cdellin

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by cdellin 11y ago
I'm as strong a supporter of a citizen's right to encryption as anyone, but I actually think that Mr. Comey's testimony was accurate and forthright, and his framing of the issue of encryption as it relates to the capabilities
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by cdellin 11y ago
From the section you referenced: "He [the President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;" I think that your claim that the only
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by cdellin 12y ago
I disagree very strongly with your purported equivalence between Karunamon's argument and that of the NSA. My primary problem with the NSA is that they (a) use their position of power to install backdoors in hardware/software&#x2F
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by cdellin 12y ago
Did you try it? It gets the 4+6+5 and CVC on the front just right!
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by cdellin 12y ago
> This is a ridiculous stance, in my opinion. > Part of the appeal of libraries is abstracting away implementation details. I want to be able to have foo.h #include a hash table, or a binary search tree, depending on #ifdef's or
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by cdellin 14y ago
"The real WTF (that you, me, and the OP probably agree on) is the California initiative process, which forces/allows citizens to act as legislators." I definitely agree with this (-: You're right, in that a reasonably informed voter should
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by cdellin 14y ago
While your points may be entirely true, in my opinion they are no excuse for failing to make clear the retroactivity of the proposition.
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by cdellin 14y ago
Just a correction: the code is actually perfectly portable. The integer constant 0 is the canonical definition of the null pointer by definition in the standard (See Section 6.2.2.3 "Pointers" in C89). The null pointer constant (NULL) is
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by cdellin 16y ago
Just a note - all radiation levels reported from around the plant are measured in milli(m)/micro(u)-sieverts(Sv) per hour . For comparison, the worldwide average background radiation level is approx. 0.274 uSv/h, and the usa recommended c
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by cdellin 16y ago
Of course this isn't a feature of the language -- but most implementations (e.g. gcc) technically allow this, if you really, really know what you're doing. For example: http://www.cesarbs.org/blog/2010/07/19/run-time-machine-code...