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by evilotto 5y ago
Rocket launches, if you're a rideshare are not soft deadlines. You don't get your payload delivered on time, you lose. Even if you're the only payload, you have hard deadlines - there may be a few windows to launch in but i
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by evilotto 5y ago
Yes, I only did the experiment for a few days. (it was 20-odd years ago so I don't remember the exact details, but I think I did it maybe 3 times in each direction, less than a week total.) Is there variance? Sure. That's kind
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by evilotto 5y ago
Are you suggesting that there's lots of time that a driver passes me over a double yellow line, flips me off, and I never see them again? Absolutely. TBH, I never think about them, because they don't affect me. Neither do the o
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by evilotto 5y ago
I was an aggressive driver when I was younger. Always 5-10mph over the limit, pass at every opportunity, threshold braking at every stop, flooring the gas pulling away from each, generally ignoring warnings to slow down on curves, etc. I
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by evilotto 5y ago
It was literally Kim Potter's defense. Shooting was an accident and untentional, but she was within her rights to use deadly force.
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by evilotto 5y ago
There are no gimmicks. "Going on a diet" might help you lose weight for a while, but you'll gain it back after you get off the "diet". What you need to do is to change your diet, and generally to change your life
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by evilotto 5y ago
This was a plot point in "Version Zero" - a hacker connected the real identities of that universe's 4chan and crossposted them to that universe's facebook.
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by evilotto 5y ago
This is not ok.
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by evilotto 5y ago
It sucks a little less, but some customers in California are going on a week without electricity after big snowstorms, with a few days yet to go. That's rough when you rely on a well for water. https://www.abc10.com/ar
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by evilotto 5y ago
The way I think of global warming is just that the atmosphere as a whole is containing more energy. If this idea is translated to simple and easy to understand mathematical models, wild behavior results as a direct outcome. The simplest ve
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Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability in Flash (2008)(zdnet.com)
1 points by evilotto 5y ago|0 comments
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by evilotto 5y ago
Compared to a real Mercedes-Benz which needs a toolbox full of specialized tools to do routine maintenance, a sewing needle is a cinch :)
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by evilotto 5y ago
There were certain pieces in my childhood sets that broke regularly. something like "1x1 plate with horizontal clip". The clips broke off very easily if there was something attached.
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by evilotto 5y ago
There are some other games, like escape rooms in a box, where some of the puzzles encourage you to cut up the rulebook or things like that. On the one hand it hurts replayablity, but those sorts of games have next to no replayability to be
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by evilotto 5y ago
AFAIR, not an option for RB.
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by evilotto 5y ago
Based on experience and experimentation, I advocate 110 characters as a hard limit (i.e., would reject a change based on line length alone) and 90-95 as a good guideline. The rationale for the 110 is that above that you cannot avoid wrappin
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by evilotto 5y ago
The main problem I often run into is not wrapping when reading code in an editor, but rather wrapping when reading side-by-side diffs, for example in a github PR or review board RB. You get not only double the code width, but also an extra
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by evilotto 5y ago
So, M:N threads?
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by evilotto 5y ago
Floating point math is fun: def re_add(a,b,c,d,e): return (a+b+c+d+e) == (2 * (c+a+b+d+e)) print(re_add(1e17, -1e17, 3, 2, 1))
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by evilotto 5y ago
Two engineers I interact with on a regular basis: 1. Me from six months ago. Clueless about a lot of stuff, made some odd technical choices for obscure reasons, left a lot of messes for me to deal with. 2. Me six months from now. Anything
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by evilotto 5y ago
Could it be this company: https://opencorporates.com/statements/987159782 "Downloadable computer software for capturing and storing screen data for the purpose of pattern recognition and machine learning"
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by evilotto 5y ago
He's right to point out that the obsession with RoE is a big part of the problem. He's wrong to suggest that the billionaire class and founders will solve the problem if we only trust them and let them keep their money. Founders
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by evilotto 5y ago
Facebook isn't by chance experimenting with an advanced self-aware AI with access to its security systems, is it...?
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by evilotto 5y ago
From page 28 of https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610212 > For large P , the three-form fluxes are dilute, and the gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to embiggen is very mild.
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by evilotto 5y ago
Skipping may not be faster than running, but on the moon it is more efficient. https://www.improbable.com/2018/03/22/skipping-on-the-moon-f...
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by evilotto 5y ago
Or the system (laws or computers, take your pick) will be updated to make it harder to get assistance which will impact the individuals who genuinely need it while not having much of an impact on the massive organized fraud operations.
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by evilotto 5y ago
All of that user's github repos are different tools for fraud.
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by evilotto 5y ago
He's correct that focusing on grades is bad. But one key point is very wrong: > In theory, tests are merely what their name implies: tests of what you've learned in the class. This is backward. In theory, most tests should be
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by evilotto 5y ago
I'm not sure which is worse, the robot-voice videos or the no-voice-waving-hands-music ones.
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by evilotto 5y ago
> you're a league of superheroes saving the world from all its evils. Never mind that every authoritarian regime labels its opponents as "terrorists". Thanks, "War On Terror" for enabling this!

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