mich41

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by mich41 11y ago
Digital placebo can work. I was once debugging some issue with my laptop's multimedia buttons driver. I found some tweak which helped: enable the tweak, reboot - works fine, disable tweak, reboot - no go. Tested repeatedly several tim
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by mich41 13y ago
I don't think I would resign from a job because somebody from the company invited Techno Viking to dance at some party. Feminists really should man up and stop crying over everything. One can't take them seriously.
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by mich41 13y ago
You don't need logic, set theory, Turing machines or any meta-mathematics to build practical software. When I was ten, I had no idea about any of this stuff and yet when somebody showed me how to do arithmetic, variable assignments, compari
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by mich41 13y ago
You're invited to a conference that's relevant to your position and your industry. To a party relevant to your industry. When you arrive, a number of hired twentysomething men are milling about wearing tight tee-shirts, padded crotches,
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by mich41 13y ago
In case somebody wonders what constitutes "women dancers in revealing clothing". http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/03/27/reall...
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by mich41 13y ago
I have no problem with people using 4 spaces for indentation. However, damned shall be those who think that tabs are anything but 8 spaces wide and actually use them this way in their code. Tabs really are 8 spaces wide and every terminal
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by mich41 13y ago
Well, the Prophet is a C programmer so his numbers may need adjustment by some constant for languages with objects, namespaces, modules, etc. But still excessive indentation is a hint that the code may benefit from some refactoring.
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by mich41 13y ago
Roundness of the Earth is equally insane. But both are facts. m@sauron:~ $ echo -e '\tx' x
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by mich41 13y ago
Prophet says: Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a 80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 level
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by mich41 13y ago
Yes, it is annoying when random discussions get derailed by feminists. And no, it makes me (and probably most others) want them to leave.
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by mich41 13y ago
AMD AM2/AM3 CPUs support ECC. It will work provided that the motherboard has the extra wiring required and BIOS support is enabled. Some vendors (notably ASUS) advertise ECC support on many cheap AMD motherboards. AFAIK to get ECC with Inte
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by mich41 13y ago
CS is much more than the UTM. UTM is a dumb and completely impractical model of computation. Thanks to its simplicity it is a handy tool in (un)decidability proofs and some very general computational complexity reasonings. And that's all. N
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by mich41 13y ago
Without the common mathematical language necessary to reason and talk about computation in the general case, and Babbage-linage programmers would have been at a severe disadvantage. Not sure about that. The Analytical Engine was capable o
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by mich41 13y ago
That's very sad, indeed. Anyway, thank you for your explanation. It really increased my confidence in reliability of your sources.
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by mich41 13y ago
some of our customers asked us not to use ATHEIST-branded packing tape on their shipments We sent 178 packages to 89 people 4 participants didn't get back to us with their dates and so were not included in the analysis So they used ea
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by mich41 13y ago
Since it seems to be backed by MIT, I also kinda hoped to see an independent GSM stack and not just some COTS baseband attached to a COTS MCU.
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by mich41 14y ago
Linux defaults to -O2, -Os can be switched with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. Arch Linux doesn't enable it, dunno about others. -Os isn't a silver bullet since it enables use of some high level instructions which may be implemented less effi
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by mich41 14y ago
Right, I've seen this one too.
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by mich41 14y ago
Everybody uses juxtaposition for multiplication (or dot when some separation is required) and horizontal line for division. * and / are poor man's substitutes when all you have is ASCII. × is used for vector products, Cartesian products a
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by mich41 14y ago
Publishing detailed information about the attack itself doesn't give attackers any knowledge they don't already have.
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by mich41 14y ago
If dumping the ROM required him to work around something considered "copy protection" by the manufacturer, he could go to jail for DMCA violation. In the land of the free, at least.
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by mich41 14y ago
This CAPTCHAs are easy enough for humans :) And writing a bot to defeat them would take more time than posting your viagra ads manually in all four sections of this forum.
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by mich41 14y ago
Out of curiosity: are there any known blind chess players? I guess it would be quite hardcore.
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by mich41 14y ago
Guess you aren't. Guess it isn't hard to learn the rules before posting on a chess forum.
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by mich41 14y ago
So add a short explanation at the end. Starting with "Hey, let's solve a CAPTCHA because I'm not sure if you are a human" and burying information which side the user is supposed to play somewhere in the middle of the text would make it a ma
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by mich41 14y ago
Yes, it would. But this one will never see wide adoption so it's sufficient. If every forum had a completely different captcha system, forum spam would pretty much die out.
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by mich41 14y ago
Black plays; checkmate in one! What can be more clear than this? If anything, I'd prefer to have the king I'm supposed to checkmate standing on a red field to make it easier to spot.
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by mich41 14y ago
I'd hazard a guess that most people posting on a chess forum know the rules. And as somebody else pointed out, maybe they don't want new topics asking what are the possible moves of a queen.
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by mich41 14y ago
But serious spammers would prefer to spend this time writing a bot capable of spamming all forums based on some widely used engine. Cracking this captcha won't give you access to any significant audience.
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by mich41 14y ago
It is easy. But it still filters out some kind of people you may not want on a chess forum :)

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