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by readams 11y ago
The C++ standards committee and community has really been firing on all cylinders lately. C++ has made such enormous strides in the last few years. If you've been away from C++ for a while, check out modern C++ again. You'll be
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by readams 11y ago
It's been done: http://www.shutdownify.com/
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by readams 11y ago
There are few routes more prone to vast error than extrapolating exponential growth far into the future. It may well be the case that electric cars will prove a vastly important technology, but I can't help but laugh at the graph extr
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by readams 11y ago
The FPS is obtained by seeing how much GPU time was spent on a frame. They're not actually going to refresh the image on screen that fast. Higher FPS means that the GPU is not being taxed and more complex rendering is possible, or yo
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by readams 11y ago
That actually doesn't work, as there's a long history of people hiding batteries in their fake overunity devices. You can also have devices that might have other forms of stored energy that might be slowly depleted, such as mecha
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by readams 11y ago
Note that the "replication" seems to have been done by an organization that had set out specifically to produce this result and not by any sort of reputable scientists or lab. The announcement here is on the web site of a pro-E-c
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by readams 11y ago
Yes you can use exceptions to handle errors in the constructor, but you can just as easily do: guard x(); if (!x) { // an error occurred return x.error_code(); } x->do_stuff(); You don
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by readams 11y ago
I've never heard the claim that RAII requires exceptions, and the article seems to do nothing to justify why anyone would think that. The opposite is true in that RAII makes handling exceptions correctly far easier than it would other
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by readams 11y ago
Luckily there's also the git manpage generator for helpful documentation: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ (to be clear, this will randomly generate a nonsense fake git man page, but it's hard to disti
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by readams 11y ago
I just about died when I saw "banana for scale" on the photo near the bottom.
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by readams 11y ago
Unlocking the phone isn't the same as decrypting it. The article merely states that Apple extracted unencrypted content from a locked phone. In this case, the content is encrypted.
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by readams 11y ago
This is falling prey to the naturalistic fallacy, which is the belief that because something is "natural" that is is therefore the best. Cooking food, for example makes it much easier to digest and more nutrient rich, but is cook
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by readams 11y ago
The lawsuits are discrimination lawsuits. Candidates will allege racial, gender, or age discrimination. If you given them any sort of justification, plaintiff's council will go searching through your organization for anyone who works
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by readams 11y ago
Try changing the app that launches when you press play/pause on the Mac keyboard. Go ahead. I'll wait.
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by readams 11y ago
You can change jobs but it requires going through a bureaucratic obstacle, and if you ever find yourself without a job temporarily, you'd better find a new one _very_ fast or you're deported. Worse, switching jobs can make it a l
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by readams 11y ago
Bernie might want to repeal TPP, but he'd do that because he's against trade. The EFF is against some of the riders attached to TPP especially around intellectual property and digital rights management. No current candidate has
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by readams 11y ago
One of the things that seems to really fall flat is the claim claim that the security is bad for unikernels. The comparison point though is not a traditional OS running in a hypervisor but a container running on the host OS. In that compa
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by readams 11y ago
There will always be a shortage of below-market-rate housing by definition. If there were enough of it, it would be market rate.
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Sling CEO: Comcast data caps so low they hurt competing video providers(arstechnica.com)
15 points by readams 11y ago|1 comments
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by readams 11y ago
His eyes can see His ears can hear his lips speak All the time the needles flick and rock. No machine can give the kind of stimulation, Needed to remove his inner block.
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by readams 11y ago
I just meant that if they do the obvious thing and load every ninth slot as a blank, customers will know when it's safe to buy by watching other customers. Nobody would want to be the first!
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by readams 11y ago
I love the idea of the blanks in the machine! It's an impressively awful idea. The problem of enraging your customers is obvious of course, but an even bigger issue would be if people could predict when the blanks would appear. They&
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by readams 11y ago
What is the advantage of targeting go for a new language project? Could you explain about why this made sense for your project?
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by readams 11y ago
You're presenting a false dichotomy. It's entirely possible to believe that large-scale farming should be made more sustainable without believing that local, small-scale farming is an improvement. You're also assuming that l
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by readams 11y ago
This makes no sense. The whole point is to find a model for feeding 7 billion people that preserves the environment. Local and organic do _more_ damage to the environment than producing the same equivalent amount of food industrially. Th
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by readams 11y ago
What is the yield from your agriforest? Will your forests feed 7 billion people? Of course not. It's perfectly fine to desire luxury goods like local or heirloom varieties when you buy your food. But you are trying to propose a mode
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by readams 11y ago
This is a perfectly valid decision! But you recognize that your local, fresh, in-season food is more expensive to produce and more expensive to consume, but quite possibly with higher quality. This is a luxury consumer good. There's
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by readams 11y ago
To produce the same amount of food will require more total resources, including land area, energy, and environmental damage. Your small-scale organic farm-produced product is a luxury good, with luxury inputs.
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by readams 11y ago
Many enjoy locally produced food and desire the freshness or access to heirloom varieties. But it's important to recognize that this isn't an environmentally friendly or especially sustainable pattern of consumption. Indeed these
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by readams 11y ago
The article seems to make a lot of very dubious claims about Java. Especially when they started this project, Java performance was much better than go (Those double-digit second GC pauses weren't a concern with go?), and the Java garb

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