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by pirocks 6y ago
I'm from a european uni and in first year fire alarms where frequent. I don't understand why this is the case, since these fires are never serious, and the repeated false alarms result in them being ignored. This was even an issue
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by pirocks 6y ago
https://outline.com/rJ9PVJ , b/c archive.is wasn't working for me.
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by pirocks 6y ago
When I first heard this story it was the RAF not the USAF. I somewhat doubt how true it was.
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by pirocks 6y ago
If your out of the loop, a state governor (I believe New Jersey) called cobol, cobalt.
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by pirocks 6y ago
Not op, but I make a point of not having my face in profile pictures.
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by pirocks 6y ago
I can imagine a number of worse things that surveillance capitalists could do, like sell services to the aforementioned governments, or sell your porn subscription to someone else.
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by pirocks 6y ago
I find it interesting that this entire thread seems to be about fairness. Whether something is fair to corporations/people really shouldn't be the point. It should be about keeping people alive and having a functioning/prospe
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by pirocks 7y ago
Iirc this is a lawsuit by shareholders so I imagine users will get nothing.
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by pirocks 7y ago
> The roads in the UK are awful. Not in my experience, though admittedly I live in London. >In the UK our council tax pay are supposed to pay for road repair. I'm sure you realize that council tax is supposed to pay for a lot of
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Neil Ferguson: Disease modelling code is thousands of lines of undocumented C(mobile.twitter.com)
2 points by pirocks 7y ago|0 comments
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by pirocks 7y ago
I remember being a kid. Clunky interfaces didn't bother me, but maybe things change, since I was exposed to clunky interfaces first.
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by pirocks 7y ago
I took a SNAP based course in high school before it was part of AP CS principles. I would have preferred if they used scratch. SNAP seemed to have bugs if you wrote non-trivial programs. I tried to write a checkers min-max ai, but it kept o
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by pirocks 7y ago
I don't use it so it may have become out of date without me realising.
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by pirocks 7y ago
Afaik making a minecraft bot that can survive long term in a hostile minecraft world like 2b2t, unaided by a human and for extensive amounts of time is somewhere between very hard and an open problem in AI.
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by pirocks 7y ago
Mcedit is a popular program for large scale building. Additionally a lot of players use various mods which provide things like mirrored modes(so if your structure has symmetry you do an order of magnitude less work). A lot of massive struct
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by pirocks 7y ago
Link seems to be a 404.
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by pirocks 7y ago
Not op but my middle school had a lot of odd schedule times to avoid students memorizing when a class ended. It didn't really work. Some teachers couldn't figure out when classes ended though.
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by pirocks 7y ago
Because under GDPR services cannot be conditional on giving unneeded personal information. How well this is enforced is a different matter.
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Ask HN: What software is in need of a open source clean room reimplementation?
6 points by pirocks 7y ago|3 comments
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by pirocks 7y ago
I'm no expert(casual aviation nerd) but I'm under the impression that the gun exists mostly for completeness and isn't expected to be used regularly. The F35 is meant to conduct air support a10 style, but will use missiles in
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by pirocks 7y ago
As far as I can tell almost every bank with an app is sending your email/advertising id/name/etc. to Facebook(+ other surveillance companies).
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by pirocks 7y ago
Thing is there's is already plenty of open source code out there written by people of very varied means. As far as I know patent troll like behavior is not a major problem for open source, so I don't see why it would magically bec
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No Afghan Ariana Airlines Crash(avherald.com)
2 points by pirocks 7y ago|0 comments
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by pirocks 7y ago
Why? Why would no small company open source APIs?
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by pirocks 7y ago
Maybe it has nothing to do with learning and more to do with not being different than their friends.
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by pirocks 7y ago
Is this the same people as that terrible oath consent-wall?
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Windows 10: NSA reveals major flaw in Microsoft's code(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pirocks 7y ago|0 comments
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by pirocks 7y ago
It's commonly stated(Idk how true it is) that smokers cost the NHS less thank non-smokers because they die much more quickly.
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by pirocks 7y ago
I realize that the entire world is not like London, but the idea of driving to a train, and trying to get a specific train is alien to me. If you want a train just take the first one to your destination? And why drive to the train when you
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DMCA Protection and Takedown(dmca.com)
2 points by pirocks 7y ago|0 comments

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