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by weland 13y ago
> I would rather have usenet like hierarchical database access to articles rather than weighty web driven portal that will not very parseable and has a tendency to change over time and often disappear. Aye, so would I. USENET was clunky
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by weland 13y ago
Dude, don't do it.
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by weland 13y ago
Ah, correct. As I mentioned, I'm only acquainted with fluid mechanics from a course I took a long time ago in uni. To be fair, this is basic physics though, I'll go cry myself to sleep.
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by weland 13y ago
No dispute here, I was just pointing out that OS X not only stems from Unix (as does, say, FreeBSD), but the "is-a" property also stems from the Open Group actually putting a stamp on it. This isn't to say OS X is "more
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by weland 13y ago
> A whole lot of real-life stuff is either parallel or does not need heavy computing. This is why people started building massively parallel computers well before the last 6 years[0]. Exactly. A lot of the GPGPU pitch is easily refuted w
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by weland 13y ago
> However, a massively parallel GPU code will likely beat multi-thread CPU code there. Yes, but if you actually try to do it, you'll find that "massively parallel" code can be written only for certain problems that lend th
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by weland 13y ago
IIRC it is actually a certified Unix.
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by weland 13y ago
You could write off both in theory. However, writing off student loans is not profitable to the people who can write it off, whereas writing off savings accounts is.
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by weland 13y ago
I am not an expert in wind turbines, but I am technically an EE, so I have seen a thing or two. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, the principle of operation superficially looks OK. The weird shape probably gives more flexibilit
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by weland 13y ago
Whoever told you that nice vertical scrolling effect is awesome should be shot. Honestly, what the fuck is that? Can someone actually read that page?
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by weland 13y ago
After 10 AM it is. Following various events in highschool, I ended up with a fucked-up sleep schedule. I'm generally fine with 6-7 hours of sleep, but unless they're from 3 AM to 10 AM, I'm useless. Even this is more or less
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by weland 13y ago
I confess that I haven't actually read the article, I assumed that by lattice you meant a discretization grid. Sorry!
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by weland 13y ago
> GNU grep also tried very hard to set things up so that the kernel could ALSO avoid handling every byte of the input, by using mmap() instead of read() for file input. At the time, using read() caused most Unix versions to do extra c
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by weland 13y ago
I've heard this a couple of times. Much of the startup founding crowd reads this the wrong way. Top talent seeks better perks because they already have a high salary. When you are already paid well over what you need, getting your ow
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by weland 13y ago
> It could also use relative coordinates - each particle in the simulation is defined based on the angle and distance to the nearest other particle. (Where angle is relative to the spin axis of the particle - no global angle.) Are you su
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by weland 13y ago
The Internet ought to get you a beer.
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by weland 13y ago
You are as confused as I (still am) about the cloud :-). It's a cheap, stupid marketing ploy that honestly doesn't mean anything. Originally, it may have referred to IP(v6)-enabled small home automation devices, like smart light
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by weland 13y ago
> No beginner programmer (the premise of the article) will loop over a string backwards. No beginner programmer will put the decrement in the test slot like you did, in order to make i have valid values in the loop body. So no beginner p
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by weland 13y ago
Care to comment on which of those points you found valid?
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by weland 13y ago
I'm well-aware that bash is a (if not the) popular choice on desktops and servers, but my terse and somewhat snarky answer was motivated by two other factors: 1. Not only do distributions like Debian or Ubuntu use dash, but various oth
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by weland 13y ago
> I’m using Linux shell on daily basis, but I often forgot some useful command or shell tip. I hate to be overly pedantic, but what shell would that be? There is no such thing as the Linux shell.
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by weland 13y ago
Yep, this is a good summary of it. I'm seriously contemplating lurking on Gopher again, just to get rid of all this crap.
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by weland 13y ago
It's ok, most of us, men, would stick our penises into anything.
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by weland 13y ago
> But i do not see the point why i would want to build a new application that targets JS in C++. The main reasons I'd avoid writing any application that is either performance-sensitive or at least modestly complex are bad (or some
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by weland 13y ago
> If you know JS fairly well, you're able to understand nearly everything under the hood if you want to. Your definition of "under the hood" is somewhat questionable. Yes, you can understand everything down to the JS layer
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by weland 13y ago
> Everything that runs on Linux is accounted for. Every binary that runs in the memory has a very specific purpose, and everything in the kernel is screened by a mountain of people. Nothing is actually happening without the user knowing
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by weland 13y ago
I still do that fairly often. Audacious can load Winamp skins. Sometimes its interface borks on my collection (35,000+ songs), but it's responsive enough. My desktop still looks very much like it did in the 1990s...
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by weland 13y ago
I don't mean to go all Richard Stallman (who is looking less and less like a crackpot every day!), but the moral of the story for users is, you should not install anything that is not open to the scrutiny of the community. If the sourc
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by weland 13y ago
> One day, some forty-fifty years from now people will look back at this age and label it no differently than we now label the age of the robber barons. [1] I suspect the same.
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by weland 13y ago
> I know that they have legal counsels and all. But do they really sit down and weigh the legal ramifications and discuss who shall be thrown under the bus, if things should flare up? I come from a country where this used to be fairly wi

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