chevill

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by chevill 5y ago
>As a total outsider I'd have guessed that the (in retrospect justified) anticipation of large-scale civil unrest would be driving this... There's some of that for sure but every presidential election year there's a spike
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by chevill 5y ago
>Does it need to be 50 million lines of code? Probably not and they should try to reduce the size if it makes sense. However, if all of the OS's I listed are above 10 million lines even in the best case scenario a modern operating s
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by chevill 5y ago
>How many mistakes does someone have to make before we start to suspect there might be problems with relying on that person's work. There's a lot of legitimate criticisms about modern OS security, whether we're talking abo
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by chevill 5y ago
This is obviously technically true but so far every case I’ve ever heard about involved a dispute that began on the Internet.
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by chevill 5y ago
>Should I feel like I have imposter syndrome because I'd be uncomfortable as a professional athlete, something I don't do? We aren't talking about short couch potatoes being scared to apply to the NBA. That's a justi
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by chevill 5y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding what imposter syndrome is. The entire point is that you aren't an imposter but you feel like one. Its used to refer to people that are actually competent at what they do but they feel like they have fake
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by chevill 5y ago
> most online games with anti-cheat etc. Any notable exceptions? What's the performance like compared to the same games in a native Windows install. I tried proton several months ago and I had to go back to Windows because it wasn&#
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by chevill 5y ago
Cool project. However, the 2nd highest rated book is incorrectly picking up two different books. Steven King's On Writing Zinsser's On Writing Well Also, some of the posts are recommending one book instead of another book, but bei
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by chevill 5y ago
I've heard that those who seek to pay for an education are usually unfit to evaluate its quality before they enter into an agreement. Might have been a paraphrase of a Socrates quote IIRC. I have basic coding skills and do DFIR profess
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by chevill 5y ago
>When does linux not "just works"? The answer to this is "For almost its entire history of being used as a desktop operating system by users without a significantly above average level of technical knowledge." I think
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by chevill 5y ago
I was one of them and I am still certain that his statement wasn't meant to be interpreted as him literally rewriting every sentence 10-20 times. That being said this is a great article and the interview you linked is pretty great as w
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by chevill 5y ago
PG takes a lot of peoples' claims for granted when they are probably exaggerations. Gates: >I didn't take a single day off in my 20s. Most likely this is only technically true because its almost certain he took multiple days of
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by chevill 5y ago
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and Python Crash Course were both pretty great. The first one you can read online for free legally. I'm not sure about the second one. https://automatetheboringstuff.com
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by chevill 5y ago
He's a great father and I couldn't imagine a better one. Its kind of funny though because as a member of flight crew he jumped out of airplanes on a semi-regular basis and I am terrified of heights. It doesn't bother me to ri
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by chevill 5y ago
My father was a flight engineer in the Navy on P3s. While in-flight his job was to monitor the instruments. If you've never seen the cockpit of a P3, its basically wall to wall instruments. Low visibility flight is frequently dangerous
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by chevill 5y ago
>where he argued that the pill made women fat crazy and promiscuous I'm not aware of psychological side effects, but weight gain while taking the most common form of birth control pills is expected and normal. At least that's w
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by chevill 5y ago
I put everything where its supposed to be. The dishwasher is probably pretty old though. I rent. I've used several other ones over the last 20+ years and they have all been pretty mediocre in terms of cleaning dishes and not chipping t
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by chevill 5y ago
The modern ones definitely don't do that. I'm an unusually clumsy person and my dishwasher chips or breaks at least 20 dishes for every one that I break myself.
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by chevill 5y ago
I've run into some interesting business practices since I've gotten into Woodworking/woodcarving. There's a business I buy carving wood from where his process is you place an order, he ships you the items, and then also
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by chevill 5y ago
People are simply saying he might have social issues, not declaring it as a fact. Its a realistic and common possibility in this industry and there's nothing wrong with mentioning it. My parent comment that yours falls under specifical
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by chevill 5y ago
I think you're mistaking the relevance of his intentions as an excuse for him to continue being toxic. That's not the case at all. I think its very relevant why a person does the things they do. He still has to change and become l
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by chevill 5y ago
>On the other hand, society should try to be more tolerant and understanding of people who find doing so significantly more challenging than the average person does. I agree completely. It took me a while to find a place where people did
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by chevill 5y ago
I totally get that and it happens to me too. But I'm just talking about making an effort and the guy from OP didn't sound like he was making an effort at all. Its possible that if he has social issues like some of us do that he di
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by chevill 5y ago
Looks like emulators for gaming.
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by chevill 5y ago
>Training them to play nice may not be possible. I'm autistic. It is possible for the socially inept to learn to be less of an asshole and to have better interactions with other people. I did it and we should expect everyone to make
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by chevill 5y ago
I think you're misinterpreting him. All he's saying is that its ridiculous that he simply crosses something off on a calendar and people are acting like he created a brilliant productivity system. He finds it hilarious presumably
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by chevill 5y ago
While I can technically see that some news organizations are worse than others, my issue is that they are all so bad that they are actively doing significant damage to the world and most of the time they are doing it consciously and intenti
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by chevill 5y ago
I agree that they are most effective for newcomers. I'd also agree that with few exceptions they aren't the most efficient learning process, but as a person that had the luxury of spending about $35k in leftover GI bill benefits o
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by chevill 5y ago
>I'm not quite sure what this implies? That the team who did the initial infection was in fact some sort of FBI undercover? I suppose that's one of the many possibilities that are implied, but its not even close to the most lik
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by chevill 5y ago
>I have been using DDG for a few years, and find a few problems with their results: I've tried it a few times, this latest time I've been using it exclusively for a month or two and the results are almost completely worthless 9

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