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by slavik81 5y ago
Professional associations are from different from unions. The stated reason for the existence of a professional association is the protection of the public. Unions, on the other hand, exist for the benefit of their members.
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by slavik81 5y ago
RFC 1951 (NTP) was published in 1988 and refers to 56k modems. Does a 56k modem operate at 57344 bits per second or 56000 bits per second? Your claim implies the former, but I'm pretty sure it was always the latter. > a byte isn’t 1
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by slavik81 5y ago
> Every GB of data uses 5 kWh [in 2021] That should say 2012.
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by slavik81 5y ago
Python 3 IO isn't UTF-8. The entire point of the change was to support _arbitrary_ encodings (most of which are legacy code pages). Python would sometimes guess the output encoding on Windows to be ASCII even when UTF-8 was supported b
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by slavik81 5y ago
"The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed." ~ William Gibson
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by slavik81 5y ago
The remote access feature was disabled by default. For many people, the only reason it was accessing the internet was so it could get security updates.
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by slavik81 5y ago
I'm a big fan of Scott Meyer's Effective C++ . It's a little dated now, but it was the most valuable book I'd ever read on the language. Louis Brandy's Curiously Recurring Bugs at Facebook presentation from CppCo
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by slavik81 5y ago
This is known as "the most vexing parse". In 99.9% of cases, it's just a surprising compiler error message that you learn to avoid. However, there's a related version of this problem which can lead to accidentally declar
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by slavik81 5y ago
> You can rip off a chunk of an object by accident... and nothing happens whatsoever. There's no warning from the compiler. Slicing is a bad name for this phenomenon, because what you've described is what the name implies, but
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by slavik81 5y ago
A basic form of low-speed self-driving would be automated valet parking. Drop people off or pick them up at the entrance, then go park far away. If there was a common communication standard, the vehicles could also park much more tightly th
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by slavik81 5y ago
Quite possibly. The classic nuclear weapons did their damage mostly through heat and pressure. They were relatively ineffective against troops in armoured vehicles, which is why alternatives like the neutron bomb were developed. That said,
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by slavik81 5y ago
Unfortunately, Blender not very good at caustics. In theory, any path tracer can do them, but in practice, the sampling needs to prioritize caustic-generating regions to be even remotely efficient. There might be add-ons that help, but vani
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by slavik81 5y ago
This is the definition of UBI (from Wikipedia): > Universal basic income (UBI), also called unconditional basic income [...] is a sociopolitical financial transfer concept in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a l
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by slavik81 5y ago
If you recognize your doppelganger, it's probably because you have an interest in the same topics. Your opinions and your posting style may be different—or even opposite—but from a certain perspective, you have more in common with each
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by slavik81 5y ago
I remember reading newspapers as a kid which were so excited by how Time Warner was modernizing by acquiring AOL. Meanwhile, I was twelve years old and sitting there thinking, "AOL is a dinosaur, too." I wouldn't have bought
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by slavik81 5y ago
https://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-6... I don't see any loops, but there are a number of branches. The code could probably be generalized using loops to support arbitrary pre
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by slavik81 5y ago
> the stack frame size is reserved once for all stack allocated variables when the function is called Is there somewhere that's documented for LLVM? That's my expectation of what the final compiler output should be, but I read
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by slavik81 5y ago
I enjoyed his computer graphics course so much that I did a master's under his supervision.
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by slavik81 5y ago
Mario Kart: Double Dash was actually a lot of fun with two players in a kart. A friend of mine who couldn't steer to save his life took over the weapons while I focused on driving. The best part is that the second player could make the
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by slavik81 5y ago
Either "Making JavaScript startup fast on WebAssembly" or "Making JavaScript fast to startup on WebAssembly".
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I was born and raised in Alberta, and this is the first I've heard of mental illness. Louis Riel was described as a hero of the Metis in our Social Studies classes. The course material didn't pick a side for the Red River Rebellio
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by slavik81 5y ago
I really wanted to use Conan, but the deal-breaker for me was discovering that Conan can only create one CMake target for a package, and that it must be called 'packagename::packagename'. Conan's packages could never work lik
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by slavik81 5y ago
I created myusername@hotmail.com in 1999, then immediately lost the password. I couldn't recover my account or use the same name again, so I created myusername_@hotmail.com. In the twenty-two years that have followed, the only website
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by slavik81 5y ago
Civil penalties may be more palatable. If organizations are willing and able to pay a ransom, there should be no problem with paying a fine as well.
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> However, relatively few American citizens abroad choose to renounce their citizenship because they find it useful to retain it. Also because the US government will not allow you to renounce your citizenship if you are doing so for tax
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There have been jetpacks for decades, but historically, landing softly was difficult. Lots of broken legs. They had limited flight time and many injuries.
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It does matter if he meant to or not, because if he chooses randomly from the remaining doors, the probability of him revealing a goat depends on whether you have already chosen the car. Whereas if you know he could only ever reveal a goat,
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It matters whether they choose the door because it has a goat vs. they randomly choose a door that happens to have a goat. It's not explicitly saying the former even when stating the result, because everything is written as a certainty
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by slavik81 5y ago
It might help to have a contrasting example to clarify the key details. Let's say we buy four scratch-off tickets. The clerk selling the tickets assures us that one of the four is a winner. You choose two tickets, and I take the remain
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> I would rather ask, why did C++ add another reference type next to pointers References were added so users could create types that look and feel like the built-in types. You need references to implement operator[] for std::vector or st

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