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by omegaham 9y ago
> Leave wealth building for bitcoin and Apple stock and companies that make mascara. The flip side of this - people then complain that we have 25 different high-tech varieties of boner pills while the developing world is dealing with ant
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by omegaham 9y ago
Huh, I guess it is a problem with Windows OS ISOs. I'll test this posted solution[1] when I have some time later this week. [1] https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=30645773&sid=6...
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by omegaham 9y ago
> 5. PUTTING AN ISO ON A USB DRIVE dd if=myiso.iso of=/dev/sdx && sync Be careful! :)
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by omegaham 9y ago
Personally, I don't view "wrote a bunch of code based on an incorrect assumption" as "damage." At worst, you have to revert to what you started with and rewrite it. What were you going to be doing in that time anywa
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by omegaham 9y ago
Can confirm, work at Intel. All of our electron microscopes run off of Windows XP.
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by omegaham 9y ago
The average poster on HN would be okay with doing this, but broader society would not. My mother, bless her heart, struggles with email. When she needs something, she goes to Best Buy and gets whatever the salesman tells her to get. Telling
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by omegaham 9y ago
Vet here, currently in my junior year of a CS major. I personally view the GI Bill as similar to a lot of other affirmative action programs - the people who are best-equipped to take advantage of the programs are the least needy. I did a te
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by omegaham 9y ago
In such a scenario, most people will happily bust out the self-deprecation and say "Well, nowhere interesting , but I did go to <interesting_semi-local_place>." Even an hour road trip to somewhere offbeat can be interesti
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by omegaham 9y ago
Yes, although it's usually a pretty short shower. Typically, I do one heavy compound lift per day, mess around while I'm waiting for my coworker to finish running on the treadmill / lifting, and then do some ab exercises with
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by omegaham 10y ago
My workplace provides a nice gym. I lift during my lunch break.
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by omegaham 10y ago
From the rules: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curi
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by omegaham 10y ago
That consistency is worth a lot . I can grab a coffee and sit down with my laptop in Portland, Boston, or Yuma, and I will have the exact same mediocre experience. I don't care about having a transcendent coffee journey; I care about
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by omegaham 10y ago
You can specifically ask for them to make it fresh; you just have to be willing to wait around for them to make it. On a similar note, I hate the "exploit" of "Ask for fries with no salt to get them to make you a fresh batch
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by omegaham 10y ago
> Counter-insurgency is really easy. That's why Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria are now stable and prosperous democracies. /s It's a lot easier to play a home game than it is to play an away game halfway across the world. The
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by omegaham 10y ago
> My husband remembers him mixing up the chemicals with his bare arm immersed completely in it. I think one of the issues with DDT was that it was perceived as entirely safe. People dumped it on themselves during WWII as an anti-flea tre
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by omegaham 10y ago
> I know this is heresy, but has this article really held up well over time? One immediate thought that I have - programming is now much more accessible. High-quality compilers are much easier to get, good documentation is much easier to
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by omegaham 10y ago
I liked Asimov's quote on it. > Capek's play is, in my own opinion, a terribly bad one, but it is immortal for that one word. It contributed the word 'robot' not only to English but, through English, to all the langua
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by omegaham 10y ago
> exact tax implications From https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html : > If you find and keep property that doesn’t belong to you that has been lost or abandoned (treasure trove), it’s taxable to you
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by omegaham 10y ago
Yep. I've had the "We can only receive" conversation with my SO on a few car trips through the countryside. "What? You have GPS. Why can't you search Google Maps on your phone?" Explaining the difference betwee
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by omegaham 10y ago
Yep. For whatever reason, charging $50 for a restaurant outing and expecting a $10 tip gets perceived as being a better deal than a restaurant that charges $60 and does not allow tipping.
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by omegaham 10y ago
I think that if you have the drive to get to that point, you have a mindset that's not going to be satisfied with quitting. It's like the folks who work extremely hard at amateur sports. They're not going to be content with p
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by omegaham 10y ago
Water softeners are pretty cheap these days, although the water still tastes funny afterward.
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by omegaham 10y ago
One more thing - memory. A Turing Machine is literally just a tape, a movable reader/writer, and a bunch of states that dictate what the reader/writer does. As long as you have memory, the ability to write to memory, conditionals,
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by omegaham 10y ago
It does - you just need a certain amount of karma (500?) to get it. That's why some answers are grayed out; get enough downvotes, and your writing will blend in more and more with the background.
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by omegaham 10y ago
Not at all. The NRA gets most of its money from individual donors. More importantly, the NRA's power doesn't come from the money at their disposal. It comes from the fact that they control a large bloc of single-issue voters. If y
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by omegaham 10y ago
> I guess I just really like movies about hiking, even when they're kinda boring. As someone who is willing to tolerate utter dreck as long as it's In Spaaaaaaace, this made me smile. I think it's just the fact that the se
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by omegaham 10y ago
I learned this when my boss was wringing his hands over an Excel job that was too complicated to do comfortably in VBA. I'm not allowed to install anything on the computers because I'm a flunky technician. I started poking around
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by omegaham 10y ago
In the US at least, this is offset by the fact that large metropolitan areas have excellent D1 college facilities along with multi-use professional sports stadiums. More importantly, those facilities are already being used and will be used
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by omegaham 10y ago
To be fair, the guy had been harassing him for years and then posed as a producer for a children's television show to get him to show up. I'd be pretty mad too.
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by omegaham 10y ago
I'd just like to say that your code is extremely easy to read and follow, and this was a pleasure to do. Thanks a ton for showing a real-world example of how to use OpenCV. The examples given by the official documentation are cute, but

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