I may not have any mod points, but damn sir, you're making some very good points. I was never in favor of closing immigration, but you've certainly given me a new perspective on this issue regardless. Thank you very much.

My guess is, if they negotiate a "sweetheart deal" and the dam is already wasting a significant amount of its output, the miners probably didn't care about efficiency at all as the energy was either very cheap or free. The savings in using cheaper fans that need to spin faster probably outweighed whatever they'd have saved in energy costs.

The scariest thing in either of your posts is that you both think "neoliberal fascist" has any kind of meaning. May as well turn it into a capitalistic socialized anarcho-communistic liberterian-autocracy while you're at it.

Sounds like one hell of an asshole professor. Reminds me of those managers who insist on using whatever JS trend is in vogue rather then what's actually appropriate for the job, just trades out the willful ignorance for self-centered edginess. Honestly, the amount of selfishness it takes to potentially screw over his student's academic schedules just to fulfill his own self-importance about a programming language, which isn't even fundamentally part of the course, is just astounding to me.

On Linux, C most certainly does. The most widespread and popular compiler for C is GCC, a project that was formed *entirely* for ideological purposes, by a group that was formed entirely for ideological purposes, by one of the most ideologically die hard people in the software sphere. Hate it when people try to use euphemisms and dogwhistles instead of just saying what they mean.

It didn't send it to them because Apple wasn't integrating GCC's code parser within Xcode. That's the point of what he's trying to say; Apple couldn't do so under GCC without having to potentially open up part of or all of the source code for Xcode, since the GPL requires that any GPL source integrated into another product requires that product to also comply with the GPL. LLVM's BSD license is much more permissive, so they switched away, so they could then implement their intellisense feature. He's saying if they had tried to implement the intellisense feature, then they would be in violation of the GPL.

Although honestly, I think the technical reasons far outshadowed the legal ones. GCC is a massive and quite complex project, and it was intentionally designed to be very monolithic and hard to isolate, because RMS feared it would become a component in proprietary systems like what Apple is trying to do here. LLVM's creators had no such qualms and designed their product to be modular from the get go, so Apple could easily repurpose their existing code parser and integrate it into Xcode. In this case, the effort to switch to LLVM was less then hacking and then having to maintain a fork of GCC - to say nothing of the fact that LLVM is, in some ways, an objectively better compiler then GCC is.

This needs to be modded up. I have to laugh at the irony, 2 years ago people were complaining that Firefox's interface was too Chrome based and inefficient, and then they changed back to their old squarish design, and now Chrome is moving from the angular to a curvy look. Maybe Chrome thought their tabs look too similiar to Firefox's now :P

Am also American and it doesn't sound weird to me at all. "Hey man, this playlist is boring, change it up!" It's a bit dialectal I guess, but it doesn't sound any weirder then something like dude or pal.

Uh. Noooooo. Hmm, why is this fuzzy patch on the screen? Better run auto-adjust. Oh great, now it's cleared up- wait, there's another one over here. Hmm, better run again- oh shit, now half the screen's cut off. Manually reposition, great, now it works- oh WTF, the colors are messed up. VGA is an incredibly finicky protocol that is literally entirely dependent on the auto-adjust's heuristics in the arbitrary monitor if you don't want to spend 20 minutes messing with the settings menu (and you still won't fix that mysterious blurry patch). If you don't like the DRM or onboard audio of HDMI, then you should use DVI or perhaps DisplayPort (not sure if it has its own DRM), but not VGA. VGA is a godawful standard and one of the cases where the replacement really is a much better choice.

Most of the people who litter are tourists, not locals, and this law doesn't apply to them I believe. Hawaii won't prevent you from bringing your sunscreen from the mainland in, it'll simply prevent you from buying that sunscreen in Hawaii.

Why would anyone be running Windows 7 on a P3??? There are two use cases where anyone aside from a collector would still be actively using such old equipment. #1, you need it to control or interface with specific and valuable hardware from that time period. In this case, you would also want to be running the original OS from that time period too, to ensure maximum compatibility. On the other hand, if you're using it for retro gaming, you also want to be running at least a relatively time accurate OS, since you're using an old computer over an emulator precisely because it's more authentic. If you're using a P3 as a home computer, you can literally buy a machine with a Core 2 Duo or a Sandy bridge processor for $30 or less, and you should have done so a long time ago anyway, since a P3 hasn't been able to handle anything more complex then static html for like 10 years now, making it largely useless as a general purpose home computer. And even if for some reason you did, Linux would be the obvious choice as it's both free and more capable then Win 7. I simply can't see any situation for why you'd ever want to run Windows 7 on a computer like that...

1. WebAssembly is a compressed and simplified version of JavaScript. Anything you can do in WebAssembly, you can do in JavaScript. Seeing as Meltdown / Spectre take a lot of effort to exploit, if this attack is being deployed against you, it's reasonable to assume the attacker is perfectly willing to translate their code into JavaScript, which is already supported in your browser.
2. The devs are well aware of the issue and have said they're not going to reenable the feature that makes them vulnerable to timing attacks without making sure that the mitigations to Spectre / Meltdown are not going to be nullified by WebAssembly.

And as someone who's gay, I am extremely thankful I wasn't raised in yours...

AVGN cited on Slashdot. I can die a happy man now...

As you may know, a year ago, scientists discovered an incredible event, a miracle really; the very first ever observed gravity waves! Produced by the incredible force of two neutron stars colliding, the collision is theorized to have produced a black hole, sucking everything nearby them into a deep spiraling abyss of mind bending complexity that has yet to be understood by any human.

Well ladies and gentleman, I am here to tell you that report was in error. Scientists have now confirmed it was merely the collision of emacs and systemd.