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by 13of40 3y ago
I've listened to the podcast, but one Kissinger op I don't think was mentioned there that always stuck out to me was Operation Popeye. It was a real life attempt to extend the monsoon through cloud seeding so the Ho Chi Minh trai
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by 13of40 3y ago
This is from the same country that prohibited blood in video games in the 90s. I had a copy of Duke Nukem that I picked up from some street vendor in Seoul that was identical to the American one, but all of the blood was colored white. I&
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by 13of40 3y ago
When I was in highschool I lived in a rural town of about 7000 people that had an analog telephone exchange. I read about the bandwidth limitations, and a friend of mine and I decided to test them over a local and long distance call. The
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by 13of40 3y ago
Nit: The bandwidth of your optic nerve is only about 10 kilobits per second. You think you're seeing in 4K but most of it is synthetic.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I'm running a greenfield project at bigcorp, and I can tell you hands down "yes it makes a difference". Sure, you have to write it in the company language, do accessibility etc., but it's far better than being tied down
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by 13of40 3y ago
My own experience testing video games back in the mists of time was you get assigned Level Nine, for example, and the entire game is a crashy stuck-in-the-floor mess where all of the low hanging fruit has already been reported. Without a c
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by 13of40 3y ago
Yep, it was the first thing I read today that gave me a genuine chuckle.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Here's the process: https://youtu.be/G0Dci5RPe94 I didn't get to watch it to the end yet, but it shows the pressing and firing process halfway through.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Not apostrophe-related, but you just reminded me of a sign I kept seeing at my local hospital a while back. It said (and I took a picture of it, because it bugged me so much): NO PETS No Dogs or Pets Trained Guide Dogs or Ser
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by 13of40 3y ago
My family has a "99 year lease" on a property from the federal government in the US, and even though it's called that, it really just renews something like every 20 years. Not sure if in the UK they literally count 99 years.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Nobody on the team wanted that, not even Snover, but we were making that thing in about 2005, when everyone was getting burned by email based zero days. Even though we had the Set-ExecutionPolicy thing there were boogeyman news articles im
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by 13of40 3y ago
Windows ships with VBScript, JScript, CMD, C#, and PowerShell right out of the box. I recall interviewing a college guy around 2018, and he tried to educate me about how Windows doesn't have a good command line / scripting /
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by 13of40 3y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this behavior changes one mouse click on a rarely used workflow into three. The only reason people are getting upset about it - the only impact, as you put it - is the cognitive load of providing a re
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by 13of40 3y ago
I used to work at Microsoft, so I can field this one: The answer is that they want to gather data about how to improve OneDrive so people continue to use it. The PM who owns OneDrive adoption probably has to talk to a slide in a regular s
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by 13of40 3y ago
I wrote a parser/interpreter for VBA a few years back, and even though the core concepts were straightforward, conforming to a language that had been in development for decades turned out to be brain-wreckingly tedious. One of the big
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by 13of40 3y ago
Simple: Events come in, like emails, chats, bug reports, etc. They have URLs in them. I click the URL, bringing another tab into the world. Half the time I forget to close the tab. Sometimes the browser windows breed when I drag two ta
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by 13of40 3y ago
I just ran into one 30 minutes ago. There was a song stuck in my head and I found out it was by a different band than I always thought, so I DuckDuckGo'd a comparison between the bands. The first hit was a completely reasonable sound
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by 13of40 3y ago
Let's consider some actual numbers, though: In 1999 I got my first "corporate" job at a starting salary of $50K. I was paying $800 a month for a two bedroom apartment, and what was left over was enough to comfortably suppor
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by 13of40 3y ago
Probably the same as it's ever been. Out of three random employees, you have one who's just going through the motions, one who's working hard, and one who's actively hostile. Which one gets the money when review time r
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by 13of40 3y ago
My favorite is storing a batch file uncompressed as the first entry in the ZIP archive, because you can rename it with .BAT or .CMD and run it. Sprinkle in some PowerShell and you can make a self extracting archive/installer.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I've done this from a plane before and got some very epic 3D images. I think Mt. Rainier at sunset was one of the best. So yeah, the easy way if your camera is on a moving platform, is take a shot, count three aligators, then take an
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think the analogy would be that Jesus really was magic, but Judas was blind to it and living in a material state of mind where taking the 30 pieces of silver made more sense than continuing to follow some weirdo. If Judas was a true beli
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by 13of40 3y ago
One important point is that the judas goat doesn't know they're a judas goat, so as long the influencer just thinks they're living a rockin' life, but they were put in that position by someone who really knows what'
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by 13of40 3y ago
It's a quirky story, but I wonder if there are any human-life examples. Like getting invited to a special meeting where everyone gets donuts and coffee, then gets laid off?
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by 13of40 3y ago
> American morals...they won't provide payments for some websites... Never heard of that. What are some examples?
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by 13of40 3y ago
Businesses still have landline telephones too, but I feel like they're just less agile, not that they'll never catch up with the times.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Is the rule really about "track use" or is it just off-road or on-private-property use? How does the distributor know I'm not just rolling coal on my uncle's farm?
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by 13of40 3y ago
I'm the opposite. I know it's wrong, because I'm giving companies free loans or whatever, but when I pay recurring bills (that aren't on autopay) I just multiply by 10 so I only have to pay once a year or so.
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by 13of40 3y ago
In the US you typically get a kickback ranging from about 1% to 5% for different kinds of purchases. Costco, for example, sends you a check every year based on your purchases, so it makes sense to use your Costco card to pay for everything
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by 13of40 3y ago
The Amiga outsourced a lot of its work to custom peripheral chips, so doing something like a mass move of memory from one location to another, on a bit boundary, didn't rely on the CPU. Likewise, you could change the addresses of vide

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