Coincoin

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by Coincoin 11y ago
Oh yes! The hard drive spin up delay always scares the shit out of me. I always think the drive crashed.
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by Coincoin 11y ago
I had my fair share of being forced by higher management to commit insecure code, obfuscations and encryption security theater despite vehemently protesting. They seriously don't give a single shit. For them it's acceptable risk.
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by Coincoin 11y ago
And once again we stumble on the Internet's weak point we could never fix -- the DNS. Google wanted to fix the problem and, despite their best intention, became evil in the process. Now instead of racing for a .com name, people are fig
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by Coincoin 11y ago
This reminds me of the early 2000s when .Net was still in development and nobody knew exactly what it was because Microsoft would never admit it was just a better Java. When everybody was confused enough, they did the next logical thing, th
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by Coincoin 11y ago
You also get "Subscriber benefits" if you get the annual subscription. No idea what they are though, the site is rather vague.
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Sounds like one of those tech articles that pop every year about that "new" discovery that will be usable in a "decade" for ever and ever.
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Yeah, a cop is like a body cam that can lie, has imperfect memory and if used in court can only testify against you. However, the problem with technology is the scale. You can't systematically collect everything a cop sees in a databas
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Yeah, until you realize dozens of them have been peppered across the code base in a desperate attempt to "fix concurrency issue".
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by Coincoin 11y ago
I agree once you know about it is much easier to manage. When I get it, I definitely know what is going on and can now manage it most of the time. However, from time to time I just can't prevent myself from falling into a very bad trip
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by Coincoin 11y ago
The article suggests the same mechanism is used for danger perception. When REM sleeping you enter a state of deep paranoia. If you are conscious at the same time (what we call sleep paralysis) the fear is almost unbearable and you start ha
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by Coincoin 11y ago
A lot of research has actually been done on how humans and individuals perceive colors and tons of statistics exist. The results was the creation of many perceptual color spaces such as XYZ and CIE L a b that more closely match human percep
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by Coincoin 11y ago
There is an inherent overhead to free speech and democracy. One could argue this is part of it. Spending billions to make a whole country stop working and cast a vote is another one. Should we take all those billions and put them in more pr
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by Coincoin 11y ago
How would you do that? How can you prevent anyone from knowing you layoff 300 person until you contacted all 300 persons? They tried to contact him and failed. Should they wait until they reach him before contacting all other employees? Wha
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by Coincoin 11y ago
I worked for one of those mega corporation that followed Welch's book, only they didn't have the courage to openly state it, oh and screw the top 30%. They would "layoff" 10% every year blaming the bad economy. A friend
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Do people actually go off road with SUVs? You just need to stand near any speed bump, pot hole filled road or construction zone for five minutes to realise that the cars that slow down the most are usually SUVs. People with SUVs want a smoo
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Exactly, we used to have those every year in Montreal. Downtown would be completely closed for motor vehicles. The first year, it was so refreshing, people were smiling and relaxing. Then the next year people started to get pissed as they r
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by Coincoin 11y ago
I find the hardest thing for me related to ad blindness is finding the download link for a software. We get spammed with so many fake "DONWLOAD HERE!" buttons that it becomes impossible to see the real one.
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by Coincoin 11y ago
It's a soft release. There is actual scarcity depending on what device you have.
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by Coincoin 11y ago
I have chronic ear infections and pain because of earplugs overuse. But I have no choice, some sounds literally drive me crazy, yes, literally.
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Driving a car is a social exercise. The challenge is making something navigate through human chaos, not make it move. Even the article itself hints that comparing the two is kind of stupid: "[...]where there are few pesky pedestrians o
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by Coincoin 11y ago
This is why most of my personal toy projects are coded like a 12 years old with giant functions, god objects everywhere and horrible, horrible, one liners. It's liberating. This is also why I like game programming that much. A big chun
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by Coincoin 11y ago
This raises the question, could Wikipedia reference itself in the past when it's an historical article about itself?
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Actually, if you reserve well in advance the surcharges are much smaller, even on high speeds. But I agree, it's situational.
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Not a single word about income taxes? I'm not saying it's making a difference, but it should at least had been investigated. For instance, someone playing for the Montreal Canadians will get taxed for about 55%. That's a sign
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Totally agree. I always felt that Subways offer was too low and couldn't scale well. It takes too much manpower to make a single meal and their work is hard to parallelize. When they introduced the inefficient microwave type toaster to
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by Coincoin 11y ago
Is it me or does it seem to have an easier time with the highest obstacle. I though it was a fluke but then it had the same behaviour in free range mode. Is it a random result because of the phase of the obstacle in the run cycle?
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by Coincoin 11y ago
This is /Build week. That's why there are so many news about MS.
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by Coincoin 12y ago
Yeah, they say the algorithm erroneously sees an Amarillo. But wait, I actually see an Amarillo and I actually see a centipede.
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by Coincoin 12y ago
As a matter of fact, I think that its simplicity is what makes KSP so fun to play. If it was real n-body orbital mechanics with real drag the game would quickly become much too complicated and tedious for casual play (and too slow).
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by Coincoin 12y ago
That's funny, because despite having no clue what muonium is, I instantly knew that line was typical science journalism bullshit. Am I too cynical or does dumbing down something to the point it makes no sense have actual value for some

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