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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @05:30PM (#41585780)
So, Israel wants to give them more motivation?
What is not cool is that ROOT was "designed" and built by people who had absolutely no idea how to run a large-scale software project. And it shows everywhere - it's one huge monolith that you have to constantly fight to do anything slightly non-trivial. I'm happy that I don't have to use it frequently, though I still have some exposure.
Re:Numbers every programmer should know
on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:12AM (#39688048)
Every programmer should know how to represent "the numbers". Without reasonable representation your numbers are just useless crap.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities
on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:26PM (#39402504)
You probably mean "to prevent military tension"? When tension already becomes war, it's sort of pointless to continue economic integration in the hope that it can stop war.
Re:Military whistleblower claims US has UFO retrieval program
on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:18PM (#36219240)
Obviously they come from a multiverse where there is no gravity.
Re:Skyscraper Proposed for 2700 Sloat Boulevard in Outer Sunset, San F...
on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:29PM (#35582639)
But will it blend?
Re:Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal...
on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:36AM (#33876301)
Pavlov's dog would approve.
Re:The New Hydrogen Car That Travels 2k Km with a Single Tank
on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:05PM (#33501003)
Naturally, from the CLOUD :)
Re:I've said it all before but here we go again
on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:48PM (#33028385)
From all her posts I got quite different impression. I feel like she is abusing her position to spread misinformation about how particle physics actually works. Repeating again and again "You are all idiots and do not know what you do and only care about funding" does not help her much in building a valid scientific argument.
Re:“Hello world” is slower in C++ than in C (Linux)
on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:00AM (#32422087)
So, if C printf is slower than assembler code that outputs "hello world", then C is garbage?
Re:Democrats are realizing they must become more moderate
on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:16AM (#32148127)
This is pure BS. The self-appointed progessives/wokes are not moderate or centrist in any way, but they have huge influence over Democrats' policy. And they will be responsible for the Democrats' losses in the following years.
Re:Capital One Data Breach Class Action Settlement
on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:43PM (#31813994)
It is legit, but you need to prove your losses due to the breach.
Re:Thirty-Six Methods of Mathematical Proof
on Sunday June 19, 2022 @10:55PM (#31805823)
One more:
Proof by divinity: "Oh, for Christ’s sake!"
Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called
on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:08PM (#31358815)
Did your grandma have a business license when she was babysitting you?
Re:Russia's economy is back on its feet
on Sunday May 08, 2022 @03:17AM (#31301968)
Official exchange rate is meaningless as you cannot transfer dollars into or out of Russia. Based on some internal sources (not super exact, but still indicative), I think cash exchange on black market is closer to RUR 150 per USD today.
Re:The Next 10 Days Will Decide This War
on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:40PM (#30692143)
Hmm, the only thing that I was able to find is here: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4795768/russia-mutiny-army-ukra...
It is from two weeks ago, but I did not hear it before, and I could not find any other confirmation from sources in Russia.
Re:Inside Putin's Circle
on Friday March 11, 2022 @07:30PM (#30647816)
FSB is former KGB, so indeed it is Stasi, but KGB may be even more familiar name from those times.
Re:Are sprouted potatoes safe?
on Saturday March 05, 2022 @11:33PM (#30575055)
As a kid, I lived in a part of the world where we did not buy potatoes in the supermarket. We harvested them in autumn and stored until next summer, storage was a basement (cool, dry, dark place). By the spring it inevitably sprouted, we had to remove sprouts and sort out rotten ones (usually done only once). No one ever got sick from sprouted potatoes, that is the most ridiculous thing that I heard. Green potatoes are those that were exposed to light, people said it's not good to eat, but I guess you would have to eat a lot of them to see the effect.
Re:Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war
on Saturday March 05, 2022 @08:30PM (#30574047)
Very good video, indeed. Explains how Putin and Russian propaganda machine turned Ukrainians into non-humans in perception of many Russian folks.
Re:Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war
on Saturday March 05, 2022 @08:11PM (#30573920)
You realize that TASS is state-owned and just repeats the same propaganda that comes from Kremlin, don't you?
EDIT: To be more specific, the news I heard on Ukrainian media was that corridors were indeed open for a brief period, but fire started again almost at the moment when transports with refugees began moving, giving them no chance to leave.
Re:Russia says Ukraine talks hit 'dead end', Poland warns of risk of war
on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:30PM (#29928509)
Not going to happen, major reason for annexation was to keep Sebastopol as the major/only Russia navy base in the Black Sea. That reason will never vanish as there are no other suitable locations to relocate that base.
Re:Ask HN: Why are there so few single-letter command line utilities /...
on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:32AM (#29611933)
I thought UNIX was case-sensitive from very beginning (though early terminals probably were not). Also digits/punctuation can be counted too, in fact '.' is a (shell) command.
Re:A Safer San Francisco
on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:06AM (#29562321)
When people start recognizing that Mayor Breed is a part of the problem, and not part of the solution, we may get a chance for solving SF issues.
Re:Using mechanical tools improves our language skills, study finds
on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:58PM (#29383702)
My language skills improve every time I hit a finger with a hammer :)
Re:Tesla FSD Beta Barely Avoids Crashing into Pole
on Sunday October 17, 2021 @12:48AM (#28894034)
I think it plays more into the theory that it would be a lot more autopilot crashes if humans did not intervene at the last moment.
Re:Tesla FSD Beta Barely Avoids Crashing into Pole
on Sunday October 17, 2021 @12:45AM (#28894024)
Can AI feel suicidal (or is it homicidal) after being tested for so many hours on San Jose streets?
Re:Python and Lua (2019)
on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:11PM (#28815429)
Lua version of the code is incomprehensible. Could it be that if you implement the same thing in Python it will also run faster?
Re:Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?
on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:29AM (#28756116)
"Curious people become smarter ..."
Smarter and smart are not the same thing.
Re:Update about the October 4th outage
on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:25AM (#28756088)
Such a BS. FB imagining that they are their own Internet but failing in a most miserable way because they need actual Internet to communicate.
Re:JupyterLab Desktop App now available
on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:00PM (#28622517)
One more Electron app on my desktop - no, thanks. Just install anaconda and run jupyter with the browser, as good god intended :)