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by drblast 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the exact layout is not guaranteed in this case, so while the above code may work in many cases it's not possible to represent all data structures like this, particularly if the bits are not byte or machine word al
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by drblast 7y ago
Two is slightly below replacement rate so will result in a steadily decreasing population which would solve many environmental issues but itself.
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by drblast 7y ago
It didn't go well.
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by drblast 7y ago
I cannot agree with this more. Come to the Midwest! Make half as much and live in a house that you can sell for half as much profit when you retire! Come for the flat outdoors with nothing to do, stay for the lack of ethnic and cultural div
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by drblast 7y ago
Except that you have to live in the Midwest, so no, it's not as good. I like doing outdoor things in the mountains and the queer culture on the "left coast" that is anathema to more conservative areas of the country. So no th
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by drblast 7y ago
I think dependency injection can have its uses, but the way I see it used in practice it looks like someone should file a bug on whatever programming language features are missing to make dependency injection necessary. I think most code
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by drblast 7y ago
Huh, similar story here. The nuclear department on my carrier needed to produce this monthly report for training hours that would take them a ton of manual effort. There was no budget at all for any kind of automation but Access was on ever
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by drblast 7y ago
Personal computing and the Internet were a much bigger deal than cryptocurrency. Each completely dominated the overall cultural dialogue for years at least in the U.S. If you ever watch "The Graduate" and the guy gives the college
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by drblast 7y ago
Biology is a factor because the sun isn't up. Also there is the desire to do things in the evening, such as a parent having dinner and interacting with their kids before they have to go to bed. Or to get home from work to help them wit
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by drblast 7y ago
The simplest way to do this is to not get married. Unless one party is truly in it for the money, there is very little advantage to it other than the social acceptance that comes from being married which is vanishing anyway. Legal marriage
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by drblast 7y ago
This is the primary. Democrats will be gung-ho on things that they think will win the primary then race to the center in the general election. Either that, or they'll stupidly alienate over half of all voters by standing firm on losing
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by drblast 7y ago
So you crash immediately if someone tries to use it or a library gets added that does? Never experienced the malloc() thing but do throw exceptions and fail fast under conditions like these so they're caught in testing.
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by drblast 7y ago
I did that to an overzealous sysadmin who wouldn't see the light about why a 30 minute password lock policy after three failed interactive tries with horrendous complexity requirements was a bad idea. Typed in his email address in fron
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by drblast 7y ago
So let's assume a 6 character alpha-numeric password with upper and lowercase. 36^6 possible passwords or about 2.1 billion. The article linked is one guy and one machine who can do 156 bcrypt hashes per second, with salted hashes. Tha
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by drblast 7y ago
Laws are made to apply to everyone, not the exceptional person who is sexually mature well in advance of her peers. Your argument might well be that the age of consent is too high. That's fine, it's arbitrary. But there does need
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by drblast 7y ago
The power and experience imbalance on average is the problem. Minors can't consent not because there aren't intelligent, mature minors, but because on average they are less mature and experienced than an adult. I could tell a five
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by drblast 7y ago
While not a "tiny amount of data" Uber's problem seems like one of those embarrassingly parallel ones where partitioning by location is trivial, and accuracy of all the data isn't as important as knowing everyone's
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by drblast 7y ago
Yep. It's not a stretch at all. In the military it's strictly forbidden and there are rules in place in case two people accidentally fall in love where there's a power imbalance. Sex/romance with a subordinate in any org
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by drblast 7y ago
Not everyone considers it a sacrifice to not be married or have kids. For the people who do fewer than half of them are happy that way. We're all pretty bad at knowing what will make us happy in advance.
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by drblast 7y ago
It's fun to read older business books like Built to Last and Good to Great that use the "let's study successful businesses to see what they do" methodology. It's fun because many of the companies featured in those b
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by drblast 7y ago
In Washington state non-competes are ubiquitous, and hair-stylists and estheticians have been sued over them. That person that waxes people's legs? Works 36 hours a week so the company doesn't have to call them "full-time&quo
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by drblast 7y ago
Insurance is not supposed to make routine things more affordable. It's supposed to spread the risk of catastrophic loss from unlikely events around to a large group of people so you don't have to worry about losing your house if
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by drblast 7y ago
You don't have to feel old! Unless you had to razor blade a cutout in a single sided 5.25" floppy so you could write to the back...
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by drblast 7y ago
I agree. Discounting the "men are better fighters but that doesn't make them leaders" is pretty silly. To me this is such an obvious driver for patriarchal society it's amazing anyone would argue with it. I've spent
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by drblast 7y ago
This makes a lot of sense. If I might restate it: There are certain fields of study that lend themselves to a college format, where you'd benefit from doing things hands on with lectures and instruction. Not every field of study, inclu
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by drblast 7y ago
There is a difference between success and happiness. Living longer if your happiness depends on living longer is not an improvement. We can live longer and healthier than ever before with minimal effort. Why is nobody happily enjoying that
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by drblast 7y ago
So you would be comfortable with police essentially randomly selecting people to arrest for various unsolved crimes? And we'll just let the courts sort it out? The reason the fourth amendment exists is exactly to prevent this sort of t
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by drblast 7y ago
This reminds me of the common practice of using drug-sniffing dogs not to actually sniff out drugs but as an excuse to do a search. I think there should be an examination and maybe some additional rules around establishing probable cause us
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by drblast 7y ago
The Navy's camo is blue and would be useless on land. It's not typically worn much on ships where blue coveralls are the norm, at least as of ten years ago. The idea that this was a gift to clothing manufacturers is pretty much th
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by drblast 7y ago
"I will be hours late because I got into an accident attempting to text this to you."

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