ank_the_elder

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Everything you need to know about pointers in C (2010)(boredzo.org)
26 points by ank_the_elder 6y ago|24 comments
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Your statements show staggering ignorance - and your map is deceptive and false. A common misperception is that all the Jews were forced into exile by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E. an
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
> There is a hardline element in some of the Arab populace who takes a violent approach to Judaism (indeed, many other religions too) - this is regrettable at best, and unlikely to ever be removed. Hence why Israel needs to exist, and wh
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
An English person speaking English in England? What a miracle!
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Whether you like it or not, Israel has the right to defend itself. When you live next to a chunk of land controlled by a terrorist group that wants nothing but your destruction, fires rockets from hospitals and has no concept of the value o
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
How do you explain Iran's 2016 Holocaust Cartoon Contest, featuring Holocaust Denialism? https://www.ushmm.org/confront-antisemitism/holocaust-denial...
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Well let's see... do you mean giving them Judea and Samaria (ancient Jewish land now dubbed 'the West Bank'?) That sounds like a great deal to me, to be honest. EDIT: if you are downvoting this, please explain where I'm
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Is that the actual murder rate or the conviction rate? Remember that women are less likely to be convicted than men are.
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Have you heard about Narrative Therapy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_therapy Seems like you are describing a part of it.
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
You stated that Dr. Seligman "measured their success in life" - I find that assertion to be rather suspect. How is it possible to measure success objectively? It also sounds to me like a pessimistic attitude can be very useful, es
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Thanks for that link, I was looking for a book just like that when I tried to learn Japanese 10 years ago and gave up - I may give it another go soon.
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
I believe in psychology this is called white and black thinking. It's one of the many red flags I've found reading your comments. This idea of labelling people 'good' or 'bad' based on a single minimal interact
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Great follow up to this article - thanks!
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
And what do we do when the moderator uses that button to ban someone purely for his or her opinions being on the wrong side of the political spectrum, or unpalatable to the moderator?
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
But surely threats and sarcasm are not at the same level...?
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Not hard-nosed at all - Apple was holding pretty much all the cards!
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
The level of condescension required to write something like that is truly astounding. Not only are you assuming everyone who disagrees with you is wrong - but you are assuming that the error stems from youth, and in particular from "ba
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
"How much did Return of the Jedi cost to make?" "$32.5 million" "And how much was the revenue?" "$475 million" "So you had a $442.5 million profit!" "No, no. We had no profit - we use H
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
I have tried to edit a file with a little bit of long JSON that came from a server (less than 50K) and atom completely froze trying to display it. This was two weeks ago. I've ditched Atom entirely.
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted, as this is accurate. Lots of n-words there in strange contexts... for instance: "I juts gotta kill time until the tranquilizers wear-off. God is perfectly just. the [n-word] doesn't know that.&quot
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
I'm not sure whether they care or not, but anecdotally, I've been waiting ~2 years for an up to date Retina MacBook Pro with a refreshed, up to date intel CPU.
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
I'm aware of svchost, however I'm not sure I agree with his comment about the technique being "outdated" without more information on what he meant precisely. Did he mean that... using a monolithic process is outdated? us
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
"svchost.exe (the whole philosophy of preserving RAM this way became outdated years ago)." What does he mean by that, exactly?
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
I love this article. My own stepmother just retired from a 30+ year old career as a COBOL programmer. One of my first gigs was actually doing a bit of COBOL myself - it's an interesting language in that the database access is built int
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
That's one lucky farm owner
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
And a lot of people do not neatly fall into a 'black,' 'hispanic' or 'white' box and yet we see left wing parties and actors defending these labels, while attacking the traditional gender binary. If anything, t
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
What would prevent me from putting a simple IR filter in front of my phone?
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Author: "R. M. Renfield." Very curious!
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
And let's not forget: Editor for Middle Aged Computer Scientists Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift Tt's still my favourite, though.
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by ank_the_elder 10y ago
Is your criticism about the fact that pickle is language-specific or about it being a binary format?

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