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by webkike 12y ago
A concession to uncertainty is the difference between a religion and a science.
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by webkike 12y ago
Did you read the sentence literally right after your quoted text? > That suggests, but does not prove that that the same group or individuals may have been behind both attacks.
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by webkike 12y ago
Just because it's worse somewhere doesn't mean it's not bad somewhere else
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by webkike 12y ago
As much as I love LSD, I have no idea in what capacity it could possibly be legalized, other than in heavily controlled settings.
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by webkike 12y ago
Very cool, although this implementation is significantly less trivial than C4. The difference is over a thousand lines!
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by webkike 12y ago
None of the tiny self-compiling C compilers could possibly used to compile xv6, as none of them implement structures (arguably the hardest part of compiling C code).
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by webkike 12y ago
Lost me at the end, but good point in general, I think?
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by webkike 12y ago
It must have been a hard decision to make that change -- the current maintainers really hate breaking defaults. I suppose it's just that useful to have.
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by webkike 12y ago
What? Emacs isn't a big Lisp interpreter. It's a text editor that is extensible with Emacs Lisp. Sure it contains a Lisp interpreter, but saying that Emacs is only a Lisp interpreter implies that the entirety of the text editor is
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by webkike 12y ago
I've been going off like a broken record in the comment pages for these posts, since I'm such an Emacs fanatic. But I'll say it again, this release is great! Rectangular mark mode, better web browser -- Emacs hasn't stop
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by webkike 12y ago
This looks incredible, hopefully we'll be able to upload scripts we write on desktops. But more likely they'll have some stupidly small limit and only inputable from the console. It'll probably be measured in Nintendo "b
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by webkike 12y ago
This release has so many incredible new features. Great job Emacs team!
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by webkike 12y ago
There actually wasn't very much discussion on this. There are many features of Emacs that can be turned on or off based on the system, and this is just one more.
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by webkike 12y ago
Dlls essentially. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries...
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by webkike 12y ago
Emacs development is going quite incredibly right now. For those unread on the mailing list, here are what I consider to be the most important updates of the past week or two: * 24.4 will be released next Monday (yay!) * Dynamic module s
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by webkike 12y ago
For all we know, that result is a complete facsimile of the original source. But then again, we don't have the source.
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by webkike 12y ago
Do you think this is appropriate to cover in a learning exercise that is intended to be simple?
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by webkike 12y ago
Thank you.
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by webkike 12y ago
This has been discussed before. It's the distinction between the collector being precise and conservative. Conservative collectors are fine because they err on the side of retaining memory rather than freeing it. As I stated before, in
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by webkike 12y ago
Indeed, the garbage collector is not precise. However, in practice, the situation you describe does not tend to occur that often. Intuitively there is a 1/4 chance on 32 bit machines, but the chances are actually much due lower to the
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Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C(web.engr.illinois.edu)
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by webkike 12y ago
Perhaps it's not an icon, and was meant to indicate eXit. I know must use 'q' for quit, but I've seen a few programs that use 'x'
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by webkike 12y ago
What do you mean? The BIOS is a configuration tool - it's entire purpose is to allow you to configure the CPU. It's not that the instructions depended on the BIOS, but that they couldn't be enabled with it. If you have a swit
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by webkike 12y ago
Sure it's legal, but the bug you are demonstrating is uninteresting. It may not even technically be a violation of the C standard
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by webkike 12y ago
When I read the new PHP spec, I threw up in my mouth after I saw that empty("0") was a special case of empty that returned TRUE. I know that's how PHP normally works, but that doesn't really make my mouth taste any bette
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by webkike 12y ago
String Theory is only more popular because there are ted talks on it and thus people who shouldn't hold an opinion on the matter do.
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by webkike 12y ago
Compilers are complex, and these conditionals had to be evaluated in some way. Sure the author could have split it up into multiple if statements, but would have that really helped?
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by webkike 12y ago
I didn't really read very far before I discovered an incredibly sexist comparison and decided to stop reading. I'm sorry but if you were looking for a comment with worth this certainly isn't it.
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by webkike 12y ago
It may simply be because Krebs has a history of unveiling important members of the cyber crime business.
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by webkike 12y ago
I'm actually connected to one of these hotspots right now. I had just moved in to this new apartment and hadn't yet had time to set up internet. But lo and behold there's this public network called "xfinitywifi", an

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