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by praptak 3y ago
I once found a pastebin with a log containing the error message that I was getting. This log also had a user id. I took a long shot, googled the id and emailed the person. It turned out they had found the fix, it was in a recent dev build o
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by praptak 3y ago
That's also Dwarf Fortress. In DF magma is actually desirable for gameplay (Magma Forge! Magma Smelter! Weaponized magma!) but there are still things that make you think twice before digging too deep.
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by praptak 3y ago
Is it a harmful stereotype though?
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by praptak 3y ago
The Lisp-Malbolge relationship is complicated. Quoting Malbolge wikipedia page: "The first program was not written by a human being; it was generated by a beam search algorithm designed by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp" S
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by praptak 3y ago
So I just started piano (got one for Christmas). Notation is a PITA but the effort to decipher is still orders of magnitude easier than actually playing anything. I can imagine the effort ratio gets even more skewed by the time you get to t
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by praptak 3y ago
Retroactive copyright extensions are changing the deal after it has been made, for the benefit of copyright holders and to the detriment of the public. This is unethical. That's why I get angry when copyright holders try to make ethica
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by praptak 3y ago
I remember being a dev lead for a small internal product. I think 80% of the requests were "add custom behavior guarded by a checkbox". Fortunately we could just walk over to the (internal) customers, discuss the requirements and
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by praptak 3y ago
Not quite. Hamas rules the Gaza strip only and even this isn't 100% grass roots. They used to get strong backing from Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
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by praptak 3y ago
My first guess would be that flipping it with a finger would be faster than throwing using the whole arm. Edit: I found a post which kind of gives anecdotal evidence to support it: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num
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by praptak 3y ago
I think this joke is covered by the "existence is not a property" line of critique.
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by praptak 3y ago
There's this old maths joke about the proof that Santa exists: We will prove a stronger statement, namely that existing Santa exists. There are two mutually exclusive possibilities: 1. Existing Santa exists. 2. Existing Santa does n
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by praptak 3y ago
They told this joke about A. Mikoyan who survived all Stalin's purges which made him the oldest living member of the Politburo at that time: - Comrade Mikoyan, you forgot your umbrella! - Don't worry, I'll walk between the ra
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by praptak 3y ago
Cats don't "play fetch", they use humans as an equivalent of a clay pigeon thrower. Source: my mom's cat. She only played it when she initiated it.
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The Geometry of Transistors(hackaday.com)
3 points by praptak 3y ago|0 comments
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by praptak 3y ago
"And the principle of really existing free market theory is: free markets are fine for you, but not for me. That’s, again, near a universal. So you — whoever you may be — you have to learn responsibility, and be subjected to market di
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by praptak 3y ago
> Oh my gosh, I’ll have to press 1 extra key now This key is in a context which is about as bad as Ctrl-C ("Do you really want to copy this text into clipboard? [Y/n]")
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by praptak 3y ago
38M and no, not this kind of corporate crime. Plain financial fraud - sure. This case is much more complicated though.
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by praptak 3y ago
I don't believe the Polish judicial systems has experience in dealing with corporate crime, especially of the tech-related kind. I'm a bit afraid of disappointment here.
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by praptak 3y ago
I wonder who coded the malware clauses and who knew about them. Didn't anyone think of whistleblowing? Btw, here's the page with anonymous opinions about the company from (unvetted) employees https://www.gowork.pl/
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by praptak 3y ago
It's obviously only for the legitimate usage by the James Bond type of spy.
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by praptak 3y ago
Nanny cam is obviously a crappy attempt at covering the seller's ass and no judge should believe it.
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by praptak 3y ago
Why would I care about these numbers? It has up to date discussion on interesting news, so it's alive and kicking.
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by praptak 3y ago
Some orcas use this on white sharks to kill them with little energy expenditure. They induce tonic immobility by ramming the shark from the side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_and_Starboard_(orcas)
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by praptak 3y ago
I shared an office with a workforce training company. They said their big time is the end of the year as that's when departments in big companies realize in horror that they have unspent budget. Some of the more expensive and useless c
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by praptak 3y ago
The drummer in the background forgot to do the "ba-dum tsss"
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Non-explosive demolition agents(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by praptak 3y ago|0 comments
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by praptak 3y ago
It might be seen as underhanded but in fact it was the diligent and proper thing to do. Creating calamity in a controlled way is a tried and true way of being sure one is prepared for the time it strikes uninvited, see DiRT exercises.
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by praptak 3y ago
Dunno, it feels very diluted nowadays to me.
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by praptak 3y ago
My humble experience is that this scale of duckup is unachievable from line workers being bad at their jobs. It is easily achievable from bad/misaligned incentives, poor leadership, no product vision and probably a dozen other organisa
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by praptak 3y ago
> it could justify banning a wide range of consumer goods and services GP qualified their statement pretty precisely: no purpose other than ego, significant cost to others. What's the harm in banning anything that ticks both of thes

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