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by srl 13y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, gay marriage is not legal in most of the US.
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by srl 13y ago
The natural numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) are of course "infinite" - however, they are also "countable". (For any natural number you pick, if you count long enough, you'll eventually get to it.) That doesn't mean you
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Celebrities die 2.7182 at a time(ssp.impulsetrain.com)
2 points by srl 13y ago|0 comments
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by srl 13y ago
I think wanting to detect lost alzheimer's patients isn't quite equivalent to accepting the premise that germanic purity should be preserved.
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by srl 13y ago
Although it's clear what you meant, as you wrote the sentence, it has a somewhat more entertaining. You meant, "that we would mind being printed...". As written, it meshes nicely with my opinion of the financial sector. (&#x2
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by srl 13y ago
Almost: http://xkcd.com/307/
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by srl 13y ago
> One thing is that the compiler can warn about missing cases when using enums (GCC optionally does this); with defines, it's not clear that several values form a closed set. But here, the values /don't/ form a closed set, and using enu
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by srl 13y ago
Can you explain why this is preferable to using the preprocessor? I've always considered it a pretty fundamental principle that the "surface" interpretation of code should be as close as possible to the "real" meaning, and we're definitely
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by srl 13y ago
Oh man, a philosophical/ethical rabbit hole! Down we go... > I mean, it is not ethical to willfully expose human to known dangerous drugs, yet if they take it wilfully by themselves or by mistake, it's a great source of data: for exampl
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by srl 13y ago
Yes, it's hard. We can't experiment directly on humans - we can only look for correlations, which always causes trouble with determining causality. Biological questions are inherently complicated, so any hypothesis is necessarily little mor
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by srl 13y ago
As far as I remember (SimCity 3000), you start out with taxes at like 7%, and you can get away with 9% when your city is small, but when you grow, you have to /lower/ taxes (down to 1-2%, eventually) to keep things stable. Which makes sense
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by srl 13y ago
I resent (and reject the need for) the growth of the "security" apparatus as much as (almost) anybody else, but it's worth pointing out that what works for catching the "pros" is quite different from what works for catching amateurs. Pros a
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by srl 14y ago
Go does not require "er", and in fact most code I've seen outside the standard library doesn't seem to follow any particular convention for using it. If there /was/ such a convention, it would obviously make sense to use the closest equival
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by srl 14y ago
It's HP-PCL. I tried using http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ps/pcl2ps , but all I get is a rectangle with the top edge missing.
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by srl 14y ago
Isn't a ceasefire still a state of war? Meaning that they're just stating the obvious, since they've been in a state of war for half a century? Less seriously... "oooh ooh ooh! I declare war on scala! Long live haskell!"
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by srl 14y ago
"In 100 years the US dollar won't be around, but bitcoin will be." Two claims, no justification. I'll leave the bitcoin issue to the side, since while I don't believe bitcoin itself will be around in a century, I have no trouble with the id
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by srl 14y ago
Babbage's "computer" was not. Turing's innovation wasn't a device that could perform one or two computations - it was the idea of a device that could be /programmed/ to perform any conceivable computation (resource limits not withstanding).
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by srl 14y ago
I initially wrote a snarky comment along the lines of "that you disagree with a comment does not make it inflammatory", but looking at your comment history, it appears that you've actually tried to play the voice of reason for the whole for
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by srl 14y ago
Back when `/dev/mem` was a thing in default kernels (now you need a special config, or a module), I enjoyed `cat /dev/urandom > /dev/mem`. That would usually bork things pretty quickly, so then I would set random offsets with `dd`. Fun
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Contextual error reporting in Haskell(bytbox.net)
3 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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by srl 14y ago
That's /really/ fun, thanks! It doesn't work, though. On firefox 19.0.2 (archlinux), it seems to detect clicks shifted a good bit to the right (maybe 100 pixels?), and a little bit down. It looks like it's using whole-screen coordinates wit
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Why I want to confiscate every programmer’s * key(esr.ibiblio.org)
1 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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Why I don't accept would-be disciples(esr.ibiblio.org)
3 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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by srl 14y ago
And another, noted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5232416 (Again, I don't mean to bash you or this project, just to say that it shouldn't be used in the "real-world" without being looked at rather more carefully. On a locally-s
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by srl 14y ago
This solution is worse than the shell hack, by a lot. From the source: char filename[MAXNAMELEN]; and then a few lines down... filename_size = 0; memcpy(&filename_size, buf, sizeof(int)); memcpy(filename, &buf
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by srl 14y ago
And here I almost missed that, and was about to DV him for an unnecessarily high snark/signal ratio.
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by srl 14y ago
The actual title: "Senators Marco Rubio, Orrin Hatch, Amy Klobuchar hate America". Lovely. My political views are somewhat out of the norm for this site (even on immigration), so I'll restrain myself and just point out: if the amount the av
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by srl 14y ago
And it's already back up.
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Is closed source worth it for performance?(esr.ibiblio.org)
2 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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How to fix cable messes(esr.ibiblio.org)
2 points by srl 14y ago|1 comments

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