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·3년 전·discuss
Yep. They (edit: in Costco, Walmart, or whatever in the US) don't care, and half the time they're happy to point out that it's OK what you're doing and please just calm down. My wife didn't grow up in the US, so wasn't used to this, but now she's addicted to doing returns when there's anything even slightly wrong.
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·3년 전·discuss
I haven't read it in years, but I think 35 was part of a bigger argument that past a certain point everything in modern life is either impossible or trivially easy to achieve, so people seek outlets in hobbies, etc. Not universally true, as anyone who's ever job hunted or quit smoking knows, but not just thoughtless rambling.
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·3년 전·discuss
I've always wondered if you could do something with dot-matrix-on-aluminum-foil. It wouldn't look the prettiest and the information density would be low, but it seems like it would be cheap and last forever.
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·7년 전·discuss
Depends on if you mean Java->Bytecode compilation or JIT. For the former, I don't recall ever seeing one, for the latter I've gotten one fixed.
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·9년 전·discuss
Don't know how contemporary this advice is, but this seems to be the guidance: http://www.hindubooks.org/scriptures/manusmriti/ch2/ch2_31_4...
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·9년 전·discuss
I wonder how much speculative execution in modern processors skews the numbers. (Or if you could actually consider those useful computations, since they optimize the overall time performance of the program.)
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·10년 전·discuss
It's really telling that the base mode Arduino is just an atmega328p on a breadboard, with literally nothing separating it from the real world but the odd, optional, resistor.
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·11년 전·discuss
And let me tell you, my evening was pivoting on what the terrorism alert level would be today. It was double-plus-orangy-red before, right?