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  1. I don't think you're applying the formula correctly. If you read the paper, you'll see that if you're viewing t as the independent variable in your case, then the d^2*t term is 0 and so x''=1 as expected. An advantage of this new notation is that one doesn't need to pick the independent variables ahead of time, you can just take the differentials and then decide later on which variables to make independent.

  2. Any code editor that doesn't have separate settings for how many spaces a Tab should be vs how many spaces are use for indenting is dead to me.

  3. Re: They're trying to survive on Mozilla Says Ad on Firefox's New Tab Page Was Just Another Experiment (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. There was also the discontinued Firefox OS project that they spent tonnes of money on until it was canned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  4. On occasion, I've had to keep the commented out code with comment explanation why this code must not occur. Otherwise, people keep coming in trying to fix code that's not broken.

  5. Automated filter on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he took his month off to develop an AI that replaces his swear words with non-swear words surrounded in asterisks.

  6. Re:Not as simple as it seems. on iPhone XS Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Contacts, Photos (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Can't you just take out the SIM card and read the phone number off of it?

  7. Re:And when they are right? on Think Your Body Is Infested With Insects? You're Not Alone. (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2

    Although not quite an insect, pinworms (and other parasites found in humans) are possibly an explanation for these symptoms as well. However, I would have expected doctors to diagnose these conditions.

  8. People have been working on the emotion aspect of this as well. See for example, https://www.ibm.com/watson/ser... And https://emoshape.com/

  9. Why does this sound familiar? on Lenovo Discovers and Removes Backdoor In Networking Switches (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh right: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
    Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 11, 2013 @09:06PM:
    For the second time in a month, Hewlett-Packard has been forced to admit it built secret backdoors into its enterprise storage products.

  10. Re: A Very Old Performance Problem, Mostly Forgot on Performance Bugs, 'the Dark Matter of Programming Bugs', Are Out There Lurking and Unseen (forwardscattering.org) · · Score: 1

    I might be biased because I work in the computer graphics industry but memory coherency is the first thing we think about when doing something new. This is also a major point if you look at any of the presentations about performance at CppCon (C++ conference). They are easily found on YouTube. See also data oriented programming. This is NOT a forget ten problem at all.

  11. Re: 3 GB of RAM?! Does it work in FF? on 3D Freeciv-Web (Beta) Released (freeciv.org) · · Score: 0

    Are you on Windows? Last I heard, there's still no 64-bit version of Firefox on Windows.

  12. Re:There is a battery movement that auto sets DST on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 1

    What's the name of such clocks? A quick google search shows something like this: https://www.lacrossetechnology... But when I read the manual, it says that the clock needs to be put on an exterior wall facing colorado and then wait *FIVE* days for the clock to set!

  13. Re:It is Bullshit, IMO on Outside Beijing, a Military-style Bootcamp For "Internet Addiction" · · Score: 2

    An addiction is only a problem if it interferes with life to the point where it's detrimental. It's the same whether it's a "library addiction", "drinking addiction", or an "internet addiction". Doing something a lot isn't bad, but if you do it it to the point where it can harm yourself or someone else is a totally different matter. Take this story for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asi... where a couple inadvertently starved their 3 month old baby to death while spending 12 hour days at an internet cafe playing an MMO.

  14. Re: Not just Comcast on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 2

    I doubt the rep can say that there's the chance that s/he will get fired if the call ever gets reviewed.

  15. Cannot be run on VirtualBox on Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland · · Score: 2

    I going to try it but no QEMU or VirtualBox support yet.

  16. Re:Me gusta! on GNU Make 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    In a maze of scripts and Makefiles and scripts generating Makefiles and scripts generating scripts that call make, euphemistically called "a custom buildsystem", hunting down the right 'make' to change into 'make -d' can take a while.

    That sounds like you're not doing sub-makes with $(MAKE), which would have passed down the -d automatically. See http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/MAKE-Variable.html#MAKE-Variable and http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Options_002fRecursion.html#Options_002fRecursion

  17. Please let Pascal die on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    I was at first intrigued by the summary, but then it got worst and worst as I saw the examples. Semi-colon statement rules in the Pascal tradition? Ugh.

  18. Yawn on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Taking Back the Crown · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when their drivers are fast AND correct.

  19. Re:Same Story / Different Day on Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if MS Windows has introduced a UT internal time yet? If not, then we can reliably predict that such bugs will continue to plague their users.

    According to an old MS guy [1], Windows NT stores UTC time internally but maintains the BIOS in local time. 1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/02/224672.aspx

  20. Re:Full text in case the link gets taken down on Google Employee Accidentally Shares Rant About Google+ · · Score: 1

    Hiring standards vary according to the team because the needs of the team vary according to the team and according to what that person is going to be doing.

    Just to play Devil's Advocate, what if the team was incompetent? It's not unheard of where all the good people leave the team, leading to hiring choices for similarly, incapable new employees.

  21. Re:I like not equals assignment operators on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 1

    := was originally an ALGOL 58 feature, but I digress. The real problem is not with operator ==, but with C allowing assignment in the conditional part of if statements.

  22. Re:Java killer? on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 1

    The new assignment operator ":="

    Oh look, someone revived the Clipper dBASE compiler / Pascal syntax.

    No, someone revived the the ALGOL 58 syntax (yes, that is 1958) . Everything old will be new again ...

  23. Re:Home Labs? on McDonald's, Cadmium, and Thermo Electron Niton Guns · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, the "Smart Mama" (Jennifer Taggert) is someone that actually makes money through her XRF gun. According to the site below, she charges $5 per test or $100 per hour.

    http://www.thesmartmama.com/xrf-testing/

    Here's a media article where two families paid her to test their toys:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501674.html

  24. Re:No because they are different on Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Ported To FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    GCD sounds exactly like Microsoft's "Concurrency Run-time Resource Manager" to me. Except they've already incorporated it into the kernel while MS has just started mentioning about incorporating it into the NT kernel for future releases.

  25. Re:VM? on Washington Post Says Use Linux To Avoid Bank Fraud · · Score: 1

    Ok, so what about using the *host* OS for banking use, and the *guest* OS for daily use?