talideon

34 ms·

391.
by talideon 5y ago
Except that's not really what happens with Facebook. I deleted my account there ages ago, and discovered later when checking haveibeenpwned.com that the email address I used there was part of a data dump from Facebook. So, do I believe
392.
by talideon 5y ago
I stumbled across his YouTube channel a few days back where he demonstrates this and lots of other retrocomputing gubbins. Worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/user/80Thom80
393.
by talideon 5y ago
No, it's nothing like that. It's a method for implementing interpreters that works well for Forth. It has absolutely nothing to do with 'spaghetti code' or structured programming. In this case, the term 'thread&#x27
394.
by talideon 6y ago
Keep in mind that the potential expense of string concatenation was only _one_ example. There's a reason why I explicitly mentioned immutability: Rust's `String` type has more in common with C#'s `StringBuilder` class than it
395.
by talideon 6y ago
There are lots of reasons it can be. Here's an example: in many languages, concatenation requires reallocation to generate a new string object. This is especially the case where strings are immutable. That can get expensive quickly as
396.
by talideon 6y ago
For various reasons (mainly auditing purposes, but it also reduces any incidental infrastructure churn, and makes it easier to guarantee a rollback happened as expected), we need to ensure reproducibility, so it's a bit more important
397.
by talideon 6y ago
It can work. I wrote a script in Python to build stable zip files. The main thing is to ensure any timestamps are reset to zero and the files are added in a fixed order. It also filters out any unwanted files and directories to minimise the
398.
by talideon 6y ago
The solution there is for somebody to contribute a translation, even if they can't contribute a list of sources. TheTechTree.md is comparatively new compared to the other files, as can be seen from the history: https://githu
399.
by talideon 6y ago
Given there are other README files covering a number of other major languages, I think you might be a little harsh. That file is really only meant to cover the Anglophone world and even then is only an initial compilation.
400.
by talideon 6y ago
Well, tell that to your landlord, &c. I'm sure they'd have a different point of view.
401.
by talideon 6y ago
If only everyone were using IPv6... but we're talking about IPv4 here.
402.
by talideon 6y ago
Yes, tonnes of benefits. If you've ever been through a merger, you'll know the pain of dealing with getting the everything working when merging networks. That issue doesn't exist with IPv6 to anywhere near the degree because
403.
by talideon 6y ago
No, I think you'll find that if you read your registration agreement, that is not the case. I spent about a decade of my life as running the management systems of a domain registrar, with all the fun of dealing with ICANN, the various
404.
by talideon 6y ago
It's not, unless you have a trademark, and even then only within narrow domains in which you've registered the trademark. You don't own domains any more than anything else you lease. In fact, if you read your registration agr
405.
by talideon 6y ago
The opposite of anti-Soviet isn't necessarily pro-Soviet.
406.
by talideon 6y ago
You don't "own" a domain: you have a recurring lease on it.
407.
by talideon 6y ago
> Windows Phone is a great example. Americans hate on Microsoft and so deprived themselves of the best mobile phone OS of ever. Even today Windows Phone is more usable, faster, more secure and better in almost every metric than Android.
408.
by talideon 6y ago
There's currently no equivalent of a class action suit under EU law, IIRC. Some jurisdictions within the EU have something equivalent, but there's nothing Union-wide. I vaguely recall some movement by the Commission to establish s
409.
by talideon 6y ago
Another interesting thing is that Eidos Interactive started off producing non-linear editing and video compression software for the Acorn Archimedes. If you do musical composition, Sibelius started off on the Archimedes and was one of its k
410.
by talideon 6y ago
> What you're leaving out, in Canada's case, is that the norm is a strict party-line vote. No, I'm not. The concept of a party whip literally invented where I'm from. I'm very much familiar with it.
411.
by talideon 6y ago
Well, that's _part_ of why, but the fundamental reason is that NI is the rump of the Kingdom of Ireland within the UK, which, like Scotland, preserved a separate legal system even after political union with the UK brought about through
412.
by talideon 6y ago
Well, that's what you get with FPTP, with both the US and Canada use.
413.
by talideon 6y ago
Well, yes. That's why I mentioned the rounding mechanism later. However, US-style sales taxes make the process of applying that more difficult because you can end up with weird numbers, whereas with VAT, you can pre-round things to min
414.
by talideon 6y ago
Well, no. That's not how it works. That stuff only remotely works with US companies because its tax regime wasn't a territorial one. As of a few years ago, the US finally transitioned to a quasi-territorial tax regime, which plugg
415.
by talideon 6y ago
Where I'm from, shops started using .95 pricing _long_ before the idea of scrapping 1c and 2c coins was raised, purely because handling those coins wasn't worth it. A key difference is that we have VAT, which is built into the pri
416.
by talideon 6y ago
I don't think that's the case myself. While I do think that the parliamentary system is better than the congressional system, I think it's more that the parliamentary system emphasises consensus-building and executive account
417.
by talideon 6y ago
It's a cap. It's not a statement of how _much_ you can charge, just what the maximum charge can be. How much you actually charge can be based on the things you mention, but you can't charge any more than that 10%. Also, a max
418.
by talideon 6y ago
Unlikely: there's no visible motor on the wheel (it appears to just be a clip holding it in place, so all that speed is the hamster's doing. It's no more animal cruelty than tripping and faceplanting while running would be th
419.
by talideon 6y ago
I'm reminded a bit of the JVC TM-L450TU LCCS ( http://www.earlytelevision.org/jvc_tm-l450tu.html ), which used some clever tricks to make a fundamentally B&W LCD show colour.
420.
by talideon 6y ago
If competing with Atlassian is the point, then they're going to have to completely revise their licensing model for a start. GHE is _far_ too expensive compared to Atlassian's whole software suite to be any real competition.

More ›