pheldagryph

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by pheldagryph 8y ago
Unfortunate title; noncommissioned officers are sadly few and far between at tech companies.
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Any suggestions for open engines with some similarity to the tools provided in Unity3d, Lumberyard/Crytek, or Unreal4?
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
The rage yes maybe, but Star Citizen is definitely not off topic. Article mentions WC1-3, it's a franchise article. SC is Origin's canceled Privateer Online [:)] without the license. For the Wing Commander community, they're
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Meditation and mindfulness can be used as a direct replacement for smartphone usage to kill time, in all such situations. Seriously, this is a very good thing to do. All those annoying meditator-commenters on the Internet are right. https:
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Strange position; you don't think the user already knew they were required to press the correct button? Your solution seems pretty passive aggressive. Be kinda like putting up a 'your code must compile' signs in a software de
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
> How come everyone wants to blame the system. Because if the system isn't fixed, it's just going to happen again. Surely you're not arguing that the system is without flaw?
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
It's not so much about changing the IP address, but moving the targeted system out from behind the clogged tube. Changing IP address may or may not do that.
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
For many, many DDoS scenarios this does not work. The spurious packets may saturate an upstream ISP, causing that ISP to unilaterally apply a null route or block for all packets for the targeted origin IP. No CloudFlare packets would arrive
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
You're staking out some pretty tough ground, there. Human error can be unconscious or reflexive, and that type of UI element is sometimes barely a speedbump, cognitively. Occasionally I reflexively click-through a confirmation dialogue
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
YouTube is just distribution. It's like crediting heavy trucks for winning WW2, or crediting YCombinator News's CDN for writing this witty and insightful message.
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
New for me, too. Looks like accelerationism is a bit of everything. Legitimate applied philosophy, I guess the communists were some early accelerationists. I feel like this is the link someone above me should have shared: https:/&#x2F
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
I think you're right about that.
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
And their families are victims, also. You've got some good points, but your 'victimless' assertion is highly questionable.
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
> using heroine to intoxicate one’s self is very victimless. I have never used it, but have lost friends to it. How am I not a victim?
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
> > permanent 3-day stubble > I really want to know how to do this. My stubble goes from 0-day to 1-day to 2-day to 3-day and then back to 0-day... I achieve variable-length shaven-stubble with "Amazon: Panasonic Beard and Mus
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
That's a rather uncharitable read of my comment, obviously keeping kids away from awful Internet content isn't sufficient by itself.
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
> Is there any real need for controlling what a child can see and what he can not? Yes, and any sane parent would agree. Physical safety is a prime consideration. Here's a bunch of examples (query: fork in electrical outlet): https
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Good questions. Another I'd add is: are there any contractual/legal requirements preventing these intel subcontractors from proxying the full firehose to CIA? If so, it's possible those requirements would be respected on the
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
How does one determine that two things are different, or similar, without comparing them? > RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service I wonder if there are National Security Letters and FISA courts
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Senate Intelligence Committee has expressed concerns that Jack Dorsey is favoring the Russian government over the United States government. Senator Tom Cotton, CIA Director John Brennan, transcript from Senate Intelligence Committee hearing
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Well, putting the text in the image file itself makes the text+image combo easily portable between services. It lowers the barrier for others to share the content, with their own techno-tribes. I guess this why the 'meme' form is
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
The articles makes points throughout, but one I found interesting was in the first paragraph. Zuckerberg acknowledging professional failings, suggesting FB does not consider itself to be perfect. For example, a recent Facebook privacy failu
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
> But he doesn't like SV because it's companies created anarchic platforms that allow unsavory people to buy and publish propaganda? Seems somewhat hypocritical for a writer of the NYT to decry freedom to publish on platforms.
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
I didn't read the criticism that way; seemed like a warning against "one size fits all" thinking when dealing with a complex system like a human brain. Maybe you are both right!
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
I don't understand your critique. Spending a few extra characters to highlight how cool the scientific field work is seems like a fine thing for the NYT to do. Good for kids, young and old. Are you SURE you like bears and buffalo? I do
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Agree. How far open does the barn door have to be before it goes from 'irresponsible' to 'responsible'? When does it become a matter of public interest? What time scale is this guy assessing risk on? Does he have or expe
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
There's lots of ways to compensate a cat! Not all sales compensation plans are commission-based (a percentage of the sale). Commission-based plans are much less common for sales engineers vs. salespeople, unless they are working with o
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
> I think it is incredible arrogant to even assume that we can have any impact on future that distant. If we're not impacting it... then who is?
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Hyperbole like this always makes me nervous. The probability is obviously not zero, politely suggesting the question: "what has been missed in this analysis?"
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by pheldagryph 9y ago
Storytelling, and narratives. Though, I suppose either music or storytelling may have been relatively more important, and larger percentage of the total activity of pre-historic human groups, than those 'industries' are for us tod

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