jbb555

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by jbb555 10y ago
Presumably this flaw explains why zip files are so obscure and difficult to use. (Yeah it's no great but clearly it's not been an issue)
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by jbb555 10y ago
I'm not a fan of BAD change.
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by jbb555 10y ago
Who does that?
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by jbb555 10y ago
Ultimately a clear majority of the UK population is in favor of leave. This has increased since the vote as the lies of the remain campaign proved not to be true. Much of the remain support is concentrated in a handful of London consistence
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by jbb555 10y ago
What exactly are people using the linux shell for? It's fun, but given that you can't easily access windows files and you can't use it to run things like the visual C++ compiler you can't easily use it to script windows
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by jbb555 10y ago
Bitcoin seems to be going through an issue at the moment where many transactions are taking hours to complete due to a large backlog. This might be transient but when I ask any questions about so what happens if volume doubles, I just get a
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by jbb555 10y ago
People STILL confuse the construction of software with the construction of buildings. We can estimate fairly accurately how long it will take to build a building once we have reasonable plans for it. I can pretty accurately say that it will
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by jbb555 10y ago
Yeah sure. But it's not a good solution really. First of all I don't really want to pay any more. Secondly, if everyone has to do this in order to get their transactions processed in a reasonable time, then nobody is any better of
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by jbb555 10y ago
As others have said "mining" is really not a good name for what is happening. What the miners are really doing is the work that is necessary to confirm and secure the transactions. When they do that, if they are the first miner to
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by jbb555 10y ago
I've had transactions waiting for 8 hours now for a confimation. And some more new ones this morning for 3 hours now without a single confirmation. All of these contains the default fees added by the clients and which were sufficient l
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by jbb555 10y ago
This looks good to me. It looks like it is not just another bitcoin clone, it has genuine, and well thought out improvements. I'll probably try it out unlike all the others.
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by jbb555 10y ago
A whole article about why space elevators would be better than rockets with only the slight problem that we don't know of any way to build one with any materials we have. If we are allowed to do that, I think we should use star trek tr
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by jbb555 10y ago
If you have windows "Pro".... Which most people won't have.
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by jbb555 10y ago
I think we should define a low level learning virtual machine. Basically something like a C64 but updated to be a bit more modern. Have a virtual 4 core CPU that runs a fake machine code, have memory mapped IO so that you can put a pixel on
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by jbb555 10y ago
> It did one thing and did it better than anything else of the same era I would argue that it still does. It's not a great language, but to just get something working I still can't think of anything better that doesn't req
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by jbb555 10y ago
Spoiler: Because they are more interested in pushing their own politics than helping people.
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by jbb555 10y ago
I don't think they got this right. It's easy to find terms with hindsight that correlated well with what happened (even if you test that prediction with some of your data and reject ones that didn't work). It's not so ob
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by jbb555 10y ago
Agree entirely with all this. You know what you get with C and it just works as you expect always. I always feel refreshed after writing C. There are perhaps a few very minor enhancements I'd suggest, but I'd be very reluctant to
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by jbb555 10y ago
Really, it doesn't do IPv6? How could they launch such a faulty product. If it was 3 years ago maybe, but it's not really optional now.
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by jbb555 10y ago
Most of my connections are over ipv6. If this doesn't support ipv6 then it can only connect to legacy sites. Yes that's pretty much all sites today but this is inexcusable in a new product.
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by jbb555 10y ago
The only people who think that javascript and the javascript "ecosystem" is anything other than an utter disaster seem to be those who've never used anything else.
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by jbb555 10y ago
I have a few hobby projects stored on github and it's easy to get linux VMs so that when I commit something it gets checked out and built and packaged automatically. It's easy to find a VM for a reasonable monthly price. But it se
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by jbb555 10y ago
I do feel that the javascript people have made C++ look simple. Not so much the language perhaps, but making programs in it..
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by jbb555 10y ago
Good. The problem of course is that you still need the coal generation capacity for winter, and if you hardly use it other times, it becomes really expensive for the capacity it's providing.
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by jbb555 10y ago
Awesome!
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by jbb555 10y ago
Absolutely. Sure, minimize loss of all life where you can of course. But the purpose of the device is to protect the driver. If it can't even manage that it's broken.
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by jbb555 10y ago
This isn't hard. First prioritize the car occupants. The _whole_point_ of the device is to drive them. Second, don't swerve off course to make value judgements on who should live. That is just murder. Third try to minimize loss of
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by jbb555 10y ago
It would be interesting to see visual c++ on there too, although I imagine both the practical and licensing aspects make this too difficult
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by jbb555 10y ago
Ooh nice, I like being able to compare two compilers or options
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by jbb555 10y ago
I got the same a number of years ago when I went through a difficult recruitment process to get a job, and got the offer and in the end turned it down because after extended consideration that it just wasn't the right job for me even t

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