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by yew 12y ago
If a Liberty Mutual policy's premiums specifically take said activity into account, their actuaries must have considered that activity in the process of putting it to paper, yes? At which point (it seems to me) calling it 'abuse
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by yew 12y ago
IEEE floats are (nominally) deterministic in part , although that part [0] doesn't happen to include the transcendental functions. You are right, though, that there's a lot of software out there that assumes determinism without
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by yew 12y ago
It's possible that someone might try to hold Trader Joe's liable for the actions of an unaffiliated reseller. I see no legal basis for considering that they would succeed in doing so - even under strict liability, demonstrating
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by yew 12y ago
My problem with the "you can't pronounce it" argument is that it seems to have more to do with ignorance of chemistry [0] than with health. The idea that having industrial applications makes a chemical compound less likely to
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by yew 12y ago
Could you link an example? Some tiling window manager users just don't care much about appearances (my general approach to window decoration is to get rid of it), but it should be possible to approximate the appearance of windows under
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by yew 12y ago
I can agree with that almost without reservation :)
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by yew 12y ago
The standard permits padding structures, but not reordering their members. That's why container_of is necessary (to avoid constantly-updated manual offset calculations or writing redundant code). Any implementation that reorders stru
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by yew 12y ago
The container_of macro is intended for cases where contained objects are at some (possibly compile-time variable) offset into a structure. Eliding type-checking, it reduces to the simple cast in this particular case. Not to say that it wo
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by yew 12y ago
That's 'collected' only in the sense that the evidence has come into existence and legal proceedings have become a possibility. Speaking only for the US and as far as I'm aware, it isn't necessary for the evidence t
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by yew 12y ago
Ought to be fixed doesn't mean will be fixed, unfortunately. Especially when the people doing the fixing wouldn't be the developers. Fortunately there aren't too many applications that rely on interposition to function. As fo
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by yew 12y ago
The first is faster, of course. Whether or not I want the second depends entirely on what I'm doing :) It certainly shouldn't be the default - it isn't very useful during normal work - but I've been glad to have it befor
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by yew 12y ago
Sure. Much of what I wrote is very x86 specific! Though I believe that a degree of indirection is preserved on AMD64 to enable symbol interposition?
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by yew 12y ago
I don't have much experience with the Windows model, but if I'm understanding you correctly . . . ELF does support load-time relocation, as appears to be done under Windows if two base addresses conflict. That just isn't the
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by yew 12y ago
Look at the footnote on page 18 of the opinion for a smidgen of context - it doesn't exactly explicitly mention wiretapping, but "the collection or inspection of aggregated digital information . . . under other circumstances"
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by yew 12y ago
Does the author not understand that significant numbers of people already don't often get the opportunity to eat food that could be described as enjoyable? He seems to dismiss the idea without justification. Given the choice between
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by yew 12y ago
I've always liked to imagine that if influential educators were genuinely interested in learning, they would make a better effort to account for Campbell's Law. Perhaps there is an alternative explanation for the rampant misuse of
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by yew 12y ago
Parody is a specific legal defense against trademark infringement. The idea that trademark holders are always required to 'defend' their trademark regardless of context is simply false. Given that the use here is noncommercial (Pe
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by yew 12y ago
I've found various sources claiming that Starbucks serves coffee at temperatures ranging from ~140 degrees F to ~190 degrees F. Most of these sources claim that their temperature is 'industry-standard'. I haven't been ab
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by yew 13y ago
Taking that a little further, const char *fb[][2] = {{"%d\n", "Fizz\n"}, {"Buzz\n", "FizzBuzz\n"}}; int i; for (i = 1; i <= 100; ++i) printf(fb[i % 5 == 0][i % 3 == 0], i); (It
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by yew 13y ago
Python does provide internal documentation tools via docstrings and the processing/viewing system for them (and the documentation for the standard library is generally good). You might also have a local copy of the online documentation
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by yew 13y ago
It breaks down for threads that only ever get a single viewer (who comments). At least, I don't get the impression that this update is intended to prevent such posts regardless of content (eg a reference to a related paper on some obsc
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by yew 13y ago
Techniques like these are always interesting, even if you don't have much opportunity/need to apply them. The source for software like NetHack might not be a good place to look for best practices, but it can be enlightening in oth
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by yew 13y ago
All corporations play politics (whether well or badly), but some corporations emphasize that aspect of doing business and some deemphasize it . . . Which side Tesla (Musk) happens to fall on is an open question, I think - perhaps you disagr
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by yew 13y ago
An interesting technique for optimizing, in particular, matrix operations in C++ (or even C, with the usual increase in verbosity). Also used in the Eigen math library ( http://eigen.tuxfamily.org ). I hadn't considered the i
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Inferring too much (2011)(lanzkron.wordpress.com)
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by yew 13y ago
If the Hangul and Tamil constructs are anything like ligatures (e.g. fi in the Latin alphabet), I would imagine that's the case most of the time. Plus lots of special rules for which glyphs to treat as single symbols and which to dec
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by yew 13y ago
I agree that formal debates over evolution are counterproductive - they give the impression that evolution and creationism should be taken equally seriously, and anyway they're more about who's a better presenter than who has the
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by yew 13y ago
Thank you (and also to fennecfoxen)! My background in physics isn't sufficient to be sure of my interpretation of the details here. I usually ignore implications of immediate world-changing revolution in popular science reporting (they
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by yew 13y ago
Can anyone with a background in physics and/or interpreting Nature publications comment on this? It appears to be a peer-reviewed publication, rather than something merely published. My understanding of Dirac's monopole hypothes
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by yew 13y ago
Mr. Obama hasn't changed more than would be expected over several years and, while I can't speak with certainty, I would be very surprised to find out that he was lying about his views during the presidential campaign (I don'

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