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  1. Re: What about the Y2K38 bug? on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    so I I'm not buying insurmountable technical justifications other than simple lack of will.

    It boils down to the fact that correctly handling time is complicated. Leap years, seconds, gregorian nonsense, .. the rules just pile up higher and higher. Nobody wants to touch that code and I dont blame them.

  2. Re: What about the Y2K38 bug? on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not at all because many bits of code might treat / assume that time_t is an int.

    The ISO standard pretty much says that it is, and even insists that its signed. It just doesnt say how big.

  3. Re: What about the Y2K38 bug? on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Also the fastest data type on AMD64 is still arguably 32-bit anyways, and under C's abstract machine definition that makes 32-bit integers the native type.

  4. Re:Nice to have a browser with a different approac on Vivaldi 1.10 Released (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 1

    The more I think about it the more I like the idea that it is some foreign government spying on me with my browser instead of the NSA.

  5. Re:I'll be back... on Vivaldi 1.10 Released (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 1

    Vivaldi is certainly a good decomposer, but Michael Jackson is my favorite underground artist.

  6. Re:Why not make it a default? on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Python is basically the edge case of white space in programming. I dont know why it is that they thought that it would be a good idea to ride on the edge case. Its never a good idea to ride on an edge case.

  7. Re:I use spaces but indent by 2 spaces rather than on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Google learned it by watching professions.

  8. Re:Possible Explanation... on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 2

    Using spaces to indent is really kind of an OCD thing to do. There's the time and the counting and then redoing when you change something.

    If you think that there is a lot of counting, its because you have a ridiculous tab setting. It should be 2.

  9. Libertarians Glad You Finally Get It on Apple Issues $1 Billion Green Bond After Trump's Paris Climate Exit (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for finally coming back to the same conclusion liberalism had 150 years ago.

    Signed, -Libertarians.

  10. Re:Hate filled libtard on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Jared Laughner shot a democratic congresswoman in the face.

    ..and one of his friends said that he was definitely left wing before he went nuts. The media didnt show that portion of the interview, of course.

  11. Re: Hate filled libtard on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Society is only one method of enforcing property claims.

  12. Re:Media hate campaign on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I dont think that a single Democrat will be shouting "hate crime" this time.

  13. Two departments that absolutely need to go:

    Department of Energy - This is the department that works to subsidize alternative/renewable energy... but it's also the department that works to give oil companies massive tax breaks. Its almost as if the entire point of it is to pick winners and losers, and occasionally threaten the ones chosen to be winners with the prospects of being chosen losers. Yummy lobby money.

    Department of Education - This experiment has failed miserably. There is no reason for there to be a federal department of education, at least not in the aggregate (*) form it is today. Its a harmful waste at best. But look... yummy teachers union lobby money so at least there is symmetry. I was in public schools for years before there was a federal department of education. Take an education system and then add on a massive unnecessary bureaucracy to it. Here we are.

    (*) By budget allocation. It might as well be called "The Department of Extorting Teachers Unions Into Lobbying and Campaign Donations" The bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

  14. The official document doesnrt contain proof. In fact that official document that you insist contains proof literally says the opposite inside. It literally says there isnt any proof. I mean literally in the correct sense here... it literally says, using words and stuff, the opposite of what you insist it says.

  15. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile its a rare language that asks you to bend.

    There is a reason other languages dont do it. Why dont you address them?

  16. Re:An Algorithm.... on Artificial Intelligence Can Now Predict Suicide With Remarkable Accuracy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Expert systems work in a completely different way than machine learning approaches.

    Proving that you dont know what you are taking about.

    Converting your shit into a car analogy: "Bicycles work in a completely different way to tractor trailers"

    You are just proving that you dont know anything about at least one of the two things you are trying to talk about. Didnt you know bikes are ridden? Didnt you know tractor trailers haul cargo? You think the difference is how they 'work' ? really?

  17. Re:nearly impossible to anticipate? on Chess.com Has Stopped Working On 32bit iPads After the Site Hit 2^31 Game Sessions (chess.com) · · Score: 1

    For the sake of argument lets assumes you guys started on ARPANET (no idea) and played for 10 years: 142857/(10*365.25) = 40.1 games per day.

    Yes, only 40.

  18. Re:Conclusions by rationale on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats it... you found the truth if it...

    Everything I type into a google search is a reflection on you and the millions of other people that exists while I type it in.

  19. Re: Nice leftist echo chamber you got here on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of the issue is that the Democrats can't even do math here.

    When asked about her weakness among white middle class voters, Hillary literally said that she would more than make up the difference with minorities.

    She believed it for sure, because thats the only way to explain her deplorable's comment.

  20. Re:Nice leftist echo chamber you got here on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    More than a few Trump supporters started wearing the "deplorable" insult as if it were a badge of honor.

    Of course they did.

    They are laughing at you and your stupid identity politics.

    You are a joke to them because of it, so they laugh at you.


    What did you expect those millions of people to do... sit back, cry, and profess to the world how virtuous you are for labeling them?

  21. Re:nearly impossible to anticipate? on Chess.com Has Stopped Working On 32bit iPads After the Site Hit 2^31 Game Sessions (chess.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, on the older free internet chess server (fics aka freechess.org) there was a small group of us (6 or 7?) that had a combined game count exceeding 1 million games. That was back around 1990 or so.

    If it took chess.com this long to break 32-bit, then maybe instead of being seen as a success it should be seen as a failure.

  22. Re:HEDT Zen CPUs will probably cost half as much. on Intel Announces X299, Skylake-X, and Kaby Lake-X Release Schedule (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    Intel is probably going to shit a brick when AMD starts releasing 8-core hyperthreaded laptop CPUs.

    With on-die GPU that outperforms Intels best without needing $300 worth of high speed edram bolted onto the chip.

  23. Re:Regular backdoor, or always-on super backdoor? on Intel Announces X299, Skylake-X, and Kaby Lake-X Release Schedule (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    The answer is yes.

  24. Re:A data center is a big fridge on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I dont understand why underclocking isnt more popular, and why factory-configured silent-pc underclocks arent a bigger thing.

  25. Re:False positive rate on Artificial Intelligence Can Now Predict Suicide With Remarkable Accuracy (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    A hard-coded suicide detector would begin:
    if (patient.gender() == gender.male) ....