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by tropo 10y ago
No, but C will automatically take the address. The same goes for arrays. You can explicitly take the address of a function, and this is different from taking the address of a function pointer. Pros: beginner confusion; sometimes bugs. Cons:
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by tropo 10y ago
Photoshop isn't available unless you pay money or violate copyright, so I can well imagine not having exposure. That could be me. I think I might have used it though, on a System 6 Mac with a 1-bit black-and-white screen. (resulting op
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by tropo 10y ago
So, it's war. And??? The video: We see a guy carrying what looks like a rocket launcher. (it's a really really long telephoto lens) He is sneaking around with the enemy (sort of an embedded journalist) and peaking out from around
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by tropo 10y ago
Forced school desegregation is not active for most kids. Many people buy into expensive school districts. Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and other fine cities are not exactly desegregated. Even in more mixed areas, the school zones ar
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by tropo 10y ago
Muammar Gaddafi, obviously. There are/were several other leaders nearby who also suffered. Along with them, the resulting violent conflict killed plenty more.
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by tropo 10y ago
Yes, but why is the building like that? The building is a big box largely so that it can sell large items. You can't fit very many large items in a small store; small stores typically limit themselves to small things. You could sell re
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by tropo 10y ago
Proper building codes would mostly eliminate the need for firefighters. We'd still need them at airports, and the occasional burning car or trash heap, but not for buildings. FYI, the vast majority of Florida houses are concrete block,
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by tropo 10y ago
Outside of huge cities, it isn't normal to put a few thousand people in approximately the same place. It just doesn't happen. A moderate-sized city of 50000 people might put 1500 people at the main high school on graduation day. A
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by tropo 10y ago
It says: "maximum vehicle weight including passengers and cargo is 300 pounds" Dear my. Americans will often need vehicles with negative weight. Does buoyancy count, or would a helium balloon just be more weight? (can you deduct t
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by tropo 10y ago
You can easily have plenty of parking and lower rents. You might also be seeking big-city stuff like subways and major-league sports, and that just isn't going to happen. Proof: Palm Bay, FL (got parking and low rent, and even has tech
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by tropo 10y ago
Big box retailers sell things in big boxes. Without the giant parking lot, it isn't viable to sell most of the products. Delivery from a separate warehouse would be required. Buyers aren't going to toss a refrigerator in a backpac
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by tropo 10y ago
Since I build things to last... I'd pick something that hasn't changed much in popularity for a couple decades. If this has to be a web app, then plain C on the server and plain unadorned javascript on the client, but only to the
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by tropo 10y ago
This assumes uniform gene pools that never change. In other words, it denies evolution. For each nation, he extrapolates various existing trends. This wouldn't be too bad if people within each nation were uniform. They are not. Given t
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by tropo 10y ago
Skeptics might not be saying what they really believe. Some beliefs do not make for good sound bites in the political arena. For example: The climate is probably getting warmer, and humans probably are causing this. This will help some peop
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by tropo 10y ago
Her view seems to be: The climate is probably getting warmer, and humans probably are a significant part of that, but the uncertainty is enormous. The proposed climate change solutions are probably almost completely ineffective. The politic
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by tropo 10y ago
The mouse utopia experiment seems to apply disturbingly well to humans. Birth rate in urban parts of highly-developed nations (our utopia) has plunged way below the replacement rate. That's exactly what happened with the mice.
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by tropo 10y ago
It's not just about school. Age 18 is a magic number in our law. Without that, a contract with you is pretty sketchy. Being under 18 also limits your hours, work environment, job duties, and so on. Businesses that typically employ unde
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by tropo 10y ago
It's not 15% when you already have a gasoline vehicle that you propose to discard. It's 115%, because the alternative is to keep what you have. You can't unproduce what you have. Keep old car: 0% the emissions of producing it
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by tropo 10y ago
This exists. My wife had one of those zippers on a white overshirt/sweater thing. It actually looked nice. It matched the drawings exactly.
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by tropo 10y ago
There isn't much learning involved with eMachineShop's CAD software. It's easy to use. The main frustration is actually a feature: you mostly can't design things that are unmanufacturable.
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by tropo 10y ago
Who counts? I don't think by "SV/technology/hacker culture" you literally mean Silicon Valley only. How about a devops person, working with all the latest tech? Does it matter if they reside in Virginia and work for
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by tropo 10y ago
Realize that the other half of the country is also scared. They too have anger (at ACA not being repealed yet) and fear (that muslims probably won't be interned) and they too want this cultivated, not extinguished. They want political
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by tropo 10y ago
Limiting to "people with 500+ or karma" doesn't make for a reasonable discussion unless you like an echo chamber with 100% pure San Francisco values.
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by tropo 10y ago
Track up and down votes separately. To compute the effective score, square the number of up votes and then subtract the number of down votes.
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by tropo 10y ago
You have the cause and effect swapped for social behavior. There was something a little bit "off" about my kid socially, making him an obvious bully magnet, so he got homeschooled. There was a noticeable latency for picking up soc
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by tropo 10y ago
How do you know that your consumption will be moderate? Some people lose control of their consumption. How do you justify any confidence that you won't be one of these people? It's not as if the typical alcoholic just decided one
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by tropo 10y ago
It's not all 100% workable, but it's no joke. The desire for dominance runs strong in normal humans. Normally schools just let this run wild, like Lord of the Flies, causing all sorts of horrible social interaction for no gain. Th
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by tropo 10y ago
It certainly is unhealthy for an 18 y/o to consume alcohol, and your "no more unhealthy than a 21 y/o" comment doesn't change that. Alcohol causes stomach cancer (really sucks), liver cancer (that sucks too), mouth
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by tropo 10y ago
The driving isn't the same at all. Small town with car: go a few blocks, never stopping for traffic, going the direction you like and stopping where you please Big city with car: go many blocks, constantly stopping in traffic, route ar
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by tropo 10y ago
The best that can be done is to harness the natural urge to dominate peers. Put it to use by granting dominance tools in exchange for academic success. Good GPA? Wear what you like, except distractions (naked) mean back-of-class seating. Ba

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