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smolsky··on Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
Ummm... you probably meant "median". Note, "average" is just "arithmetic mean".
smolsky··on Archive Shows Medieval Nun Faked Her Own Death to Escape Convent
So, the nun went to town.
smolsky··on Saudi Arabia runs online database of women to track them, stop them running away
Riiight. There must be a Borat (of KZ) joke here somewhere...
smolsky··on C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival
Wow, that is the most often made generic comment.

Are there other languages _like Rust_? Have you heard of large, production code bases maintained at large successful companies that are written in Rust?

smolsky··on Wine 4.0 released
C'mon, we can do better: Phrozencrew
smolsky··on Long Lines for Women’s Bathrooms Could Be Eliminated. Why Haven’t They Been?
Yeah, the opposite is true in many Silicon Valley offices - the male's toilet has a line after lunch.
smolsky··on Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commissions will fail (2012)
Also, Redfin gave me 1.5% back when I bought a house. Ka-ching!
smolsky··on For Owners of Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
"Put that cookie down! Down!"
smolsky··on Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died
Not trying to be a sarcastic jerk... any death is tragic and sad. Yet the Linux maintainers' average age is probably going up every year... so the community will have figure out a way to bring new blood in /and/ pass the reins.

The sub-systems will fall into obsolescence otherwise...

smolsky··on Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
There is one distinguishing feature: swipe. It lets me move back/forward by swiping across the face of the Windows tablet.
smolsky··on International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
Yes, that's true. Another argument my American coworker had put forth: "American rock-n-roll needed Imperial units... or the lyrics would not work".
smolsky··on Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
Was this announced on G+?
smolsky··on Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
This is a fun, self-monitoring prophecy of a kind. You can see clicks originating from ycombinator after this post went to ycombinator.
smolsky··on x86 finds its way into the iPhone
Not just that, the second listing used "e" registers, so 32-bit mode (and not just 8086).
smolsky··on LiteTree: SQLite with Branches
No, no, /dev/urandom is really slow...
smolsky··on Apple Patent Turns Car Windscreen into Giant Augmented Reality Screen
So, AdBlock++?
smolsky··on Apple Patent Turns Car Windscreen into Giant Augmented Reality Screen
Ads? That's not the driving tech in video. Porn is.
smolsky··on Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system
"Discussion system", you say? What about alt.bin.* stuff?
smolsky··on Launch HN: JetLenses (YC S18) – Lowest Prices on Contact Lenses
What about using VSP?
smolsky··on PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
So a cross between bittorrent and porntube?
smolsky··on Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
Yeah, mini-wiki in your file system is cool. Just started using it and have mixed feelings:

* The files can live anywhere (say, the Dropbox folder)

* The files are plain text

* The markup is minimal and there is UI for it

* The app is a bit old-school - none of the flat ui, panes, online-email-style stuff. No Electron.

All good so far. Yet the app forces the user to organize stuff into linked pages. Let's see whether I have the patience to stick with it.

smolsky··on Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe
Oh, right, that's the one. Thank you!

The title is something like "The tale of Buran" now.

smolsky··on California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online
First of all, I agree.

Yet I think I have a stigma claiming illness or disability... don't know. So, next time I'm going to try this:

  I am a foreigner and have serious issues understanding 
  spoken English. Please avoid calling me and let us try to 
  resolve the issue over email.
smolsky··on Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe
I read a short novel about the legendary flight written by a security officer that was deployed at Bakonur at the time. It was in Russian (of course) and called "How we launched Buran". The novel had all sorts of fascinating details about the enormous state enterprise as well as various anecdotes about the Army and the KGB folks.

I tried looking for it, but could not find it. Perhaps someone had saved a copy... or even stumbled upon an English translation.

smolsky··on EU copyright law proposal rejected
{quote} Also it is important to keep in mind the old tricks used to pass bad laws: they push initially for worse laws then after public protest they slowly step back to the initial goal to pretend people were listened to, so that not only they get what they wanted, but the public is also being fooled into believing their protest were successful and they have politicians who actually listen to them. {end quote}

That's called haggling or bargaining and is old as the notion of trade.

smolsky··on Show HN: Fork – a fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
Two questions:

1) Does it have a side-by-side diff?

2) If not, can I plug my own app?

smolsky··on Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C
BTW, things work correctly when the objects live inside a real array:

  #include <stdio.h>

  int main(void) {
    int arr[16];
    int *p = &arr[0] + 1;
    int *q = &arr[1];
    printf("pointers: %p %p %d\n", p, q, p == q);
    return 0;
  }
The result is perfectly correct and predictable, as the Standard guarantees pointer comparisons in this case:

  pointers: 0x71b35ac790d4 0x71b35ac790d4 1
The original code in the article relies on UB, I think, so all bets are off.
smolsky··on The Magician of Meat: How Pat LaFrieda Reinvented the Burger
Food porn. Love it!
smolsky··on Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute with Greece
Here in the Bay Area there is a smaller scale issue of the same kind between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. In this case the former does not like the latter to have anything similar in its name... oh well.
smolsky··on Illegal prime
So, is this the right thread to mention the honorable First Prime of Apophis? He did a few illegal things...
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