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by qb45 11y ago
I'm honestly unable to figure out whether this is serious or not.
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by qb45 11y ago
Get sufficiently many people to base meaningful decisions on that and it will be gamed just as Google is.
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by qb45 11y ago
> This seems like correct science to me. I understand the physics involved. I heard the words "refraction" and "density" at school so it must be science. I'm not attacking you, I'm just genuinely c
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by qb45 11y ago
You may want to compile some list of counterexamples or few will treat you seriously. I'm skeptic. It takes dedication and time to become an expert. And the older you are, the easier it is to find yourself working for survival all your
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by qb45 11y ago
I'm under impression that parent expressed frustration with having to work in environment with so little respect for human intelligence that this kind of bureaucratic CYA is needed to stay employed there. Now, there is the question whe
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by qb45 11y ago
I was under impression that Buddhism is about giving up on 2. By "hacking perception" I meant things like hiding thoughts from your consciousness so that other can't learn about them, masking unwanted emotions with others, fo
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by qb45 11y ago
Just wanted to say that Zen... isn't a popular presentation of any such theory, did you actually read it?
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by qb45 11y ago
> What could a daring entrepreneur start doing to change the world into a place where society, and work, is better aligned with basic human needs? IIRC, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance had a few things to say about work and m
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by qb45 11y ago
> bully/asshole Isn't assholism a "niceness burnout"? ;) I suppose one would have to observe children to see that, as that's when those traits usually start to appear.
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by qb45 11y ago
> Does that mean that from just working extremely hard, you can never (very likely) get a burnout? Dashrath Manjhi ran away from his home at a young age and worked at Dhanbad's coal mines. He returned to his village and married Pha
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by qb45 11y ago
> The more I treat other humans as emotionally driven markov chains (rather than intelligent thinkers) the better my life outcomes are. I think all humans are emotion optimizers, trying to maximize the good ones while avoiding the bad on
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by qb45 11y ago
Time domain reflectometry would find you in no time. Furthermore, the power supply doesn't need to have high current capacity. 1A is plenty enough for the intended purpose and this works out to 2kW - good for one electric kettle.
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by qb45 11y ago
> Sorry I stepped out for a minute, are we talking about fundamentalist Christians? Orthodox Jews? Well, in few years/decades you may have one more significantly influential group for your list :)
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by qb45 11y ago
> my current TV, purchased for other reasons but with smart features included, won't let you use the input selection button until about 30s after being turned on from standby. Just about on par with those vacuum tube TV sets of the
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by qb45 11y ago
That's because GPL relies on copyright. If they also passed a law mandating software to be delivered with source code I suppose RMS wouldn't mind :)
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by qb45 11y ago
Some businesses pay for it, actually. I don't know if they also received this feature.
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by qb45 11y ago
That's a disaster waiting to happen. See docs.
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by qb45 11y ago
> How does the prosecution prove the plaintext came from defendants' devices? You show the recovered key and plaintext and demonstrate that they match the ciphertext. The chance that several gigabytes of encrypted data accidentally
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by qb45 11y ago
I thought everybody has seen this "vi assistant" gif by now...
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by qb45 11y ago
> Could you name a single company that doesn't follow where the market is and try to monopolises it later? I think your argument actually supports parent's position, so this "plus" in the next sentence seems out of pl
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by qb45 11y ago
Why wouldn't /dev/random work? Doesn't sound like something impossible, considering that they already support /mnt/c.
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by qb45 11y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if eventually 'GNU/Linux/Windows' ultimately ended up with a majority share of developer desktops. As funny as it sounds, it's GNU/Windows. No Linux there - they made it work b
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by qb45 11y ago
I miss Windows software while on Windows. In every release there is something removed and a new replacement to relearn.
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by qb45 11y ago
> So - I ditched vagrant and shared folders and use a totally contained VM with the ubuntu GUI... it's slow and horrid and it makes me cry... Is it really that bad? At one former job I ran Ubuntu under VirtualBox with guest addition
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by qb45 11y ago
There are probably few such criminals reading your comment now :) There are sensible reasons not to report vulns, like utter incompetence of the system's owners or the system's security standing in the way of your perfectly legal
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by qb45 11y ago
I love those remote debugging sessions :) I have never seen those circuits so can't comment on what could be wrong, but if cooling the monitor helped I think it wasn't EGA's fault. Too bad the OP didn't keep this machine
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by qb45 11y ago
> Banking systems don't need impenetrable security for people to use them. People pay online and use online banking every day from easily compromisable laptops. They do so because banks and credit card companies have good fraud cove
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by qb45 11y ago
> Anyway, 7-year-olds do not actually have an anti-authoritarian streak; they crave the attention, acceptance, and approval of their parents and teachers. FUCK YOU. This is the response you would have heard from 6 y.o. me, if only I wasn
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by qb45 11y ago
> whats next a paperclip? Smart paperclip was a Microsoft thing ;) You reminded me that I need to dig out and backup my Office 97 disk before it rots.
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by qb45 11y ago
Customer isn't the same as boss. When doing something a customer asks for, you are doing something for someone's benefit (usually...). When doing something the boss asks for, well, you may never know whether it makes any sense to

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