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by doubloon 3y ago
hahahaha
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by doubloon 3y ago
yup. it can be dangerous to mental and physical health like anything, if it is overdone. people have a hard time talking about it but i think the younger generations are thank god much more open to discussing this type of thing in public.
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by doubloon 3y ago
Of advocates are a cult because they always deny this stuff happens even though its completely obviously happening right in front of their face
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by doubloon 3y ago
none of these seem use the good old fashion integer method from the 80s yvel = yvel + accel height = height - yvel if position < floor, yvel *= -1 pause for x milliseconds, repeat i wonder why this is not good enough and we need to resor
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by doubloon 3y ago
the OP was asking about the consultants and their liability. they are able to keep far away enough from operational details so it wont matter to them. much like a prsident, dictator, or mafia boss can have plausible deniability because the
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by doubloon 3y ago
skateboarding is full of this stuff, its a bit different since there's usually no objective measurement like height, but take the Ollie and the Kickflip for example.
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by doubloon 3y ago
ok thanks, now i get it. file has to be same length as original. This worked for me (my dd doesn't have oseek) dd if=/dev/urandom of=x bs=1M count=2 ./bef -c -i x -o x.bef dd if=/dev/zero of=x.bef bs=1 seek=2
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by doubloon 3y ago
seems like the solution is to make the paperwork of approval more efficient. this is kind of what github did for version control. it went from being this arcane chore to a fun little interface with colorful buttons.
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by doubloon 3y ago
First amendment loophole. You can't legally tell someone to commit negligent homicide, but if you tell them the engineering process efficiency management program has passed mandatory quality and safety checks by an accredited third pa
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by doubloon 3y ago
yes well unfortunately people are very bad at communicating in English, humanities departments in schools have been cut to the bone and English professor is now a part time job you get in addition to waiting tables or working retail. So the
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by doubloon 3y ago
how do i build it? edit. ok 10 minutes later if have persuaded automake/conf/etc to create a makefile. now xxhash wont compile because src/bef.c:278:2: error: unknown type name ‘XXH128_hash_t’; did you mean ‘XXH32_hash_t’? ed
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by doubloon 3y ago
reminds me of sheep and cows being fed their bretherens own brain matter developing spongiform encepalopathy (brain disease) or of course cannibals developing kuru. except a purely 'software' form.
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by doubloon 3y ago
I wonder how odd I am about these things. Due to the environment I grew up in, anger is something I struggle to deal with in a healthy manner. It has taken a long time to learn. When I was young I would not think twice about this kind of th
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by doubloon 3y ago
articles exist in context of the site they are on and the agenda they are pushing.
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by doubloon 3y ago
more evidence that a used Nissan Leaf is the ultimate driving machine.
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by doubloon 3y ago
Boeing.
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by doubloon 3y ago
Had an interesting conversation with someone who used to run a radio shack and now works for one of the few remaining 'screwdriver shops' (PC shop). If I understood it, her theory was basically that radio shack wouldn't come
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by doubloon 3y ago
or https://store.doverpublications.com/products/9780486411798
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by doubloon 3y ago
Rip
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by doubloon 3y ago
ok well this is why quality sucks in software, you dont have to theorize, you have an example right in front of you that you personally are involved in. same with me and everyone else who writes code. i have stuff i know i should fix but it
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by doubloon 3y ago
yup this is definitely alot like how it used to be. @unpopularop cant find "all quiet on the western front book movie differences". well you couldn't do that with AltaVista either in 1998. however if you just type "all q
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by doubloon 3y ago
My first guess is that Mao Tse Tung basically kept China in a pre-industrial communist fever dream until he died and the reformers, like Deng Xiaopeng, took over in the late 70s. Then China, a nation of 1 billion people, did a speed-run on
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by doubloon 3y ago
the major part of every occupation is explaining what you are doing to the people who are paying you and hopefully building professional relationships with other human beings in your field. also professionals saying "no" is essent
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by doubloon 3y ago
when you make a post about software quality but did not test it on enough browsers to realize your constant width font ascii art is not rendering correctly in firefox or chrome, so the user has to grab an invisible scrollbar to see the pict
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by doubloon 3y ago
yes. college should be for everyone. alot of american public colleges have open to the public libraries and continuing education classes for adults. Thiel is a neo-nazi allegedly in minecraft who wants to attack the intellectual class, like
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by doubloon 3y ago
US college requires you to understand the enlightenment roots of American democracy. Something that Thiel is fundamentally against
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by doubloon 3y ago
Did you contact the card company about this? Or your bank? Or a lawyer? Just curious. Card company should have someone who works on goog account
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by doubloon 3y ago
Soyuz yes in modern times. But also back in the 70s. Apollo-Soyuz seems like such a distant memory, like something you see on "Today I Learned" on reddit followed by 5,000 upvotes from amazed gen-zers. The height of the cold war w
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by doubloon 3y ago
It seems like many of these TQM discussion miss one key factor of TPS. Respect. Engineers and management respect line workers. They have a word for the expert line workers, ("craftsmen"), Takumi. https://www.allaboutlea
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by doubloon 3y ago
most of any job is listening to people. doesnt matter if you are a president or a janitor. people want things but they dont know exactly how or why, most of all they just want to feel that you have listened to them about their problem. and

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