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by 13of40 8y ago
When I was a kid we used to pick up 50 Cal tracer ammo in the desert by the snake river. The story was that during training planes would pull most of their tracers out of ammo belts and dump them in the desert so they wouldn't have to
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by 13of40 8y ago
It does seem a little niche, to be honest.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Simple: It's like I said I was travelling through Mexico and loudly commented that I was meeting a lot of bike thieves. In the really real world, I'm saying Mexicans are bike thieves. In the weasel words world I'm just comm
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by 13of40 8y ago
Whoah there. Just because the parent is painting all Americans with one brush doesn't mean we have to reciprocate.
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by 13of40 8y ago
I think they're probably quoting the chance over a lifetime, assuming rates stay the same. According to Wikipedia, 382 people died in mass shootings in 2018.
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by 13of40 8y ago
I got a chance to ask the guy who invented the ZIP encryption scheme a couple of years back, and he basically said it was designed to be exportable under the US's encryption export restrictions at the time, which I understood to mean t
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by 13of40 8y ago
Yep, there are a lot of ways you can do it. The point is, what are the chances my accountant is going to have GnuPG already installed on their laptop versus MS Word?
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by 13of40 8y ago
> It would be nice if there was a mainstream, built-in way to password-protect a file that you could share with someone else This is going to sound really ghetto, but if you zip up some files, drag and drop the zip archive into a (modern
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by 13of40 8y ago
I was in a satellite office of my company in Poland a couple of months ago, and scattered around the place were these meter high plastic egg pod things that looked like robots from a Portal game. Took me a while to realize they were garbag
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by 13of40 8y ago
That's probably why adverse possession exists at all.
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by 13of40 8y ago
It would kind of suck for the people who (inevitably) live on a piece of land for which the papers have been lost.
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by 13of40 8y ago
The Oregon government doesn't seem to have any problem with Intel advertising "Software Engineer" positions on LinkedIn.
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by 13of40 8y ago
I read about, but never tried, an even more primitive diode for this: Burn sulfur on the end of a fine copper wire, then touch it to a piece of lead. Seems like you could do something with iron pyrite, too, but I can't remember the de
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by 13of40 8y ago
It's in a critical section. (Which you pretty much have to do with the canonical one too, since it can run off the rails if another thread modifies the list.)
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by 13of40 8y ago
No, I meant O(n) but used the wrong word for it. Marking items visited can actually work, because on any(?) modern OS the memory for the elements in the list would be allocated at even addresses, meaning the low order bit of the Next pointe
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by 13of40 8y ago
Puzzle questions were definitely against company policy and at least ones unrelated to coding were rare by that time at Microsoft, too.
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by 13of40 8y ago
There was a linked list interview question going around back then that went: In constant time, without allocating memory, given a pointer to the first element of a linked list, how can you tell if it eventually ends in a null or if it loops
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by 13of40 8y ago
I was just thinking something along that vein last night: I was watching Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and early on there's a part where the main character deserts from the British Army by stealing the horse, uniform, and ident
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by 13of40 8y ago
Not realistic, but when I was 13 or so my father worked for the Forest Service, and we spent a week at a cabin in a California wilderness one summer. While we were out there, we ran into a young guy who was working a summer job where he wa
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by 13of40 8y ago
> A person's beliefs are up to them not their government. How do you square that with the fact that most religious people were indoctrinated at an early age by their relatives and community, rather than developing their beliefs on t
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by 13of40 8y ago
I've only used it on the west coast, but it seems like the service, cleanliness, etc. are comparable to European and Asian trains, but because the Amtrak trains are super slow and the distances here are so much greater, riding anywhere
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by 13of40 8y ago
Do you have any citations for this? If it's true and the states are actually acting on that incentive, it's an epic conspiracy. I wonder if you could look at differences in anti-vape policy between states that took a lump sum pa
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by 13of40 8y ago
Not all over the world. I'm in Seattle and I'd probably have to drive to Chicago or Tijuana to find a place I wouldn't feel safe driving through.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Heh - I was stuck at Costco getting tires installed the other day and ended up buying one of those watches. My favorite part so far is the Bixby app, which presents itself as a Siri-like assistant that collects all of my contacts and GPS d
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by 13of40 8y ago
I agree, but I'd say "software engineering" rather than "CS". It's hard to produce software at scale without herding lots of cats.
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by 13of40 8y ago
> The special flavor of Christianity in the US is quite adaptive In fact, a great part of it runs counter to the actual teachings of Christ.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but I was in rural Portugal recently, and my impression was that about one in three buildings was in some state of ruin, from otherwise delightful little cottages with holes in their roofs and empty windows, to remains o
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by 13of40 8y ago
About twenty years ago, I knew a guy who owned a snake that was fed with live white mice. Once, around feeding time, he and another guy we knew ended up making a bet about what would happen if the mouse was exposed to vacuum prior to becom
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by 13of40 8y ago
When I said triggered by my google searches, I mean the sites I clicked on were able to correlate to my personal details that got collected somewhere else, not that google sold my details. The thing that makes me suspect the doctor or phar
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by 13of40 8y ago
I had a related thing happen a couple of months ago: I started getting some lower back pain that I thought might be kidney stones based on a couple of Google searches. Went to my doctor, who prescribed a muscle relaxant, which I got at the

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