digler999

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by digler999 11y ago
I've been running linux mint , an ubuntu derivative, for over 3 years and never had that happen to me. furthermore, the linux OS's don't have 370 billion dollars backing them up. their limitations are truly techinical, not gr
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by digler999 11y ago
I'd rather "lose a morning" because the manufacturer of my OS is essentially a bunch of volunteers, rather than "lose a morning" applying security patches and rebooting because my OS manufacturer is a company with $
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by digler999 11y ago
> ways you could actually achieve the claims of the product and less time just cutting down the designers Why wouldn't the responsibility of "achieving the claims of the product" fall on anyone other than the designers of
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by digler999 11y ago
s/if/while/g
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by digler999 11y ago
your analogy collapses by equating the demand for yardwork with the demand for services that ensure our collective survival: clean water, emergency services, safe travel, reasonable freedom from foreign invasion and anarchy, and mostly-safe
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by digler999 11y ago
It's not stealing if another person isn't deprived of an object. That is the definition of theft. Not a certain series of bytes travelling into my NIC. IP zealots need to make all kinds of rationalizations for why this is "s
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by digler999 11y ago
he leaked Collateral Murder because he didn't like the Army ?
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by digler999 11y ago
> The only thing I still hate is windows update. all those "2 liners" don't mean much if you have to reboot your box every 2 days to apply more emergency 0-day security patches.
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by digler999 13y ago
I disagree because psychology. > a guy that can take you 95% of the way there The devil is in the details. You just quantified one of the most difficult things there is to quantify. What were your units for that percentage ? Dollars, hou
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by digler999 13y ago
I was confused by the article not delivering on the title. 1) you can't measure it so "model it" , and throw out fancy acronyms like MCMG and hand-waving. Just in case anyone's wondering, there are other avenues (read: r
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by digler999 13y ago
if you output one into another, the resistance would back up into the first one and reduce its output, or else the pressure would push the air backward out one of the other tubes of the 2nd device and not spin the rotor.
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by digler999 13y ago
Bullshit. I can buy $4000 of GE or wal-mart and just hold it. The chances a company that big failing are near 0. The stocks won't do shit, but they will pay a dividend, which is a hell of a lot more than a savings account interest paym
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by digler999 13y ago
so how come equities have consistently outperformed every other investment YoY since 1930 ? There is no other investment that consistently yields what equities do. Nor does he say what investment one should make instead (because of inflatio
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by digler999 13y ago
"lately" ? They've been around for what, 30 years ? Do you know what kind of shame it is to only "lately" get better at things ? They should be prosecuted for fraud for selling an OS that just gets rooted, 10 years
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by digler999 13y ago
the people who claim ("copying" == "stealing") had their strcmp() function modified by malicious code from the publishing cartels.
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by digler999 13y ago
That's bullshit. I pirate Springer books that someone else (whoever ripped them had lawful access to them) paid for - no different than when I go to the library and read Springer books that someone else (the library) paid for. The bott