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by KMag 4y ago
To be fair, my wife says the same thing about the photos I take with my phone.
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by KMag 4y ago
That's no joke. I did tree removal for a few weeks one Summer while waiting for my Summer camp counselling job to start. I slept a solid 10 hours every night and felt awesome every morning. "Guiltless sleep of the righteous&quo
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by KMag 4y ago
I've heard that adolescents'/early adults' biological clocks skew later. In my cohort, there are lots of parents annoyed that early elementary school kids wake up before them on weekends. Adolescents on the other hand
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by KMag 4y ago
I think you missed the "/s". There's no way the Space Shuttle Launch System has enough delta v to reach the moon. For one, the need the IUS or another booster on satellites released by the Space Shuttle that need to m
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by KMag 4y ago
I've had colleagues of Indian descent with family names of Thomas, David, and John, presumably all due to St. Thomas Christian roots.
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by KMag 4y ago
Dude, the Space Shuttle totally had enough delta v to get to the moon. If you don't believe me, why don't you ask Louie Armstrong yourself? /s (I know the xkcd I'm ripping of says Lance Armstrong, but I like the idea
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by KMag 4y ago
Another crazy detail of that story is that the manager returned fire at the perp.
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by KMag 4y ago
I'm not familiar with regulations on credit card organizations, but I would guess their responsibilities are closer to those of banks than Walmart's responsibilities. I spent more than a decade at an investment bank, and it'
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by KMag 4y ago
This is where we figure out that overemployed people are using deepfakes to be in multiple Zoom meetings at once.
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by KMag 4y ago
It was ethnostate socialism. It was a command economy where industry was at the service of the people, but they had a perverse idea of who their people were and who they weren't. It really was a left-wing economic model with extreme r
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by KMag 4y ago
That's part of the joke, stolen from Critical Drinker's YouTube commentary on film narrative.
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by KMag 4y ago
I'm inclined to cut someone a bit of slack for not following the link to the implementation if the context suggests deeply nested template meta programming golf is involved. It's surprisingly much less complicated than I would ha
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by KMag 4y ago
That is true, but the same could be said of even an extreme RISC ISA that only has an indirect addressing mode. Taken by itself, it doesn't help explain why late 1970s processors tended to have a lot of addressing modes.
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by KMag 4y ago
Optical regression score: "All over the place worse than my darts game after a few pints of gin" Though, often a rank vs. rank scatter plot is more enlightening than a scatter plot of the raw data.
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by KMag 4y ago
For those who missed the bad pun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_(ship)
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by KMag 4y ago
And as another poster has pointed out, The Register tries to make every bad pun, regardless of national origin. In this case, a pun on the type of ship called a junk[0]. I lived in Hong Kong for 10 years, and weekend rental yachting is ve
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by KMag 4y ago
That's not a great source. By "of its kind" they must mean accidental booster stage impacts. NASA intentionally crashed 5 different Saturn V 3rd stages into the moon. At least some of those impacts were to generate vibrati
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by KMag 4y ago
But, they pretty commonly used macro assemblers, so they could have used macros to emulate more complex addressing modes. I think code density and performance had a bigger impact than developer ergonomics on the decision to implement the m
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by KMag 4y ago
At least where I worked, the HTTPS proxy blocked most downloads. Most software these days can install fine for a local user. It's more a matter of getting the installer. But, it was a pretty easy process for non-GPL3 open-source sof
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by KMag 4y ago
I wouldn't say National Socialism was purely left. It was economically extremely left-leaning and most of their social policies were extremely right-leaning. (Though, racism knows no political bounds... Stalin also practiced genocida
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by KMag 4y ago
We had internal repositories. You go to a website, give a URL for the library or executable/installer you want to use, and a URL for the license it's under. A few hours later, you get an email that it has been approved, download
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by KMag 4y ago
I think the normal thing is to drop trash down a tower with a forced air cross-current. Glass gets diverted less than plastic by the cross-current. You can also use various densities of liquid, to catch different densities of plastic float
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by KMag 4y ago
I worked for over a decade at a Fortune 500 investment bank. I suspect they'll be very wary of Copilot, as well. I wouldn't lump all non-tech companies together.
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by KMag 4y ago
That's possible, and it's difficult to disentangle class and race in the US, due to historical racism economically repressing many minorities. However, follow on studies to the famous resume name-swapping study found that the ori
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by KMag 4y ago
Liberal democracy appears to be a metastable equilibrium that requires active management to resist authoritarian perturbations. The Roman Republic didn't have universal suffrage, but lasted almost 500 years, before gradually and then
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by KMag 4y ago
The Roman Republic and the Weimar Republic are also two huge examples of democracies regressing to authoritarian regimes.
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by KMag 4y ago
Part of that may be that feelings are a very difficult basis for constructive conversation if you disagree strongly. Even if you feel strongly, presenting your position as not emotionally based at least helps move the conversation forward.
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by KMag 4y ago
Abortion rights are a huge deal. But, as to your other argument, Google is a global company, headquartered in the US. I'm not sure if a majority of its employees are in the US these days. I think you may be misinterpreting the GP as
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by KMag 4y ago
It has very few general-purpose registers (A and B accumulators, IX and SP indexes), and it was designed when few (if any) mainstream processors were pipelined. Fewer addressing modes would mean more intermediate values to store, and more
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by KMag 4y ago
I'd agree with that, but unfortunately, that makes it even harder for maximalists on either side to communicate.

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