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by gherkin0 11y ago
That's a little misleading: the video has a "do you want to see the crashes" link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgrvrD_GOvg&feature=iv&src_v...
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I like how all of the comments "Recommended by Brett Berry [the author]" are the few that agree with him. What an ass. The worst teachers I've had graded like this this one did: demanding regurgitation of the precise idiosyn
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I vote if he commits any crime, he be sent to solitary confinement till he's on the edge of insanity. Would you be willing to be a test case? If you live in the US, you've probably committed several felonies already[1]. [1]
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I think your idea is only acceptable as an alternative to existing solitary confinement practices, for prisoners who cannot interact with anyone in person without violence. I do agree that prisoners need more contact with people other than
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I like how their battery diagnostic tool has Classic Mac OS Platinum UI widgets.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
They're honestly not that bad if you keep control of the conversation (to the point of being willing to walk in response to BS) and double-check their claims. You actually have a lot of the power in that relationship, since usually th
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by gherkin0 11y ago
If they can get away with it, they'll try, because it's more money in their pocket. They don't care if it's fair or not. Plus, often times the people actually making salary decisions like that are "HR professional
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I know there are some arguments like costs of living, but why it should be even considered? It's totally up to you where do you live. I think that matters because it lowers the wage you can put up with. Thinking from an employer
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I don't think anyone says prisons should be inhumane in order to punish criminals. The imprisonment is the punishment, not the treatment inside the prison. I think there are many people who say prisons should be inhumane to punish
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Semi-related question: The author posted this image of him recreating the old System font as an OpenType vector font: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*gwDg2tz2R22D... The offset pixel on that look h
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by gherkin0 11y ago
That's such a manifestly unjust arrangement that whoever made that deal with that company should go to jail.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The reality though is that an event that took out the internet would take out lots of other stuff. It doesn't even have to be as extreme as that. If the device depends on "the cloud" (e.g. some company's servers),
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Maybe death by firing squad doesn't make for as exciting theatrics as the complex and methodical procedures of lethal injection, but I'm sure we could come up with something for the audience. It would be more theatrical than
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I don't think so. Even if you never submit a sample, your bother could, and then they could get a match that tells them the DNA is from a sibling of your brother. It wouldn't finger you, exactly, but it would get them very close
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> thus i couldn't be accused of something i didn't do because there would be clear image of me doing something else at some other place Unless you're indoors, under tree cover, in a car/bus/train, on the other si
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by gherkin0 11y ago
>> But, I would never, ever send them my DNA attached to my identity. > Your DNA IS your identity, and sending it to them is sending them all the information ever needed to identify you. Not really: in the case the cops already hav
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by gherkin0 11y ago
507: Insufficient storage, mechanical movement of disk required
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Using open source and not having to trust someone would be nice, but at a certain point I would rather not be running my own security-critical infrastructure for personal stuff (if I can avoid it). I only have so much time.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> an odd sense of entitlement as if Reddit should run every idea, change or whatever by their users for approval I think that's because Reddit has fostered the idea that its users form real communities and it has let them self-admin
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I don't have a problem with amendments per se; but I do see a problem with tacking unpopular stuff onto an unrelated or must-pass bill. I wish there was some requirement that bills be cohesive.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I have 3x Dell U2414H (absolutely fantastic monitors, if you can find any for sale still (discontinued recently), buy them all up) The Dell IPS monitors are great, but I'd recommend the Dell U2415. It has a now-hard-to-find 16:10
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Me too. I blocked web fonts in Firefox because a lot of them rendered text like trash when I had font anti-aliasing/sub-pixel rendering disabled (I prefer blocky-crispness to blurry-smoothness). Those stupid icon fonts have been the
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Few big players seem to be making use of such a thing. They'd currently rather have their own walled gardens. :) Even some of the small maker targeted ones. For awhile I was searching for a cheap wifi connected microcontroller fo
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I'd much rather have an INTRAnet of things, where nothing depends on "the cloud". I couldn't agree more. "Cloud" integration is actually a negative selling point for me. Besides the very real problems y
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> There is apparently little/no used car market in Japan. At least historically, that's because the inspection process for keeping old cars on the road is so onerous that many people don't want to bother an just got new ca
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by gherkin0 11y ago
They even make it further afield than that. I was in Peru about 5 years ago, and saw a lot of used Japanese cars. IIRC, they didn't even bother converting some from right hand to left hand drive, which is how I think I noticed.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Couldn't agree more. I remember when I first started using Evernote, the FAQs specifically said "you can't share your notes, that's not the point". Now it's all social and businessy, but I just want an eas
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> This is a massive lack of imagination. I highly doubt the only motivation from Amazon's perspective is strictly about cost-cutting. > For example, what about a 5-minute tutorial for a new product you just ordered? I highly doub
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Plus, the established couriers have several useful services that Amazon can't practically replicate. For instance, with UPS/FedEx/USPS I can easily divert all my packages to a nearby pickup point regularly or on short notice
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Ignorance should not be an excuse for callousness. Oh yes, someone is callous unless she learns the sensitivities of every person and group in the world, and then avoids them all whenever posting anything on the web. Or, you know, we c

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