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by sorbits 9y ago
> As a shameless plug, I built a tool similar to Make and redo […] https://github.com/ejholmes/walk Your README’s example show `parse.h` as output from `Walkfile deps parse.o`, I think that is a mistake. As for y
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by sorbits 10y ago
According to [1] there was a system in 1968 that “consistently outperformed humans when presented with the same recognition tasks” . As someone who was into programming and electronics in the eighties, I also feel a need to object whenever
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by sorbits 10y ago
> If they continue to grow which seems to be the case, they will be break-even long before they run out of money What are you basing that on? The article says that in 2015 they had revenue of $95 million and lost $27 million. For the fir
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by sorbits 10y ago
Having bots fill out forms and write emails is optimistic, but Google already publish how to structure your (HTML) data to make it readable by their bots so that it can extract useful information for their knowledge graph. Ideally we would
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by sorbits 10y ago
Isn’t it more a problem of having algorithms do what used to be done by humans? I.e. when you look at a Google map it is using the latest GIS data to construct a “good” representation for your screen resolution using your specified zoom fac
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by sorbits 11y ago
There is an animation showing how it works on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rebqcsb61gY This confirms the “machine” is static in one corner of the building site, so it seems limited to non-reinforced builds. Thou
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by sorbits 11y ago
Denmark had a fatal accident a month ago involving a 80 year old man who got his head stuck. But beyond that episode, I know of no statistics. Article in Danish: http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/80-aarig-draebt-i-elevator-paa
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by sorbits 11y ago
I will get pull requests where later commits fix bugs introduced in former commits. I generally ask people to rewrite such PRs, as I’m not going to pull known buggy commits into master, even if they are followed by fixes. That is just noise
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by sorbits 11y ago
It’s about the same, as anyone would be able to read the generated password from the config database (since where to store it would still be hardcoded in the binary).
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by sorbits 11y ago
That’s how many public toilets work in China. Many of those I saw were pretty disgusting, and my travel companion reported that it also applied to the toilets for the opposite sex.
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by sorbits 11y ago
> Bonds are a volume game. You find an angle to make 0.2% and lever the hell out of it. This would only work if they are able to borrow money cheaper than the bond markets on which they are buying debt, which would put them in the busi
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by sorbits 11y ago
> They will never, ever do a deal that they aren't completely happy with There was an episode of This American Life about car dealerships that everyone here should really listen to [1]. In that episode they did close deals where t
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by sorbits 12y ago
I would also think the risk is pretty high. Unless you’re very careful, your phone (i.e. Apple) has your identity, so if you add stolen credit cards to Apple Pay, and those cards are flagged as stolen, it should be possible to figure out wh
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by sorbits 12y ago
Negativity bias is how a negative event is more impactful than a positive one, but turning down a job is not a negative event. It may later seem like it was a loss, so some form of retrospective loss aversion might be more appropriate to ap
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by sorbits 12y ago
> I've never heard of this happening in any Linux distribution. Can you be more specific? Not the OP but I run a personal server for mail etc., and I do remember one LTS → LTS upgrade of Ubuntu that removed the DKIM milter that my
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by sorbits 12y ago
Surely it would be useful with more than one year. In addition to the core framework there are lots of modules to make your life easier (payment integration, multi-user system with admin dashboard, creating PDF invoices, HTML emails, etc.).
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by sorbits 12y ago
> there appears to be considerable time worrying about the technicalities of the scheduler […] whether this really implies linear time bound. IMHO these are not worth worrying about But it is not linear time, we shouldn’t let the exist
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by sorbits 12y ago
I am quite sure (based on interviews I’ve read) that Alexander Stepanov’s primary concern was having a data structure with known (fixed) complexity rather than a sorted container. The latter is just a nice side-effect.
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by sorbits 12y ago
> C++ programmers don't like non-zero-cost abstractions I think you’re confusing zero cost with zero overhead. What C++ programmers like is that the compiler does not add overhead, for example calling `a[10]` will read the word at
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by sorbits 12y ago
And the “modern” reimplementation of make is ninja: http://martine.github.io/ninja/
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by sorbits 12y ago
> The most likely culprit is processed food […] Processed food alone does not seem to explain all data (though you do mention “plastics contain hormone-like chemicals” ): - Mammals that live near or with humans, from lab rats to pet p
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by sorbits 12y ago
> A much more interesting observation would have been to note that you could accomplish the same thing by introducing a new language construct that explicitly noted that the order of two calls doesn't matter This would be the case
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by sorbits 12y ago
Then we are not talking about an image format but instead a network protocol. Inventing a new protocol if the problem can be solved by serving the proper markup, seems misguided.
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by sorbits 12y ago
That would add unnecessary data overhead as clients would get image data they may not need, e.g. a low-resolution device would not want a high-DPI version of all images on the site.
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by sorbits 12y ago
On OS X switching from 32 to 64 bit also means no longer being able to use many Carbon APIs. I would imagine that cross platform software is more likely to use the Carbon APIs because they are procedural and often a bit more low-level than
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by sorbits 12y ago
Do you have a source for that? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule "The exception [that] proves the rule" means that the presence of an exception applying to a specific case esta
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by sorbits 12y ago
> […] with a very few exceptions (that probably prove the rule) Off topic and pedantic but exceptions do not prove rules. A specific exception like “you are allowed to do X when Y is true” may be used as proof of an (unwritten) rule ab
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by sorbits 12y ago
> […] reason you do double entry: error detection This is a misconception and if you think about it, it doesn’t make a lot of sense since the two records are generally generated by a system that gets a single value from the user, so it
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by sorbits 12y ago
Would be more awesome if they offered free certificates and an API to renew them. Right now enabling https is not a one-time investment, since a new certificate has to be requested and installed each time the old one expires. Computers are
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by sorbits 12y ago
It’s worth mentioning that a company owner who saves up money in their company (and thus pays only the corporate tax rate) will have to pay capital gains tax if they later withdraw money from the company. IMHO a company should generally not

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