D-Coder

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by D-Coder 3y ago
This works out to, "Kill all of humanity to make sure tyrants die too." Perhaps there is a better way?
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by D-Coder 3y ago
That 2% will tend to be concentrated around human settlements. Every airplane starts and ends up at an airport, which will be in/near a population center.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
“You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.” — Robert A. Heinlein, _Stranger in a Strange Land_.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Manufacturing diesel fuel isn't carbon neutral either. At any point in the vehicle's lifecycle.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
> > Then, in the end you'd be blamed when the entire network died. > > I mean, you clearly have a paper trail showing you raised the issue at the > highest levels twice. Not really sure how you could be blamed. This is
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by D-Coder 3y ago
An Esperantist friend of mine who spoke ten languages said that English is the easiest language to learn to speak badly and the hardest language to learn to speak well.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
License plate numbers are guaranteed to be unique IDs (within a state).
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by D-Coder 3y ago
If the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech to corporations, then surely the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms to robots.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
> To starve the government financially, through mechanisms of tax evasion. I'm curious if this has ever worked before. I accept that next time might be different, but previous examples would add to your argument.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
I seem to recall stories that if you put a small loop there, it could end up uninterruptible, with the CPU hung.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Sounds like: Never wear seat belts. 1) The seat belt has to successfully detect when it's needed. If that fails, you hit the dashboard at 55mph anyway. 2) The seat belt must ignore false positives. If it cinches up inappropriately, peo
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by D-Coder 3y ago
> What is the range of uncertainty on that system after 3 decades? On a NUCLEAR BOMB? Who cares if it's 50% bigger or smaller than expected? These are not precision weapons.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
As it appears to have been throughout their entire digestive tract, we can at least conclude that it didn't kill them quickly...
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by D-Coder 3y ago
What did the cat want to know?
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by D-Coder 3y ago
https://laughlearnlinks.home.blog/2020/04/02/cat-translator/
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by D-Coder 3y ago
I'm reminded of a story about why reinventing the wheel is bad. It's not so much that it's a bad idea... it's the endless arguments about whether our wheel should have three corners or four.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
> If someone manages to make me spit out my coffee, give a chuckle or even just a smile then I am eternally grateful. For small values of eternity.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Apparently it's perfectly legal, if you're not naming specific companies.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
At least if you click "I have the same question" on the support page, the counter increments.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
According to the article, this pathway is the same for all "expanding tumors": "PCNA is like a major airline terminal hub containing multiple plane gates. Data suggests PCNA is uniquely altered in cancer cells, and this fac
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by D-Coder 3y ago
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by D-Coder 3y ago
This Supreme Court? They'll find a way if they want to.
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by D-Coder 3y ago
As the Admiral Cloudberg article mentioned above notes, it was actually a metric (liters) to metric (kilograms) conversion error. (Plus fuel gauges that failed in an unsafe mode, and flying with clearly broken fuel gauge.)
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by D-Coder 3y ago
GMail may understand this (it is a standard, I believe) but many sites reject a "+" in an email address. My ISP is panix.com, which allows me an unlimited number of addresses like "STORENAME@myemail.users.panix.com". Thi
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by D-Coder 3y ago
Yep. A friend was discussing how her cat loved to be with her 100% of the time, but when she took a shower, the cat was distressed. In a moment of cleverness, I suggested the obvious solution: a cat raincoat. Then I searched the web and fou
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by D-Coder 4y ago
The House used to have a filibuster rule in the 1800s. They finally got rid of it exactly because it ended up blocking everything... then restored it... then got rid of it again.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Sometimes you have to manage your manager.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
"The revised lawsuit added Wendy Jones, eBay’s former senior vice president of operations and Baugh’s direct supervisor, as a defendant. Jones asked Baugh to deal with complaints about the Steiners’ website and comments on the site, ac
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Panix.com allows unlimited email addresses in the format: whatever@myname.users.panix.com where "whatever" is anything you like, and "myname" is your email name. (You also have the address "myname@panix.com".)
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by D-Coder 4y ago
At least use haiku. Seventeen syllable sign? No, not enough room.

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