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by burfog 6y ago
I can't stand that autocomplete. It gets in the way of actual typing. What if I want nothing in the list? What if I actually want to use the arrow keys immediately after that thing has decided to trigger? It probably also cuts down on
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by burfog 6y ago
Plugging the holes, even if you don't believe they are being exploited, is essential to restoring bipartisan trust in our elections. The actual methods are quite ingenious and worthy of HN discussion. We really don't have anything
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by burfog 6y ago
The use of choral response is fascinating. It's how Abraham Lincoln was taught in his blab school. The fact that it requires active involvement is also oddly reminiscent of some of the Japanese quality control stuff, like the pointing
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by burfog 6y ago
Seriously, the curly braces are a huge improvement. That's no joke. The "fn" and ":" are good too. I'm less sure about "include", because I doubt Ada does textual inclusion. If it does, then that is g
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by burfog 6y ago
No, wait, like this: void got_error(void){ char err[] = "Error!\n"; int len = strlen(err); int ret = printf(err); if(len != ret) got_error(); } Obviously, if the error routine faces an error, it shou
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by burfog 6y ago
You can get very accurate news from OAN. Some cable companies offer it. Also, they have a video app, and are on the web: https://www.oann.com/
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by burfog 6y ago
It's absurd that they didn't. Of course it would be nice to get the audio published after the shift ends. Data can be made public without endangering an ongoing operation.
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by burfog 6y ago
Be sure that your error-handling code checks for errors. while(printf("Error!\n")+1 != sizeof "Error!\n") ; Also, it should be bug-free.
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by burfog 6y ago
Actual methods, some quite ingenious and worthy of HN discussion, are documented here: https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-vot... Plugging the holes, even if you don't believe they a
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by burfog 6y ago
We really have no defense against these methods: https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-vot... It'll happen again. Get used to it.
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by burfog 6y ago
The problem is accreditation and standardization. We know roughly what is in a BS degree for CS or any typical engineering. The baseline is mandated by the accreditor. We don't value half the gunk that the accreditor demands, but unive
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by burfog 6y ago
That literally wasn't the contest to be won. The rules have been set in our Constitution for ages, long before 2016, so nobody should be surprised. Nevertheless, many people do suspect that he actually got the most votes. One of the ac
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by burfog 6y ago
Hey, careful with that "Nazis" label. It implies a lot of things that are a poor fit for politics in the USA. It certainly doesn't just match up with the extreme right. Consider these examples: FDR actually put one ethnicity,
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by burfog 6y ago
What conservative elite? Are there any? If you mean the republican party leadership, they wanted Jeb! Or maybe, it could have been Rubio or Kasich. They definitely did not want Cruz or Trump. They kept fighting against the people's cho
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by burfog 6y ago
I know two people who survived a PIP. Both went on to work with the company for a long time, like a decade or so.
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by burfog 6y ago
Let's call that a "Flawed Visualization". I always start with a quick check, comparing the USA with a few specific European countries. I can see that the USA got ranked below the UK, below Sweden, and below Germany. OK, we ca
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by burfog 6y ago
You missed a few, but not a million other things. You missed the voter fraud. There are some ingenious and horrifying methods described here: https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-vot... Yo
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by burfog 6y ago
Your merit is the minimum amount an employer can get away with. If you had more merit, some other employer would steal you away by offering that much. Your output determines your merit and thus your pay, subject to random inaccuracies.
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by burfog 6y ago
Now the work week is less than 30 hours. Yay! All it took was requiring health insurance for employees with 30 hours. By that strategy, we could have a 10-hour work week if we wanted it.
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by burfog 6y ago
The term "open source" comes from Eric S. Raymond, a major advocate of it. He is just about as far from socialist as a man can be.
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by burfog 6y ago
Look at the whole picture. China is not known for God, guns, free speech, right to life, and rugged individualism.
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by burfog 6y ago
The main reason goes well beyond tech companies, to all large organizations. In the workplace, leftists are more discriminatory regarding political ideology. People on the right are often willing to hire and promote people on the left, but
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by burfog 6y ago
I don't count social media or the American workplace as "authoritarian religious groups". Try it. Make a few Twitter and Facebook accounts, not associated with each other by phone or email. Use some to abuse Christians, and u
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by burfog 6y ago
If you can't equally mock and ridicule every non-Christian religion (atheism included), then yes the Christians are being oppressed. That is the case pretty much everywhere. It's the case in the USA, in Saudi Arabia, in North Kore
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by burfog 6y ago
This isn't complicated. Trump: not religious, mostly respects human life, fits well with prosperity theology, promises to stop bringing in people who really hate Christians Hillary: not religious, barely respects human life, fits OK wi
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by burfog 6y ago
That isn't banned. Consider yourself lucky, because lots of stuff does get banned. Take this article for example, submitted by caseysoftware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24320591 Referring to this article: ht
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by burfog 6y ago
The trouble is that a name collision isn't bad data. It's good data, and it sucks to have that name. If a bad person can simply clear his name by sending a same-name person to complain, we have a security bypass.
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by burfog 6y ago
It's like being in 1995 and predicting that Windows botnets will be created. The coming disaster is inevitable. State-sponsored hackers are not going to ignore the opportunity. They probably have the capability already, in dozens of co
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by burfog 6y ago
Someday, all cars from a particular brand will be made to crash during rush hour. The carnage will be immense. Emergency services will have to go off-road to bypass the snarl. There won't be enough helicopters to meet the demand. The b
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by burfog 6y ago
Plutonium-239 is not waste. It is fuel. Use it. The longer the half-life, the less we care. Bismuth and tungsten are radioactive, with half-lives longer than the age of the universe, but they aren't going to hurt anybody.

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