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  1. Re: Such potential on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    They finally disallowed that in v3 ... shame so many are sticking to the previous one.

  2. Re:Such potential on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    Didn't Python 3 finally disallow mixing spaces and tabs for indentation by default? Should have done that from the start.

  3. Re:What's the term for a prophylactic prediction? on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    If you have a formal education you have heard of his name for A*.

    If you don't you will at the very least have heard the sentence Goto Considered Harmful ... and I think we can all agree it's a snappy turn of phrase, hard to forget and by now iconic. Unless you lock someone up in a cave with The C Programming Language before they learned any programming I think they'll have heard of it by the time they are proficient with C.

  4. Re:Sold my car on Craigslist on Police Stations Increasingly Offer Safe Haven For Craigslist Transactions · · Score: 1

    He deposited the cash ... if the bank can't recognize it we have bigger issues.

  5. Re:Advantages are gone. on Ask Slashdot: Is Pascal Underrated? · · Score: 1

    In the last 2 decades on a general purpose processor? Why? AFAICS it has been proven without any room for reasonable doubt that programmers have to be protected against themselves in this ... and the performance impact hasn't been relevant in a long time.

  6. Re:Discussion is outdated on Ask Slashdot: Is Pascal Underrated? · · Score: 2

    Add one extra order of magnitude for amount of buffer overflow based exploits it has caused.

  7. Re:Discussion is outdated on Ask Slashdot: Is Pascal Underrated? · · Score: 2

    The only thing most IT projects gets done is throwing money down the drain (even when ostensibly successful, like most security sensitive C code).

  8. Re:Clarification on Nuclear Waste Accident Costs Los Alamos Contractor $57 Million · · Score: 1

    Reprocessing is separate from MOX production.

    Presently reprocessing doesn't really do a lot for waste volumes BTW. Used MOX doesn't get reprocessed.

  9. Re:A comedy? on Nuclear Waste Accident Costs Los Alamos Contractor $57 Million · · Score: 1

    The silly thing is, this is the exact same guy now saying it was just the mistake of an individual. Multiple e-mails were sent which suggested mixing organics with the waste salts while the company asked for it to be looked at by someone who could determine it safe ... nothing got sent to the right people. There isn't even a fucking decent inventory.

    Mr. Conca is full of shit.

  10. Re:Joshua on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just sue the people running wallet/mixing/whatever servers for international money laundering and the anonymity will go away, the money flows become more traceable. They can still transfer it to temporary bank accounts and get mules to get the money out of ATMs, but it all becomes a little harder.

    That said, bitcoin is more trouble than it's worth at this point ... just make trading in them illegal, problem solved.

  11. Re:Not a myth on 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are · · Score: 0

    And yet ... we're still using C.

  12. Re:One word. Jamming! on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 1

    Directional antennas ...

  13. Re:Nothing can go Wrong Here on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    Nope, circular argument ... to trade it you have to own it. You can't use that line of reasoning to justify owning it in the first place.

    Even considerably more detail won't save Rothbard&co's arguments either, they can try to bury Locke's Proviso beneath a mountain of detail ... but it won't fool anyone but the naive and the stupid.

  14. Re:Nothing can go Wrong Here on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as a natural right to enclosure either ... but the concept of rightful land ownership is convenient, as is the concept of a social contract.

  15. Re:And who will collect the trash? on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    This isn't really trying the opposite, it's just a gated community.

  16. Re:Nothing can go Wrong Here on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 2

    It's no more or less voluntary than agreeing to the social contract of any other sovereign nation ... and you will be held to your contract with violence too.

    The only difference is that the contract is explicit instead of implicit.

  17. Re:And who will collect the trash? on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 2

    They'll import everything, this isn't going galt ... this is putting your throne outside the country your ruling. I doubt too many other 0.001%'ers will want to paint a target on themselves as much as he does though, so this will go nowhere.

  18. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 2

    It would be even safer to drive the speed limit (or even below it if you have a heavy load) and not trying to change lanes near the point of no return.

    Never ran a red light where it wasn't my own fault.

  19. Re: Who cares... on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 1

    That's silly. Progressives and classical liberals nearly don't exist as a political force and socialists only exist in name only, but they mostly just hand out bread and circuses.

  20. Re:They're leaves. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 1

    Oops, I meant lawn trimmer.

  21. Re:They're leaves. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 1

    If a smooth contact could clear the rails the breaking wheels would do it. Rotating bristles will wear an awful lot faster.

    You'd need something akin to an assembly of hedge trimmers, so you can just keep spooling thread.

  22. Re:Deliberate on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Oops, meant to say

    "The google guys said PV/wind and grid storage couldn't economically make coal and gas superfluous in the near future"

  23. Re:Deliberate on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    That's fine and well, but if you give up the economic argument then Google's surrender becomes irrelevant.

    The google guys never said PV/wind and grid storage couldn't economically make coal and gas superfluous in the near future, they didn't say Nuclear could ... or even if Nuclear could do it cheaper than PV/wind/grid-storage.

  24. Re:Why would you call something Mayo that isn't? on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    That's non sequitur.

  25. Re:Turing test is fine on Upgrading the Turing Test: Lovelace 2.0 · · Score: 1

    "In short then, I think that most of those who support the argument from consciousness could be persuaded to abandon it rather than be forced into the solipsist position."

    If someone creates a human level AI no one will give a rats fucking ass about Searle's semantic wanking ... like all philosophy after Hume his was just a complete waste of time.