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by katastic 9y ago
The new CEO will fix everything just like the last 3 GM CEO's changed their corporate culture and stopped them from making cars that kill teenagers... ... crap. My kids won't be buying a GM car.
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by katastic 9y ago
Probably because: - The U2 uses old parts that aren't wildly/cheaply available anymore. - The Global Hawk doesn't have a person in it. So they can send them into more dangerous situations without worrying. Which means they li
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by katastic 9y ago
The only one I can find is in 2012 there was a RAID bug that damaged metadata required for RAID access, under specific/rare conditions. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Bug-in-Linux-kernel-c... But
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by katastic 9y ago
>And? How does that matter? What's dangerous in them collecting my location information? What's dangerous about them compiling your medical history? Who are you afraid of? Oh wait, that's a HIPAA violation. I wonder if the
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by katastic 9y ago
I'm going to make a privacy app and tell everyone it's secure, fight lawsuits if anyone debates it, and then have it phone home with all their details. Oh wait, that's what Google did.
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by katastic 9y ago
Yeah, if you can't grasp 'this', good luck figuring out delegates. (Note: Some/many languages call these "Closures") 'this' is just a context pointer. classes don't actually store their functions
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by katastic 9y ago
That's missing the point. Third. Parties. We have them for practically everything. End users can't figure it out, the manufacturer (say Microsoft) doesn't give two craps, so a third party (>90% of my career) involves solvi
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by katastic 9y ago
People claim the world is flat. People with stupid ideas who reject all contrary evidence are extremely common in all walks of life. Look at the champion of the anti-vaccine movement, the "progressive" Jenny McCarthy. (And they ga
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by katastic 9y ago
> say I hate spiders. Well, you hate them (and snakes) because evolutionary you're supposed to [for survival].
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by katastic 9y ago
I thought military coups were a good thing. That's what Hollywood celebrities like Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman told us this year.
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by katastic 9y ago
Bro managed to remove Gawker from the internet. It's already a better place. Strange how people are demanding Twitter, Facebook, YouTube et al "clean up their content" but when someone does it with a lawsuit, all a sudden the
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by katastic 9y ago
Well, there are already 3-D renderers for DF so I'm not sure what another one will add just by virtue of existing. (Not trying to sound like a dick here, I mean this genuinely.)
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by katastic 9y ago
Fair enough, but in that case at least the males are used for food right? Whereas the male mosquitos are literally just turned into trash.
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by katastic 9y ago
People who are suggesting a GC language for systems programming have literally never tried it. They're just repeating slogans they heard someone else say. Anyone who had wouldn't dare suggest it's easy or a perfect candidat
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by katastic 9y ago
And replacing POSIX will go just like that xkcd: "There are 8 standards and they all suck. We should make ONE good one to replace them all." ... "There are 9 standards and they all suck. We ..."
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by katastic 9y ago
Unpopular but true comment warning: It's kind of alarming how easily you can throw Osama Bin Ladin (a guy who killed thousands of innocent Americans), with Richard Spencer who _says_ fucked up things. Richard Spencer (just like the Wes
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by katastic 9y ago
The funny thing is, people here and on Reddit bring out the argument "it's only censorship when a government does it! A private company can do whatever they want!" all the time when it's opinions they don't like bei
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by katastic 9y ago
A long time ago I wanted to port Quake 3 to a MUD. Like literally play Longest Yard or another map. "You enter a room. xxxSniperKid82xxx is in the room holding a railgun." $ "Equip rocket launcher." "
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by katastic 9y ago
Interesting. You could probably simply "kill" the ones you don't need in a particular batch. I don't think I've ever considered "killing" the optimum strategy for sorting before.
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by katastic 9y ago
I was about ready to chime in the same thing. I've been on opiods for six years (not by simple choice). I'm also on a literal 15 other medicines. I take around 30+ pills a day I've had multiple back surguries. I've got o
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by katastic 9y ago
Well, regulations work pretty damn well for the FCC's control of the wireless spectrum. So some regulations definitely work.
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by katastic 9y ago
This is absolutely the key point here. The reason large corporations have more power is ... they have more power. They can afford to not only find loopholes, but also exploit ones with higher barrier-to-entry, AND lobby for additional ones.
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by katastic 9y ago
I know this is silly, but I would have laughed like crazy if your comment about using their reliable services ended with your comment stopping halfway (like your station/internet died).
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by katastic 9y ago
Yeah, IIRC, I was actually on your side / making a light-hearted joke/factoid. That my old phone could handle larger messages than Twitter is pretty sad for Twitter. I actually just saw a news article that a guy is saying "Tw
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by katastic 9y ago
>However, I do feel bad for the people that will lose their jobs over it. I'm not aware of anyone there--except maybe... jewelers?--that enjoy long-term careers at a mall. It's like an entire parking lot full of McDonalds. They
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by katastic 9y ago
You can't be serious. Drugs differing by a couple thousands of a gram (mg) can severely harm or kill someone. There are some drugs measured in micrograms . And that speaks nothing of potential contaminates and cross-contamination. The
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by katastic 9y ago
You can't use "small details" to logically arrive a higher focus point. What use would humans have for intense detail, at a time when the world was far more dangerous at range? And even then, 3,000 years ago is less than a bl
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by katastic 9y ago
Of course. People assuming that they'd toss drugs in with their random goods are not even trying to comprehend this business move. They bought World Foods. They didn't start storing week old bread on their shelves. The pharmacy di
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by katastic 9y ago
- What if people don't want to pay for the extra bandwidth? - What if your site contains lots of bandwidth consuming content? (read: large/many images) Do you think your point would still hold?
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by katastic 9y ago
Even old feature/flip phones supported breaking SMS into multiple messages. I would use them all the time.

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