pennaMan

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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   And MDMA and cannabis at that. One kills less % of users than ibuprofen and the other kills no one. Modern day witch burning.
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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   But it IS broken. Like an old rusted lock.
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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   >Unfortunately, expecting a non-tech-savvy person to understand how data moves around the Internet Explain how data can be unreadable while it moves. Teach them to use secure communication options. You don't need to be an electric e
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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   "systems susceptible to most types of malware today are unsuitable for the critical work of the day" keep your systems up to date.
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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   >This is not the whole story, languages were and are created for the purpose of demarcating and separating a subculture from the majority. This is also why the most hardcore language persevering fanatics tend to also be hardcore xenophob
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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   >What even is the point of having programming classes if alls they do is teach what you can learn yourself with an online tutorial? Well, you can learn everything covered by even the most exhaustive CS degree by yourself using open resou
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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   Sensimillia, Spanish for "without seeds", was the term used before the 1930s craze when the US government rebranded it "marijuana". Buds with seeds were never in the history of human cannabis use considered for smoking,
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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   It also uses the telling tabloid scare-word "skunk" as if it's some kind of devilish genetic engineered superdrug when actually skunk cannabis is just a indica-sativa hybrid that has a strong smell, not necessarily a strong T
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   by pennaMan 9y ago

   I recognize how my previous comment read, so I will try to explain myself better. I have never owned any amount of a crypto, neither did I waste more than a few watt-minutes running a mining algo. I would actually be on the other end of th
10. 250.▲
    by pennaMan 9y ago

    So because currency x can be used for financial scams we declare the currency itself a scam? Do ponzi schemes in Euros make the Euro a joke?
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    Extension functions are syntax sugar for static methods that receive the class instance as this. They do not access private members. Also, you need to specifically import the namespace of the extension function in order to use it, making it
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    If they are new to Android how are they comfortable in Androids' take on Java? Trying to use paradigms from enterprise/server side Java in Android is going to backfire hard on all but the most trivial projects.
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    Am I flexing my electrical engineering skills when I turn the TV on with a remote control? Parsing a json tree uses recursion under the hood but unless you are writing a new json parsing library each month you won't get the chance to u
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    Back when I was a teen 60$ was about 25% of my household income. Since then and present day I still don't know a single console owning person that has not hardware modded it to work with pirated games.
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    sadly ketamine has severe side effects https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678404/
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    Am I in the South Park version of hn?
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    Underground electronic music lovers heavily use soulseek to this day.
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    If the browser can do it what's stoping a headless browser bot from evaluating it all the same? Is it just to lower the attack surface?
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    It's just a meme people like to spew when capitalism gives us some heavy irony. For example a fossil fuel company pivoting to climate change themed toys. It is irrelevant to the article at hand.
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    Can't this be used for a direct democracy where all the population can vote directly on issues instead of voting representatives? This essentially makes the people the legislative branch of government. Now scale this decentralized syst
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    I'm guessing they are using the Palette class from the support libs to extract the colors from the artwork: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/g...
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    What are some good resources to learn about bits?
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    I read more along the lines of you having the liberty to decide where that personal space is.
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    The recently released Albion Online feels a lot like UO (and also has some of the sandbox territory control of EVE)
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    by pennaMan 9y ago

    Have you looked at RxJava/RxKotlin for working with streams? This can get you started: http://reactivex.io/intro.html
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    by pennaMan 10y ago

    What species is the point right next to humans? It's not a primate, interestingly.
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    by pennaMan 10y ago

    I think you wanted a different link the second time? Give us the full story!
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    by pennaMan 10y ago

    Why would such a service hold leak worthy data?
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    by pennaMan 10y ago

    You are referring to glucose. GP is referring to fructose. One is the primary fuel source of living things while the other one is straight up poison.
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    by pennaMan 10y ago

    > Practice answering architecture questions What are some good resources to learn about system architecture?