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by lithos 9y ago
There is one 'visible' ad per page. So it's not bad enough that you'll have anyone caring about your complaints.
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by lithos 9y ago
COBOL is well described as the language for regular expressions over tables.
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by lithos 9y ago
Don't bother if you're on a cellphone. They're super desperate to get you in the app.
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by lithos 9y ago
Bots play a pretty pivotal role in the game. There are benefits to "faking" traffic, in order to boost your search result. Likewise bots are the only way to interact with quite a few APIs, so even when it's silly to use a
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by lithos 9y ago
Trading this $20 bill that has 10% off at best buy, for one that has 10% off at Walmart.
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by lithos 9y ago
So took any type of employment for counting an alumni as employed, but then only counted full time employees for average pay. Which broke the law since that's not proper reporting, along with licensing laws.
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by lithos 9y ago
This is like the pot calling the kettle black.
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by lithos 9y ago
It's interesting how close some of these get to being fractals. Some probably are based on counting spaces and threads.
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by lithos 9y ago
This story seems pretty light on everything. There is no reason why it needs to be considering how many parties there are that would love to get a sound bite in. Edit: typo
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by lithos 9y ago
Software for reading blueprints and technical specs is beyond abysmal.
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by lithos 9y ago
Well there are a couple of studies that track vitals and responses of people who get their cellphones taken away. So it's not like that's an empty implication.
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by lithos 9y ago
It won't matter, since the data will have already been sold. And 'services' will fallback to a different provider. American databrokering is a really mature industry after all.
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by lithos 9y ago
I imagine traffic caused by Ride Hailing will get worse after you can get rid of the drivers. Since you'll have more corps getting into the space, and an AI won't get impatient driving up and down the same "popular street&q
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by lithos 9y ago
Sounds like a great way to filter people who have other responsibilities, or are an attractive enough candidate to be busy interviewing for other firms.
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by lithos 9y ago
That moment when you realize that that question was asked to buy 8 to 20 hours of time delay due to timezone differences. Or to make enough volume of text that no one knows all the promises, or so that someone somewhere cancels enough orde
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by lithos 9y ago
If you want housing that has had walls ripped off to get copper wire for selling to a scrap yard. Yes there is plenty of that. If you want to pay housing boom sized taxes on a house worth a fraction of that, there is plenty of that as well
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by lithos 9y ago
If landlords know exactly how much a large subset of their renters make, that is how much they will charge. Examples of this in action is looking at rent in military areas and rises in BAH. They follow almost exactly, with rent being in
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by lithos 9y ago
For colleges I personally recommend "If they are going to you with advertising, they aren't good enough to be known by you or employers".
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by lithos 9y ago
Probably all the typical bad programming interview questions. The ones that target people who can set aside a month of no work, no family, and no 'other responsibilities' to study tangentially related riddles and similar. Culture
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by lithos 9y ago
This reads like a horror you'd expect from China or North Korea. Rather than the USA.
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by lithos 9y ago
No worries. Faster browsers just mean that web developers can put more stuff in web pages, so everything will be back to normal.
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by lithos 9y ago
When something goes wrong in the plant, spacial memory and muscle memory are outstanding for letting a panicked person get the most important things done. Also the person that is acting as the leader gets nice information based on where pe
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by lithos 9y ago
SEO is dirtier than I thought.
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by lithos 9y ago
I was counting '-', '?', '-?', and '??'. which would be four I guess. But they tossed me off kilter on Saturday trying to figure out what they mean (and I haven't gotten back to looking at it
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by lithos 9y ago
I've been playing this a bit. It's fun but the game eventually takes a difficulty nosedive when they introduce clockspeeds, each module running at different speeds, and 3 different types of null at the same time that are used dif
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by lithos 9y ago
I was amused watching ancient aliens when they were playing with WWII. At one point they ended up getting to Nazi 'levitation tech' which was literally a primative jet engine attached to generators to make magnetic fields. The th
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by lithos 9y ago
Slack is also used for some casual communities as well. For instance if I were to use the Screeps/EVE Online slack like I do a work one, I'd never be off my phone.
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by lithos 9y ago
They move a little bit, or pretend to, when an ISP annoys them.
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by lithos 9y ago
And the normal vandel everywhere else.
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by lithos 9y ago
Fun examples have been old telegraph operators having their lines work without power connected. As for recent things I didn't even know long range DC still existed.

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