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by cjslep 9y ago
Where have you been? "Russian hackers" has been an internet trope before memes were a thing.
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How long until every site is like Oratyria, where users can freely censor each other for everyone else?
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My father and his brother's entire business model in the 90s and 2000s was mass producing Karaoke for America while giving labels the finger. He saw digital downloads and streaming coming like a freight train from the future. I worked
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When logging in, how do you get that autoincremented ID column? Some more complex variant of "SELECT *.id WHERE username = $1". So functionally, yes the username is the root identifier that pulls the very first record that then al
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Metal is whatever you want to get out of it. For example, I think Devin Townsend is one of the most gifted artists out there. It's great that people might want to listen to extreme grindcore or black metal or gore themed metal. They ha
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by cjslep 9y ago
I prefer Glicko and Glicko-2 over Elo. It's been 10 years since I implemented it and played with the math, but if I remember right it is far more accurate in games that have significant amounts of RNG that leads to lucky wins/loss
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Why is this 99% about Steele and not the FISA warrant it set out to talk about? This memo does not make sense to me. Edit: Trump not renewing sanctions against Russian individuals is a simpler, more importantly novel , and more easily unde
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And indeed this is how the golden record on the Voyager spacecraft potentially informs any aliens of the location of Earth.
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The difference between rail in the US and Europe is that on a lot of the rail in the US, cargo has right of way over passengers.
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> If anything, we're the first generations growing up with a concept of what privacy really means. This is a kind of historical revisionism that I don't like that inflates the self-importance of the now merely because we don&#x
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Nope. Feel free to pose the question to any of the House/Senate representatives who hurriedly signed the bill because it was certainly considered in the legislation according to worldwide news outlets. I hope you don't get a canne
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US citizens living abroad are still subject to the worldwide tax. The Republican's tax bill only affected corporations.
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Note that US citizens living abroad are still subject to US's worldwide tax. The tax bill only moved corporations from worldwide to territorial tax.
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Unsurprisingly, people are turning to tit-for-tat subbing to get around the subscription limit, which opens a different kind of headache for enforcement.
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Native Americans is always understood to mean the indigenous people of North and South America and their descendants. "American Indians" is a term that has fallen out of favor due to its roots in colonialism. Edit: Yes, technicall
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It was certainly damning to Ethereum when they forked the currency to rescue the DAO.
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Shouldn't that only matter if you are able to plan or dynamically scale your goroutines so that the cadence x volume produced is equal to the cadence x volume consumed? Otherwise due to the differing frequencies there will be one side
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All of these tricks work with unbuffered channels as well. So it leaves the far more interesting question "When do you use buffered or unbuffered channels?" unanswered. Naturally, it depends a lot on the kind of system you want to
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I feel sorry for the bloke whose legitimate password is thisisjustadecoypasswordthatwillblowupthebombibroughtloljk
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That is because you don't actually observe the radioactive decay event; you observe it's byproducts. And the presence of an observer of those byproducts certainly changes their behavior (attenuation/scattering, energy, absorp
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Born and raised in NC: Can't say I am surprised.
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Go's "pragmas" are already exposed to the developer via go generate [0]. Edit: Granted, this is not a directive for the compiler though. [0] https://blog.golang.org/generate
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When people vote, the machines they use record votes electronically and on tape. However, when summing up the votes, only the electronic portion is tallied up by removing a physical memory device and plugging them in to another special mach
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Note that the AoE 2 community is still going strong with HAD and Voobly communities, casters like T90 and ZeroEmpires, and streamers like Viper. There have been some epic professional games as well as community games. It will be interesting
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The entire cross section of a Cobalt 59 atom is only about a barn. Since a nuclear weapons dispersion of neutrons is in three dimensions and therefore the concentration of neutrons drops quite quickly as a measure of distance the car will h
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Thanks, had a lot of fun! Hope you did too.
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Were you BeatDaddy on the Euro server? I was zkdbnz. Reason I bring this up is to back up this point with a caveat: a skilled Prowler pilot is able to solo take down a Goliath only if the Prowler is faster (with upgrades). On the EU server,
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Net Neutrality in the United States: An Opinion(cjslep.com)
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It's been a while since I've seen the sly "natural gas is more environmentally-minded" argument passed off without clarifying that it is still a pollution source. Or at least burying/deemphasizing it. I still rememb
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The stark dark humor is just a way to cope with the crushing seriousness of reality. For instance, our undergrad reactor thermohydraulics class's professor was notoriously strict because there's just no tolerance for failing to do

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