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by souprock 6y ago
Defunding means that they have to rely more on civil asset forfeiture. This is probably not the result you intended.
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by souprock 6y ago
One of my kids learned at age 17, when he realized that adulthood was bearing down on him. Suddenly, the need for employable skills became much more real. Before that, it was a sort of far-off theoretical thing that didn't really count
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by souprock 6y ago
Yes, "as long as there aren't variable names that are too similar to one another"... It isn't safe to trust that to be true. That way lies bugs, including security holes. You have to carefully check the names. EthAccHdlr
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by souprock 6y ago
Then there was the day I wrote a function that started off like this: char *fn(char **foo, char ***bar){ char *baz = *++*foo ? *foo : *++*bar; Double-pointers are just normal. The strtol function has one.
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by souprock 6y ago
It's 100% acceptable. You should not remove something from a list unless you know it is there. Since you won't attempt to remove something that doesn't exist, any code to check for that situation is an unjustified performance
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by souprock 6y ago
Assign pseudonyms to the kids. Hans Pfeil --> Lo Wang Consider also: tor browser, other VPN, blocking connections from browsers not in private mode, browser in VirtualBox, etc.
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by souprock 6y ago
Individual liberty is not so great for a kid who likes games and useless videos more than doing homework. Somewhere around 1% of the kids can be responsible. Letting the rest go feral isn't proper parenting or school administration.
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by souprock 6y ago
1. I used to have a huge glass of Mountain Dew with most meals. I created a new habit, singing a little tune as I had the drink: "Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew, it's the drink that's bad for you." It also helped to think ab
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by souprock 6y ago
We have the idea of "innocent until proven guilty". So a crash is an accident until you can show that it was done on purpose.
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by souprock 6y ago
That isn't counting Florida, where the standard is concrete block. It seems to be about 90% concrete block, 5% wood, and 5% solid poured concrete. Concrete resists termites, fire, and rot. The better houses have metal roofs. See https
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by souprock 6y ago
I think it's reasonable to ask if the people are the same. Who has moved into or out of Colorado? I've heard that initially, large numbers of marijuana users moved to Colorado. They may have different average behavior than the pre
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by souprock 6y ago
For medical use only, it is already legal at the federal level. The generic name is Dronabinol. It is marketed as Marinol and Syndros. Demanding brownies and joints for "medical use" is just straight up dishonest. You'll noti
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by souprock 6y ago
Years of having a mostly-unenforced law on the books have been devastating for the idea that we are a nation of laws. Every law needs to be consistently enforced or thrown away.
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by souprock 6y ago
Well, maybe we shouldn't have 2/3 of the population attempt college, and maybe we shouldn't let every warm body with a pulse graduate from high school. Truth is that English classes in high school are also often a load of hot
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by souprock 6y ago
joe - Joe's Own Editor Keystrokes are like WordStar and Borland Turbo Pascal. Instead of the hidden cut-and-paste or copy-and-paste buffer, it gets highlighted where it stands, right there in the document. You don't need Esc, Alt,
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by souprock 6y ago
Lucky you. English classes are normally a load of hot garbage. Concise writing would earn an F. That stuff you learned is still not college material. It's remedial. OK, yes, there are remedial classes taught at most colleges, sadly eno
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by souprock 6y ago
Quality packaging reduces spoilage, and thus reduces waste. A stack of slices wrapped up by a deli will spoil long before individually sealed slices. Longer shelf life enables efficient shipping and shopping, which reduces trips taken. This
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by souprock 6y ago
I got three cars so I could be more efficient. Use the right size for the job. For minor little trips around town, I use the Fiat 500L. It has 5 seats in 2 rows. For high speed, or a bit more stuff, I use the Subaru Ascent. It has 8 seats i
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by souprock 6y ago
It'd be too small to notice, and maybe impossible to measure. Emulation performance gets sucked up by MMU emulation, indirect jumps (including function return), and page-crossing jumps. Sometimes memory-mapped IO can also be abnormally
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by souprock 6y ago
Lock all the candidates in a room. Have them do a secret ballot on paper. If somebody gets a majority, burn the ballots with fuel that produces white smoke. Otherwise, burn the ballots with fuel that produces black smoke, and then go back t
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by souprock 6y ago
It sometimes seems to count, but then an interrupt happens or there is a backwards jump. That isn't counting. 42, 45, 47, 3, 4, 7, 37953, 37955, 37959, 11, 12, 15... Actual counting on real hardware does happen. For example, x86 has th
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by souprock 6y ago
It happens all the time, offering government pay for the DC area. Sometimes there is an added bonus of drug testing or a polygraph.
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by souprock 6y ago
In the US, "college" means narrow subject matter, and "university" means a wide variety of colleges all together on one campus. For example, there may be a "College of Engineering" and a "College of Arts a
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by souprock 6y ago
Uh, no. Those English classes were in fact a load of hot garbage. In the two decades since I graduated, I have not once been asked to write Marxist literary criticism of poetry. I haven't even been asked to produce a bibliography, espe
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by souprock 6y ago
People aren't just wrong on the internet. People were wrong before the internet existed. It's even possible to be smart enough to design a CPU and still be wrong. The register points at instructions. It does not count programs. Th
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by souprock 6y ago
I don't see it as "looking for a bootcamp", and that sure sounds classist in a bad way. Bootcamps are highly non-standard and usually weak, with very little time spent on the fundamentals of computing. (building an OS or comp
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by souprock 6y ago
Program counter: 1. something which counts programs, for example "find . -executable | wc -l" 2. misnomer for the instruction pointer, which is a CPU register that points at instructions
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by souprock 6y ago
This would fix the problem: if a student in a course gets an accommodation, all students in that course get the accommodation by default. It would be OK to opt out, so for example we don't force everybody to use a screen reader. (but y
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by souprock 6y ago
At least the online class cheating increases fairness. Now you can cheat without having the money to purchase a bogus disability claim. For many years now, all the well-off schemers have been taking tests with twice as much time as normal.
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by souprock 6y ago
Ah yes. Did you use Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, Hopper Disassembler, Radare2/Cutter, or something else? How many bytes did you have to modify? Put it on your resume.

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