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by grkvlt 8y ago
Don't most countries have a separate ambulance/paramedic service for medical emergencies? Certainly in the UK we have fire, police and ambulance as the three emergency services, one (or more) of which will be sent by the dispatche
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Exactly, so it is NOT genocide according to the Rome Statute, Article 6 definition. Unless you really want to argue that US ICE is doing this in a deliberate attempt to 'destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or r
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Is it? Why on earth don't you fix it when you see that? You don't even need an account, if that's what your worried about. I'm surprised at the idea though, and pretty skeptical that it's actually the case since I w
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I remember Microsoft did a study on Word usage after everyone complained of bloat and the huge number of unwanted features, it turned out that each user only used maybe 5% of the features, but it was a different 5% for each user. Its the
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> none of my monitors are hidpi and i plan on avoiding getting one [...] since i want to have the pixels visible Seriously? I can't work out what possible advantage you might think this has. There is no situation where a lower DPI m
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by grkvlt 8y ago
And if I remember correctly, in the dialog, one of the record-player-destroying-record-proof record players R^whatever does scan the record visually to see if it would break the player - but is still vulnerable to a recording of 'thi
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by grkvlt 8y ago
one of his other works, rather. there's a lot, including TMI,[0] MT,[1] and FCACL[2] for instance, and I've forgotten some others. 0. The Mind's I 1. Metamagical Themas 2. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Still, that's not a bad thing, per se. If we underestimate based on a vaguely remembered overestimated value from the highway code based on 1960s cars, then the effects cancel out and we're basically correct for modern vehicles?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Because the pneumatic system is fail-secure, since a break in the line causes the pressure to drop and brakes to engage. I suppose you could have a system which required constant power to hold the brakes open, and loss of power would cause
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> how many feet it takes to do anything on the road, such as come to a stop in an SUV going 50 Isn't knowledge of stopping distances for vehicles at various speeds and different road surface conditions a requirement for obtaining a
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Also, the pumps have to be at the lowest point, pushing the water up - a siphon has a maximum height that a vacuum can draw water up of around 10m.[0] You can't just stick the pump at the entrance and then shove a pipe hundreds of me
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Can't you do something with a key-stretching system [0] maybe, to turn 112 bits of IPV6 into 2048 bits of RSA input, though, since you definitely have the right amount of entropy? 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K
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by grkvlt 8y ago
not being able to think critically for yourself however, is not an adequate preparation for working as a software engineer in any organisation, though...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I'd hardly call it hyper-literalism, since he's the one not using the English language properly - that is, he failed to communicate his ideas accurately.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> Nobody has ever done word processing on a split-flap display You say that, but I'd be willing to bet that this guy has: https://scottbez1.github.io/splitflap/
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by grkvlt 8y ago
DevOps Engineer - Cloudsoft - Edinburgh, United Kingdom or Remote We are looking for engineers passionate about DevOps and cloud best practices, with a focus on automation. Our DevOps engineers design, build, run and evolve highly available
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by grkvlt 8y ago
2048 bits of RSA key is the same amount of security as 112 bits of symmentric key, though.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
What about terrorist masterminds on the other side of the world who are deniably plotting to kill and maim many hundreds of innocent US civilians, but whose plans will be thwarted if they are blown up? What if there are a couple of accident
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by grkvlt 8y ago
So, you got a job at a defence contractor hoping you were going to write code for life saving medical devices? I think I see where you went wrong...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Then he shouldn't have used the word 'implies' as a conjunction, he should have said 'ought to mean', or 'should require you to be' instead.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> Running a shop to repair something that weighs north of forty tons implies you're a fairly ethical person Wait, so the weight of the machines someone repairs is somehow directly related to how ethical one it? Would a heavy indus
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by grkvlt 8y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, detecting earthquake victims maybe, a terrorist or hostage situation where the targets definitely aren't giving consent, military situations and covert surveillance for law enforcement and counter espionage all
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by grkvlt 8y ago
also, frequency would be unaffected by DC bias, I assume. I guess FFTs will also be useful...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I assume he is Tom West, the leader of the team that developed the machine...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> Nearly every org I've ever worked at already gave their users admin privileges I assume you've never worked at a large retail or investment bank, or similar organisation, then? Admin privileges are never granted to ordinary
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> [...] used at Swedish campgrounds and parks for decades. It's used to denote interesting features They aren't saying its used to denote the campground, rather the presence of a historic site or attraction at the campgro
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Not at all - its pretty much the exact opposite. Anyone can attempt , those who are successful are talented.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> he is a talented programmer Where do you get this from? As far as I could tell from their comments here, the OP is emphatically not a talented programmer?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I could have been clearer, I suppose - of course I'm not saying that the OP was a failure, but I was saying that they failed at the things they attempted, i.e. software engineering, and platitudes that gloss over this aren't hel
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Exactly, and saying things like "You arent a failure" to someone who has quite obviously failed at their attempts to be a software engineer and business owner is sending the wrong message. If somethings is going wrong with your li

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