neckbeard

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Trip to world beard competition ends in arrest for alleged dark web drug dealer(theguardian.com)
4 points by neckbeard 9y ago|0 comments
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by neckbeard 10y ago
Well, for one those self driving cars have a few Intel Xeons onboard. Those cars need more processing power than your phone can provide.
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by neckbeard 12y ago
You might not like it, but free climbing (no scare quotes required) is a defined term. It means climbing without the aid of ropes, except for safety. (Climbing without ropes is usually called free solo.) Aid climbing means using ropes as ai
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by neckbeard 12y ago
Keep reading the thread - Ted explains that decision.
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by neckbeard 12y ago
DCA (Direct Cache Access) has been around for a while - DDIO is its replacement on higher end Xeons.
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by neckbeard 12y ago
For those that missed it, similar discussion on this a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7947782
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Rivals challenger Freelancer numbers(smh.com.au)
1 points by neckbeard 13y ago|0 comments
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by neckbeard 13y ago
Another important outcome of a successful "hello, world!" is that you find some kind of MVP - Minimal Viable Printf. Just because it is C doesn't mean you've got a sane libc. Let alone the luxury of a debugger. Just seei
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Mastering the Craft(teddziuba.com)
4 points by neckbeard 13y ago|0 comments
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by neckbeard 13y ago
You should probably check again, but in any case MSVC shouldn't be compared to gcc/icc/clang - it can't even compile code written for a 14 year old language specification (C99), so no sane person should use it for C deve
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PushStart decelerates seed funding(smh.com.au)
2 points by neckbeard 13y ago|0 comments
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by neckbeard 13y ago
That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however). More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.
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Travelling Salesman – Official Movie Site(travellingsalesmanmovie.com)
85 points by neckbeard 13y ago|48 comments
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by neckbeard 13y ago
Must be a different USA to this one: http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939/107...
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by neckbeard 14y ago
"The surprising question we get is: 'How many people telecommute at Google?' ” [Google's CFO] Mr Pichette said at a talk in Sydney on Monday. "And our answer is: 'As few as possible'." http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/do-as-we-say-
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by neckbeard 14y ago
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/sextips/
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by neckbeard 14y ago
On the trackpad issue, has anyone checked to see if it is the laptop battery expanding, putting pressure on the trackpad from below? It took me a little while to track that down as the cause on one of my MacBooks.
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Jordan Mechner's Karateka remake looks to modernize a classic story(polygon.com)
1 points by neckbeard 14y ago|0 comments
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by neckbeard 14y ago
You aren't the only person to think this: http://airlied.livejournal.com/76383.html "really what they've released is totally useless to anyone who uses or develops this stuff."
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by neckbeard 14y ago
It might be worth pointing out that TileGX isn't ARM. It is an interesting system though.
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by neckbeard 14y ago
Not to detract from your point, which was similar to my intro to Unix, but I've always preferred 'man -k' to apropos, because it means remembering only one command plus it is slightly less typing.
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This is the MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adapter(onefoottsunami.com)
4 points by neckbeard 14y ago|1 comments
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by neckbeard 14y ago
Come on now - while caffeine hasn't yet shown to be an ergogenic aid to anerobic activity (unlike endurance efforts, where it is very beneficial), a single tin of Red Bull isn't going to make your heart go boom, especially if you are habitu
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by neckbeard 14y ago
I endorse the subheading on the linked article, if not the entire thing.
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by neckbeard 14y ago
"It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in." -- Lyndon B. Johnson referring to J. Edgar Hoover.
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by neckbeard 15y ago
As explained on the splashscreen, they've remapped that to backslash. I suspect it'd be much more useful with a BT keyboard - lack of ctrl and tab for a start. The font is pretty ugly too - I can't easily tell the difference between q and g
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by neckbeard 15y ago
Missing option: continued employment.
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by neckbeard 15y ago
Zynga's latest release is called Mafia Wars: Shakedown. Seems somewhat apt.
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by neckbeard 15y ago
Might you not think that English is not the first language for someone who has qualifications from the Russian Academy of Sciences?
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Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core(shiftyjelly.wordpress.com)
103 points by neckbeard 15y ago|19 comments

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