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musername··on The Pirate Bay down, forever?
a vrry impartial source, indeed /s
musername··on Almost all numbers contain the digit “3” [video]
okay, but what do you call it if the frequency is diverging to zero for infinity?
musername··on Cancer’s Super-Survivors: How Immunotherapy Is Transforming Oncology
learning is a directed process with a target. the immune system is controled by the bervous system to reach that target, while cancer-cells, apparently are uncontrolled. there's a difference, although it matters more in an educational context.
musername··on Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)
> there is no syntax

that doesn't seem very true, either. From looking at it, I have no idea what the comma in ',var' means or what '((x 7))' is supposed to mean.

musername··on ASxxxx Cross Assemblers
cygwin using the options they used

while vs13's, using the optio s they used

FTFY. Not saying I know options for VS to produce small bins, nor that there isn't a trend. Just a friendly reminder that there's more to a benchmark than this keen observation had allowed

musername··on The Move from Linux to FreeBSD
yeah, like anyone has the time and knowledge to do it. A simple apt-get won't cut it, I guess.
musername··on Allocators in Rust
I second that question, as it was my first thought about the difference to the malloc in glibc, or whether it's just ignoring the supposed benefits.
musername··on Is Quantum Entanglement Real?
why one hidden variable, when you could have one for each atom between the entangled? :)
musername··on Google's MathFu: a x-platform geometry math library for C++
While at the same time the x in x-mas means the greek letter Chi that represents the ch-sound. just to get ahead of any confusion and to bring this thread around full O.
musername··on Ask HN: Which scripts are you most glad you've written?
I'm not even sure how to access that in debian, nvm i didn't try to fix the apc issues, yet. I'm sure there's a command already, anyhow.
musername··on OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police
so, you don't believe that it's a fragile system, before you saw it break?
musername··on 2.5M Installs Later, R.I.P. Downloader for SoundCloud
>It's their platform, they can do whatever they want.

Surely that's proper legal standing, next to the user can cram it, arguably. There are basic rights and to forbid the use of any can't be broken by contract. IMHO access to arbitrary data on the net should be included, because otherwise it's restricting the market, obviously to artificially drive up the prices. That's against the free market principle, but maybe it's necassary to get the userbase to generate revenue. Soundcloud is not profitable right now. I'd contest that it is necessary, though there is responsibility on the user not to abuse Soundcloud's offering. I'd argue that download rates would be enough to meassure popularity or for whatever they need the data, which is listening behaviour. I'm not sure the law intends to protect Big Data collection on privacy grounds, if data is cleaned up. used for all but what comes down to accounting.

I used soundcloud-dl.py in the past, because the page didnt work for me. Don't know if it still works. I found it very convenient since I'm not interested in the networking features either. I don't understand why people depublish pieces and very much like to keep them. Copyright-Law grands the right to rewoke copyright or perhaps doesn't grant it to the public in case of transmissions to begin with. I'd argue though that with the event of computers and the net, where you select the transmission yourself, the lines are blured. If program-code needs to be specifically excempt from the copyright, in order to legalize loading into RAM any data you bought, then receiving a transmission is a copy as well. I don't know if there are exceptions to the exception, or the transmissions - it's not a persistent copy. Still, you aquire it and the ability to record it is a functional requirement, it's not like a performance that could be given without recording it.

musername··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
Is it not the staff, but expert-witnesses? Of course the influence of the technical advisory is subjective, so is the judge's. Arguably, more subjectivity levels out the preciseness of the judgement, it's a compromise, but certainly not unwelcome, when jury is invited to weigh out bias with it's own necessarily biased opinion. You can't get that out of the equation, because ...
musername··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
The expert-witnesses are ment to explain the problems in laymen-terms, while the court is to precide over the judicial implications given by the law that are a supposed as a level baseline. If the expert would be judge directly, he'd need expertize in law or possibly require judicial expert-witness. The Jury is supposed to level bias. Industry experts in politics is more sensical, as legislature is where by definition speciallized law is written. They are littered with economic opinions, not to say business sock puppets, already, while judges are merely incompetent on technical matters atop being burdened with - let's say - type-unsafe law code. This happens already of course, but there's little opportunity for activist, apparently.
musername··on A simple explanation of Bitcoin “Sidechains”
well, if a vulnerabillity like this is the best it can do, I guess I will not switch to the best alternative to fiat, not anytime soon. /s

To be clear, IMHO it is a mitigation or heuristic, not a solution at all.

Disclaimer: slightly disgruntled and provokative because I don't really understand the technicalities and a lot of hype makes it even more unbelievable.

musername··on On becoming an expert C programmer
thanks. welp, I'm still learning
musername··on On becoming an expert C programmer
missing overflow guards is just one of the big disappointments in c, if you have experience with asm for any popular processor atm.
musername··on On becoming an expert C programmer
Id's Quake and Doom sources are a classic in this matter. I looked a bit at wsw, a fork of Quake 2. Now, my code is full of structs with function pointers. It's like I just internalized the more elaborate syntax and now it's all Hammers and Nails. I mean, function pointers to functions returning function pointers, for example.

  typedef int (*foo) ();
  foo * bar ();
  foo * p = bar;
not rocket science, but ambiguous at first sight when compressed to one line. I hope that kind of syntax is as complicated as it get's, because I'd like to think C semantics aren't really difficult. That is until implementing customized data types on top.

As mentioned in another comment, learning the toolchain is just as important and it's not without reason, that Don Knut takes forever writing about compiler design. Never mind the ventures into the algorithmic side of things.

musername··on 1984 v. Brave New World
>I work at Disney and when I look to the television monitors I see ‘inspirational’ quotes that tell me that selfishness is desirable.

What's that got to do with your workplace?

Selfishness is desire. It has just the negative meaning because it is either considered rude to call others selfish unless it's too much selfishness, or because it is a common selfishness, at which point it's only selfish against a third party. Just my interpretation.

musername··on 1984 v. Brave New World
>science-fiction

yeah, right. Which invention was there in the books, that seemed unlikely at the time and that had a significa t impact on the story?

Drugs, microphones, cameras, TVs were basically an old hat at the time, like 50 years past for television and the phone, not comparing consumer articles. The stretch from widely available radio to TV is not a big one.

The control and deception, dissociation and assimilation likewise. 1984 was the time of WW2 no less. What do you know about the situation in some hidden archipellagos somewhere in Oceania.

BNW i found much less irritating, though it is not far from reality either. The only take away for me was sociatal exclusion, soma and population control through distraction. Enough in my bookkeeping, but not much science is involved.

musername··on Troubling Arguments from the Government in Smith v. Obama
In this line of argument, the host that houses the servers is also a third party. So, there's no need to contact the opperator, when they could just access the machines.
musername··on How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world better
I'm using two accounts, bare with me.

A joke really didn't work out if it has to be explained at length. Maybe, because secretly I was angry that my english isn't perfect and it's your fault ;)

musername··on How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world better
from the OED:

>Apology:

>A regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure

) http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/apology

they simply don't regret it so the whole discussion is besides the point

musername··on How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world better
Does newspeak have different meaning to you, than it used to, too?
musername··on How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world better
>They know doing so contributes to the acceptance and normalization of the activity, and that's worth a lot to everyone involved, save the black market dealers.

That's the hypocracy. It's not their behaviour that leads to acceptance, it's the state deciding what's acceptable or not . That is to incure tax and decrease spending, for all I care, and maybe a twisted social experiment of sorts, but not in first line for the well being of the people. Supporting that with the rhetorical finger pointing at The Terrorist is so utterly hypocritical, I'm at loss of words. Surely, the argument is not immoral, but it's completely missing the point. Us against The Terrorist is too simple a frame of mind, it's agrevating, but not to a calmed down stoner of course.

musername··on You Can Now Go to College for Free in Germany, No Matter Where You're From
It's not even news
musername··on How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world better
If you smoked weed, you probably wouldn't. If you did before, you would be so used to the black market, you'd stick with it, because. Weed is already expensive, so you are in luck if you could afford the shop prices on a regular basis, which we are talking about at 14k/day. Also, the negative side-effects are ignorance, for lack of a better word, so your reasons likely wouldn't even come up. For (most of) the occasional toker, it's just as much about convenience, while the moral high ground stance is just a pretense, as is much of the stoner's cultural background.
musername··on How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world better
It's also over what, 50 times as much as the production cost?
musername··on How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world better
I tried to understand your comment twice, but it doesn't work for me. Figures, the comment is wrong.
musername··on Why Germany Is Better at Training Its Workers
The problem is age, mostly, isn't it though? With age you neither want to leave the place you grew accustomed with, nor would it be easier than finding a job in your profession, as some complain even here with respect to IT.

Anyway, I find it a terribly boring and ignorant idea, to work in one profession all life, without much change of pace. or chances to gain valuable knowledge from dfferent fields. Although, it sounds comfortable enough to understand why so many would not want to change a running system. As the saying goes, let the cobbler stay with his lasts (!g what's a last anyway?) edit: originally the saying ment to stay within ones competence.

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