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Kristine1975on New US Army Tech Instantly Destroys Enemy Fire

>to manage the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank

>manage the Palestinian population

Not sure if that euphemism is beautiful or really horrifying...

Kristine1975on If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is

How do I know if an idea in philosophy is "right"?

Kristine1975on Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

First Google result for #hornyyyyyyasf is: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/hornyyyyyyasf/

Instagram, you're doing it wrong!

Kristine1975on Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

Interesting. "anal" is a bad word in English, but not in German. On the other hand, "naked" is a bad word in German, but not in English.

Maybe I should send a pull request...

Kristine1975on Traffic Laundering: How Google Finances Piracy with Its Clients' Money

>thewatchseries.to, a website that aggregates links for illegal streaming of TV shows

Why, thank you! I didn't know about that site before.

Kristine1975on Chromium – Let Extensions Adjust Color Temperature of Screen

This is about ChromiumOS, not the browser Chromium.

Kristine1975on Huawei Just Copied the iPhone–Down to the Last Screw

Since the Wired page doesn't work with ad blockers, here's an archived link: http://archive.is/TU5ev

The article is more about the planned obsolescence of the iPhone (and by extension the down-to-the-last-screw-copy of it), btw.

Kristine1975on Why we shouldn't protect teenagers from controversial issues in fiction

>teenagers contribute nothing to the GDP. we could ignore them completely

Yes, let's reduce people to their economic value.

Also pocket money.

Kristine1975on Why we shouldn't protect teenagers from controversial issues in fiction

Ahem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_the_United_...

I realize the SJW bogeyman is en vogue these days, but censorship in the US has a long and sordid history completely without them.

Honestly I doubt that "SJW" would have a problem with e.g. Harry Potter, The Handmaid's Tale and Annie on my Mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_commonly_challeng...

Kristine1975on Google comes up with new emoji to better represent working women

Nice. Are there more important issues? Sure there are. But then again there are more important issues than Unicode emoji in general.

Kristine1975on The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactive Chrome tabs

There was also this in 2009: http://lwn.net/Articles/340080/

Kristine1975on The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactive Chrome tabs

Both OS X and iOS have the NSPurgeableData class which implements something like this: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Perfor...

Edit: Chromium has this: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/base/+/master...

Kristine1975on Teaching C

The whole ONES... HASZERO shenanigans is somewhat explained here: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#ZeroInW... as well as the entry after it.

Edit: And most likely in the excellent book "Hacker's Delight" as well.

Kristine1975on Teaching C

On MacOS Classic (no memory protection) you can happily write to address zero and replace whatever is stored there (I think Apple wisely left that memory address unused, though).

Kristine1975on Teaching C

std::array is in C++11

Kristine1975on Teaching C

Although char should not be used to store numbers, since its signedness is implementation-defined (gcc has the switch -funsigned-chars I think to make them unsigned instead of signed). signed char/unsigned char are ok.

Kristine1975on Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

I wonder how your grandmother would feel about you bringing her into this discussion.

Also just because there are worse things than verbal sexual harassment doesn't mean it should be ignored.

Kristine1975on Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

Contrary to other animals humans are capable of keeping their instincts in check. In fact one could argue that this ability is what elevates humans above other primates. So being a human with a sex drive is no excuse for calling others MILF.

Kristine1975on Mozilla has asked Pale Moon to “police” their forum

This seems to be the correct post: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=11810

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11507858

The post:

I was contacted by Mozilla with the request to "police" our forum, since we (Pale Moon devs) are in direct control of the things discussed and posted here.

I'd like to clarify our position on this kind of thing to keep things from becoming unpleasant in both our relationship with you, the community, and our relationship with Mozilla:

- We do not censor your posts, and this will not change in the future -- this is an open forum.

- Everyone has a right to their opinions and those opinions can be freely discussed here.

- While technically possible to tightly control content here, we do not wish to do so as it does not create a healthy environment to discuss things in, which is the whole point of a forum. We will, however, control extreme behavior that is not constructive.

- On the other hand, we'd like to see anything that can be construed as misinformation or purposefully misleading posts be kept out of this forum.

- If you're going to post anything about Mozilla that you don't know for a fact is accurate, then please don't purposefully try to present it as hard facts.

This is a community forum, but it is also a public forum. Please be mindful of your posts.

We'd prefer to keep a healthy relationship with Mozilla and the Mozilla Security team since we do rely on them greatly to be able to keep bringing you Pale Moon in an organized and safe manner. We won't, however, let Mozilla dictate how we as a community should operate.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Kristine1975on Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

I completely agree as far as expressing interest goes. Calling someone a MILF however is out of line (IMO).

Kristine1975on Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

>My reaction would be to just fire both.

What did the existing employee do to deserve such treatment?

Kristine1975on Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

Not sure about asking a co-worker out, but calling someone a MILF (Mom I'd Like to Fuck) sounds like sexual harrassment to me.

Kristine1975on Why do old statues have such small penises?

That's what the linked article says :-)

Kristine1975on [dead]

OP was deleted because of https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ik6wk/im_planning_my...

Here it is (from Google's cache):

My short bio: I'm a writer and programmer, and have terminal cancer. I'm slowly unwinding my life and planning my death. I'm using my own case to study how the living and the dying talk, to attack the taboos over cancer and death, and to make dying a more positive, social process. More details in the link below.

My Proof: http://hintjens.com/blog:115 (scroll down for scan of summary report from my hospital stay, in French).

To be clear, I'm not sure when I'm going to die. I've metastasis in both lungs, and colon. Bile duct cancer does not respond to chemo, as a rule. My oncologists are pessimistic and I'm on palliative care at home now. That is my data, the basis for the rest of my life.

Kristine1975on Umberto Eco and His Legacy in Open-World Games

Not paywalled. You have to create a free as in beer account, then you can read 3 articles every 14 days.

Kristine1975on Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills

>valueless common good, mostly in the western world

I have to pay for tap water though.

>But sure, if you need to confirm the BigCo CEO as incarnation of Satan, go ahead...

You don't need Satan when you've got a BigCo CEO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestle_boycott

Kristine1975on How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying It from India

Or they try to prolong their patents or very slightly change the formula of an existing drug so they can patent it again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug#Prolongation

Kristine1975on Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills

Why exactly should I believe anything Nestlé's marketing department says?

Kristine1975on Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills

I doubt people in third-world countries are unaware of the value of clean water.

Kristine1975on Code Page 437 Refuses to Die

> it treats filenames like a binary blob

Which can result in files with seemingly identical names when one UTF-8-encoded file name uses combining characters and the other one uses precomposed ones. Not to mention the fact that e.g. Å is contained in Unicode as both "latin capital letter A with ring above" and "Angstrom sign".

After you've solved encoding, next comes Unicode normalization ;-)