npongratz

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by npongratz 3y ago
I can't wait to see the responses on Happy 418 Day.
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by npongratz 3y ago
I once got dinged for forwarding an obvious gotcha email, without ever opening it, to our security team's phish notification address, as our employee handbook instructed. I learned my lesson.
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by npongratz 3y ago
> Just as Latin never actually died, just like COBOL, Algol 68, and Ada, – C++ is doomed to eternal half-existence between life and death. I'm almost afraid to ask, but I'd love to know: are there any Algol 68 projects in activ
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by npongratz 3y ago
> But a chatbot is not a person. We live in an interesting world. In the US, a corporation is legally a person, and a chatbot is not a person[0]. I'm looking forward to the first Supreme Court case involving a corporation consisting
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by npongratz 3y ago
China might also abandon their nuclear rollout in preference to coal -- consider their recent surge in building coal power plants, "despite climate pledges": https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/chinas-coal-
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by npongratz 3y ago
Hopefully this helps with archival efforts: https://archive.is/n4TJG (20231209 snapshot)
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by npongratz 3y ago
You got it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Middle-endian
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by npongratz 3y ago
- pipe water shared with Canada out of the Great Lakes, up and over the Rocky Mountains, and down into Phoenix and Las Vegas: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/04/10/g...
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by npongratz 3y ago
Justine may have addressed unreliable output by using `--temp 0` [0]. I'd agree that while it may be deterministic, there are other definitions or axes of reliability that may still make it poorly suited for pipes. [0] > Notice how
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by npongratz 3y ago
What's legal and recorded today might be retroactively prosecuted as a crime tomorrow.
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by npongratz 3y ago
Do you trust that your data, that they fully control on their system, is actually deleted? Including their backups that reside elsewhere? I just assume they set your record's "delete" field to "true" when you press
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by npongratz 3y ago
It's a fast and cheap way to avoid running afoul of trademark laws.
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by npongratz 3y ago
Yes, this is exactly how I did it. That's why I mentioned having to reboot again after choosing a different config.
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by npongratz 3y ago
I was stuck with MS-DOS 5.0 as a child, and was mildly envious of 6.x's MultiConfig that I read about in magazines; it seemed so much better than using boot floppies for nonstandard configurations. So I rigged autoexec.bat to present a
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by npongratz 3y ago
And essentially what Sayre's Law says about politics in academia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
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by npongratz 3y ago
Your health and safety is our number one priority.
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by npongratz 3y ago
Launder it by freely giving it to a large-scale data vacuuming/surveillance operation?
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by npongratz 3y ago
The 2022 iteration of the iPhone SE is quite a bit larger than the first SE and the first iterations of the iPhone: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-SE-2022,...
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by npongratz 3y ago
> Hayek (he too had an econ degree I believe)... I don't think Hayek had an economics degree, but in 1974 he did earn the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: https://www.nobelprize.org&
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by npongratz 3y ago
A sincere apology for the Halloween documents would be good start.
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by npongratz 3y ago
> You wouldn't call someone who takes a 7-day cruise a sailor. I wouldn't and you wouldn't and perhaps no one should, but coincidentally, Virgin Voyages cruise line does indeed call their customers "sailors": h
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by npongratz 3y ago
Yes, the black bar was seen: https://web.archive.org/web/20230805222643/https://news.ycom...
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by npongratz 3y ago
Not GP, but probably referring to door games similar to those found on BBSes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS_door#Door_games
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by npongratz 3y ago
Also in the last day: RPCS3 – Open Source Playstation 3 Emulator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36690498
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by npongratz 3y ago
> old hardware is typically much easier to understand. The old hardware is also more trustworthy -- perhaps as a corollary to said easier comprehensibility, or simply thanks to unwitting limitations-as-a-feature. There weren't compu
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by npongratz 3y ago
While I agree that they're not terribly encyclopedic, I don't know if we should use the Academy for their categorical skills, considering the first Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance was awarded to Jethro Tull, who b
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by npongratz 3y ago
I can direct you to answers I got a couple weeks ago when I asked a similar question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261100
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by npongratz 3y ago
> Login makes it possible for developers to collaborate securely. Is that the only way for developers to collaborate securely? Aren't there other technologies out there can enable secure collaboration without requiring me to sign up
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by npongratz 3y ago
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105#So-called_strict_mode > The behavior of set -e is quite unpredictable. If you choose to use it, you will have to be hyper-aware of all the false positives that can cause it to
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by npongratz 3y ago
> That's because the government is a monopoly on buying those services from the service providers That's called a monopsony: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monopsony.asp "A single buyer dom

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