tristanj

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1171.
How a C++ compiler implements exception handling (2002)(codeproject.com)
4 points by tristanj 13y ago|3 comments
1172.
New carbon-based structure with metallic properties discovered(news.vcu.edu)
1 points by tristanj 13y ago|0 comments
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Documents reveal NSA’s extensive involvement in targeted killing program(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by tristanj 13y ago|0 comments
1174.
by tristanj 13y ago
I'm pointing out that if the authors wrote an article titled "Male humans plan their travel route up to one day in advance and communicate it to other members of their species," the authors would be called out in the comment
1175.
by tristanj 13y ago
Gosh this article is really sexist. If the authors were writing about people instead, they would never write so objectively about gender. Considering how orangutang's are our close genetic cousins, if the authors replaced each instance
1176.
by tristanj 13y ago
The City of London has a unique legal position that lets type of thing happen. If you look into this corporation's history it will make much more sense.
1177.
by tristanj 13y ago
I wish he used citations; he tends to mix citable data with personal opinion, so you can never truly tell which of his assertions are actually true.
1178.
by tristanj 13y ago
UV radiation found in sunlight can produce Pyrimidine dimers, which can lead to genetic mutations. Essentially, the UV radiation causes two DNA bases (Thymine or Cytosine) to fuse together and make that portion of DNA unreadable. Fortunatel
1179.
Silver Needle in the Skype: An analysis of Skype's internals (2006) [pdf](blackhat.com)
1 points by tristanj 13y ago|0 comments
1180.
Oddities in x86 Assembly(code.google.com)
96 points by tristanj 13y ago|7 comments
1181.
by tristanj 13y ago
And if you're still bored on a Wednesday morning, you can read about how this Olympic sprinter took testosterone, HGH, and EPO yet cleared all his drug tests. After reading this, you might realise Olympic drug testing isn't as eff
1182.
by tristanj 13y ago
The author missed one of the main reasons the west is involved in Syria: Energy. Syria sits right in between the oilfields in the Middle East and the oil consumers in Europe, so when a pipeline is built connecting the two, Syria has a vote
1183.
by tristanj 13y ago
If the pouch doesn't work as intended and the phone still has a very weak connection to the tower, the phone will transmit at maximum power, which will just eat through the battery life when sending and receiving data. I can't see
1184.
by tristanj 13y ago
The quote you picked doesn't fully support your view - if you read the full quote, Darwin suggests that such inherited effects start to appear at one point in one's life and disappear afterwards. If instincts were truly passed on
1185.
by tristanj 13y ago
This is an issue with AMD's branch predictor, not with the x86 ISA. The code would work fine with a single "ret" instead, however people found using "rep ret" made it nanoseconds faster. it just shows how you can fi
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by tristanj 13y ago
There's some solutions linked on the page just before the questions start. http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912... They look pretty thorough, but I think question 10 in geography should inc
1187.
by tristanj 13y ago
Her website (linked in the article) has a copy of the paper. http://www.cs.amherst.edu/ccm/cf14-mcgeoch.pdf Quoting her paper, she used the D-Wave computer to solve instances of three NP-Hard problems: Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optim
1188.
by tristanj 14y ago
https://encrypted.google.com has had that navbar-less format for several months now. Looks like they are trying to unify them. They've also changed who signs the SSL certs: https://www.google.com used to be signed by Thawte but is now s
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by tristanj 14y ago
My guess it that the submitter found it in a response to this [1] recent article on environmentalism. The author of this touches similar themes and also mentions the same studies as the Discover article. [1] http://www.orionmagazine.org/in
1190.
by tristanj 14y ago
To me, it looks like a cost issue. File hosting is not free and providing a downloads tab just encourages developers to use them as a filehost, sometimes as the sole one. Removing the tab is a subtle move to tell people to host their files
1191.
by tristanj 14y ago
Fox News also reporting Obama to be re-elected president.
1192.
by tristanj 14y ago
A few years back, coach Angel Heredia did an interview with Spiegel on the same topic in which he alleges many of today's world-records would be impossible without PEDs. There's a translated version below, but note that at the time of inter
1193.
by tristanj 14y ago
Now that benchmark you linked has a hidden bias towards Java. If you read the methodology listed in their FAQ, they mention they ran each benchmark for Java 66 times in the same JVM instance before discarding the first 65 results, which le
1194.
by tristanj 14y ago
On your second point, here's incomplete list of data that facebook stores about its users. Note that they keep all wall posts, messages, tags, and photos even after the user deletes it from his profile http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Dat