Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Sounds like two different definitions of the word "proprietary" are involved here: (1) Mechanical changes specific to the company -- this could be as simple as hardcoded hostnames that match the deployment environment. (2) Impleme
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by Amadou 13y ago
Fired is one thing, but malicious prosecution is completely out of proportion to a rules violation.
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by Amadou 13y ago
BHC - Butt-Head Connector http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/butt-head-astronomer.ht...
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by Amadou 13y ago
An alternative would be to find one that has been assigned to a now defunct company. Then you'd only have to worry about historical devices and if you are lucky you could come up with a list of those PIDs and exclude them.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Great idea, as long as there is some mechanism to deal with joe-jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe-job
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by Amadou 13y ago
I agree. Identity theft is just a particular method of fraud with a name that mitigates the responsibility of the institutions that enabled the fraudsters. I don't know if it is one one of those terms that was invented by one of those
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by Amadou 13y ago
it would be plain dumb to ignore it and I have no idea why anybody would upvote a comment suggesting that they do so. I upvoted it because I was going to write essentially the same thing. I've been thinking about it since Colbert pub
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by Amadou 13y ago
Could we systematise the kindness/happiness effect without ruining it? Kindness by definition isn't kindness if it is not voluntary. I think the best you can hope for are social systems that don't reward cruelty.
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by Amadou 13y ago
If we take the recently publicized Rat Park addiction study as a guide, the problem isn't so much with the alcohol as with the social environment. If these people are abusing alcohol to seek refuge from excessive stress in their daily
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by Amadou 13y ago
For the near future, it will almost certainly be used to comply with the moratorium on nuclear testing. Over the last ~20 years many of the biggest supercomputers on the TOP500 list were purchased to run simulations of the aging US nuclear
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by Amadou 13y ago
I down-modded you because references to when you were a boy and when you were in college without actual dates are meaningless to everyone else.
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by Amadou 13y ago
This gave me a great idea for a defensive firefox plugin, maybe even just a greasemonkey script: Any number that looks like a price (currency sign nearby with a .99) is automatically rounded up to the next integer when displayed in the brow
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by Amadou 13y ago
You don't understand his point. He's saying, how do you know that the system hasn't acquired some sort of configuration/software/hardware degradation in the meantime that only manifests on boot? If you don't re
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by Amadou 13y ago
Sounds great. But it should be in a standard, keeping this proprietary to nvidia means it will only be available on a limited number of monitors and cross-fingers AMD doesn't do their own version. Put it in the next HDMI spec (and the
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by Amadou 13y ago
Excessive apologizing tends to come off as obsequious. If other people notice that you are an over-apologizer it could easily make them dislike you.
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by Amadou 13y ago
While he did a laudable thing, Snowden ain't Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela wasn't 'Nelson Mandela' when he was sentenced to life in prison either.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Here's a real basic UX suggestion - put the rule about using the original title right there above the title: field on the submission page. That way at least no one is surprised that their brilliantly composed title was changed and won&
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by Amadou 13y ago
From Merriam-Webster: apocryphal: of doubtful authenticity
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by Amadou 13y ago
Anybody remember the USS Yorktown? The one that ran Windows NT 4.0 and had the apocryphal story about blue-screening and having to be towed back to shore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_%28CG-48%29#Smart...
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by Amadou 13y ago
> we are still suffering the (stupid, self-imposed) effects The real damage wasn't self-imposed. It was imposed on us by poor leaders. The solution lies within. The events of 9/11 were vivid, but in terms of GDP just a blip
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by Amadou 13y ago
the "no active threat" argument by itself doesn't get us very far. By that logic, we should remove security at Fort Knox because it never gets robbed. Security needs to be proportional to the risk. We know there are plenty
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by Amadou 13y ago
He's right. When there is no real threat, it doesn't matter how incompetent they are. As long as nothing bad happens you can't tell the difference between effective security and incompetence. You can tell on the micro-scale
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by Amadou 13y ago
What part of them broke? Where they the metal framed or plastic framed versions?
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm still sitting on a former Enron-owned HM Aeron I got off of Ebay for less than $200. The mesh seat is great for farts, but ergonomically it is crap, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The edge of the chair where the mesh atta
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by Amadou 13y ago
You are completely correct. I got Upton confused with Islip.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Perhaps replace them with Snowden and let him deal with them? That's almost as crazy as putting a man in jail for terrorism and then later electing him to be president - without an armed revolution in the interim.
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Look Out, Amazon: More Shoppers Browse Online, Then Purchase in Stores(business.time.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
That looks like Brookhaven National Lab.
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by Amadou 13y ago
On the other hand, I new a girl who came over on a post-Tienanmen visa (they let practically anyone from China in to the US for a while after that incident). She was from a rural town, yet she told me they had a saying about Shanghainese
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by Amadou 13y ago
Until maybe a decade ago, the most common source of red food dye was ground up cochineal bugs which look like ticks. Even today, if the food claims to be made from all natural ingredients, any red coloring is bugs rather than something fro

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