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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
ISC comes to mind - https://www.isc.org/
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Didn't you get the silly valley memo? The sheep that use our products aren't people. They're wallets with intent, and it's our job to program that intent.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
I remember my dad going to all of our family gatherings and baseball/basketball/soccer games with his trusty Canon A-1. He passed it along with a few of the lenses he no longer needed when he moved to a Canon SLR, and it's b
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Yes, but you need to look at the ROI. If it costs more to keep these people on and train them than it would to get the community to do these things then IBM is rationally externalizing these costs. They're not a charity. That said, I
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Are or were any of them experts on the things that IBM wants done? Are the involved in the communities that IBM wants work done in? If not, then they're still a net drain while they come up to speed, and engaging these communities an
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
On the flip side, I think those that have been more fortunate (as in acquiring obscene wealth) have a duty of noblesse oblige to the society and people that helped them get there. The fact that so many shop at Walmart is what keeps the Walt
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Also, many high schoolers coming in are playing with "house money" - easy credit for student loans, daddy's money, and scholarships and grants focused at high school kids. Adults going in and paying their way are more likely
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
One of the features of Snaps is that they explicitly automatically update. From the front page of https://snapcraft.io/ : "Automatic updates for everyone" If you don't want your software to automatically upda
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
The author explains his reasoning for PDF for this document here: https://arachnoid.com/latex/why_latex_pdf.html . The author also has a Hacker News profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Ted Cruz would not be satisfied with just ruining the lives of 37 people.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Bootcamps can be viable if you want to be a computer programmer, but if you want to learn CS then a bootcamp will leave you ill prepared.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Untrue. Get majorly sick or in a major accident and lose your insurance because your job finds a reason to restructure your department. Trust me, you will enter financial desperation very quickly while you wait for the social safety net t
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Who says technology doesn't have a sociopath problem
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
It also got the US Intelligence Community off they are back as it gives them a single point of interception.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Nobody is going to steal your Dunning-Krugerands
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
This reminds me of the concept of censor-bait in movies. Filmmakers sometimes include over the top, obviously gratuitous scenes, images, or language in their films so that the MPAA ratings board feels like they've done something when
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Iran is primarily Shi'a and Saudi Arabia is primarily Sunni.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Saudia Arabia and Wahhabism are also responsible for 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
I use GPU passthrough and run games in Windows under KVM with equal or slightly less (~3-5%) frames. Photo manipulation and graphic design work fine in Photoshop in my setup. Not so sure about video editing.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
I have a mac mini for my study desktop (use it to shell into machines to develop, watch YouTube tech videos, and listen to music with iTunes from my NAS), but every time I think about buying an MBP I remember the horror stories from watchin
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
I've had zero problem installing Python and pyenv from Homebrew and just getting things done.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Or the other way around - Windows under kvm on Linux.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Why? If anyone can print the cards and therefore play the deck that they want then the game comes down to a limited amount of luck (as decks are randomized before play) and skill in both play and construction of decks. This has become a mo
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
This is just a virch to appear on board with wider trends in the community, and addressing the issue you raised give StackOverflow no more recognition, advertising revenue, or standing in the community.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
Invalid for tournament play, certainly, but between two kids for playground bragging rights, not invalid if the people playing the game agree beforehand.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
If the address is used you must refuse.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
There are few things more ideologically pure than Google's employees.
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by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
I've made a note to ping Jason Scott and Archiveteam about this on IRC when I get home.
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by cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
After you take depreciation, wear-and-tear, insurance, and maintenance into account?
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by cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
If only the media wouldn't feed the electorate the message that voting is pointless because they already know who is going to win in a landslide!

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