The sorts of people who buy (and know how to install) SSDs and GPUs tend to be the sorts of people who can differentiate the two.
Thus proving you really need your calculus to do compsci.
...I always drove about 5 MPH faster than the prevailing traffic speed.
Does this include the systematic error of all speedometers that show a few % more than the actual speed?
It's totally subjective, but it felt a lot safer to be determining my own path through traffic than merely fitting into the herd.
Erm, sorry, my bad. You know everything, O wise master. *baaa*
Have you ever written C code which uses a switch statement based on what type a struct/union is and calling the relevant code for it?
No. When I use structures as objects (which is often), they almost always contain a pointer to a block of general methods appropriate to that structure, as well as containing any methods unique to the object, all of which are called through the object/structure, so it would be unusual, at least, to be testing the object type in order to choose an object-specific procedure to call. However, I do mark each object type with a specific ID and serial as they are created, along with a tag indicating what procedure created them, as these things facilitate some very useful memory management and diagnostic mechanisms.
Have you ever used qsort?
I am aware of qsort. But I have my own multi-method sort library that I use. Most of them locate the comparison mechanisms they are to use through the procedures specified by the objects they are asked to sort. Likewise list management, memory management, certain types of drawing primitives and image processing primitives, image handling mechanisms, associative storage, basically anything I have run into that I thought likely I would need more than once. I am positively locked into the idea that if I write it, I can fix it, and the number of bugs and problems that fall into the "maybe they'll fix the library someday" class are greatly reduced. I'm a little less picky if I have the source code to a capability I didn't actually write and can supply my own version if and as needed. A good example of something like that is SQLite. Actually having the source code and compiling it in reduces my inherent paranoia to a somewhat duller roar.
Ha. Funny. Thank you, didn't know that.
People owning and running businesses should be allowed to choose whith whom they associate and do business and then the ones which discriminate against otherwise good, paying customers can rightfully go under instead of being propped up by the policies of the state.
That's precisely the kind of thinking that led to child labor in factories and mines; it is also why we have to subsidize low paying jobs through our taxes so people can survive at a (somewhat) more reasonable level. It is what led to "whites only" and "separate bathrooms"; It is why the male/female employment ratios are so skewed; it is why older engineers are replaced by younger ones who know far less and don't have families to support; it is why the EPA, or something like it, really needs to exist. And so on.
Business, large and small, incorporated or not, as entities, resemble people only to the degree that most of them, left unregulated, exhibit sociopathy and/or psychopathy. History has shown this explicitly, time and time again. No one is guessing about this: the facts have been in for a long time, and new facts consistent with the old continue to arrive with distressing regularity.
The idea that business, left to its own discretions, will do the right thing is nothing more than a fantasy. Unregulated business is a very bad idea, and further, the premise that bad businesses will automatically fail because customers will do the right thing is equally bankrupt, and for many of the same reasons. Large numbers of people are both selfish and disinterested in the welfare of others.
Yes but that doesn't make the intestines a sexual organ.
Any body part with nerve endings and/or usable contact surfaces can be brought into play in sexual relations under the right circumstances. This has nothing do do with the gender of the party or parties involved. The fact that you don't know these things speaks very poorly about your competence and experience in the sexual arena.
Please take a minute and 45 seconds to absorb the following (quite funny) video:
Yes, it's still going strong (and particularly hot right now!)
Hansel? Is that you?
Wouldn't it more useful for it to be set in silicone?
Intend to stay abreast of the spec, do you?
I like to stay as close to the metal as I can get. I'd use assembler, but many of my projects are cross platform, so c it is.
I was half joking... I don't think the term "mining" has anything to do with Mr. Malmi, it's just a nice coincidence.
Also, people still talk about "mining", even though it's really about verification / running the network. It's just a nice, compact term, though it can be a little misleading.
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him." -Arthur C. Clarke