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by katastic 9y ago
I've honestly been waiting for this since for YEARS. I've had a vision for "the future of computing". FPGAs that reconfigure themselves (<-these exist) to become whatever macro-level hardware assets your computer need
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by katastic 9y ago
This site has a strange fascination with hatred of static languages. I really don't get it. My only guess is that modern colleges teach dynamic languages to students and so they're more familiar with it. Perhaps their teachers eve
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by katastic 9y ago
My. God. That's got to be one of the silliest, most insane things to actually care about.
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by katastic 9y ago
This is a very interesting contention. What examples can you provide of "being transparent and sincere in trying to do better" back-firing? Did massive clickbait articles get reported, blowing up the issue?
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by katastic 9y ago
Even lower, if my experience with clients is any clue. Most people I've seen running companies are either clueless in general in IT matters (business or engineering people), or, "older" gents who grew up long before IT securi
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by katastic 9y ago
Skyrim actually runs in a VM. So it's already futuristic. And still crashes like a piece of crap written. I think the 2nd or 3rd STALKER (or all) run in VM as well and... crash and corrupt saves like crazy. And for those who don't
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by katastic 9y ago
According to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliding_flight#Aircraft_.28.22... The 747-200 also has a glide ratio of 15:1. I can't tell if that's amazing, good, or average. A sailplane can have up to 60:1
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by katastic 9y ago
Actually, it's pretty simple. "Better" has to actually "be better ENOUGH" to warrant all of the retooling of existing systems. I've got plenty of clients who would happily run Windows 2003 ("it's paid
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by katastic 9y ago
That's the one that confused me.
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by katastic 9y ago
I think I could write a random article generator full of catchphrases they like, and it'd be upvoted like crazy here, Reddit, and Slashdot.
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by katastic 9y ago
> except for the subtext that homeless people are all fucked up losers who aren't really trying/can't really be helped. I would never say that. My point is only that with even if we had "unlimited free money" to
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by katastic 9y ago
I'm sincerely trying not to be a dick here but I thought this was obvious... Lots of problems (most?) in many neighborhoods (and organizations in general) and families are not a simple function of "not enough money." They are
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by katastic 9y ago
If I plug a display into my laptop, the screen switches over but everything is scaled wrong and glitchy. When I remove it... it never brings my original display back--essentially bricking it. ::sigh:: I've never once had a problem like
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by katastic 9y ago
Uh... isn't that the entire point of a background check? To see if people are dangerous before they get in? If I get a gun permit, should the cops not look at every public aspect of my history? Should we make it easier for people to ha
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by katastic 9y ago
Yeah. I'm sincerely glad that the majority of people here somehow have never lived in a world where that exists. But I (and many others) were not so fortunate. I mean, where do people think all those pocket protector nerd jokes came fr
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by katastic 9y ago
I love that even admitting that bullying exists, somehow makes people want to attack you. As if I somehow endorsed it, or thought there was "logic" behind bullying, or that I wasn't the one on the _receiving_ end of the bully
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by katastic 9y ago
The window is an index into a consecutive block of numbers (like a 4K page), and the offset is the offset into that block. [edit: the other poster highlighted the important distinction--that the window doubles in size each time so your fixe
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by katastic 9y ago
>triangular slip-on sleeves separately As someone who grew up in the 90's, I can almost guarantee you would get the crap beat out of them for walking into school with something like that. Thank goodness they're integrated into
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by katastic 9y ago
I love this age of neo-puritianism. We've gone from "if if feels good, do it" to "everything is sexist and you should feel bad because even if you don't consciously doing it, you're still a subconscious sinner.
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by katastic 9y ago
Software? I don't care so much. You want new stuff, buy it. I've had to explain to clients that the internet is a living ecosystem of standards and protocols, and when old, insecure protocols die off (often because they're in
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by katastic 9y ago
Everything is fair when Google does it, on HackerNews!
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by katastic 9y ago
If you bothered to Google before posting, you'd see more than a single data point. Voat was targeting with a letter writing campaign saying they were a child porn host when they weren't. All the liberals said "if you don&#x27
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by katastic 9y ago
Google's issues these days are management and culture, not a lack of talent. Pretty much like every other big company that recently became big. For a smaller (but worse affected) example, look at Wikipedia. The majority of their spendi
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by katastic 9y ago
That sounds a lot more like people who are trying super hard to become full-time workers. That the situation one of my college buddies (and all his fellow contractors) endured for a couple years. They did everything the normal workers did,
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by katastic 9y ago
It depends entirely on the lender. Most of my large medical bills end up going to a debt collector and they tend to 2-3 times a day per collector. But, they're not jerks on the phone at least, and try to setup a payment plan. However,
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by katastic 9y ago
I wish I could "retire" after selling out over half of the workers in the USA.
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by katastic 9y ago
>The problem is not length Oh thank God. I'm going to forward this to my wife.
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by katastic 9y ago
It's like credit report inflation! All my bad debt will seem better when everyone else's is inflated with fake debt! (p.s. Being sick in America is not a fun time financially.)
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by katastic 9y ago
From previous discussions I've learned that USA companies are the only ones that actually are protected from the USA government. So feel free to build a company in Sweden, but the US is actually legally permitted to wiretap the crap ou
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by katastic 9y ago
So Equifax were good guys until they ditched all out data?

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