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by sgift 8y ago
The problem is certainly not the connection then. What's behind that Fiber? Pentium 60 Mhz? Works fine here - far less than gigabit fiber, FF Nightly.
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by sgift 8y ago
Mexico doesn't have free speech in practice: If you speak out against the wrong people you get killed by the cartels. Also, we don't know what the quality of life in China is, because ... you cannot talk about things which are cri
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by sgift 8y ago
The one about pointers being the same at runtime tripped me up too. At the end of the day we only have JMP at the assembly level, but we still are happy if we can use while, for and if.
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by sgift 8y ago
> Strangely, dealing with computers at this extremely basic level of stored instruction pointers, buffer overflows and assembly language actually let me gain the skills required to be an "actual programmer". There is nothing st
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by sgift 8y ago
Margins of fast food industry businesses are somewhere between 6 and 9% in the median. So ... I call bullshit on "have to raise"
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by sgift 8y ago
Should have told that the Tianhe-2, which uses Xeon Phis (aka Larabee 2013 and later) and was the fastest super computer for multiple years.
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by sgift 8y ago
Not really, no. Some parts of search (Internet) have been cornered/solved by big players (e.g. Google), but many other parts (e.g. search in Intranets) are still an open problem. No one has found a solution that's as simple as Pag
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by sgift 8y ago
First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics. - The Three Penny Opera, Bertolt Brecht Edit: Let's add a second one, which fits here - "You have to kill your neighbor to survive. It's selfishness that keeps a man alive."
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by sgift 8y ago
You make it sound as if good engineering practices somehow should guarantee no outages ever. Best practices are risk minimization, not risk elimination.
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by sgift 8y ago
> This is just pure contrarianism. Experts also say it's a bad idea not to have clean drinking water, reliable electricity, and seatbelts in cars. Difference: There's scientific evidence for the experts opinion in all these cas
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by sgift 8y ago
Because in the overwhelming number of cases there is a direct link. The count of people who decide that "enough is enough" is dwarfed by all the people suffering from mental illness that see no other way out, but could get help if
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by sgift 8y ago
And that's the reason PR exists. To translate text written by "knowledgeable person, who writes in not acceptable to everyone language" into "language acceptable to everyone". This also leads to no more direct conta
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by sgift 8y ago
I don't see him swearing at people. I see him swearing at the contribution - at least in this example. There are many instances of him swearing at people and I think he does himself and Linux in general a disservice, but that one? I fa
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by sgift 8y ago
Then go ahead and allow the companies to use your data. No one stops you. And leave the rest of us alone.
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by sgift 8y ago
> what is the most used engine today if not UE nor Unity? My answer was aimed at that part. But yeah, maybe we should define what "custom" is.
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by sgift 8y ago
> even though windows and my Wacom tablet do not play nice together. They don't? Whats the matter? (mine works great, but I'm not a heavy user so curious if it depends on the model or I just didn't run into it so far)
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by sgift 8y ago
Battlefield, CoD, AC, all the sports titles, GTA. More or less everything build by one of the big three uses their own in-house engine.
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by sgift 8y ago
In that post he says "we need a state" and states quite clearly why we need it. I was surprised. I expected another Stallman rant, but that was .. quite coherent and insightful for a change. One of his better articles.
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by sgift 8y ago
With that argument the Model 3s resale value should be "we give you 1000 Dollar extra if you take it from our hands. PLEASE?!"
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by sgift 8y ago
Yes. That's part of what makes that surgeon a professional - that they ignore their bias and do their job. If they cannot provide that standard of conduct they are unfit to be a surgeon.
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by sgift 8y ago
At the end of the day there will always be cases where one right stands against another and a society will have to decide which right is more important. Such decisions are shaping a society, not laws that say "you have right xy" w
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by sgift 8y ago
> If the job is something with such a steep learning curve and plateau (maybe due to periodic technical revolutions?) that someone with 20 years experience is only insignificantly better than someone with 5 years experience, economics wo
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by sgift 8y ago
The legislative term is "dominant market position", but that's too long, so everyone just uses monopoly, because it is far shorter and everyone can understand with a bit of thinking what is meant.
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by sgift 8y ago
There are various lower levels. It's "up to". Many of the things GDPR requires have been law in various parts of Europe for a long time (e.g. Germany), sometimes in all of Europe. But the fines were so low that most companies
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by sgift 8y ago
The UK implements GDPR like every other EU country. Maybe they roll it back when Brexit is done, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
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by sgift 8y ago
I'm not living in the States, so I have no idea about the situation there, but Germany has very save cities. I'm sure you are able to input crime statistics Germany in your search engine of choice, if you are curious.
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by sgift 8y ago
Yeah, I mind that. The solution is an effective police force. Maybe you've heard of it.
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by sgift 8y ago
Only in the dreams of some people where all of these were not massive problems before. Sure, more people may make some very small dent on these issues, but nothing remotely relevant. Despite all the fear-mongering there has not been a &quot
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by sgift 8y ago
Depends on what you want to see. If Netflix has it in your country in your language of choice: Netflix wins, else BitTorrent wins.
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by sgift 8y ago
As is calling them out for it (e.g. if they are not based in fact), which is all jacquesm does. That's also a "fundamental human right"

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