xenadu02

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2011.
by xenadu02 12y ago
When I was a kid we had ISDN bonded for an insanely fast 128k to the internet. Unfortunately our ISP was in another city and the telco had only configured 8 of the 256 available trunk channels, so sometimes channel B would get routed to now
2012.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Right, but flexbox is fairly new. CSS sucked because it made the most common things people want to do really really difficult. Most people gave up and went back to tables because tables give you an understandable grid layout with trivial ef
2013.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Who stopped building highways? In the Dallas area we've been building and expanding them non-stop for decades now. My experience is people have simply moved further out, increasing traffic flowing into the newly expanded/built roa
2014.
by xenadu02 12y ago
No, it doesn't. Why can't some of you understand basic economics? For simplicity, let us have City Core (C), the suburbs reachable with a one hour commute at the worst (S), and the rural area/farmland (F) further out, and ult
2015.
by xenadu02 12y ago
I'm sorry but you are simply way off base. When a road is expanded, it does temporarily shorten commute times and reduce traffic. But that makes the cheap land farther away from everything more desirable, causing people to move out fur
2016.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Simple fix: "We're conducting a scientific study on mood for the next three months. Would you mind participating? The study won't require you to do anything special or take any further action. Y/N?" There we go kids
2017.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Android's permissions system is useless anyway so it really doesn't matter what they do with it. Most people don't read the permissions and wouldn't know what some of them mean even if they did (let alone that sometimes
2018.
by xenadu02 12y ago
The complaints about clang optimizations are misplaced; the example relies on undefined behavior; regardless of what you think about it, all compilers are free to do such things. This is also a classic case of optimizing for the wrong and u
2019.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Huh? Samsung pays kickbacks to sales people and carriers. At least with regards to their top of the line phones, that's how they have muscled out all their Android competitors. It's a vicious cycle that you can't sustain unle
2020.
by xenadu02 12y ago
No, it wouldn't require Java (thankfully). The problem is the IO driver abstractions available on each platform are wildly different. Getting working filesystem driver code on Windows (7/8), Mac OS, and Linux is a non-trivial task
2021.
by xenadu02 12y ago
The critical difference is the SSDs all indicated they were "past expiration date" with the SMART wear indicators. The Samsung indicators were overly conservative it appears, dropping to dead long before the drive actually died. T
2022.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Sad thing is they had a product like this, Services for Unix but it was a server product that never got much love or attention. IIRC, it extended the POSIX personality to give you a true Unix environment running on the NT kernel. A lot of p
2023.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Why do these stories always bring out the white-knight nerds crying about "entrapment" or questioning if a crime was truly committed? Entrapment would be if undercover agents stopped you on the street and hassled you to come insid
2024.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Warning: This is highly simplified and thus not exactly correct. The temperature at which a substance freezes, melts, condenses, or boils is not fixed, but varies with pressure. When a liquid crosses the "critical temperature" (at
2025.
by xenadu02 12y ago
As a reasonably successful white male, let me explain: It is quite obvious, if you bother to look, that the majority of black and hispanic students do not have as much access as us whites. They are more often from single-parent households o
2026.
by xenadu02 12y ago
In a way, randomness would be preferable because those with ability (who otherwise wouldn't meet the criteria or pass the tests) would get a chance to succeed. The ones that flunk out would make room for some more random attempts. Even
2027.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Heartbleed. Majority of all SSL keys on the internet compromised. All ~2 billion of humans on the internet required to change their passwords due to a single mistake by a single programmer using C. That's billions of human beings wasti
2028.
by xenadu02 12y ago
When I read the OP I was thinking exactly along these lines. There are a lot of nifty tricks you can use with atomic compare-exchange. The Mac/iOS equivalent is the OSAtomicCompareAndSwap family of functions. For C# users, I wrote abo
2029.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Seems like a state-financed targeted attack. It only has to last long enough to get the target (a user of truecrypt) to switch off it. My guess is whoever they are going after is being inundated with links to the page. They must also be a W
2030.
by xenadu02 12y ago
This is one of those wonderful "theory meets practice" issues. US history is full of people arguing on similar technicalities and courts universally reject them as such. There is zero chance you could commit a semi-major or major
2031.
by xenadu02 12y ago
That's correct, it is just rare due to the ubiquity of the fungus, which has spread far and wide and maintains a continuous low level in the former growing environments. Many of the other cultivars spoil quickly, making them difficult
2032.
by xenadu02 12y ago
Some of the links I posted to stack overflow; the top-voted answer there (as of this writing) was wildly incorrect, claiming it to be a mistake. It is not. Any invalid calculation produces NaN as opposed to raising an exception/signal