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  1. I *barely* managed to understand what you wrote.

  2. Re: Top _anything_ generally make more on Top Bug Hunters Make 2.7 Times More Money Than an Average Software Engineer (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it's at least 5 times the average amount.

  3. the median tells you what the average person is earning.

  4. Re: Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The original message in the chain was generic and complained of the general memory footprint.

  5. Re: Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    How is hdd space relevant to your ability of running applications?

  6. Re: Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Standard PCs cannot have more than 32GB of RAM.

  7. Re: Fading Apple Star on Apple's Indirect Presence Fades from CES (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    iOS automatically replaces apostrophes.
    That makes Apple users easy to spot.

  8. Re: Finally and ignorant aggrieved white person! on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, my previous post was missing a "where", but apparently that didn't cause problems.

    By "the rest of the world", I really meant the rest of the /developed/ world, or at least rising powers (Brasil, India, China, South Africa...). Otherwise democracy doesn't really work.
    Europe alone is a very diverse set of 50-odd countries (much more diverse than the USA, as would be expected by a region with 15 times the history), and of course there are other developed countries in the world beyond North America and Europe.

  9. Re: Finally and ignorant aggrieved white person! on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This "lunatic ranting" is the typical view from the rest of the world the left is actually left (and no, that's not far-left).
    Maybe you should look into what the world outside of the USA is like.

  10. Re: If only more old hardware was supported. on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't know about Firefox, but there are significant differences if you use the x87 unit or the sse one to do floating-point computation (especially on single-precision).
    It's quite possible that some applications cannot deal with the x87 extra accuracy.

  11. Re: All your homework ... on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    Presumably you use amd64 not 486, unless your program sucks.

  12. Re: why does this matter? on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    On the list of "interesting things to do", getting laid is quite far from the top.
    If you're not a horny kid that is.

  13. The slowest CPU in the world on Eben Upton Explains Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable To Spectre Or Meltdown (raspberrypi.org) · · Score: -1

    The Raspberry Pi is known for having one of the slowest CPUs in the world.
    Who cares if it doesn't suffer from a 20% slowdown? It's already slow as fuck.

  14. Sysadmin automation is not reliable on New Year's Resolutions For Linux Admins: Automate More, Learn New Languages (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Let actual developers do it

  15. Re: Follow the leader on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That speed is only suitable on long empty highways with high visibility, where you can see if you need to brake or change lanes several seconds beforehand.

  16. Re: Wow, Infoworld on 2017: The Year in Programming Languages (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Sorry I misread, I thought he meant gcc or clang.
    Clang problems are typically more focused in the middle or backend.

  17. Re: Wow, Infoworld on 2017: The Year in Programming Languages (infoworld.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess you must not really be using it then.
    Just search the gcc bugzilla.

    Hopefully gcc 7.3 coming out in a few weeks will be usable.

  18. Re: Wow, Infoworld on 2017: The Year in Programming Languages (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    How are you using C++17?
    There is still a large amount of bugs in all major compilers.

  19. Re: Merge problem on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    In Europe the driving test focuses on safety, so driving efficiently and dealing with comolex road networks or large amount of traffic is not taught at all.
    It's not fit for purpose at all.

    People usually consider they have to de-learn and re-learn how to drive once they've passed their test, and actual drivers that need to retake a test consider it going into gramps mode.

  20. Re: Follow the leader on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    100 mph is not nearly as dangerous as you make it out to be, especially with modern cars.

  21. Re: Follow the leader on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    its own

  22. Re: Follow the leader on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you not know how academia works?
    Lian Wang wrote the paper, the other guy just put his name on it.

  23. Re: Follow the leader on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The lowest rate is at 15 years without accidents.
    That's way before 50. More like 31.

  24. Re: What do you use instead for lots of email? on Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I moved everything to GMail.
    Not ideal, but it can deal with the data, and has other advantages to.

  25. Thunderbird doesn't work on Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I stopped using Thunderbird ages ago when they started incorporating sqlite and smart search. It made it completely unable to cope with the amount of emails I have.

    It's like they don't understand some people have dozens of gigs of plain text email and are subscribed to a hundred high-volume NNTP groups.