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by katastic 9y ago
I see nothing terrible with people wanting to make a big deal out of handing you (tens?) of millions of dollars and getting thanked. If this was Hollywood, instead of a ceremony, there'd be a "casting couch." The only real is
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by katastic 9y ago
I swear something like this has been posted here before... and it had the exact same confusion...
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by katastic 9y ago
Large files / sets of files with 7zip means you can use all files as a dictionary for the compression. (across-file compression, called "solid compression") However, zip does not supports solid compression. Which creates the
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by katastic 9y ago
Surely you're kidding right? I have never once found an answer in an F1 help in a Microsoft product. And I've been using Windows since 3.0. On a somewhat related note: Before wiki's, google, and stackoverflow became the norm,
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by katastic 9y ago
I'm not trying to be snarky (in case it sounds like it): But I thought that was the obvious part? Brains are made of neurons and (I thought) neurons produce biproducts that have to be "cleaned up" or they slow down/stop
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by katastic 9y ago
Yeah, so far, every time I've even TRIED to get Jack to work... I can't even get the damn thing started on my system. I've read numerous SO posts, tried numerous things (YES. I've shutoff PulseAudio first.), and it'
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by katastic 9y ago
You really should look into your projection. I'm arguing for MORE benefits for workers, not less, but you couldn't see it because of your pre-built biases before you ever read my comment. You're looking for a moral battle to
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by katastic 9y ago
Don't you mean... M-code? (meaning "military" code) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Military_.28M-code... Though I'm honestly surprised I've "known" of GPS for this long and
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by katastic 9y ago
Interesting how >80% of the commenters are defending panics, or attacking the website or author itself instead of actually debating the findings.
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by katastic 9y ago
That gave me a serious chuckle. It was so unexpected. Thank you.
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by katastic 9y ago
Tomorrow from Gamesutra: "Developers are dead. Good developers don't have to be your audience!"
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by katastic 9y ago
Perhaps I'm reading it wrong, but the article seems to slant in favor of FedEx using contractors. And then you look at the pros and cons. FedEx Ground Cons: - No benefits, no overtime pay, no sick time, no insurance - Drivers
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by katastic 9y ago
Yeah. I've got plenty of criticism for Google. But not this. Google isn't in the business of "trading" businesses to flip them for profit. It's a 100x more plausible that they went in with optimism, and got snagged
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by katastic 9y ago
How about periodic testing, once every 6 months? Let previous classes retake a final. That's basically the same test load as before. (Another variation could be only giving partial credit. But it's going to be fairly clear who is
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by katastic 9y ago
Not at all. Which is the hate? Either Bill Maher (a liberal hero) is a racist islamaphobe, or, the_donald users who share the same views as him... aren't islamaphobes. Because unless we're not talking about Islamaphobia, what else
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by katastic 9y ago
The true answer is: No grades should matter except the final exam and you should be able to take the final exam as many times as you want. (With a reasonable minimum period between retakes, possibly increasing each time.) If you take AC m
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by katastic 9y ago
Bill Maher, once heralded as an extreme left liberal (who supported gay marriage and marijuana legalization in the early 90's when nobody thought either would ever happen), consistently talks about the "threat of Islam to democrac
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by katastic 9y ago
People who care enough to learn something because "higher paid or smarter people use it" are the very kind of people who are going to do better on interviews. I've seen plenty of professors say they can tell (generally, that
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by katastic 9y ago
It's conflation to compare coontown with the_donald. Go there right now. You won't find "kill the jews" posts. You won't find "kill the gays/black people" posts. You'll find a ton of supportive p
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by katastic 9y ago
That made me chuckle.
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by katastic 9y ago
Your guess would be 100% correct. We built huge spy networks only to find out that the terrorists don't even use the internet for their plans. They use burner phones and other non-tech solutions (paper?! omgawdwtf.) because (surprise!)
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by katastic 9y ago
All of our servers are full towers, not rackmount, and still sound like jet turbines.
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by katastic 9y ago
I'm more interested in why it took them this long, while they're perfectly fine suspending accounts that are politically opposing to their worldview. How are political dissenters more dangerous than actual terrorists?
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by katastic 9y ago
We're living in a strange culture of over optimism that thinks if we just magically change certain systems "literally everyone will be better." No. Heroin users aren't going to magically become productive members of soci
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by katastic 9y ago
I really wish the article would then follow up with much more depth. The presentation is good, and then it just stops. My brain was definitely desiring more.
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by katastic 9y ago
Okay, well, this was a story I was told like 8 years ago when I was back in college. So I'm bound to have mixed up the details. But the event did happen. It passed the unit tests even though he was supposed to manage and free pages.
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by katastic 9y ago
I honestly have no idea why "home" servers are so bloody loud. My desktop is more powerful than any of the machines at my company and it doesn't sound like a jet turbine--even at full load. And even when our servers aren&#x27
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by katastic 9y ago
I know you're not serious but Minecraft is single-threaded. So ... run 56 games at once?
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by katastic 9y ago
So we're banking on a computer running with wires across into another room. ... or holes cut in the wall. Instead of just buying a quieter computer (or upgrading it)?
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by katastic 9y ago
FYI your link doesn't work.

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