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by zzalpha 11y ago
Actually it's still a useful question, I think. A simple example is function argument evaluation order. If you have: foo(bar(), baz()) A compiler is free to call these functions in either order. That means if baz relies on state muta
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Headline is misleading. What's going on here is that the GCC developers feel free to change the generated code for behaviour undefined in the C spec. This means they might alter the behaviour of code since 40% of all packages in Debia
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Actual content: http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-raises-another-105-m...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
No one is overweight/obese because of gut bacteria. That is an excellent baseless assertion you have there! Care to back that up with facts? Or should we just take your word for it?
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Well that doesn't make sense... calories in, calories out, thermodynamics, it's as simple as that, right?!? Edit: Seems I've inadvertently demonstrated Poe's Law...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Indeed, my hoopy frood!
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Well, save for the massive addiction and lethal withdrawl symptoms. I generally agree with decriminalization/legalization but that doesn't justify being cavalier about drugs or painting them as some sort of universal good that hav
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Well, clearly you're not in the valley, where people are expected to sleep under their desks and thank their employer for the privilege. ;) Agreed, certainly at any company that has strong security policies (I'd imagine telecom, f
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Large companies? Any company leasing office space with a badged security system (is, any modern office tower) would allow this.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
One of these days I hope to understand the modern fear of vowels...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Eventually, yes. Unfortunately current vision systems don't cope well with obscured roads, or even precipitation. My guess is that'll take changes to infrastructure. With snow packed roads you simply can't see lines on the r
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by zzalpha 11y ago
I'd imagine the horses were telling themselves the same thing back when the automobile hit the scene... Robots have already replaced human jobs. They started with factory labour, but today they're trading our stocks, diagnosing d
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by zzalpha 11y ago
The difference is that's a standard embedded DSL (another excellent example is C#'s LINQ). Inventing your own alien syntax is a recipe for long-term code maintenance disaster. Anyone who's worked on a codebase that's
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by zzalpha 11y ago
A well-designed DSL should be self-documenting and obvious. ROFL. You're adorable. :) You're also conveniently ignoring the maintenance required on the DSL itself. DSLs are, themselves, code, and code must be tested, updated,
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Yes, so you should definitely do something that makes it infinitely easier to steal your passwords once you're compromised... why go through the trouble of installing a keylogger or other malware when they can just copy the contents of
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by zzalpha 11y ago
accelerated after a long struggle to find funding and a sound business model. Or maybe, you know, that was the problem? Lack of funding, no business model... Gee, why couldn't they retain top talent???
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Source: http://www.iab.com/news/lean/ LOLFR: We were so clever and so good at it that we over-engineered the capabilities That is true, gold plated BS! Beautiful! More importantly: L.E.A.N. Ads do not replace
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Sure. But that's a pretty extreme case. Chip, alone (that is, chip and sign), is intended to prevent card duplication, which represents the vast majority of credit card fraud. Chip and pin is intended to prevent lost or stolen cards f
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Meanwhile, credit card companies are attempting to use Chip and Pin to push liability back onto the consumer. Their reasoning is that chip and pin is so secure, the only way you can commit fraud is by acquiring the pin, and that's the
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by zzalpha 11y ago
The comments about VR are misguided. Products like Oculus don't involve an app gatekeeper who can control what is and isn't run on the platform. It's an agnostic peripheral, like a keyboard or a mouse. That said, it's
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by zzalpha 11y ago
but it's also ok to formulate testable hypotheses in here. That's a bit odd... you're basically advocating "[formulating] testable hypotheses" simply to post-justify a choice you've already made. That's
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Yes, I'm sure all of this is true. For you. You are an anecdote, not data. I'm sure I could just as easily trot out examples of folks with bad backs or knees because of extended standing, or due to bad standing posture. I could pr
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by zzalpha 11y ago
You could argue that, but given there's no evidence to support it, it's at best colloquial advice. And to be perfectly blunt, that sounds more like an attempt to go back and justify the choice of a standing desk after the fact, no
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Story is far more nuanced than the title suggests: "Our study overturns current thinking on the health risks of sitting and indicates that the problem lies in the absence of movement rather than the time spent sitting itself," T
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Misleading title. Should be "his" failed search for gravity waves. The article only relates to his experiments and not failures in the field in general.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Not to mention his dismissing computers as "interactive televisions", for example, is absurdly reductionist in an attempt to force his point. Agreed, terrible article.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
That section makes my point for me. From the text: (a) That IPng hosts can also use IPv4 or (b) There is translation by an intermediate system And that "The transition plans espoused by the various proposals are simply different comb
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Specifics, please. How do you extend the address space such that old devices in legacy addresses can communicate with new devices in an extended address space without NAT64-like hacks.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
IP64 would have worked, and would have kicked the can much further than another few decades. If I were asked to invent IP 2.0 I'd have suggested just extending the V4 address space by another 32 bits and calling it a day. And you&#x2
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by zzalpha 11y ago
You've actually hit upon (part of) the answer right there. While IPv4 was designed around the (then) new 32 bit processors of the day, the committee that came up with v6 decided to ignore the underlying hardware reality. There's

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