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by abcd_f 8y ago
They downloaded it because it was free. Its value is in the fact that it's free.
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Looks like these missiles are at least 20 year old. How come there's no defence against them yet?
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by abcd_f 8y ago
> Due to morbid curiosity or whatever, I can't get enough of these arguments. That's a very civil way to frame an otherwise bona fide flamewar topic, without ruining it :)
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by abcd_f 8y ago
> inflicting a sharp defeat on the US in the pacific would crush public morale and push it into a negotiated peace This would depend squarely on the context and circumstances. Historical precedents are of little to no relevance here.
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Today it may be optionally notarized. Tomorrow it must be notarized. Then it won't be notarized if it uses "dangerous" APIs. Then it won't be notarized unless it's distributed through the AppStore. You can't fo
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Relink to [1] perhaps, which is the original source without any anti-adblocking nonsense? [1] https://news.gsu.edu/2018/09/10/researchers-identify-molecul...
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Damn. This should fit our Rancilio Silvia just like that ... brb.
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Speaking of keyboards - I can't believe how well preserved the one in the video is. No discoloration or fading, as if it were made just last month. Is it an SGI thing or was it just sitting in a box as a spare all this time?
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Let's not forget GA, Fonts, DNS and CDN services.
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by abcd_f 8y ago
The article is hard to understand for anyone not immersed in the politics/events of the SV. For example: > At google: air gap, maven, dragonfly. At microsoft, ICE detention. At amazon, rekognition. I have no idea what this is in r
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Consider working for government? Not sure about States, but in Canada you are normally required to not work more than 8 hours a day and you forced take coffee breaks (formerly, smoke breaks) throughout the day. The work load is notoriou
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Perhaps all his 30 speech proposals were completely inane and he's been viewed by organizers as that spammy fellow in late stages Dunning–Kruger syndrome? If that's the case, then muting communications is the least offensive optio
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by abcd_f 8y ago
What else can they do when they have this laundry list of tracking scripts on a front page: https://i.imgur.com/hKEItPS.png They obviously have NO idea what's being collected on every user and how it is being used.
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Start with "Use of Weapons". Literally, just try a couple of pages... one of the best openings in a SciFi book ;)
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by abcd_f 8y ago
This is covered in the article: Another problem is that CLEAR phones must resist "jailbreaking", i.e., must not let phone owners modify the operating system or firmware on their own phones. This is because CLEAR critically relies
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by abcd_f 8y ago
Probably to re-establish the residency status. The same thing is in Canada except the med coverage restarts 3 months after you settle back on the Canadian soil.
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by abcd_f 9y ago
> ethically it's hugely problematic to deny people service based on their country Practically though I worked for a company that saw hundreds of purchases from the Vietnamese IP space of which only two were not fraud. For the re
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by abcd_f 9y ago
That post is from "Mar 21, 2017", i.e. last year :)
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by abcd_f 9y ago
In fact NC was so ubiquitous that it had jokes about it printed in computer magazines and circulating on the Fido network.
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by abcd_f 9y ago
You may want to look at MoveFileEx
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by abcd_f 9y ago
As another poster said - syncing is unreliable. On Windows even if you use native API to open a file in a write-through mode with no caching (FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH | FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING), you will still end up with zero-filled files if
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by abcd_f 9y ago
For the lazy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole Edit: from the Russian version of the page - A single drill bit lasted about 4 hours, which was enough to drill between 7 and 10 meters. In compariso
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by abcd_f 9y ago
> I 'confirmed the task' to her and cc'd my manager That's exactly the way to handle gratuitous or fishy tasks - creates a paper trail and discourages any further attempts of the same kind. It may get you fired tho
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by abcd_f 9y ago
How about some good _annotated_ code? :) http://www.kohala.com/start/tcpipiv2.html - 15K line implementation of TCP/IP stack from BSD. Fantastic book, reads like a novel. http://www.pbrt.org/ - fa
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by abcd_f 9y ago
Musk mentioned that they are about 2 mil each.
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by abcd_f 9y ago
Hehe... in my case there was some oscillation between C and C++ before eventually converging to C-style C++. To each his own. I even heard of people who thought Boost was a good thing, but I suspect someone was making a joke.
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by abcd_f 9y ago
If you use C++ as "C with Classes", it is a fantastic C replacement. Just stick to 'struct's instead of 'class'es, use ctor/dtor for RAII, pure virtual functions to declare interfaces and single-level in
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by abcd_f 9y ago
This is neither advanced nor denanonymization (sic). They basically pluck an interesting route from the hotmap (as per other people's recent discovery), pretend that they have also run/biked this route and Strava will show them na
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by abcd_f 9y ago
> Shed 20lbs without even exercising. Simply not drinking carbonated soda will do that. Ditto counting calories with no changes to the diet composition. Pasta is fine, potatoes are OK, even deep fried ones. Just eat less, basically, an
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by abcd_f 9y ago
Kindly elaborate how this is uncivil. I genuinely don't understand how can anyone consider passing a masterpiece through a blur filter and then calling it a "process" or a "work".

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