restalis

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by restalis 11y ago
People still go there to visit because it still is as much Lenin you can get!
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by restalis 12y ago
Although I believe your sentiment, I'm not sure on the other hand how much easier it appears to you with BE dumps. Reading data is perceived to be difficult when it shares little similarity with what we're already accustomed to. I
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by restalis 12y ago
Working with raw binary data, like having it represented as hexadecimal pairs per byte? That is an interpretation. Having some representation for each bit in the group is still an interpretation, regardless if you consider those bits indivi
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by restalis 12y ago
At reading, one may be indeed hit at first by the most significant digit ('8' in your last example) that is somewhat useful, but the reader can't easily figure out digit's order of magnitude without reading the entire nu
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by restalis 12y ago
This got me thinking if in general (outside computing) it was a good choice having numbers represented the way they are. What if we had 1234 read as "four thousand, three hundred and twenty one"? Or even more different than how we
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by restalis 12y ago
"Computers are good at reading bytes in swapped order. I suck at it." Byte endianess is about binary content, which isn't supposed to be read by humans. Humans read only interpretations of the binary data. You shouldn't
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by restalis 12y ago
"Why do I need that, I can just look at MSDN?" MSDN has all of it, everything that should be documented. It is easy to get lost, not knowing what and how much should be taken first. The value of a book in such case is to have its
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by restalis 12y ago
So, between Serbia and Croatia was proclaimed a new country speaking Czech!
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by restalis 12y ago
"What does an average «real engineer» C++ programmer have at their disposal?" Ways to do the job. C++ is not perfect, I contest some of its design decisions (like having private class members by default, and having to explicitly (
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by restalis 12y ago
"the complexity of C++ is troubling" This comes out of the fact that C++ is being developed more as an engineering tool than as a programming toy. When you're into real engineering, you don't have free lunch.
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by restalis 12y ago
I'm ambivalent about this. For one, like I've mentioned before¹, I'd like to have humanity in one piece, for as long as possible, and the genome meddling cuts dangerously close in this regard. For another, this is progress an
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by restalis 12y ago
45s from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpD_Sz_ZWPk&t=775 explains the most of it for a bureaucratic politician. The rules one make in society will tick (in the eye of the common folk) the balance for risk taking
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by restalis 12y ago
Switzerland is special in this regard. They did not had the ambition to profit from the all thing because well, they benefit from the very idea of impersonating a party that won't take advantage of one's finance in such a callous
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by restalis 12y ago
"If all countries were to exit Euro Zone, Euro would probably be echanged for 30-50% more than it's currently worth" This kind of things are easily solved by quantitative easing. You can always print more money in order to do
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by restalis 12y ago
"Why do you think it's been so widely adopted? Torvalds: I think that many others had been frustrated by all the same issues that made me hate SCM's" Actually, the adoption was caused by the network effect. It took off w
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by restalis 12y ago
Thiel views the area of self-driving cars as less regulated (next to biotech), but for some reason I think that to make it come true the challenge will be more than technical. The current state of affairs in the legal system is that there a
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by restalis 12y ago
"earning ~$1400 a day as a consultant disposing nuclear waste" "work for his lifetime more or less guaranteed" I don't want to sound sarcastic, but what kind of life span expectancy is implied in this kind of job?
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by restalis 12y ago
Thanks for suggestion. Although I (clearly) have my retentions about his theories, I've already (book)marked both the presentation for future reference and his other related works for future reading.
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by restalis 12y ago
I've watched this presentation. Unfortunately, I can't say I've found all of it enlightening or at least useful. For one thing, there were important omissions, like inventions/development in agriculture or communication
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by restalis 12y ago
The thing is, the plant agriculture, besides its main products also has byproducts. Let's say you grow corn. Besides the grains there is the rest of the plant that although consumes water to grow, does not have much use in the end but
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by restalis 12y ago
...oh, California, your "rainy days" have finally come? On a more serious note, if I remember correctly, there are technical solutions to precipitation control. Cloud seeding had been tried repeatedly and provided results (sometim
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by restalis 12y ago
"Suffering isn't the point (unless that's what you enjoy)" I don't think it was about suffering, as it was about how challenging it is. Think about other (non-gaming) experiences. The best are the challenging ones,
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by restalis 12y ago
"An Apple II was originally priced at $1300. Do computers now cost $13?" There is a hard limit in price set by a few things such as the cost of raw materials that go into any piece of tech, but other than that, you may consider th
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by restalis 12y ago
Unfortunately, cycling gets you sweated and crumpled, and that makes itself a non-starter for a lot of jobs, unless at the destination you have access to showers and a change of clothes. Cycling is however an option for many other mobility
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by restalis 12y ago
The alternative of car ownership is not necessarily the reliance on public transportation. Having no need for public transportation (in the context of parenting), like having close-by all that you'd need is even better than having a ca
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by restalis 12y ago
For places like San Diego (sprawled and in a climate without snow), in the worst case you can opt for a motorbike or a scooter. That will give you mobility and avoid some of the car's drawbacks. It would be better if you won't hav
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by restalis 12y ago
Thanks, I'll keep in mind, although I don't know how much will change for those like me (I was in a tourist-related activity having to crawl in tourist ghettos). I hope my next experience with Beijing taxis will be better.
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by restalis 12y ago
Millenial here. I have a kindergarten and a school (although I don't need it yet) in a walking distance. You may assume that that is a by-accident result, but it isn't! When it was the time to look a new place to stay in, having n
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by restalis 12y ago
I guess the car-sharing folks will choose the same kindergartens/schools and band together like they used to.
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by restalis 12y ago
"I'm completely carless in Beijing where ... taxis are ubiquitous." I don't know about you, but I had a bad experience when I've needed to use a taxi in Beijing! Taxis are ubiquitous, yes, but they won't take y

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