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  1. And debugging Java programs. You edit and save, the JVM rebuilds the relevant code, then execution jumps back to the top of the method you were paused in. Assuming of course you didn't try to edit anything in too large a scope like declaring new class-level stuff.

    Unfortunately I'm not aware that it's possible to prevent it from jumping back to method start. The nice thing about VS C# is that it works in-place.

  2. You can dislike what people have to say without being anti-free-speech. Nowhere in his post did AbRASiON say he wanted to take away their blocker. He was just opining that its use was disappointing.

  3. Re:more features for the feature god. on Firefox 49 For Linux Will Ship With Plug-in Free Netflix, Amazon Prime Video Support (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    It harms nothing being there.

    Technically speaking, it occupies your computing device's memory, which can be interpreted as a form of harm.

  4. Re:It needs LIDAR on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm okay I never used the word "believe." But whatever.

  5. *Aum Shinrikyo

    Cult is in the eye of the beholder. Apparently they were officially recognized as a "religious legal entity" in Japan.

    idiosyncratic interpretations of elements of early Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism along with Hinduism, taking Shiva as main image of worship and incorporating millennialist ideas from the Christian Book of Revelation, Yoga and the writings of Nostradamus.

  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    And technically back in the 80s Scientology was pretty aggressive about doing their best to make anyone who publicly disagreed with them's life a living hell.

  7. Re:It needs LIDAR on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are all individual systems that each basically have two settings: ON and OFF. You really think that's going to be equivalent to AI to holistically control the vehicle?

  8. Re:bad driving on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "Device" isn't 'accurate' at all. In fact "device" is intentionally one of the least specific words in the english language.

    You're getting precision and accuracy confused. Saying a phone is a device is perfectly accurate; it's just imprecise.

  9. Re: bad driving on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Because he was tailgating somebody and said car in front abruptly moved.

    "Doctor, I get in accidents when I tailgate people..."
    "Then don't tailgate people!"

    The better question is why there was tailgating going on while in autopilot mode.

  10. Re:bad driving on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There is the little difference about being way up in the air vs being safely on the ground.

    Except if your engine(s) stop.

    I've heard the analogy before, "The most dangerous parts of flight are taking off and landing. In a car you're always taking off or landing."

  11. Re:It needs LIDAR on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    And the cost of buying a car will triple, including for those of us who actually know how to drive ourselves, because they'll mandate the shit everywhere. Thanks for that.

  12. Re:Autopilot is a glorified cruise control on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.urbandictionary.com...

    If the "penny has dropped" it means someone has finally realised the situation they are in after possibly being unaware of it for a long time, depending on the situation.

    ==> The phrase dates back to the Victorian Era and the popular penny-slot arcades. The penny would often stick halfway down the slot and the user would then have to either wait, or give the machine a thump before the 'penny finally dropped' and they could begin playing.

    I have never heard this before.

  13. Re:Dictionary Definition of Autopilot on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Name one autopilot & vehicle that totally the vehicle's operator of all responsibility

    Yeah, you gotta be careful or the autopilot might accidentally the whole thing.

  14. Re: Marketing is a four-letter word on Popular Sex Toy Caught Sending Intimate Data To Manufacturer (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    And your point is...?

  15. Re:Why the Stupid Pylon? on Ask VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions · · Score: 1

    VLC is clean and simple. If you want to get the interface all fucked up and douchey, there's already a skinning system, apparently.

    see also my signature

  16. Re:Can we get a decent playlist? on Ask VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions · · Score: 1

    What about it doesn't?

  17. Re:Marketing is a four-letter word on Popular Sex Toy Caught Sending Intimate Data To Manufacturer (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    You've never heard of anal sex? Guess you missed that part of health class.

  18. Re:Marketing is a four-letter word on Popular Sex Toy Caught Sending Intimate Data To Manufacturer (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    So you wouldn't mind getting randomly anal probed at any point during your day, right?

  19. Re:if by "plant" on North Korea Hopes To Plant Flag On The Moon Within 10 Years (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
    - George Bernard Shaw

    Those bastards and their trying to do things. They're all a bunch of poseurs.

  20. Re:Kildall was a great guy, but perhaps myopic on CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released As Free Download (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    So it's his fault for not copying somebody else who did something 5 years in the future, and then somebody else copied him for the next 20.

    Wow.

  21. Re:One thing the British get right on Firefox 48 Released With Multi-Process Support, Mandatory Add-On Signing (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    British English apparently can't be arsed to make a consistent rule.

    Yes it can. The cited article describes "the American rules for question marks and exclamation points" as follows:

  22. Re:Sounds like Free vaccination... on Olympic Swimmers 'Certain' To Pick Up Virus From Three Teaspoons of Rio Water (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    So how is your knowledge on Burkina Faso, punkass? What? No, it's totally not random.

  23. Re:One thing the British get right on Firefox 48 Released With Multi-Process Support, Mandatory Add-On Signing (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You're aware of the meaning of "quick and dirty," yes? As in "not rigorous and when somebody gets in an argument about formal language use and you cite one, you get laughed out of the room."

    So American English consistently goes inside, and British English apparently can't be arsed to make a consistent rule. So what possible advantage would there be in going with British English in this case? :P

  24. Re:Sounds like Free vaccination... on Olympic Swimmers 'Certain' To Pick Up Virus From Three Teaspoons of Rio Water (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The first permanent British colony in North America was actually Jamestown in 1610, not Plymouth in 1620.

    Well, I mean the first colony in Jamestown was 1607 but pretty much everybody starved or died of disease. From 1610 they started getting their act together.

  25. Re:Sounds like Free vaccination... on Olympic Swimmers 'Certain' To Pick Up Virus From Three Teaspoons of Rio Water (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Er, whoops. I'm getting your posts mixed up. The 1620 reference is in regards to the Brazilian et al. global Empire (which is still wrong, but hey), not the dreadnoughts.

    We had dreadnoughts in the 20th century while you were still going wooden to the sea.

    Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. They, and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships".
    [...]
    The dreadnoughts, BB-26 South Carolina through BB-35 Texas, commissioned between 1910 and 1914,

    São Paulo Brazilian Dreadnought battleship
    Commissioned: 1910

    Minas Gerais Brazilian Dreadnought battleship
    Commissioned: 1910

    "While still going wooden to sea," sure.