blorsh

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by blorsh 8y ago
No, type punning via unions is a gcc extension. The standard only allows reading a value as the type it was written with or as char, and an access as char is only good for copying. If a char access used different bit order, that would be OK
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by blorsh 9y ago
Assuming brain changes only, more like: looks like a chimpanzee, can't really talk due to throat limitations, can't walk very well, but likes to read and write
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by blorsh 9y ago
The only real solution to gerrymandering is to use a minimally-complicated algorithm. The algorithm need not actually determine the districts. It can instead simply rate proposals, allowing a contest to be held. The highest scoring proposal
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by blorsh 9y ago
I found the comment to be insightful. I'm trying to find his violation, and I can't really. There are a few things that are close, maybe, but not really. "political or ideological battle" and "shallow dismissals&quo
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by blorsh 9y ago
Ah, but why were there children and old people being murdered en masse? It's because humans naturally resist what was being imposed upon them. The smart and able-bodied are going to get more, and they will resist any effort to prevent
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by blorsh 9y ago
IDA Pro is far more usable, particularly for heavy-duty long-term users. There is a bit of a learning curve, but IDA Pro has a really efficient interface. You get the beauty and readability and nice flowchart-like layout that can be done in
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by blorsh 9y ago
The politician pays the union. The union pays the politician. So both are getting paid, out of money taken by force from the population. Neither has an interest in making this stop. About the only hope is that 1-sided political donations wi
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by blorsh 9y ago
You also have two parties, the "government" and the "opposition". They are created after the election. At that point, the voters no longer get any say. The voters don't even know what they will get. Consider a situa
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by blorsh 9y ago
Ultrasound does damage brain tissue. It has been studied in China, where evidently it was considered ethical to do so. Search terms: China ultrasound study What this does to the population's average mental ability and sanity is an inte
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by blorsh 9y ago
Numerous states had already sued the Obama administration in the other direction. (DACA being unlawful in the first place) Due to those still-ongoing lawsuits, DACA was probably about to go down in flames already.
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by blorsh 9y ago
The direct flight requirement is odd. Adding flights is trivial, and it will happen if Amazon is buying the tickets. Airlines like to make money.
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by blorsh 9y ago
Salt should come from mines. The sea salt craze has always seemed odd to me. Have most people in the USA never been to a beach? Do people really think that the sea is a good source of salt? What I associate with the sea: seagull droppings,
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by blorsh 9y ago
How much job capacity do you personally need? Isn't it enough to have just one job? Many cities have that and more, and it only takes one job to support a family. I hope you don't expect to lose your job every few months, but in c
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by blorsh 9y ago
This is a good Chinese restaurant, but you hint at a way to improve the menu. The menu should be a grid, properly displaying the matrix.
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by blorsh 9y ago
Hurricanes reach to 60,000 feet.
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by blorsh 9y ago
This is exactly what you'd do in a Concorde, U-2, SR-71, F-15, or F-22. All of these can get to the required FL600, at 60000 feet. The F-15 and F-22 have an extra bonus. They can climb straight up through the eye. The U-2 could probabl
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by blorsh 9y ago
Regular cars need this. Leave a car for months, and you'll get back to a dead battery. Keyless entry won't work. You can't roll down the windows. Settings may be forgotten. There is no way to start the engine. Leave a car out
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by blorsh 9y ago
He comes from a country called South Africa. He's literally an African-American. There would be a birth certificate issue. I suppose he could be president of South Africa.
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by blorsh 9y ago
You say that Zig has no macros, just like FORTRAN, but that isn't a language property at all. Technically, C has no macros, but most people use the C preprocessor. I've seen people preprocess with sed scripts, perl scripts, tr, py
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by blorsh 9y ago
That is way too dismissive, wrongly comparing total cyclone energy with what we can generate. A more reasonable objection would be that we don't desire a radioactive cyclone. This is an obvious downside, though there are low-fallout de
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by blorsh 9y ago
They left out the recent DARPA idea of helicopter-style blades that retract into a disk-like wing. They left out designs that transition rapidly and automatically, without sustained hover. For example, an aircraft with a pair of thrust-vect
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by blorsh 9y ago
If your non-action could be construed as sheltering/encouraging/aiding the illegal alien with employed in the USA, you're committing a felony. Other coworkers could of course report you for that felony. Here: http:/&#x2
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by blorsh 9y ago
No, the situation is "take it or leave it". Give all the permissions, or don't get to use the app. There are now even web sites (facebook, google maps, yahoo email) that seem to refuse service if you are determined to be on a
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by blorsh 9y ago
It doesn't look Marxist to me, and I don't see how you get long-term sustained competition in an unregulated market. Maybe it worked before the invention of the corporation. You'd buy from an individual human. Fraud would mos
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by blorsh 9y ago
That is just California being California. Other states are cheaper. If you really wanted to be cheap, you could outsource to a foreign country. You could fly people to the other side of the world and still save money.
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by blorsh 9y ago
If "learning and developing new skills" isn't the exact same thing as test preparation, then the test needs to be fixed. Good tests matter. Teaching to the test is the same thing as teaching the material needed, given that th
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by blorsh 9y ago
Fox and Breitbart have both lost key leaders due to death. (and other causes) They are both rapidly transitioning to the views of typical reporters (journalism majors), which will soon put them on the left. Breitbart has even started firing
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by blorsh 9y ago
The USA has rare earth mines in California. They got shut down because China supported mining as a strategic asset, meanwhile the EPA was pretty sadistic. Getting that going again is trivial. If we match the legal situation in China, we&#x2
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by blorsh 9y ago
You forget how it got that way. Parts were made in the USA, then shipped to China. Part production moved. Part production can move the other way, back to the USA. It tends to go where the devices are made. The same goes for raw material. Th
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by blorsh 9y ago
Cryogenic fuel is a reason to use a mountain. Florida's air is humid and dense. You get lots of heat gain from that. The density itself matters. Condensation is a huge source of heat. Freezing is another huge source of heat. So you boi

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