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by the_grue 8y ago
It's a little weird to keep talking to your edits. How come Putin is being ridiculed and it doesn't make him ridiculous in the eyes of the populace? I mean of course not all the populace is on the Internet and not all of them are
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by the_grue 8y ago
I do speak Russian and I do know what I'm talking about. Я говорю по-русски и прекрасно знаю, о чем речь.
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by the_grue 8y ago
I don't buy it. This whole story makes GRU and, by extension, Putin himself look ridiculous in the eyes of their own populace. Russian-speaking Internet communities are savoring this failure in every conceivable way right now, ridiculi
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by the_grue 8y ago
I wonder if this can be used to improve an algorithm [1] I worked on a year ago for building nearly-comlete binary trees out of pre-sorted array of items. [1] https://residualchaos.blogspot.com/
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by the_grue 8y ago
Matt Might makes the argument that there are a lot more rare diseases than many people realize. About every instance of cancer is effectively a rare disease (even though we agree to classify them according to a taxonomy), because each is ca
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by the_grue 8y ago
Disregarding the morality issue, Matt Might makes the argument that there are a lot more rare diseases than many people realize. About every instance of cancer is effectively a rare disease (even though we agree to classify them according t
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by the_grue 8y ago
Matt Might (the subject of this article) gave a jaw-dropping talk a year ago, named "Winning the War on Error - Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer" [1]. At least you can't blame him for the lack of ambition! But th
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by the_grue 8y ago
(I usually avoid ranting, but just couldn't resist it this time around. Go on, bring on your downvotes, you still know deep inside this is the truth.) Oblig. generic laughter [1] Are Go's problems over, then? I have read the error
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by the_grue 8y ago
Thank you for your perspective.
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by the_grue 8y ago
I guess it's because you used the same image as many other people?.. Which brings me to the question: was it an install disk image, or a pre-installed, ready-to-go OS image? Can you install a fresh OS from an install disk?
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by the_grue 8y ago
> My VM image HWID got banned from using App Store fairly soon I never heard about HWID on Mac OS X before, and quick googling didn't produce any information about HWID on Hackintosh. Are you sure that is the real issue? Where can I
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by the_grue 8y ago
How does it compare to running a Hackintosh? Is it much easier to set up? Do you still need to have compatible hardware and to mess with drivers and system configuration? How easy are OS upgrades? How is the performance, including graphics?
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by the_grue 8y ago
> Syrian Kurdistan had to basically surrender to Assad to avoid a Turkish Attack. That's interesting, what's your source for that?
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by the_grue 8y ago
Erdogan has been heading that way for a long time. US is just the latest addition to the growing line of Turkey's allies-turned-enemies, following Israel and Europe. The West was willing to overlook his arrogance and hostile rhetoric f
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by the_grue 8y ago
> Depends on whether you consider Daesh and YPG the owners of Syria. Is Erdogan the owner of Turkey or are Turks the owners of Turkey? Are Kurds the owners of Kurdistan or are YPG or Assad or Daesh or Erdogan the owners of Kurdistan?
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by the_grue 8y ago
It's quite illuminating that both you and your parent are making unsubstantiated claims (I'm not criticizing, just observing), but only your comment gets downvoted. I believe the reason is that you are expressing a forbidden idea,
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by the_grue 8y ago
I guess it's an industry-wide problem. It would be illuminating to learn of any counter examples, where a big software company manages NOT to fall into this trap.
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by the_grue 8y ago
I'm quite sure Linux has the same burden. Here is what Linus Torvalds has to say: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
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by the_grue 8y ago
Thanks, that's really interesting, even though the author toned much of his initial satire down in a later update.
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by the_grue 8y ago
So WHY is Windows slower? What effect can OS conceivably have on CPU benchmarks? Off the top of my head I can think of preemptive multitasking and memory allocation implementations (the latter shouldn't influence pure CPU benchmarks m
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by the_grue 8y ago
China's economy is already slowing down, and I expect it to hit a ceiling sooner rather than later. Its advantages over the Western countries are cheap labor, undervalued currency and the freedom from intellectual property-related liti
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by the_grue 8y ago
Please forgive the misspelling, I assure you it was not on purpose. I never claimed you were Russian, just pointed out that your rhetoric sounded remarkably like coming from a Russian, quite ironically, given the context. As to the rest of
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by the_grue 8y ago
I am determining the merit of a statement based on the arguments, which are absent in your comment. The choice of words merely made it ironic.
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by the_grue 8y ago
While I agree that an engineer is less likely to spend effort on politeness, they are more likely to substantiate their claims. sologub did neither in their comment.
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by the_grue 8y ago
Nope.
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by the_grue 8y ago
> I’m an American and your logic is flawed. Let me show you why I consider this line genuinely hilarious. In my opinion, an American would not normally make an absolute statement of that kind, they would say " I think your logic is
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by the_grue 8y ago
Even with a strongly-typed system, not having named local variables introduces a lot of opportunities for error. E.g. consider the following program: val (a,b): (Int, Int) = f(); g(b, a); Now compare this to a concatenative program: f sw
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by the_grue 8y ago
Democracy is the form of governance that led to the international phenomenon that has lately been a venue for free speech, anonymity, free exchange of ideas and has enabled innumerable communities to organize and work for the common good li
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by the_grue 8y ago
Let's get the logic straight here. Economic stagnation is a result of living under an aggressive totalitarian state, not of foreign sanctions on that state. You personally are unfortunate to live in that state and suffer from the side
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by the_grue 8y ago
I played with Factor when it was new and never managed to advance to a stage where I wouldn't have to come back and fix stack corruption. And then again, and again, even for simple pieces of code. YMMV.

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