sure the ID department told her to go pound sand. I sincerely hope he hasn'
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by rdancer 11y ago
You can determine whether the network is a Personal Hotspot heuristically. It is nice of them to have implemented private DHCP flags in Android, but if you routinely pull hundreds of megabytes without user interaction...
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by rdancer 11y ago
Except when you're abroad on roaming cellular charges, and your three laptops decided that since your iPhone's personal hotspot is WiFi, it's time to download today's ChromeOS image version, because the one you had dow
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by rdancer 11y ago
tl;dr: "Using GitHub as your [free-of-charge] CDN is not ideal, for anybody involved."
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by rdancer 11y ago
Do not redraw the whole display. Use termcap and ncurses to send terminal escapes. It's unplayable for me, probably because of latency. Good idea :-)
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by rdancer 11y ago
If you're wondering why you're getting downvoted: The figure of speech you're using is colloquially known as "no offence, but you're an arsehole"[0]. [0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph
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by rdancer 11y ago
They're not more interconnected than any other group of Silicon Valley people, are they? The title is offensive, and should be changed.

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