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by bargle0 5y ago
Imagine an ad campaign where disagreements were solved by fluffer nutter sandwiches.
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by bargle0 5y ago
Why should an academic institution be afforded any extra trust in the first place?
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by bargle0 5y ago
Then the only people willing to lead would be soldiers. That probably isn't the outcome you want.
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by bargle0 6y ago
They were for DOS, too. Not that I’m disputing the VMS roots of WNT.
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by bargle0 6y ago
Zune was a marketing failure that got run over by the iPod. They were generally well regarded by their owners.
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by bargle0 6y ago
How are these things joined? I don’t see any rabbets or dadoes.
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by bargle0 6y ago
Merging a SQLite database is challenging.
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by bargle0 6y ago
Henrietta Lacks was the woman with the immortal cancer cell line, used for research for decades without her knowledge and consent or her family’s knowledge and consent (she died soon after the cells were harvested). She was also black, whic
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by bargle0 6y ago
> The problem in general is that there are conflicting interests between what the developers want to do to reduce their work effort and operational application security. The most secure work is the work that doesn’t get done.
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by bargle0 6y ago
How much do you trust your compiler?
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by bargle0 6y ago
Darn. I thought it might do something clever like play interfering sounds to cancel it out, like noise canceling headphones.
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by bargle0 6y ago
Tacking on a common suffix (-ish, -ed, etc.) seems to help.
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by bargle0 6y ago
One thing that hit me is that Matlab sums arrays in a naïve order, causing unnecessary loss of precision. I’m sure there are other things that it does poorly in retrospect, but I’m no Matlab expert.
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by bargle0 6y ago
Most quad copter blades won’t go through your skull: https://abcnews.go.com/US/minute-mechanical-error-led-teens-... Proper helicopters also require a complicated control linkage on the main rotor and a separate tail r
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by bargle0 6y ago
TTS would be great if it were easier to develop modules for it. As it is, there’s no good way to keep your stuff in VCS and collaborate with others. I tried messing around with it a few months ago, but gave up when it looked like collaborat
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by bargle0 6y ago
Why not?
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by bargle0 6y ago
It might tip off to people that they are being observed by the police. That would be my guess.
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by bargle0 6y ago
That brings back memories. Parsec was a great game.
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by bargle0 6y ago
There’s a fourth option: intentional vandalism that isn’t terrorism, like the fire on the USS Miami.
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by bargle0 6y ago
No Dothraki/Klingon names :-(
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by bargle0 6y ago
It would be cool to have a slider or something to hide cycles, starting with the highest frequency. Basically, a way to visualize lossy compression.
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by bargle0 6y ago
2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfight#2019_Indo-Pakistan_ae... Unless you're talking guns-only (the DARPA simulation discussed in this thread was guns-only).
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by bargle0 6y ago
Why do so many APL articles show up on HN?
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by bargle0 6y ago
They won’t let that happen, but they’re probably not worried that we’ll even make an attempt.
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by bargle0 6y ago
I’ve seen pictures on reddit of guys using a piece of cardboard and a smartphone as a “welding mask”.
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by bargle0 6y ago
That reminds me of something. When I was a kid, I dumped a bunch of superglue on a cotton ball once and it didn’t even warm up. I wonder now what the actual conditions are for a superglue cotton fire.
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by bargle0 6y ago
Yes and no. The gun control laws are very restrictive, and the gerrymandering in favor of Democrats is abominable.
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by bargle0 6y ago
The thing that’s crazy about Arecibo is that it’s not just a telescope — it’s also a very high power transmitter, so they’re doing astronomy with RADAR. I didn’t know such a thing was even possible until this week.
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by bargle0 6y ago
The legitimate business has a contract to pick up the garbage reliably. It costs a certain amount of money because the legitimate business will recoup costs. If they can’t do that because of the scavengers, the city, and consequently you an
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by bargle0 6y ago
I feel like permanent WFH is outsourcing real estate costs to the worker. This isn’t a big deal for some, since one may live alone or already have a home office, but it gets burdensome if there is more than one home worker in a household.

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