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  1. Re:I don't think the stats are presented correctly on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    And per unique set of lines. Makefile and directories with js contains a lot boilerplate the same code.

  2. Re:How much benefit? on Red Hat Engineer Improves Math Performance of Glibc · · Score: 1

    It seems it's the MPI functions only that are subject to this optimization, not the normal FP ones. My guess is that these aren't even used for soft floating point on FPU limited systems (since adding the exact size of the a FP type allows writing more efficient routines).

    So the impact is very low I guess.

  3. Re:What Linux alternatives are there to TI-84 on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 1

    Get a hp48 and load the ROM into x48?

  4. Insanity plea on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 1

    Smart, probably preparing for an insanity defense.

  5. Re:Railroads killed by the government... on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 1

    He means that a business should hold its own belt up, and not be financed via the government by allocation of taxes.

    In short, charge toll and let them pass the charge on to consumers via their products/services pricing.. That's the capitalistic way, not the commie state taking taxes from personal traffic and going light on business driving. (that being said, in Europe it is the same. Consumers pay much more for driving (gas taxes and direct road taxes) than business drivers)

    That being said, I would argue that normal erosion factors (like rain/flood/freezing) are a bigger factor than 1%

  6. Re:A Century Ago on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 1

    Highspeed trains are mostly interesting for midlong distances (till 1000 km), and specially from urban center to urban center.

    1) trains are faster.
    2) but more importantly trains still move reasonably fast in and near urban centers
    3) While budget flights (if they happen to go from/to where you want) are cheaper they often require extended checkin times and airport to center commute negating time advantages

  7. Re:A Century Ago on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 1

    Note that the TGV network stretches into neighboring countries like Belgium and Germany (e.g. Aachen) too, and connects to German ICE. The Netherlands have a branch too, but it is not running full speed yet. The Netherlands and Belgium are much smaller than France, but more densely populated.

  8. Re:What the fuck is this thing? on ARM Launches Juno Reference Platform For 64-bit Android Developers · · Score: 1

    PAE is mostly for kernels and a few select apps that page out buffers (like SQL Server). It is not a general flat >4GB memory space for applications.

    And yes I remember how it was with the 8086. Which is why I try to forget segmentation for general purpose programming :-)

  9. Re:You lost me at vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Emacs is a great OS, but IMHO the editor sucks.

  10. Re:First sandwich on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    Hitler was a failed painter, not a genetic experiment.

  11. Re:I rather believe in Santa Claus on An Anonymous US Law Enforcement Officer Claims US Wouldn't Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    My guess is that even if this is all true (IOW, the US has no charges), he will be arrested and extradited to the UK for the rape charges anyway

  12. Software support and longevity. on Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark · · Score: 2

    I mainly use it as always-on machine in addition to the filer. The main reason is that with a filer you are more conservative. OpenVPN, postgresql db. I also have some applicationservers (3-tier) developed for it, but that is not production yes.

    Most important bit is long time usability and support, features are only secondary. In that RPI is unique.

  13. Re:OP is slow as fuck on FreeBSD 9.2, FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 4 Released · · Score: 1

    I think he meant to say the news post (on slashdot) was slow in the coming, since he already installed/updated etc.

  14. Re:It's called marketing. on Ask Slashdot: Attracting Developers To Abandonware? · · Score: 1

    Marketing is indeed not just about dolling up old hat. It is primarily about finding an audience, and give feedback to implementers about what the customer might want.

    (and btw

    1) I think the RoR and Zope examples are totally irrelevant, since they were in a "hot" area at the time. Minimalistic WMs are not, unless you get default on the next Raspberry Pi)
    2) I think the "I can't code for sh*t" argument of the original can only be invoked if you have at least 2 years of experience in a documenting team. Just to make sure you know what your talking about when calling people to invest their free time.

  15. Re:Start with a LTS distro on Fedora Core May Be Reborn · · Score: 1

    Then clip the server aspirations.

  16. Start with a LTS distro on Fedora Core May Be Reborn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since 18 months updates is simply not enough.

  17. Re:Befehl ist Befehl on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that could be understood wrong. I'm not saying the US military is like the SS.

    I'm just saying that cases like this, and situations like Guantanamo Bay are sawing on the pillars of safety measures that were meant to avoid WW-II excesses to ever happen again. I think that is a wrong signal to send.

  18. Re:Befehl ist Befehl on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 2

    The Wehrmacht and the SS also were military. Yet they were (and IMHO rightly so) convicted by the Neurenburg trials for this attitude.
    So I think my analogy was appropriate .

  19. Befehl ist Befehl on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I look at this case, it returns to the old Prussian adage "Befehl ist Befehl".

    If you break the rules, you will be severely punished, and there is no excuse. No own responsibility, no greater good, just do what you are told, no matter what.

    I don't think I have to explain you what that can lead to......

  20. Mesopotamia on Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee · · Score: 0

    I'm sure in the Mesopotamian Gazette of 5000BC they said the same thing about corn :-) The question is what they likened it too. Weeds?

  21. This is really what we need! We just need to slip in a small amendment that automatically restitutes twice the full purchase price for every service interruption, and an barely bounded amount for collateral damage. (e.g. I can't work because it locked up).

    While probably most people here will agree that in general this is a bad thing, the REAL bad thing is that they want this without having any responsibility at all.

  22. Re:Sorry, but... on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    So you want a DE, not an IDE ? Integration is not possible without choices.

    You'll end up with a glorified editor which integration pretty much is limited to calling external commands

  23. Re:KDevelop 4.5 Released on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Have a look at Lazarus. It's look and feel is pretty close to Delphi (and still improving/getting closer)

  24. Re:My question is... on Utility Box Exposed As Spy Cabinet In the Netherlands · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A square. Dutch editions of the news speculate that it was there to monitor the coming and goings of militants. Might be related to recruiting of Jihadists for Syria too, at least that has been a big news item in these parts recently.

  25. Housing of international warcriminals in the Hague on Utility Box Exposed As Spy Cabinet In the Netherlands · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that in the Scheveningen suburb of the The Hague, international warcriminals are housed!