to3m

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by to3m 8y ago
Bah... my intent was certainly to be vulgar, and I stand by that. But if it's going to be interpreted as specifically offensive towards women (an implication not present in UK English) then I'll certainly apologise to all that wer
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by to3m 9y ago
Well it's more sideways, perhaps even caustic, something like that, I'd say, rather than humorous per se. Still... stiff upper lip. Though I can't believe I'm getting downvoted for reminding people not to kill anybody wh
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by to3m 9y ago
"ped"?
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by to3m 9y ago
Right, but since the driver has seen there's somebody on foot on the pavement, how come they haven't slowed down already? Perhaps the person could trip and fall into the road. Perhaps the person could have a fit and fall into the
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by to3m 9y ago
If you can't tell that somebody isn't going to throw themselves under the wheel of your car, you need to drive more slowly, so you've got time to stop when it happens.
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by to3m 9y ago
My car has cruise control with brake functionality. Not sure if I've ever seen it actually do it - I only really use cruise control on the motorway, where I expect wind resistance is a major factor - but apparently it will apply the br
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by to3m 9y ago
Assuming 1 spot = 1 vehicle, 10 vehicles won't fit into 8 spots anyway.
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by to3m 9y ago
That is not a high-status response ;)
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by to3m 9y ago
Yes, your first 2 paragraphs clarify it a bit. Thanks. As for races vs species, that well has been so thoroughly poisoned that I for one refuse to drink from it. But, you know... you do you.
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by to3m 9y ago
Hmm... I have to say the APIs and command line tooling is not where Perforce shines ;) I found the APIs generally a disaster, and rapidly gave up on them. It was much easier to just run p4.exe and scrape the output. But... oh god. That&#x
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by to3m 9y ago
When you've got a lot of people, you've got a lot of changes - that's the long and the short of it. This is one thing the check in/check out model (as exemplified by Perforce, among others) is really good for managing. W
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by to3m 9y ago
Wow, race is biological ? Who knew!
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by to3m 9y ago
I don't know how many committers have been on the average project I've worked on, but it's probably 25+, and I've worked on several with 50+ - and I don't know how you'd even make Git work at that sort of scale
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by to3m 9y ago
Merely adding one to your event seems like it can be illuminating enough! These things appear to be a red rag to a certain kind of bull...
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by to3m 9y ago
I copied the 6510 illegal opcode behaviour for the SY6502A emulator for my BBC Micro, and I've yet to see a problem from it. If they didn't all have the same PLA, then perhaps the differences didn't cause any useful effects..
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by to3m 9y ago
> 137438953482 actually corresponds to the 10 and 32 4-byte values concatenated into one 8-byte value 32<<32|10 might be a bit clearer, then...
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by to3m 9y ago
I only ever see the same car-related CAPTCHA: https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tv/image/1505/57/1505576983483... (random link via google image search) I wonder if it's actually subtly altered each
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by to3m 9y ago
Sure, you can do this, but don't. Approximately the last thing you want is a copy constructor that can fail. If you have to do an OS call to duplicate the underlying resource, assume the class isn't copyable in this way. It's
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by to3m 9y ago
Even if you do work on GitHub, when a repo is deleted, your activity on that repo is also deleted.
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by to3m 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_quoting ! - or is the lack of separating space the distinguishing characteristic? I like the fact that these two things share the same syntax.
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by to3m 9y ago
In my view the faux-quote is entirely accurate as a characterisation, if not as a summary.
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by to3m 9y ago
Follow the comment section... it is The Register's demographic.
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by to3m 9y ago
You're assuming that the way people behave is wrong, and that the way you think they should behave is right. Well, guess what: they're going to keep on behaving as they do anyway, no matter what you think. Now suppose you still wa
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by to3m 9y ago
If you don't have a very high opinion of HN commenters, you'll probably assume that they get their opinions from Wikipedia. But that means they'll have a pretty good idea of whether a given game is good or bad in terms of odd
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by to3m 9y ago
> A better alternative to "you have to sugarcoat all your thoughts by 30% before you speak them out" would be to train people to be better at taking criticism The amount of extra effort involved in having a few people "sug
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by to3m 9y ago
Just for posterity, since even after 1 day I'm 50% LOLing at this and 50% still mildly annoyed: because you accused me in another subthread of being equivalent to those that would send their political enemies to the Gulag, when the sum
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by to3m 9y ago
This is now officially beyond parody.
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by to3m 9y ago
I expect the moderators, or whoever it is that looks after this stuff, decided that since it was discussing the same case as the other articles then it counted as one in principle. Sometimes multiple articles relating to a particular issue
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by to3m 9y ago
My understanding is that the flag button merely makes it more likely the discussion will vanish off the front page, and there is no punishment for the participants.
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by to3m 9y ago
Awesome, thanks - I just got bingo! I don't know if you're aware but articles can move off the front page because people (like me) flag them (as I did). If enough people flag it, off it goes. Sometimes the article sticks around, a

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