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by seabird 9y ago
There's a difference between what liberal arts degrees are "supposed" to be and what they are. College has been effectively (but incorrectly) marketed as a requirement for the everyman to stand any chance of success in the fu
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by seabird 9y ago
Taking things slow is good under certain circumstances . You have to ask yourself whether or not the content of the class is disjointed from the rest of the curriculum for most of the students that are taking it. A computer science student
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by seabird 9y ago
Of all of the intentionally myopic takes on the Trump economy so far, this one grinds my gears the most. Yes, it is factually correct to say that there's economic activity outside publicly traded companies. However , the stock market
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by seabird 9y ago
What you seem to think it is and what it actually is are two different things. "Sweetie" is a traditionally Deep South term of endearment or mock-endearment applicable to both genders and used almost exclusively by women. I can&#x
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by seabird 9y ago
If you think pittance bribes from oil companies is enough to sway Trump, you're likely mistaken. Realistic valuations put him at around $2-3 billion, and a large majority of his campaign was self-funded or from small individual donors.
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by seabird 9y ago
I've never had any huge issues with the screen sharing. Being limited to 720p kind of blows, but they have a product to sell. My only complaint is that sometimes when you stop the screen share, it leaks, a process consuming a huge amou
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by seabird 9y ago
I consider myself libertarian to the point where I'm willing to accept the uncomfortable extremes of the ideology that many people have issues accepting. I vehemently defend the right of a corporation or person to do shitty things that
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by seabird 9y ago
My first exposure was to BASIC and I turned out fine, like countless others. Remember that Dijkstra was an academic and a fairly radical one at that; people like him pushed the envelope in the best way, but despite their protests and the in
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by seabird 9y ago
Yes, you can hook up a laptop to a TV. Then you'll sit down your eight year old and explain all of the messy tooling and errata of :insertlanguagehere:, and after multiple hours of stumbling through an IDE with too many features for th
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by seabird 9y ago
Bitcoin has slim profit margins in places where electricity is expensive. He runs the same equipment that we do in the West, but the cost of living, electricity, etc. is significantly lower, and so it is much more viable. This is the same
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by seabird 9y ago
I questioned the (incorrect) usage of the word "genocidal". There are no ifs, ands, or buts; not every mass killing/death is a genocide. A nuclear first strike against the DPRK in the current political climate would have noth
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by seabird 9y ago
You're being completely and totally intellectually dishonest. North Korea is a nuclear threat with an extremely vulnerable neighbor. Trump's interest in a first strike has nothing to do with eradicating the North Korean people. Ag
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by seabird 9y ago
>genocidal conman It is no surprise that Trump won when his name can't be mentioned without an absolutely asinine, incorrect comment following it. Addressing dishonesty with hyperbole is not helping anyone.
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by seabird 9y ago
To have a hash of a file, you need the file (or a large portion of the file), especially in the context of antivirus, which searches for very specific files and needs to have a very low false positive and false negative rate. Consequently,
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by seabird 9y ago
You seem to miss the part where I say >If the collection wasn't incidental, what mechanism could the FSB exploit to non-naively identify tools that it didn't already have, and flag them for retrieval? Emphasis on "non-naiv
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by seabird 9y ago
That paragraph reeks of either journalistic license or a journalist who doesn't seem to understand what antivirus does. Every antivirus program aggressively scans for malicious programs and sends them back to the security firm for in
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by seabird 9y ago
>Doesn't it strike you as odd? No, not in the slightest. Of course a security company tracks security threats, especially when those security threats utilize multiple zero day vulnerabilities that could end up in the wild after the
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by seabird 9y ago
You have only met really boring drug dealers. I have come across plenty of them, and only the rural and disconnected suburban operations try to fly under the radar. When you're close enough to a fairly large city, the operation running
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by seabird 9y ago
Operating systems/kernels as a whole largely deal with abstractions, and some are built to incredibly high, and in some cases mathematically proven, standards. seL4 is an example of a formally verified kernel.
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by seabird 9y ago
The shooter was a quarter of a mile away. Paced shooting would have been less alarming, wasted less ammo, and resulted in a significant increase in the amount of people killed, especially after the first couple minutes of the shooting (afte
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by seabird 9y ago
As much as I find Tucker Carlson insufferable, the headline is sensationalism at best. Carlson raises a very valid point; bump-firing is a technique (not just a physical aspect of a weapon) that sacrifices a firm grip on the weapon (and con
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by seabird 9y ago
It takes years and a huge amount of money to train a skilled worker, all of that on top of the drive needed from the worker in question. Once you're north of 30-40 with no real skills, you're up shit creek.
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by seabird 9y ago
"JavaScript is not a joke" says the author, while he abuses all of the worst aspects of the language and its tooling.
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by seabird 9y ago
There are very good reasons developers aren't encouraged to study on the job. The biggest one I can think of (that is especially prevalent today) is that not all studying results in usable knowledge, at least in software development. E
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by seabird 9y ago
I'm not asking for excellent decision making skills. I'm not even asking great, or even good decision making skills, for that matter. I'm just asking for a young adult to not approach an investment in education in the worst w
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by seabird 9y ago
I cannot stand these articles. It's time for the whole suburban-liberal "follow your dreams and go to college" attitude to abruptly implode. Don't waste your time reading this article. I can sum it up for you: 1.) The fi
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by seabird 9y ago
We're not talking about a chainsaw, a lathe, or a tool that requires a certain amount of strength or non-intuitive understanding. Safe usage of a soldering iron is safety glasses, not breathing the (fairly irritating) smoke, and not to
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by seabird 9y ago
Playing tag presents a real risk for injury. Climbing a tree presents a real risk for injury. Any kid that is old enough to understand the concept of programming a computer and being interested enough to pursue it is old enough to solder. D
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by seabird 9y ago
That doesn't change the fact that the documentation you need isn't there, and that they have no plans to provide it. Can you figure it out? Sure. Am I going to pull my hair out doing trial and error trying to figure out the GPIO p
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by seabird 9y ago
"Good documentation" might be a bit of an overstatement. The second you get off the beaten path with a Raspberry Pi, things can get pretty hellish. Try bare metal C on just the second rendition, and weep before the non-existent do

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