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by evilotto 5y ago
If you had to use a piece of software that ran lengthy operations and had to start over from the beginning if it was interrupted for any reason, would it be more effective to prevent interruptions as best you can and hope they never happen,
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by evilotto 5y ago
I mostly agree, but I don't think Blazing Saddles could get made today; whether that would be because people are offended at the language or offended at how it mocks racist attitudes is up for debate.
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by evilotto 5y ago
I think all of your criticisms of the movie were aimed at the book too. The movie followed the book pretty closely except for the mecha-suits.
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by evilotto 5y ago
Obnoxious but serious question: are you living in your parents' house? If not, move along, nothing to see here. (read the other comments about getting professional help, therapy, etc). If you are, consider if you're just being co
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by evilotto 5y ago
> he truly failed to communicate his point Yes, exactly. His ultimate point in this article, if I understood that right (i.e., affirmative action can be helpful, but it is the beginning, not the end of the support for those people it he
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by evilotto 5y ago
I completely agree. Up until the final paragraph of the article, the point the author seemed to be making is "rich people will do better in college so only rich people should go to college."
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by evilotto 5y ago
Yes, various other stories about it. I find it amusing that some finance sites like Yahoo Finance and ETrade (those are the only ones I checked) are correctly displaying the price at 431998 or thereabouts, and some are not. Different API
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Berkshire Hathaway Down 99.5%(google.com)
59 points by evilotto 5y ago|21 comments
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by evilotto 5y ago
Another source on such things, although no longer an ongoing effort: http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_2.html
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by evilotto 6y ago
When all you have is a HammerFactoryImpl, every problem looks like an INailIterator
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by evilotto 6y ago
Makecode Arcade also saves your code in a downloadable png. https://arcade.makecode.com/
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A Miniature Radio Telescope in Every Backyard(hackaday.com)
3 points by evilotto 6y ago|0 comments
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by evilotto 6y ago
Is there any comprehensive overview of why python is slow in the first place? There seems to be opportunities for small optimizations, but is that the only place where the slowness is? A few years ago I tried to find out what investigatio
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by evilotto 6y ago
it also breaks the ad and click tracking that those parameters are for in the first place. You're probably happy to do that, and that's just fine.
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by evilotto 6y ago
You can get 3d mountain prints from TinyMtn - https://www.shapeways.com/shops/TinyMtn
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by evilotto 6y ago
I think at least part of it is image. "real" programmers dismiss visual languages, especially ones aimed at kids like Scratch or Snap as toys, not the kind of thing Real Programmers use. (insert references to all the Real Program
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by evilotto 7y ago
Also a Batman alternate timeline
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by evilotto 7y ago
"Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three." -- https://sqlite.org/index.html
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by evilotto 7y ago
That's the same glyph that got a guy killed. https://gizmodo.com/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-peopl...
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by evilotto 7y ago
tarsnap does something like that - https://www.tarsnap.com/
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by evilotto 7y ago
Maybe not an "official" tetris game, but the the BasTet randomizer is worth a mention - it tries to give you the worst possible block at all times. >:) http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html
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by evilotto 7y ago
Have you sent feedback?
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by evilotto 7y ago
sharing information while controlling who gets to see it, who does not, making sure it is timely, making sure it is gone when it is no longer timely, and making sure all of these things continue to be the case is still a problem more than s
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by evilotto 7y ago
At my org, you'd never know that slack has muting as an option. @here in a nontrivial channel gets you public humiliation, every possible "loud" reaction thrown at you (to the point of hitting the slack limit on reactions) a
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by evilotto 7y ago
> Eating only white bread will cost you about $200 dollars a year in grocery bills but thousands of dollars of medical bills when you get Scurvy! Eat diverse foods for your health and sanity This footnote should be the headline. Yes, yo
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by evilotto 7y ago
The other part that is really lacking is security, in particular 2fa. The proposed standard says that obtaining credentials is out of scope, which means it will remain in the realm of vendor-specific implementations.
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by evilotto 7y ago
> trying to debate anything First thing you need to do for a productive debate is to make sure you're talking about the same thing. The differences in male and female suicide rates (and methods) is not a product of the social media
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by evilotto 7y ago
> Were there more women in said professional environment, things might change. This is self-fulfilling logic. You're claiming that if women avoid the environment because it's unpleasant, it's acceptable to make the enviro
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by evilotto 7y ago
Lefties have been evil for a long time: http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/06/29/being-left-handed-was...
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by evilotto 7y ago
A different interpretation is that men "want attention" also, they're just more violent. In either case, there is nothing wrong with wanting attention, especially in a world where there are an awful lot of things telling you

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