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kibibu
12y ago
Your "Freedom of speech" means you're free from Government persecution for speaking. That's significantly different to moderation on 4chan.
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kibibu
12y ago
The kind of people who deserve to be pissed off.
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kibibu
12y ago
Assuming you: - trust your compiler and linker - trust your tar extractor / package manager / whatever - trust your editor - trust your http library (or whatever you used to download/distribute the code)
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kibibu
12y ago
I already care that they don't carry Game of Thrones.
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kibibu
12y ago
The startling thing about this for me is seeing the "ch" CSS length unit. I've never seen it before! For others in the same boat, 1ch is the width of the zero character '0'.
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kibibu
12y ago
> proscriptive OT: Proscriptive is a word and will pass spell check but it means the opposite of what you want. Prescriptive is the one you want. (Same with prescribe, proscribe)
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kibibu
12y ago
> Is this Gary Moore track the start point The Gary Moore sound is a simple pitch-down of a single (rich) synth patch. There are no rising harmonics in it. Further, it wasn't actually released until '83 at the earliest. The Dee
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kibibu
12y ago
I wish I still had your high estimation of tech support customers.
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kibibu
12y ago
Or don't adjust your clock, then you'll just think you're coming in earlier. Works for everybody.
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kibibu
12y ago
We had a tech support customer who called every few Mondays at 9am because their keyboard wasn't working. The cleaner's vacuum cleaner would occasionally pull out the PS2 cord.
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kibibu
12y ago
> Those 5 managers are violating the "process". Only if they speak
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kibibu
12y ago
You just terminated all of your Facebook patent licenses, just then, by your assertion alleging that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable.
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kibibu
12y ago
> Whatever created existence (or the big bang) is by definition supernatural This doesn't follow. It is by definition natural because it occurred naturally.
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kibibu
12y ago
Not unprecedented - The Beatles didn't tour their last 7 studio albums (and on their own label, so they were arguably "indie")
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12y ago
Love it - one of the world's richest people, and his site is built using Word
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kibibu
12y ago
I'm not convinced that this isn't just post-hoc justification. All seven reasons boil down to "It's always been done this way". I don't see how "a" in the Latin alphabet as used in English is any diff
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kibibu
12y ago
Not really - if you are into open source because of the ideology and not just for the price then GitLab makes a lot more sense. If I find a bug in GitLab I can feasibly submit a patch for it.
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kibibu
12y ago
It's a smaller problem, but: > Impersonation: You may not impersonate others through the Twitter service in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse, or deceive others. I hope this finally kills off those Chris Rock and
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kibibu
12y ago
This is neither intuitive nor easily discoverable
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kibibu
12y ago
One of the reasons is surely that different fields of maths/engineering reuse the same symbols to have different meanings.
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kibibu
12y ago
Your version looks waaaay harder for some reason
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kibibu
12y ago
This is great! Would you say Dadaism and similar rejections are also postmodern? What about Stuckism, which rejects the idea that art is about concept and intention and should just be about pretty pictures? Honestly, I've never found a
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kibibu
12y ago
It all depends on how the court sees it. See "Carmack's Reverse" - where John Carmack independently developed an acceleration for robust stencil shadows, documented his discovery and then had to capitulate to Creative Labs wh
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kibibu
12y ago
As I understand it, you're better off not looking for relevant patents so that you can claim accidental infringement rather than wilful infringement
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12y ago
> A lot of people think 10nm is as far as it gets for our existing silicon tech I'm not really doubting this assertion, but I reckon I've heard this every 5 years about different scales, and then somebody sneezes some cobalt du
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kibibu
12y ago
> should only be generated Theoretically, WhatsApp could generate the keys and forward them to clients, and you could still plausibly call it "End to End"
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kibibu
12y ago
You include the expiry time in the URL and HMAC the URL as well.
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kibibu
12y ago
This is one of those bizarre comments that arise, I think, from a society being halfway between socialism and full-blown privatized capitalism. Consider: Eating McDonalds could certainly be a prerequisite for admittance to McPreSchool, the
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kibibu
12y ago
> re-hash user passwords using something stronger than MD5 Isn't this only possible if you do it on user login - unless you are also cracking user passwords... Actually has anybody cracked their own MD5 user passwords to upgrade the
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kibibu
12y ago
I'm old enough to remember when arcade cabinets used to start with "Winners Don't Use McDonalds" before the intro screen.
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