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by Cpoll 8y ago
But it seems to be weirder than that, according to the game (can someone explain this to me?): start:1, end:4 = 1,2,3 (start-inclusive, end-exclusive) start:5, end:2 = 2,3,4 (I guess this means right-exclusive, whether it's 'start
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by Cpoll 8y ago
> but I want to bring some kind of value. I can't speak for this CEO, but if I were in the position I think I would get more value out of you being a silent shadow, and then debriefing you and getting a fresh perspective on the oper
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by Cpoll 8y ago
> I had supplied a war winning weapon to one organizational faction and the other factions were not happy The real problem is that there are adversarial relationships within the organization. It can be an ego issue, or perverse incentive
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by Cpoll 8y ago
See also: The dubious accuracy of fingerprint analysis, errors and contamination in DNA analysis, and the fortune telling that is criminal profiling ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/dangerou
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by Cpoll 8y ago
This isn't to defend against a malicious user crafting requests, it's to defend against a malicious site tricking the user's browser into making an authenticated request. Said malicious site can't set those headers. Edi
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by Cpoll 8y ago
Can we expect to see electric cars and conversion kits that simulate combustion engines? Mechanical gearboxes (or pseudo-gearboxes?), simulated noise and vibrations, exhaust pipes with simulated vapor?
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by Cpoll 8y ago
I think if you've lived a few centuries, you might've picked up the skills, experience and connections required to make it work. There are already plenty of regular people living with false identities, so you wouldn't stick o
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by Cpoll 8y ago
Even if you don't commit the crime, you become more vulnerable to being false-flagged for it by a combination of lab contamination and a DNA database search. Of course, if you go down this line of reasoning, you need to weigh the proba
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by Cpoll 8y ago
> More importantly, we obviously don’t expect anyone else to work this way. Across the whole company, we have some senior people who work very hard purely because they’re passionate about a project, or their particular work, and we belie
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by Cpoll 8y ago
I've wondered whether ekiben would fare well as a food truck in a major North American city (prepared in a commercial kitchen and just distributed by truck / hot-dog stand / whatnot).
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by Cpoll 8y ago
But that's another good point, if you're storing multiple encodings, storing a single backup is less than double the cost, because you only need to back-up one encoding. Slow-to-retrieve backup services like S3 Glacier are usually
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by Cpoll 8y ago
A person who's been writing the same type of inflammatory articles for 30 years is suddenly fired, while an article he wrote recently blasting 5G is completely replaced by a new article favorable to 5G... I think you're using Hanl
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by Cpoll 8y ago
> The installation ended up being the most devious part of the prank in the end, since it would install on the system it makes it really difficult for anyone to understand why everything looks just that little bit wrong. This should be m
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by Cpoll 8y ago
> I don't even answer Now if only I could get it to not leave a message.
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by Cpoll 8y ago
I imagine some of your potential customers would opt for Dead Man's Snitch, since they've been around longer (and they're a bit cheaper). What does your product do to differentiate itself from that?
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by Cpoll 8y ago
I recommend using Troposphere instead of vanilla CF. It's a Python library that generates CF templates. It doesn't abstract out anything, so the structure ends up looking very similar to a json or yml template, but with all the co
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by Cpoll 8y ago
I'd wager the trucks came from Texas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufacturing_Tex... ) I'd also wager the AKs didn't. I'm not making a case either way, I'm not entirely sure wha
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by Cpoll 8y ago
Only because we now know that human sacrifices don't please the gods and improve our fortunes. Otherwise, it breaks down in exactly the same way: We kill some children, but we're okay with that, because it will benefit us. If it&#
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by Cpoll 8y ago
> A closed hearing won't be picked apart and (mis)interpreted ever which way, so the speaker can try to get their true point across. In the same post, this is a very good counter-point, I think. Anything this high-profile will be ch
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> Also last time I checked, the big automakers investigated and then abandoned Toyota's manufacturing strategies, and it's the Korean manufacturers who have taken top quality marks lately while Toyota has fallen. Is there anywh
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by Cpoll 9y ago
That's not really a pragmatic approach, though. Users don't care that it's the browser's fault, they'll use the service with the better user experience.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
I can't see why a bluegrass songwriter wouldn't benefit from learning more about rap, funk, metal; bringing a stronger context to their understanding of their own genre (which is sometimes an arbitrary delineation) and perhaps som
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by Cpoll 9y ago
I think the point is that shark attacks are non-news, and the surge in interest is suspicious. You can probably replace 'shark attack' with any other 1-in-10-million occurrence/human interest story. Of course, the cynical int
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by Cpoll 9y ago
Or worse it could deter curiosity and now you are spending time complaining about compiler bugs instead of debugging your code. If it's really a compiler bug, you'll find out in the process of debugging your code.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
“It is never a compiler error” means don't waste your time blaming the compiler, first assume it's your fault. For every person who genuinely ran into a compiler bug, there are orders of magnitude more who think they did, but di
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> You at least know that neural pathways are still formed when outside the womb > You are a human being and therefor amateur psychologist by default, you are literate, and you have internet access. There is no excuse. So, by logic, if
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> make sure you did your homework I don't even have the foundation to do my homework; I'm not a psychologist. I watched several of the videos. I can't say they kept me up at night (but that doesn't mean anything in th
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by Cpoll 9y ago
I might not have been clear enough, sorry, but my very first sentence was 'Unrelated to the news article.' I make no comment to the article.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
Unrelated to the news article, but I'm alarmed that the usual HN balanced-skepticism is largely buried in this thread: Almost no-one has questioned whether these videos are indeed harmful to children. The top comment is a Medium articl
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by Cpoll 9y ago
Summary: Sega QA tested games and rejected any game that crashed, so the developer 'try/catch'ed* all errors into the level select. Punching or wiggling the cartridge triggers one such error state. * Pointed all error interru

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