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by gknoy 7y ago
> I know that there's stories about location not being accurate If possible, try to use a land line, because the emergency calls are often routed to a different location when made with a cellular phone. This may not be true everyw
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> The total cost of the F-35 program is expected to be $1.5 trillion over its 55-year lifespan As of 2018, the estimated program cost was ~1.5T, or 1500 billion dollars. """The F-35 currently costs between $94 million (F-3
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The fact that they have to "work on a plan" to make sure things still function is especially alarming.
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by gknoy 7y ago
A pension is a plan where your employer promises to pay you money _after you retire_, in perpetuity. In the "olden days", or when working for the government, one often would work at the same employer for 20+ years, and a pension
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"Web coffee protocol" -- I'll admit, this one surprised me.
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> I don't think most people care too much about that I feel like a LOT of people care strongly about this. Almost all of our national dialogue about immigrants, taxpayer-funded healthcare, etc, is centered around how unfair it is fo
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by gknoy 7y ago
I think his main point was that for most of us, hardware failure is considered an adequate excuse for why something works -- most of us are not expected to have software that _continues working_ when things break.
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by gknoy 7y ago
I remember in the Bourne Identity (book), the main character puts a rock in his shoe, which forced him to change his gait to not be noticed by surveillance. I wouldn't be surprised if something like that were effective in real life.
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by gknoy 7y ago
When one cannot prevent the publication, one can prevent any reward that the author might get from it. It's not a far stretch to consider this to be aimed (at least partially) at discouraging such publications.
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Right, and the reason you went looking was because you felt wronged by your employer -- whether it be office politics, backstabby coworkers, a manager you did't like, etc, you would not have gone looking for another job (in the same wa
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by gknoy 7y ago
I think it counts as mastery, precisely because it does choose a thing so counterintuitive that it's past what most of us would even think of as a possible solution. I spent many years writing Java, but never took the time to learn how
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by gknoy 7y ago
When reading the story, I thought, "well of course that's the solution ...", but then couldn't recall ever learning it. I'm grateful that someone shared the name, as Wikipedia's explanation is surprisingly cle
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by gknoy 7y ago
To elaborate on what others have said (editors), Emacs' auto-indentation of lisp is _phenomenal_, even if you're not using "paredit". You basically can press tab on any line, and it will be indented to the Right Place.
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by gknoy 7y ago
This is covered fairly specifically in the famous "don't talk to the police" (parts 1 and 2) lecture on Youtube, and was corroborated by the police officer that participated in the lecture.
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by gknoy 7y ago
I had a 10 minute commute before I started working from home. The big thing that lets me see my kids more is that I am _already home_ when they get back from school in the afternoon. Previously, I only would see them when I got back home fr
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I think the fear is that there's an implied "... yet" lurking here.
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by gknoy 7y ago
Fenced blocks and `monospaced` stuff still behave frustratingly whether I have the "Aa" button toggled or not. I hate it -- wish they'd just add support for plain markdown as an option :(
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by gknoy 7y ago
Seconding the Shadowrun games from Harebrained Schemes. The mechanics in the first one (SR: Returns) are a bit meh, decking kindof sucks, but the story is Pretty Darned Good. Dragonfall follows up with adding a GREAT set of supporting chara
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by gknoy 7y ago
I think the issue highlighted by this article is that the risks have not been accurately communicated. It's not really been advertised as HAVING side effects, and the doctors most willing to fight for your money are probably the least
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by gknoy 7y ago
I'm sure we can always trust Eliza Cassan.
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by gknoy 7y ago
How do we access these other modes? I've never noticed it on either the Windows app, nor my Android device -- despite spending several minutes looking for it right now, after reading your comment that they exist. When I go to Hamburger
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by gknoy 7y ago
Our smart TV lets us swap between our five (!) profiles. Each has different trackings and recommendations (other than Star Trek TNG, which apparently three of us have watched ;)) You might consider making a new profile ("cududa2"
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by gknoy 7y ago
I first read about persistence hunting in an article about a family in Siberia [0], so I'd assume that it's still feasible (if difficult). 0: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-rus...
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by gknoy 7y ago
I was going to make a joking comment about how vim will trap you if you use C-c C-c, or C-x C-s, but apparently that's no longer true! My mac's vim (8.0) apparently kindly gives a message: Type :qa! and press <Enter> to
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by gknoy 7y ago
While this is common on desktop, do you have suggestions for how to do this on mobile?
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This documentation is very impressive. I like that the author included a link to "Why is the documentation structured this way?" [0]. 0: https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation
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It had some pretty long term negative effects for Knight Capital.
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In the example he gave, he was impersonating a phone company employee, not an officer of the law.
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by gknoy 7y ago
I forget what the tool was, but I recall someone mentioning they mapped CapsLock to ESC when tapped, and to Ctrl when held.
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by gknoy 7y ago
Wow. This article you linked seems worthy of its own HN submission. Thanks for sharing it!

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