[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This being the Internet, that's definitely also a valid option.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we're programmers! That's what code generation is for.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Kindergarten-level divide and conquer. I know that, you know that. Everybody knows that. Question is: Does Trump know that?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

No, I don't remember any of those people, and I doubt they care about me either. While we're on the subject, that is far from the only way in which I'm nothing like Ryan Gosling.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

"What do you mean, 'I quit!'?"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

...De ved hvordan man sælger varen, det må jeg give dem. Jeg har hverken et barn eller en bil, og nu har jeg løst til at købe den.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

There's a lot of decent models out there, these days. The following are all solid options:

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Wait. That's not normal? I gotta fix my diet.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It really doesn't. I highly doubt there isn't office politics going on inside Microsoft, Apple and Google, but unlike them, Linux development is all public. If anything, that's likely to curtail a lot of bad behavior rather than encourage it.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I suppose I could paint my windows with yoghurt. Or, and hear me out: I could eat the yoghurt and invest in some white curtains.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

It's like reading an article about a petrol refining company, who, having prior experience with gasoline as a useful and profitable substance, decides to seek venture capital for the development of a petrol-based fire-extinguisher. They obtain the funding - presumably because some people with money just wants to see the world burn and / or because being rich and having brains is not necessarily strongly correlated - but after having developed the product, tests conclusively prove the project's early detractors right: The result is surprisingly always more fire, not less. And they "don't know how to fix it, while still adhering to the vision of a petrol-based fire-extinguisher".

[-] [email protected] 89 points 5 days ago

Eh. It's not like we'd be getting anywhere at sub-light speeds regardless and a working Alcubierre drive isn't exactly right around the corner.

On the other hand, it might make it harder for anybody with working FTL to get to us, which is probably a good thing. If they saw how we're conducting ourselves at the moment, orbital bombardment would be the best we could hope for.

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