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by Cpoll 10y ago
> This is obviously a planted PR piece. Also will note that those books look like they are in remarkably good condition as a group. They don't look like they were abused cover to cover by many people at all. My own library looks a l
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Likewise, don't assume your local good laws aren't shitty everywhere else.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Fantastic! The tape printer is a nice touch, too.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
A metaphor is a baseball bat that allows a player to hit a home run every swing.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
But OS means you can fix the problem yourself instead of being at the mercy of the maintainer. We can use the parent post as an example: > Game Maker 8.0 also produces executables that crash on recent versions of Windows when too many so
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by Cpoll 10y ago
And it only took a few decades. And every time there's some major olive oil scandal, we don't end up with less adulterated olive oil. I don't have an opinion on free vs. regulated, but I wouldn't agree that free markets
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by Cpoll 10y ago
That is very neat! What kind of volume do you get in a convention day? How do your couriers know where to deliver the message? It seems strange that the recipient doesn't need to visit the telegraph office; I imagine the best part of t
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> which is fine, but the fictional premise seems unneeded and disrespectful I don't see how taking the effort to write a more compelling story is 'disrespectful' to the reader. This sort of lie doesn't hurt the reader
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> (Note: there are 24 hours in a standard Earth day.) Obvious, but unfortunately irrelevant, since you can run multiple instances of Netflix simultaneously. Accidentally leave it auto-playing some long series and it's not hard to be
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Use a throwaway email for Grabr, there's not much they can do short of a sting operation.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I see a few problems. Dwindling pool of non-members: Facebook is an especially bad example here, because they have enough money and clout to get around this. How often do you see doctors being hired that are not members of the AMA: Doctors
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by Cpoll 10y ago
But DO instructs you to do it in the reverse order: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I notice a lot of people are concerned that these GM microbes will evolve and escape. Could anyone comment on the probability of that compared to the probability of an equally severe microbe surfacing in the wild?
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by Cpoll 10y ago
The majority of my technical library is language-agnostic and written decades ago: The Pragmatic Programmer, Clean Code, Code Complete, for instance.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I think that's a disingenuous comparison. If you're comparing to banking software, imagine a plumber that causes four floors of a high-rise to get flooded, leading to 5-figures of damage and additional lost time. Or perhaps an und
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by Cpoll 10y ago
This isn't altogether uncommon in free software, and is sometimes referred to as 'beggarware'. I've been guilted into donating by some of these , but if it's too annoying it can have the opposite effect and cause yo
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by Cpoll 10y ago
That's not ssh's fault; you can pipe /dev/random into just about anything and get the same result. Rate-limiting isn't the job of the protocol, in this case - it's the job of the chat server application.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
It's just another data point to add to a long list for fingerprinting. See: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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by Cpoll 10y ago
It's more accurate to say that it's named for the coffee beans that come from said island.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> Suicide before reproduction is all that would be selected against. Not necessarily true either. If your suicide is beneficial to your siblings, for example, it won't be selected against (assuming they have the trait as well, but i
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by Cpoll 10y ago
The article itself throws some self-doubt with a link to http://danluu.com/empirical-pl/ It's also a bit of a pain that it's just a summary of a video, and there's no citation to any text anyway. From wh
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> int mid = low + ((high - low) / 2); Why this instead of the more intuitive `low/2 + high/2` ? Edit: Nevermind, I get it. The reason is instructive: In the case where high and low are odd numbers, the "more intuitiv
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Not quite. Blackmail is defined as demanding money in order to not reveal something. As long as there's no threat of selling the exploit to another party, there's nothing illegal about it.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
On a happier note, he's in Europe, and he's filing a lawsuit. If there's enough pressure on Google, they might be a little less trigger-happy with deletions (lock the blog and set it so only the owner can view it). This may b
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Tunnel vision is a scary thing. On the other hand, some of the other anecdotes are, I think, completely coincidental. With such a large adoption rate, some people are inevitably going to have bad things happen to them while they're pla
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by Cpoll 10y ago
And Kate Beaton: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php/index.php?id=134
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by Cpoll 10y ago
> P.S. I expect this is a joke, but even if this were true, I don't think it'd be a valid 'validation of the point.' Incidentally, "candidate" is not a subset of "date." It's from Latin candid
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by Cpoll 10y ago
The idiom "deal with the devil" barely has any religious connotation anymore. You probably wouldn't bat an eyelid if the post didn't also contain "separate the wicked from the good," "evil at heart,"
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by Cpoll 10y ago
2014. You can get some info from the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack Most interesting being the layman explanation: "Vantablack is composed of a forest of vertical tubes which are "grown&q
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by Cpoll 10y ago
>Wright shows off some of the RX-7’s gadgetry using the same rapid-fire, jargon-laden diction that journalists and tech-conference attendees would later come to know if not always love. I was confused. Will's not the one talking in

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