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871.
by praptak 5y ago
The context matters. Do they send prisoners against their will, or offer a deal?
872.
by praptak 5y ago
Side note: if they really thought of sending "politically undesirables" to the front, they must be desperate. And in Russia, of all places! Don't they know what happened when frustrated soldiers came back from the front?
873.
by praptak 5y ago
Not necessarily. There is no law against writing an implementation of the drivers as long as you don't copy the IP-protected code but only use knowledge about how the code works. If you need to be on the safe side, the person writing t
874.
by praptak 5y ago
Yeah these muscles get tired pretty quickly. Congratulations!
875.
by praptak 5y ago
Yeah, maybe start with trying to move your forehead and the whole scalp.
876.
by praptak 5y ago
A bit hard to describe (how would you describe what moving your arm feels like?) I'd say a bit like raising my eyebrows, but the "tension" is behind the ears.
877.
by praptak 5y ago
I only discovered how to move my ears when I was like 8 years old. This suggests the nerves are there, just very non-obvious to control.
878.
by praptak 5y ago
Depends on the cert. If the cert is issued to "Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów" I am pretty sure the site belongs to the Polish government.
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by praptak 5y ago
Anybody can confirm whether ukraine.ua is legit? Their SSL certificate is issued to sni.cloudflaressl.com, which says nothing about whoever owns ukraine.ua. I'd say this one looks a bit more legit: https://bank.gov.ua/e
880.
by praptak 5y ago
There is no going around it: any sanctions which don't even inconvenience the West don't hurt Putin and are already calculated into his plans.
881.
by praptak 5y ago
This is the biggest problem. I don't believe the sanctions imposed on Russia for the previous acts of aggression reached the level which Putin had already calculated into his plans.
882.
by praptak 5y ago
> it used to be that the head just crashed into the spinning platter, can you even imagine If I remember correctly, it was not that bad. The head being parked in a random place meant it could damage the plate if the disk was moved or s
883.
by praptak 5y ago
I can't seem to dig this out but I vaguely remember some disks (HDD, not SSD) had this mode when data is: * acknowledged & buffered in the cache * not physically written to the plate (yet) * but still guaranteed to be wri
884.
by praptak 5y ago
If you're old enough you remember the crappy Slashdot redesign after which you couldn't follow threads anymore.
885.
by praptak 5y ago
From the systems security mindset - the doors and the windows are only the most obvious ways to enter the room, not the only ones. If you secure them very well, then the walls, floor and the ceiling become the best points of entry. (Chimney
886.
by praptak 5y ago
It's not the undecidability itself that is the problem though. The undecidability is just an indicator how horribly complicated C++ is to compile. You cannot even construct the full parse tree before evaluating a mini-language that is
887.
by praptak 5y ago
In similar vein: parsing C++ is literally undecidable: https://blog.reverberate.org/2013/08/parsing-c-is-literally-... You can't even decide if a particular "*" is multiplication or a pointer derefe
888.
by praptak 5y ago
I remember that Windows had a calibration tool which let you tune the system params for subpixel rendering to look good on your screen. It also switched it off globally when the "magnifying glass" tool was active.
889.
by praptak 5y ago
A malicious "redacting" algorithm submitted to the underhanded C contest used a similar idea, just on lower level. PNG allows ASCII numbers, so flipping all digits to 0 creates a pixel which is graphically "masked" but l
890.
by praptak 5y ago
In principle, yes. But real world blur is much less deterministic than pixelation algorithms, so this would limit the usefulness of this technique.
891.
by praptak 5y ago
I got a 3d printer at work. I'm not saying it's worse, just less appealing to me personally.
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by praptak 5y ago
My constant daydream is machining. So far I learned the basics of FreeCAD, watched a shitton of machining videos on YouTube and researched some lathes and mills. Unfortunately it is a hobby that requires lots of space to keep the machines a
893.
by praptak 5y ago
Scale is a social/political problem. A multibillion corporations can buy infinitely more bandwidth than a common man, regardless of the underlying technology. This isn't a critique of capitalism, or at least not only. I happen to
894.
by praptak 5y ago
> Same thing when you apply for a job or you try to catch the attention of some girl you like. No, it is not the same thing. The scale matters. Much of what is wrong with the world comes from allowing huge corporations to do stuff becaus
895.
by praptak 5y ago
There is a gap in this reasoning though. "X% of employees are not worth their salary" does not imply "mandatory firing X% employees is good for the company". In particular quotas flow down into teams with zero percent of
896.
by praptak 5y ago
The pip quota is a HUGE perverse incentive here. Choosing someone to put on pip is hard because it is in manager's best interest to protect their core team from pip. So if someone is too good for your team, you put them on pip. They ar
897.
by praptak 5y ago
It is stupid to work that hard on making a rich asshole even richer.
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by praptak 5y ago
I am currently at my 4th full time job. Each and every one of them I got via someone I knew, even the first one. I spoke to recruiters but they were pretty useless for getting a job.
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by praptak 5y ago
You are almost certainly better off just writing x*x whenever you need a square. A good programmer would point this out.
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by praptak 5y ago
Depends on what is painted on the cardboard.

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