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by tetromino_ 10y ago
> replace the asphalt with gravel when it starts needing repairs. Seriously. It's both cheaper and discourages through traffic. ... at the expense of being impassable for road bikes, generating vast clouds of dust (fun for pedestria
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by tetromino_ 10y ago
Of course: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/opencl.php
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by tetromino_ 10y ago
> hypocrisy is not a fallacy ... but a warning sign that an argument is probably too broad, too absolute, too confidently stated, and has ten thousand exceptions that you didn't consider.
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by tetromino_ 10y ago
That argument would lead you to the conclusion that if your peers are objectively better than you, then it's immoral for you to seek employment; you must improve yourself or choose a different industry. So do you think you are among th
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by tetromino_ 10y ago
Electrolysis breaks extensions that use low-level APIs designed in the single-process era [1]. This breakage drew the ire of a vocal minority of Firefox users enamored of such extensions, and AFAICT that's the major reason why e10s has
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
> I presume many read anything written by Wolfram with the hope of finding something they can point out as self-promotion ;) Do not presume. It's the first time I've read anything by Wolfram. And before I read it, I had a posit
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
50% of the text is the fascinating story of Ramanujan. Unfortunately, the other 50% is a series of shameless product placements for the author's software and boasts about the author's personal and intellectual accomplishments. The
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
No different from being detained and banned from boarding if you joke about a bomb at an airport. There isn't much incentive for TSA or OFAC agents to apply common sense or attempt to detect irony. Because (1) that requires mental effo
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
> don't Russian based companies run the risk of being locked out of the larger and more influential US market? Of course, and in fact it has happened a few times, e.g. see [1]. But Russian based companies tend to be aware of the pos
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
> Putin doesn't want to buy our software.. and you call our society fucked? You completely misunderstood OP's argument, IMHO. A dispute between Obama and Putin over a peninsula where your company has maybe 1.5 users suddenly re
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
It requires two things: (1) your mobile service provider needs to actually provide NITZ information (I've encountered a Russian provider that simply failed to do it); and (2) your phone needs to be configured to use that timezone infor
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
Because gamers sometimes attract the attention of sociopathic teenagers [1] in a way that programmers typically don't. [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/teen-pleads-guilt...
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
"Тока" is a misspelling of "только" which you frequently encounter because in fast speech, that "ль" doesn't get pronounced. Sometimes, it's deliberate; the writer is going for the effect of transcrib
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
Thanks, that's good to know! > But you will have to be running Linux in a non-default configuration for it to be reliable, of course! Of course. It does seem to work in practice with our C++ code, although probably that's due t
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
> That doesn't change the fact that few people actually do it or need to do it. I am one of those few people. We are running some scientific code (currently, unfortunately, written in C++) on a heterogeneous bunch of compute nodes.
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
It's considered "deeply flawed" by one (rather famous) cryptographer. And by "deeply flawed" he meant [1] that if the attacker has 2^64 plaintext/ciphertext pairs, he can then attack ciphertext 256 times faster
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
No, apparently a gcc developer agreed that there was a regression and it wasn't working as intended. They've just fixed a reduced test case [1], although according to the original reporter, there remains an additional problem to b
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
IIRC, vitriol started to be directed at Ellen Pao only once she was cross-examined in court, giving specific details, and her claims of discrimination suddenly seemed much weaker than what the media had been reporting before the trial. I wo
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
> this "explanation" is your fantasy. My educated guess :) Every meme starts from somewhere. For example, the vatnik meme did not appear fully formed from the vacuum like Venus from ocean foam; it was invented by a specific per
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
Explanation for those unfamiliar with Russophone online culture: in the Russian-speaking internet, Russia's gopniks (approximate equivalent of England's chavs) have for a long time been occasionally referred to as orcs or goblins.
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
> The symbol for "man" is the outline of an adult human. To me, it shows the outline of an adult, physically fit male human. Observe the narrow hips and wide, square shoulders. Compare with the shoulders on the "woman&quot
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
I think an important distinction is between speech in general and testimony in a courtroom. "Defending" in the sense of publicly arguing that the accused officers are innocent is your basic right in a free society. I don't th
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by tetromino_ 11y ago
Of course Russian has the word «тайна». It's the generic term for hidden, classified, protected, secret, or unknown information. And «государственная тайна» would be "state secret". But the stamp on the maps wasn't just