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by temac 13y ago
In France you have a principle that says "Nul n'est censé ignorer la loi", ("no one should ignore the law") that has a double meaning: you can not escape your responsibilities by saying that you ignored a law, and,
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by temac 13y ago
A fan might be counterproductive, drowning too much current.
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by temac 13y ago
There is, usually, no such thing as _permanently_ unusable. 99% of the time a bricked device can be recovered by reflashing a working FW through JTAG or equivalent. This needs a piece of equipment to do so, but so does online or USB flashin
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by temac 14y ago
Don't think the K&R book is the standard. The standard now exists and is detailed enough, for what C aims at being. As for doing maths in C or wanting managed allocation, it is well there are better languages for that (and it was even b
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by temac 14y ago
It is supposed to provide you more checking by disabling automatic cast from void* to any other pointer. This makes sense in C++ since casting a pointer to a class can trigger some address adjustement if the target class of this instance po
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by temac 14y ago
The article contains great confusion about ISP matters and "content" matters, but I don't see how Orange and Google should give a fuck about "content" matter (including the political circus) when they are negotiating peering agreements‎. If
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by temac 14y ago
> Negotiate implies a free market. There is no free market for access to an ISP's residential customers. They have a complete monopoly over the ability to send packets to those people, resulting in a market failure that requires governm
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by temac 14y ago
> Clearly Orange has no idea how the internet works and what’s their involvement in it. The ISP is just a dumb pipe to connect the user to a server, nothing more. Clearly Nathan Campos has no idea how the internet works. Negotiations ab
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by temac 14y ago
> It's also using most of the standard GNU tools - bash, etc. You can open a shell on a rooted android device and use it much like any other distribution. Nope. Android does not use GNU. It is not just a GNU/Linux distribution, it is a
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by temac 14y ago
Reminder for Microsoft employees: if you are going to support that, you should has well quit (maybe after having done a donation :p )
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by temac 14y ago
It is only two or three days since I first heard about the "evil maid" attack. While this could be a preoccupation for some kind of environment, and most probably very few, it is very easy to come with a scheme that both protects against th
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by temac 14y ago
This is very interesting, very intelligent. Indeed this is too much intelligent. There is a huge amount of highly valuable programmers that won't be able to understand all that mess, and the gain is questionable at least given that there ar
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by temac 14y ago
> Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious "Turning off your brain" sounds like a good summary of that. I don't think one need a particular "skill" to act stereotypically, subconsciously, emotionaly, automatically
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by temac 14y ago
This is a good description of sales people, product people and developer people, but how does it relates to CEOs?
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by temac 14y ago
like books
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by temac 14y ago
Curiously, even the translation proposed by Google translate is better than the one proposed by this application; "Puis-je avoir le menu à nouveau, s'il vous plaît?" sounds as fine as "Puis-je à nouveau avoir le menu, s'il vous plaît ?", al
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by temac 14y ago
"Puis-je avoir le menu encore, s'il vous plaît?" does not sound 100% correct for a native speaker, although this is perfectly comprehensible. "Puis-je à nouveau avoir le menu, s'il vous plaît ?" would be better, especially coming from a pro
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by temac 14y ago
> It simply doesn't make sense for them to be making high volume embedded chips unless they have excess fab capacity (which they don't). Well they desperately want to do it anyway. Anyway by your very reasoning, they won't do high volum
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by temac 14y ago
Probably they are considering this is cool.
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by temac 14y ago
Given the incomputability of Kolmogorov complexity, this concept is not usable as an absolute mesure.
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by temac 14y ago
Could you develop on how to mesure the information entropy in an absolute way?