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by tropo 7y ago
We can't decouple public education and home ownership unless we get one of two things: a. mandated homeschooling b. free teleportation Without one of those, house location and choice of school are unavoidably tied together.
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by tropo 7y ago
The laptop was seized due to his sexcapades, then discovered to have much more interesting data. Anthony Weiner's wife is Huma Abedin. She was deputy chief of staff to Clinton. Somehow, his laptop had come to contain lots of classified
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by tropo 7y ago
The meaning of words changes with time, but that can't be allowed to change our laws. Here, "well regulated" is about being reliable, high-performing, and accurate. The term also applies to mechanical devices; one could have
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by tropo 7y ago
That "devastating blow" was an undesired side effect. By reopening the investigation, the FBI was able to seize control of Anthony Weiner's laptop, which was being held by the NYPD. Had info about that been released, as it wa
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by tropo 7y ago
MASM is just an assembler, with no awareness of the C or C++ code. MASM is unable to place arbitrary bytes into the middle of functions that are written in C or C++. To fix a problem like Spectre, and generally to solve unusual problems tha
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by tropo 7y ago
1.44 MB lived too long, yet the floppy died earlier than it should have died. Without the power of IBM to dictate a standard, we couldn't increase capacity. We had so many incompatible choices. We had a minor bump to 2.88 MB and the 20
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by tropo 7y ago
It's not mute or even moot. Assembly intrinsics are not enough. I've dealt with this, getting software to run in Visual Studio. The intrinsics are simply not available. You end up running code through gcc to produce assembly, then
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by tropo 7y ago
I'd like a Comic Sans without the intentional imperfections. Comic Sans puts a bit of wobble in the letters, as if being written by a careless person. Alternately, with almost the same result, I'd like an Ariel with rounded tips.
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by tropo 7y ago
The style used by Turbo C is strictly inferior. There is no way for the author of the assembly code to cooperate with the compiler's register allocator or instruction scheduler. You wouldn't even need both of those lines with gcc.
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by tropo 7y ago
Keep it. Porting to rust is easier if it doesn't require a person to be an expert at two different kinds of inline assembly syntax. Being able to grab a chunk of inline assembly from a C project is very useful. Whatever you do, don&#x2
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by tropo 7y ago
If it didn't happen on any test flight, the aircraft wasn't adequately tested. That sounds unsafe. "anti-stall protection not being aggressive enough under SPECIFIC circumstances" means "not enough MCAS in the A321n
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by tropo 7y ago
I didn't say that either, and it doesn't matter. The problem is of the same general type. It's more than close enough. The FAA should be extra-careful, so maybe the A321neo will get banned. If the EASA wants to take a hard li
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by tropo 7y ago
At this level of international politics, sure. Airbus just had an excessive pitch problem in the A321neo, nearly the same as the 737-MAX troubles. https://simpleflying.com/airbus-a321neo-pitch-problem/ Suddenly, the FA
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by tropo 7y ago
None of those things ("guarantee for parental leave, affordable child care or even vacation") seem to help. If anything, the evidence suggests the opposite: there are very few births in the European countries with the greatest amo
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by tropo 7y ago
If you don't know about Elizabeth Warren’s book, it probably sounds like something from the Proud Boys or the Promise Keepers. It'd be great to agree on the facts, even if people can't agree on how they feel about the facts o
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by tropo 7y ago
Yes. :-) I may middle-click both, opening them both in tabs. I may skip either. Sometimes I just want the article. Sometimes I know what is in the article just from the title, so I just want the discussion.
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by tropo 7y ago
I was wrong about the hardware that would bring Linux to the masses. I predicted something like Android, with Linux hidden deep inside, but thought it would be in the form of a game console connected to the TV. I thought that Sony and Sega
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by tropo 7y ago
That'll do it though. It used to be that the cities had lots of single-income families. They only had to compete with each other in the bidding war for good housing. Women entered the job market due to birth control and legal changes,
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by tropo 7y ago
I believe that about as much as I believed the actors who all said they'd go to Canada if Trump were elected. (they are not in Canada now) Money talks. Most actors are desperate for money. It's not as if actors constantly get abor
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by tropo 7y ago
As eyes grow, their shape is determined by what they see. Viewing lots of black-on-white text (books, most web pages, etc.) moves the focal length one direction. Viewing lots of white-on-black text would do the opposite, but that has gone o
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by tropo 7y ago
Yes, but "being creepy" is roughly equivalent to "being rejected". You can't determine if your behavior would be creepy without risking the possibility of being creepy. The exact same behavior, from two different pe
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by tropo 7y ago
Everything is political to somebody. I see that the bird lovers have finally conquered the Feral_cat page on wikipedia. That took some doing. The obsessed cat crazies used to really guard that page. A decade or two ago, wikipedia founder Ji
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by tropo 7y ago
This doesn't just affect Trump, or the president, or republicans. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just got sued, using the Trump court ruling as precedent: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-to-face-lawsuit-over-bl...
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by tropo 7y ago
Sulfur candles, commonly used before DDT, probably still work. They burn sulfur, producing sulfur dioxide, which is the water-free gaseous version of sulfurous acid. It's cheap. It wipes out mold spores too. A downside is that stuff li
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by tropo 7y ago
The hatchet wasp lays eggs in the cockroach egg cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaniidae
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by tropo 7y ago
Trains are usually most expensive. They are also often delayed. Exceptions are some subway systems (Boston, New York) and the Acela Express. To "explore some of the towns", you really need a car. Our fuel is cheap if you avoid the
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by tropo 7y ago
That appeals court ruling is now being used in a case filed against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-to-face-lawsuit-over-bl...
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by tropo 7y ago
There is probably more you'd agree on, but only the inflammatory stuff really makes the news. I see that the news did actually cover Trump going into North Korea last week, but it sure was buried -- did you see that it happened? Also r
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by tropo 7y ago
We made it all illegal, ignoring the fact that not all Americans can afford the fancy stuff. Maybe there was even offense taken that some people would have less-fancy things. So now our typical building code says you have to pay for copper
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by tropo 7y ago
Yes, religiosity is inheritable. It's been proven with twin studies. Therefore, if religious people have more kids, having more kids is inheritable. (and also the world becomes more religious) https://www.newscientist.com&#x

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