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by tropo 8y ago
and two more: The US military tends to buy things in the USA for obvious reasons. That costs more. One would expect the Chinese military to buy things made in China. That saves money, making the military effort look smaller. The US military
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by tropo 8y ago
How recent? Steel is doing very well right now. They are hiring. Your source even shows this, not that your source is at all trustworthy. 1990 is a long time ago. Steel is far from the only kind of manufacturing. Even if steel mill jobs all
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by tropo 8y ago
Neither extreme viewpoint is good. On the one hand, you are very correct to point out that the US is not a company or household, and that the US is a superpower that prints currency. Too many people ignore this. Another point, shared with l
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by tropo 8y ago
Pretty much, yes, if they are careless. Well, it becomes a meme of some sort, with everybody making fun of the bank. For example: there is over a million dollars in cash, the bank is near multiple good escape routes, the bank's cameras
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by tropo 8y ago
That sort of binary thinking harms real people. To make this clear, I'll apply it to something else: It isn't OK to tell a kid not to play out in a highway, because that is victim blaming, and you're saying that it is OK for
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by tropo 8y ago
Something different is sometimes sold now, and it is a poor substitute. Walmart seems to like selling it. Maybe you can identify it. The visible difference is that it never becomes pure yellow. Little brown spots show up while the banana is
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by tropo 8y ago
That's the justification they give. The reality is that lots of normal people got purged. They just weren't politically correct by Facebook standards.
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by tropo 8y ago
For me the requirement is: plain C interface, usable under MIT/BSD or less-restrictive license Something gets bonus points for not needing other libraries or static data, so I could put it in a kernel, but usually I don't really n
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by tropo 8y ago
Well, I actually wanted the F-22, but for some reason I doubt that is what you meant. About 5000 should do, which is nothing compared to what we built under difficult wartime conditions in World War II. I also wanted redundant protection fr
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by tropo 8y ago
Do mushrooms count? They don't need any light at all. Shittake just need some wet oak.
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by tropo 8y ago
On the two pages titled "But recent global events have undermined this utopian narrative" there are a total of 8 events depicted. The viewer is expected to think that the events are problems. About 4 or 5 of the events would be co
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by tropo 8y ago
I think you mean the video of Google executives showing partisan behavior at a meeting. If so, it's on this page: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl... The group hug at 0:1
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by tropo 8y ago
Why? It's no different from the logo on a TV network news video feed. It's just a news agency trying to make things painful for competitors trying to steal a story without credit. If not for Breitbart being censored (fitting this
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by tropo 8y ago
OSHA is why I can't have a perfectly normal UL-listed power strip at work, but somehow a UPS (with a battery full of lead and sulfuric acid) is perfectly fine. Every place where I'd want a power strip, I have to use a UPS. Given t
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by tropo 8y ago
There is no need to be adversarial as long as workers have the right to leave. These are not slaves. They only stay until they can get a better deal (pay, respect, safety...) elsewhere.
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by tropo 8y ago
An example of a paragraph (and font, and line width) for which the spacing is not optimal is trivial: anything done with the Knuth-Plass line-wrapping algorithm. The trouble here isn't just the design of the algorithm. The specificatio
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by tropo 8y ago
This is the scary thing about sharing swimming pools.
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by tropo 8y ago
Changing from 61 to 62 works well enough. The absolute error might be a few degrees, which will get you close enough to not be completely miserable. The relative error is about a degree. Going from 61 to 62 might actually be going from 63 t
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by tropo 8y ago
It certainly isn't sarcasm. The class is "Advanced Programming". If it isn't going to be advanced, then the name is improper. This could be a case of name inflation. All of that stuff is great to learn. All by itself, th
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by tropo 8y ago
add a strdup() That is still far fewer layers of gunk, not even counting whatever may underlie the non-C strings.
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by tropo 8y ago
In some ways, you can't blame China for trying. It's playing dirty, but that's how international relations go. You can place a bit more blame on the US companies that let it happen. The people running them are short-sighted a
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by tropo 8y ago
Well, there's the problem: the v7-A and v7-R manual. That manual uses unified assembly syntax, meaning that old ARM and Thumb are described together. Because of irregularities in Thumb, the old ARM instructions end up being described i
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by tropo 8y ago
There are microphones in cars. This allows: * create audio content hashes, then send them * process audio on the car, then send the results * send all the audio unencrypted to "the cloud"
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by tropo 8y ago
Dear my... this is way leaner in C. return strrchr(str,',')+1; There are just a handful of branches unless your library goes nuts with vectorization. If you want to handle three forms of broken input: if(!str)
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by tropo 8y ago
There is no brexit supporting government in the UK. Look at the actual negotiations, and you can see that the plan is to have brexit in name only.
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by tropo 8y ago
Selective enforcement against enemies... we could see that coming.
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by tropo 8y ago
That is a different situation. Nobody is banning the advocate of homeopathic medicine. YouTube actually bans videos. They leave up plenty of incorrect things that are nonthreatening, so correctness is clearly not the determining factor. Thi
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by tropo 8y ago
Teach modern C, with "restrict" and with the new-style initializers and aggregate immediates. Put a good deal of effort into showing how people get burned by undefined behavior. (strict aliasing, signed overflow of intermediates,
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by tropo 8y ago
If "being exposed to ideas you might not agree with" is good, then why does that only get applied to students on one side of the political spectrum? Don't the leftist students also deserve the "real value in being challe
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by tropo 8y ago
You really have to pick a category. For example, "News & Politics" is decent. Of course, an alternate ranking does nothing to fix the problem of videos that have simply been banned by YouTube. Lots of good stuff is just missin

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