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by niccaluim 10y ago
Everyone replying to this so far is fun at parties, I'm sure of it.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
There are also no studies on whether parachutes prevent death when falling from the sky[1], but I'm sure as shit still wearing one when I jump out of a plane! [1] http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
What about "this was never a good idea." Can't remember where I read this, but biometrics are a username, not a password!
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Indeed, one need look no further than Slashdot to see this in action. 100% community moderation produced a comment section that is all confirmation and no information.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
This is a lot of fuss over nothing. Of course there will be an adapter. Maybe not the most elegant thing in the world, but it's not as though millions of headphones are suddenly going to become useless.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I remember when Microsoft was on trial for abusing its monopoly, they ran ads with Bill Gates saying they needed to be able to "innovate"—a euphemism for their famous tactic of embrace, extend, and extinguish. Funny to see people
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Twitter's underlying data stores are and always have been MySQL.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Experiences differ on this point.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
>> It just has to be written so that most functions manually propagate error codes they receive > When I've had to write C, I've found this to be exceptionally tedious to do correctly, and all too easy to ignore. Inde
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Way cheaper, and safer.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Click "web".
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by niccaluim 10y ago
The "web" link does (1) for you.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Click "web".
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I view them unfavorably.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Yes, but the likelihood of mistyping them would be far less. 'f' and 'r' are right next to each other. 'Falling' and 'Rising' are a bit harder to unnoticeably fat-finger.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Looks heavenly to me.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I've been addicted to benzos (since recovered) and know many others who have been too, so I'm intimately aware of their addictive nature and rapid tolerance. Saying they "destroy" judgment is a bit hyperbolic though. In
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by niccaluim 10y ago
No one takes four different benzos at once unless they've got a specific outcome in mind.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
You can't, but it doesn't matter. They state that the curb runs perpendicular to the fault. No matter which way you rotate it, the "east" side is being pulled south.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
"…the eastern half of the curb got pulled north, while the other side got pulled south." Is that right? The picture seems to show the opposite, and I thought the Pacific Plate was sliding north, relative to the American Plate.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Yes, in California a judge can allow a plea to be withdrawn if it "serves the interests of justice." This is the same mechanism used to expunge someone's record after, e.g., completing probation. They are required to set as
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I don't know about that. Apple switched processor architectures twice, and both times software written for the old arch ran on the new one. And when they replaced their entire operating system, they not only made it so you could still
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by niccaluim 10y ago
That seems unlikely. Twitter hasn't supported Basic auth for years.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
They don't call C "portable assembly language" for nothin'. :)
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Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (1995)(consc.net)
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by niccaluim 10y ago
This article was a little confusing for me. When I read "consciousness," I think of private, subjective experience—qualia. This meaning of consciousness is a very hard problem indeed, and any new theory is bound to be interesting.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
It's the correct legal analysis, sure, but does it encourage considerate behavior? Does it help or hurt the goals behind zoning laws and traffic engineering? I think it's one-sided to write the whole problem off this way.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
So many people did this at one company I worked for that it became something of a joke for low-level employees to say they were "staying on as an advisor" when they left.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
> you should (almost) never claim 100% certainty in anything Sort of off-topic but this is especially good advice when giving testimony. I gave deposition in a patent case once and, as I remember it, I was specifically instructed to qual
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Does McSweeney's count as "small"? http://www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency

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