digler999

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by digler999 10y ago
paradoxically, there would be less total suffering (including inmate suffering) if prisons were more humane. That reduces your statement to "Should the victims be the only ones suffering?" after a violent crime. The part you mis
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by digler999 10y ago
I can't speak for the UK, but in the US, if you go to anything other than a luxury boutique, they will jump all over you for a $7k sale. That customer may change their mind or take the sale elsewhere if you put them off for 90m.
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by digler999 10y ago
its beautiful, not only is it absurd and hilarious, but it says so much. Not as a direct diss to java, but how badly a simple task can get over-designed to the point of being indecipherable. What would be great is if they added some kind of
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by digler999 10y ago
> They are the ones who have to have 35 levels of abstraction. Have you seen FizzBuzz: Enterprise Edition ? https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by digler999 10y ago
> did the single celled organisms survive such hits or perhaps life itself was delivered by these hits ?
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by digler999 10y ago
> In short, it's fuckin insane. Just take a moment to consider the feedback loops: huge cloud cover blocks sunlight, so the ground temperature is cooler, so ground air pressure is lower, which probably acts like a sponge to pull in
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by digler999 10y ago
Try a 4K TV. I bought a card with 4K HDMI2.0 (for 60 fps) out, plugged it into my 46" TV and never looked back. The only drawback is needing to use the remote to turn it on/off. The monitor shuts off with DPMS but when the machine
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by digler999 10y ago
To make some tech company rich ? Is that what "making a difference" means to you ? To help fund the CEO's golden parachute ?
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by digler999 10y ago
> a human designed the bot that pulled the trigger. And a human designed the insecure code on IE. That programmer isn't "absolved of the ramifications" of exposing their user base to god-knows-what kind of malware/ran
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by digler999 10y ago
> an artist looking for new opportunities to make a difference. The only "difference" I want to make is in my checking account. I want the deposits from my employer to "differ" by greater margins as time advances.
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by digler999 10y ago
I neither agree or disagree with you, but what concerns me is that your same logic can be applied to the "top tier university" farce: "They're equally competent except that they didn't go to a school like MIT or
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by digler999 10y ago
It's asymmetrical though. A reviewer can yea-or-nay my 1-hour assignment in a minute or two. If I'm desperate for work, sure I'll do it. But my position is in high enough demand that I can choose another position that doesn&#
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by digler999 10y ago
> a 1-2h pre-interview practical coding assignment then you'll only select for people who have nothing better to do with their time than to donate it to your fun programming escapade. Experienced devs will say it's not worth t
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by digler999 10y ago
I wonder what would happen if there were a world-wide campaign to plant fast-growing weeds such as hemp? If literally everyone who had access to sunlight and water did it, you might be able to collect enough carbon to make a dent. then you&
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by digler999 10y ago
I worked for a (casino) gaming company that thought electron would be appropriate for a production slot machine. I expressed serious doubts that JS was the right language for a graphics appliance , but I didnt want to take control of the
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by digler999 10y ago
> I am very skeptical about recycling I am too. I really despise that they push the burden onto the customer, instead of hiring people or robots to pick bottles or other shit out of the trash stream and recycle it. As a homeowner, I&#x27
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by digler999 10y ago
I get what you're saying, that the docs dont really follow an overarching theme. Thankfully, stackoverflow fills in the rest. > I can't understand what the authors/developers were trying to achieve when writing it. I can&
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by digler999 10y ago
> I cannot get asyncio to fit in my brain I found it extremely (to the point of a frustration-induced mental breakdown) hard. I still can't fit it all in my brain, but I got enough so that my code works. The best explanation I can g
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by digler999 10y ago
the "lets stop using it" comment, yes. Stratoscope's comment was just explaining why it hurts some big egoes. s/he didn't take any position on it.
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by digler999 10y ago
I doubt fentanyl would work in a public place. Wouldn't he just pass out from respiratory failure until paramedics (who are probably onsite at the airport) ventilated him ?
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by digler999 10y ago
they also won't pay the claim unless you can prove the item was worth what you say it is. They dont tell you this when you buy the insurance, of course. But once you try to make a claim, they demand proof. They want a catalog showing
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by digler999 10y ago
> a system that has the proper insurance in place insurance is a scam, especially with USPS. You can't just say "this package is worth $10k to me ". They will let you buy $10k worth of insurance, but if you go make the
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by digler999 10y ago
wont an easy fix be to just hash it again with sha256? Sure that will take time to bake it into software, but wont they just be able to put a text label next to the description and say "sha256: abc...123" ?
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by digler999 10y ago
> and then will hike prices. there's a reason why you get a flyer telling you how much a cab ride from JFK->Midtown costs and that cabs are only allowed to pick up passengers at the designated stop (creating 30m+ lines). But go a
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by digler999 10y ago
Just a guess, but in the ~80s/90s, coloring books were popular for children. At restaurants, they would have single-page coloring pages for kids with a handful of crayons. The caption used to say "Color me well" or something.
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by digler999 10y ago
"devaluing working class people's taxi registration" read: a company that figured out their way around regulatory capture.
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by digler999 10y ago
* what a healthy level of immigration is specifically, what reasons is it being used for? It's been discussed here many times that the H1B program for tech workers is being used to depress wages and remove the immigrants' rights t
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by digler999 10y ago
I've thought this too. They say prison "breaks you down" and the contact with other ruffians "hardens you", well, maybe if they structured prison the opposite, and give them a ladder to climb up. So that through yea
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by digler999 10y ago
Probably the same thing that goes though someone's mind when they drive drunk, or dont wear a seatbelt, ride a motorcycle without a helmet, or partake in any other risky behavior: I saw someone do it before and they were fine, nothing
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by digler999 10y ago
> I personally know people survivorship bias. You dont know all the people who succumbed to it because they're dead .

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