forinti

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1. 601.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   Putting someone in prison is expensive. I feel that financial criminals should have to live off minimum wage for many years.
2. 602.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   I managed to convince my mother-in-law to use Linux and drop Windows. But it seems that convincing the network guys at work is harder than convincing a retiree. Apparently it's easier to administer a Windows network than a Linux one.
3. 603.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   I think the current housing crisis in the US should lead to a new social pact, but I don't see any movement towards one. I just don't understand why citizens of such a rich country would want to live so precariously.
4. 604.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   I would have asked for a consulting fee. Politely, of course.
5. 605.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   The first thing I thought of was a pile of 3 million 360KB floppies.
6. 606.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   A Pi Zero will spend about a dollar a year in electricity.
7. 607.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   I added a cron job to one Pi that checks if wifi is up and tries to restart it if not. I also had an LG monitor that had so much feedback it would disable the WiFi interface completely. So I would check your monitor, if the pi is connected
8. 608.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   You can't mention these without explaining false laziness, false hubris, and false impatience. I think Larry Wall gives us some great insights wrapped in great humour.
9. 609.▲
   by forinti 3y ago

   The last paragraph indicates he'll get his money eventually. Nice idea for a business, by the way.
10. 610.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    The irony is that the distribution company in my state has been privatised and the QoS has nosedived. People are looking for backups and by far the fastest and easiest solution is to buy a diesel powered generator (which doesn't have t
11. 611.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I bet he configured a dashboard on some BI that somebody else configured for him and now thinks that "coding" is trivial. I've seen this attitude a few times with accountants that learn to use Access. One of them named his PK
12. 612.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I had a 286 with a case just like that one. I don't miss the 286, but I wish I had kept the case.
13. 613.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I'm reminded of Robin William's French Siri impression: "You're in France, look around you. Walk down the block, you idiot".
14. 614.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I found it's better to let the child decide when to drop the diapers. The first time around we heard the "specialists" and it really stressed the little boy. We gave up and let him decide and it went perfectly, as it did with
15. 615.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I grew up using British software. It would be very polite. Please enter your name. Nowadays, I see this level of terseness in software: Name: And error messages are usually an afterthought, so the concept of politeness doesn&#
16. 616.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    Just the other day I read that "to shanghai" is to kidnap or trick someone into working for you. I immediately thought of HSBC.
17. 617.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I liked it. Maybe you could add some facts about each country as a tip or after the answer was checked. And the tiny countries such as the Vatican or the Pacific Island states could be zoomed in.
18. 618.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I don't know Vietnam, but to my South American sensibility, it looks like they were fishing for a bribe.
19. 619.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    There were Dutch computers with weird combinations like 27 bit registers and 15 bit address lines made by Electrologica.
20. 620.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    Ethiopia has just finished filling the GERD (Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam). They have lots of new power to play with. They're currently at 750MW and it will eventually reach 5.15GW. Oil, OTOH, they don't have.
21. 621.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I get that a lot. But he who laughs last... Whenever the Java troupe gets all excited about multi-line strings, or closures, or string interpolation (what nasty syntax!), it's my turn to laugh. All in good spirits, of course.
22. 622.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    The ATMs I use use the least number of bills for the amount you asked. If they have lower denominations, I sometimes make two withdrawals in order to avoid the larger bills.
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    by forinti 3y ago

    I live in a middle-income country and it's now not unusual to see beggars with card machines at the red light.
24. 624.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I have a hard time getting change, because in my country ATMs like to spit out large denominations. But for my daily activities (the bus, really) I need change. In the cases where I would need a large bill I use credit cards. The highest de
25. 625.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I don't get this line of criticism. Perl is a dynamic language and it gives you a lot of flexibility and allows you to add things you think you need. It's not like Java/Go/Rust where you really have to wait for new synta
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    by forinti 3y ago

    Please, don't think I'm trying to justify. This thing is just plain nasty. But these images do bring us some new (terrible) questions to ponder. Especially if the police can't differentiate between what's real and what&#
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    by forinti 3y ago

    I wonder if fake images will mean less attacks on real children. This is a really hard issue to tackle!
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    by forinti 3y ago

    A feel that a parliament of crows would be more fitting. When do you see many owls together anyway?
29. 629.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    I'm pretty sure it's still used in Portugal. Older people in the countryside seemed to enjoy it when I was last there.
30. 630.▲
    by forinti 3y ago

    The poor fella might be guarding an ark somewhere.