valleyer

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   by valleyer 9y ago

   I'll be off-topic with you. Your scenario seems a little different, because I could still shop with dollars at the 49% of stores that still like me. Whereas if bitcoin replaced dollars, even those 49% of stores that liked me couldn&#
2. 542.▲
   by valleyer 9y ago

   > Also who names emojis Developers of screen readers, for one. If you're on a Mac, use VoiceOver or the "say" command-line tool on an emoji.
3. 543.▲
   by valleyer 9y ago

   If the remote used an almost-audible sound frequency, the dog probably heard it, too... which would basically mean the remote had a failsafe...
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   by valleyer 9y ago

   I've seen this explanation a million times, and I don't think it's very good. Here is one that sounds almost as plausible yet yields the opposite result: Divide the doors into two sets. The first set is the door you chose a
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   by valleyer 9y ago

   Since 2013, Comcast, not GE, owns NBC.
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   by valleyer 9y ago

   If you don't mind my asking, what is that process? I too had an Amazon next-day (Amazon Logistics) delivery erroneously marked as delivered (last Saturday). When I contacted Amazon customer support, they requested that I file a police
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   by valleyer 9y ago

   It sounds like CTF (which I'm admittedly only peripherally aware of through exposure to dtrace) is not really a viable replacement for most DWARF use cases then, right? Why is the size comparison valid?
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   by valleyer 9y ago

   I find it interesting that you took time to mention the possibility of people being "predisposed to being overweight" yet proceeded to make no other affordance for that possibility in your comment. Is it not possible that most peo
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   by valleyer 9y ago

   malloc() and printf(), for example, have mutexes internal to their implementation. Suppose the parent process has two threads. One is about to do a fork, and the other is in the middle of a malloc(). The fork occurs. The parent process
10. 550.▲
    by valleyer 9y ago

    It's illegal nearly everywhere.
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    by valleyer 9y ago

    Apple does this too. Run "strings" on various libraries in Apple's OSes and you will find plenty of instances of bundle identifiers of non-Apple apps.
12. 552.▲
    by valleyer 9y ago

    C has this same problem. Most of the C standard library is unsafe to use between fork and exec of a multithreaded program. This usually includes malloc and printf.
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    by valleyer 9y ago

    That's not at all what the article is about.
14. 554.▲
    by valleyer 9y ago

    Is there some factor you can share that allowed you still to enjoy your “freedom” even after having kids? I share that same fear.
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    by valleyer 9y ago

    Can you give a concrete example of your bad experience with Russian airlines? I'd like to share in your newfound perspective on U.S. airlines.
16. 556.▲
    by valleyer 9y ago

    I don’t think you’re helping your case there with that comparison.
17. 557.▲
    by valleyer 9y ago

    I'm pretty sure your parent comment was characterizing the doctors and hospitals, not the patients, as abusing the system.
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    by valleyer 9y ago

    No, this never happens. (Method implementations can be replaced at runtime.)
19. 559.▲
    by valleyer 9y ago

    This very article shows examples of Siri responding with Wolfram Alpha results.
20. 560.▲
    by valleyer 9y ago

    I'm guessing you get over that quickly if they pay well and provide a good work-life balance.
21. 561.▲
    by valleyer 9y ago

    What do you suggest?
22. 562.▲
    by valleyer 10y ago

    This makes me wish I had gone to grad school.
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    by valleyer 10y ago

    > Why? Who knows. Possibly for the same reason it's already increasing today: as software becomes more complicated (or complex, depending on your POV), we are shifting toward languages and abstractions better suited to manage that c
24. 564.▲
    by valleyer 10y ago

    Well, no, it's not a euphemism for that, in this case.
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    by valleyer 10y ago

    Mach did not separate BSD into userland (like a true "microkernel") until 3.0. NeXTSTEP did not use Mach 3.0. Mac OS X still has the BSD code in the kernel.
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    by valleyer 10y ago

    You're right. Good thing Lou Gehrig owns ALS, and Duff owns Duff's device then.
27. 567.▲
    by valleyer 10y ago

    if (x = 5) is a default warning in clang (and I think gcc) nowadays.
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    by valleyer 10y ago

    That sounds awful! Is that just a "laptop" rule (i.e. are "desktops" exempt)?
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    by valleyer 10y ago

    You aren't allowed to have source on your laptop? How do you edit it? Through some web editor? Serious question!
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    by valleyer 10y ago

    Journaling filesystems don't "journal" all the activity in perpetuity. They typically just journal the changes until they're committed to disk, usually for less than a second. See http://www.nobius.org/~