mrr54

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by mrr54 5y ago
Calling something "the shit" is still unnecessarily using profanity. It's impolite. It's not a surprise it would be flagged as offensive.
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by mrr54 5y ago
I think today it's a lot less explicitly aggressive, but it's actually more meanspirited. It might be controversial to say this, but online discourse is a lot less male and a lot more female than it was. Is this any great surprise
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by mrr54 5y ago
If I could filter out the overuse of profanity shown in this article, I would. "Fuck yeah!!! That bad bitch is totally the shit!!" gets caught by a profanity filter. No great loss, IMO. If you get normal not-always-online not-gen-
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by mrr54 6y ago
I imagine it could have something to do with the physical fixedness of a book. I can remember the positions of the line breaks in some of my favourite books as a child and it wouldn't surprise me if the physical layout of the words on
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by mrr54 6y ago
>In these later letters, Wolf sounds like the kind of alarmist digital enthusiasts often deride. After all, they say, reading is not dying; it’s thriving. Wolf herself quotes a study from the University of California, San Diego, showing
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by mrr54 7y ago
The Linux kernel uses lots of macros, many of them with lowercase names that are barely distinguishable from function names. Given the quality of that codebase, I think not using macros is a bit silly.
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by mrr54 7y ago
You could make a proposal to the C committee to add a keyword `_Nullptr` and to add a header `stdnull.h` which has `#define nullptr _Nullptr`, like they did with bool.
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by mrr54 7y ago
(Please do write code like this anymore.)
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by mrr54 7y ago
Learn C the Hard Way is considered by the community to be, not exaggerating, one of the worst C books ever written.
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by mrr54 7y ago
To use a trivial example: int free;
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by mrr54 7y ago
Why are you posting a SubscriberLink to an LWN article to HN? That's not really the point of the links. They're for sharing in small groups not for giving away paid content to thousands of people.
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by mrr54 7y ago
The top 141 'elite engineers' are certainly making more than $10m/yr and their careers will last much longer.
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by mrr54 7y ago
>This is inconsiderate. Would you write "hire a babysitter, maybe?"? I'd love if people hired babysitters (or left children with family) instead of taking their SCREAMING children on airplanes, sure.
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by mrr54 7y ago
The platform has always traditionally been your own computer. You install programs that you find useful, fun, interesting, necessary, etc. When you have an issue with one, you contribute to it.
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by mrr54 7y ago
It definitely seems like a lot of the time, the people making these lists could just resolve the issues with not a lot more effort than writing all this 'good first issue' documentation. It's one thing to throw a tag '
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by mrr54 7y ago
I think a video game ad displayed in a computer game magazine must be much more accurate than the kind of shitty advertising I get shown online.
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by mrr54 7y ago
Newspaper ads don't have tracking. TV ads don't have tracking. Why should web ads? They don't have a right to a business model. I do have a right to privacy. If they can't come up with a viable business model that re
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by mrr54 7y ago
I don't really understand halting share trading. Who is the exchange to say who may or may not trade a product you own? It just seems weird. If there's bad news, the people who pay attention most closely, and get access to that in
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by mrr54 7y ago
That's weird. It's not expensive to wire houses, and you can't get gigabit fibre speeds with ethernet. You certainly couldn't get anywhere near it 5-10 years ago, but gigabit fibre was available then.
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by mrr54 7y ago
>this is not really democracy Literally every single part of the EU apparatus is democratic. Every single bit. The European Council consists of the Heads of Government of the EU states. If your Head of Government isn't democraticall
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by mrr54 7y ago
Yeah that's nothing to do with big companies moving there. That's what happens when you let Chinese investors dominate your housing market. (See Auckland as well)
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by mrr54 7y ago
No they rent the modem from their ISP.
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by mrr54 7y ago
Having the person renting to me being able to control the lights, air conditioner and rolling shutters sounds awful.
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by mrr54 7y ago
>Should Sony also be forced to keep their service running for PS1 games that had an online component - forever? Yes! Absolutely they should.
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by mrr54 7y ago
> It would be hard to go back to waking up in the dark and turning on a massively bright light. That's why we invented the sun.
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by mrr54 7y ago
They should still be responsible for damages if they were their fault, though. Just like you shouldn't lose the warranty on your car because you get the tyres changed at an independent garage.
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by mrr54 7y ago
Pretty much every house built in the last 25 years does at least.
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by mrr54 7y ago
Hogwarts interferes with modern technology too. :)
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by mrr54 7y ago
The first recourse of the law typically isn't jail.
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by mrr54 7y ago
It just looks awful. It's incredibly unaesthetically pleasing that they've replaced the green URLs with the black breadcrumb things.

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