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Digital placebo can work. I was once debugging some issue with my laptop's multimedia buttons driver. I found some tweak which helped: enable the tweak, reboot - works fine, disabl…

I don't think I would resign from a job because somebody from the company invited Techno Viking to dance at some party. Feminists really should man up and stop crying over everythi…

You don't need logic, set theory, Turing machines or any meta-mathematics to build practical software. When I was ten, I had no idea about any of this stuff and yet when somebody s…

You're invited to a conference that's relevant to your position and your industry. To a party relevant to your industry. When you arrive, a number of hired twentysomething men are …

In case somebody wonders what constitutes "women dancers in revealing clothing". http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/03/27/reall...

I have no problem with people using 4 spaces for indentation. However, damned shall be those who think that tabs are anything but 8 spaces wide and actually use them this way in th…

Well, the Prophet is a C programmer so his numbers may need adjustment by some constant for languages with objects, namespaces, modules, etc. But still excessive indentation is a h…

Roundness of the Earth is equally insane. But both are facts. m@sauron:~ $ echo -e '\tx' x

Prophet says: Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a 80-character terminal screen…

Yes, it is annoying when random discussions get derailed by feminists. And no, it makes me (and probably most others) want them to leave.

AMD AM2/AM3 CPUs support ECC. It will work provided that the motherboard has the extra wiring required and BIOS support is enabled. Some vendors (notably ASUS) advertise ECC suppor…

CS is much more than the UTM. UTM is a dumb and completely impractical model of computation. Thanks to its simplicity it is a handy tool in (un)decidability proofs and some very ge…

Without the common mathematical language necessary to reason and talk about computation in the general case, and Babbage-linage programmers would have been at a severe disadvantage…

That's very sad, indeed. Anyway, thank you for your explanation. It really increased my confidence in reliability of your sources.

some of our customers asked us not to use ATHEIST-branded packing tape on their shipments We sent 178 packages to 89 people 4 participants didn't get back to us with their dates an…

Since it seems to be backed by MIT, I also kinda hoped to see an independent GSM stack and not just some COTS baseband attached to a COTS MCU.

Linux defaults to -O2, -Os can be switched with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. Arch Linux doesn't enable it, dunno about others. -Os isn't a silver bullet since it enables use of som…

Right, I've seen this one too.

Everybody uses juxtaposition for multiplication (or dot when some separation is required) and horizontal line for division. * and / are poor man's substitutes when all you have is …

Publishing detailed information about the attack itself doesn't give attackers any knowledge they don't already have.

If dumping the ROM required him to work around something considered "copy protection" by the manufacturer, he could go to jail for DMCA violation. In the land of the free, at least…

This CAPTCHAs are easy enough for humans :) And writing a bot to defeat them would take more time than posting your viagra ads manually in all four sections of this forum.

Out of curiosity: are there any known blind chess players? I guess it would be quite hardcore.

Guess you aren't. Guess it isn't hard to learn the rules before posting on a chess forum.

So add a short explanation at the end. Starting with "Hey, let's solve a CAPTCHA because I'm not sure if you are a human" and burying information which side the user is supposed to…