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by RunSet 4y ago
> But Tesla co-founder Elon Musk might not have been when he tweeted about the scandal on Thursday morning: “You can almost hear that snap of the rubber glove before chess match cavity searches,” he wrote. Ja Rule could not be reached fo
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by RunSet 4y ago
> How do you show the current position in a document for which, for one reason or another, you cannot instantly compute the visible height? Perhaps by not "instantly" displaying the document- that is, displaying it before you a
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by RunSet 4y ago
My only source for this claim is my memory but google was better for phone number reverse lookup in the past. I wonder whether google has nerfed their own search results for phone numbers and email addresses.
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by RunSet 4y ago
I remember when Firefox's motto was "your web the way you like it." Now users have to install an extension to set a home page, which- and I'm sure this is pure coincidence- might interfere with users interaction with the
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by RunSet 4y ago
I have long maintained that programming has more in common with cooking than with engineering or architecture but it is not taught that way because (among other reasons) engineers and architects command more respect than cooks.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Am I parsing that correctly? Resembles "We can certainly NOT publish this report, which is linked here. It would be the end of us if we published this report, which again can be found at this link. We are sworn to silence, after all.&q
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by RunSet 4y ago
I recommend The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Which is bigger, the shower area or the ocean? The answer may be relevant to the concentration of the chemicals.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> The political will to solve problems is a finite resource. Gee, humanity had better act fast to protect that precious finite resource. What would our children and grandchildren think if we squandered our political will to solve problem
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Engineers who don't appreciate the role of the product/marketing/management layers don't seem to understand that if they had to take on those responsibilities it would leave them with no time left over to write any
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by RunSet 4y ago
> We named it entirely as an homage to the original PGP. Are you affiliated with any of the authors or developers of "the original PGP"? To be precise, Phil Zimmermann, PGP Inc, Network Associates, PGP Corp, or Broadcom Inc?
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by RunSet 4y ago
> as long as we can counter them by rational argument "You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."
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by RunSet 4y ago
"I hate touching the same ground as the poor. If only there were some way I could cut off my feet without reducing my mobility."
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
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by RunSet 4y ago
Rare for any post-apocalyptic setting to accurately depict the shelf-life of gasoline. Despite its whole "WE are the walking dead" schtick the cast seems to mostly prefer cruising around in trucks and RVs even several seasons in.
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by RunSet 4y ago
For people who don't like to hide an essay's worth of scum behind a two-syllable word, "stealthing" is used above to describe putting on a condom to obtain consent and then discreetly removing the condom after consent is
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by RunSet 4y ago
More information on NNCP (including what those four letters mean) here: http://www.nncpgo.org/
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by RunSet 4y ago
This discussion is about teaching reading skills.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I am just surprised how many experienced coders don't realise that technology is moving fast and, if you use obsolte hardware, your work and code will be as obsolete. I think the reverse: Silly to build software on a bleeding-edge
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by RunSet 4y ago
Too much "squeaky wheel gets the grease"; not enough "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down".
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by RunSet 4y ago
People using notepad to subtitle screen-captured tutorials on Youtube.
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by RunSet 4y ago
"I like the way you framed that. Very articulate. I wouldn't be so quick to underestimate the demand for SMS marketing based on your entire lived experience."
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by RunSet 4y ago
> To be fair to dealerships, they do provide important services. They offer a distribution and service network, which is vital to both manufacturers and car buyers. Until they don't. Throwback to that time "the world's lar
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I've talked to a number of real engineers within Google. The folks building the browser have no desire to kill adblocking Have you also consulted the actual decision-makers at the world's largest advertising corporation who s
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by RunSet 4y ago
To those familiar with the HTML DOM I recommend uMatrix from the same author as uBlock origin. It makes a good companion to uBlock Origin and provides much finer control. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
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by RunSet 4y ago
Gee, I always wanted to register for a product launch.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Virtualdub
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by RunSet 4y ago
Why is the headline about writing to the clipboard when reading FROM the clipboard without permission is much worse? Clipboard should exist at the OS level and web browsers should be unable to distinguish it from keyboard input.
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by RunSet 4y ago
One nice thing about IRC is it is sure to remain an alternative as services which purportedly lack alternatives build paywalls or become the center of scandals relating to mishandling user data.
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by RunSet 4y ago
>The only way it’s going to fly is if your organization is entirely hacker types. Read that as "IRC has integrated anti-non-hacker technology." Consider holding physical meetings with hard copies of reading material (or at leas

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