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by weland 13y ago
Yeah, but can you trust capacitors nowadays?
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by weland 13y ago
> but also because its basically anti-IP. And, most remarkably, according to the EU legislation which tends to hinder lobbyists, at least once in a blue moon.
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by weland 13y ago
I can wholeheartedly confirm this. The cheap Chinese knock-off companies are basically beyond the reach of Western law.
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by weland 13y ago
Well, who knows if someone's gonna be so pissed off at tax collectors that he's gonna blow a fucking plane out of the sky. I mean, really pissed off. Sorry, I couldn't find anything better :(. I've taken the Devil&#x27
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by weland 13y ago
As far as I can understand, as with every organization in the world, when the-entity-that-represents-the-marketing-and-legal-concerns of that organization writes a cease and desist, it kind of comes from that organization. The USB IF itself
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by weland 13y ago
If you already have a codebase that's littered with STL, you need to make a few changes here and there. I was thinking about "porting your codebase to Qt", which isn't quite a correct usage. Sorry, it was kind of late in
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by weland 13y ago
I'm in the same camp. It makes porting difficult, indeed; but frankly, I'd use QThis and QThat over STL any day.
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by weland 13y ago
It's fairly common, unfortunately.
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by weland 13y ago
I'm only casually familiar with chemistry, but I used to do research of a similar type (only far worse, of course) related to electromagnetism. You know the main mechanisms at work, but that does not mean you can study all the processe
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by weland 13y ago
Empirically, it seems to work so far. My likes are quite eclectic, too, but that's by my design -- my homepage gets feeds related to Machete Kills and Oscar Wilde because I actually like both. Most of the ads are obviously wrong (hair
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by weland 13y ago
> Firstly, Facebook is supposed to provide information about you. I thought it was supposed to help me stay in touch with people and stuff, like they claim on their homepage. I'm adding false information related to my location to co
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by weland 13y ago
Of course. I'm not running from any 3-letter agency, just from overly-aggressive marketers. If I ever did anything a 3-letter agency would be interested in, it definitely wouldn't be on the Internet.
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by weland 13y ago
Yup, you nailed it. I also don't "check Facebook" too often for that to be annoying, and my list of friends isn't all that huge. It's less than 50 people, including the people I don't know. I only stay in touch
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by weland 13y ago
Because Facebook gets really confused about it. Their "list of people you may know" is quite off, they can't recommend any bar or club in my hometown because I never even listed it as my location . Even the "meet single
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by weland 13y ago
I have some interesting anecdotes to share about a somewhat opposite situation. I, uh, I just got a Facebook account. I have actively refused it for a long time, and even now I am very picky about it -- my friends list has a bunch of people
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by weland 13y ago
> Just like the parent said, while he kind of technically complied. But, again, it's more than obvious to everyone that it's not what was expected/demanded from him. Government and judicial institutions do this all the tim
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by weland 13y ago
I'll second nnq's opinion. Quite a few of C++'s quirks are the way they are because of the C in its name.
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by weland 13y ago
I used to, exactly for this reason. I otherwise have a fair deal of aversion to light (the first sunny days of spring are unbearable to me without sunglasses), but I tried to make sure there's plenty of light for me in the morning, as
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by weland 13y ago
Counter-anecdote: I also tried to shift from my extreme night owl schedule to something more reasonable, particularly due to social reasons. I struggled with it for four years -- including dietary change, workouts and alcohol abstinence, an
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by weland 13y ago
> I would hate to try to code such a program in C for connecting to the web. Why would you want to connect a wall switch to the web in the first place? The Internet of Things doesn't necessarily have to mean the WWW of things. For
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by weland 13y ago
Sorry, I didn't want to imply Slackware users are loud-mouthed fanboys, or anything derogatory at all, for that matter. I have used Slackware myself for quite a long time and found the community to be quite wonderful. I was just bashin
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by weland 13y ago
I imagine their custom version removed that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu .
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by weland 13y ago
SLACKWARE IS ALL YOU SHOULD EVER NEED YOU NARROW-MINDED EVANGELIST!!1
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by weland 13y ago
Of course we can leverage existing libraries and standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants complexity pyramids. Slapping a webserver on them isn't necessarily a good approach though.
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by weland 13y ago
> And for all I know, solving problems in the kernel or coding OpenGL could be even worse. For me, solving problems in the kernel is immensely more interesting and rewarding than fixing the n-plus-oneth CSS aligning bug. It also comes wi
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by weland 13y ago
> I've practically never heard of people getting funded with hardware ideas outside of Kickstarter. You mean you've never heard of small startups getting funded with hardware ideas, which is unsurprising considering that it t
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by weland 13y ago
Leveraging the great node ecosystem comes at a significant cost in terms of power consumption, complexity of the manufacturing process, board size and of the system itself. Power consumption and, to some extent, board size have been very
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by weland 13y ago
That's a carricaturized view of it, from which I gather you haven't done much embedded programming. A subset of the (famously thin) standard library is quite sufficient.
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by weland 13y ago
There are many countries, just like India, where exactly the same thing happens. There are countless examples of people who live a wealthy life (this tends to be the common denominator of success in societies where poverty is rampant), but
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by weland 13y ago
> are these things mutually exclusive? I think that once you factor in things like battery life, mass production price and complexity, they are. You can have a swarm of lamp-toggling or temperature-showing things built with two reasonab

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