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by snerbles 5y ago
> Even then, it is only a problem if you have no good explanation. "I have nothing to hide, why should I care?"
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by snerbles 5y ago
Not conducive to a conversation, perhaps. But there are indeed reasons behind the resentment, which manifests in the pejoratives - inland California is chafing under policies foisted upon them by the coast. You wouldn't tell them to b
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by snerbles 5y ago
Considering this is a forum centered around the Bay Area, most of the posters here at best would like to forget that the Central Valley exists. The spillover of policies that actively externalize problems to the underrepresented parts of
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by snerbles 6y ago
Facebook is infamous for building "shadow profiles" of people that have yet to register as users.
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by snerbles 6y ago
The poster may be impassioned, but characterizing a hot take as "crazy" looks like a bad faith argument.
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by snerbles 6y ago
The employee documented everything, but said documentation was not backed up by the company. Furthermore, the company did not train or hire an adequate replacement for said employee for _six months_. This is a gross failure of leadership a
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by snerbles 6y ago
Indeed. Having to sidescroll at any size/zoom is really, really annoying.
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A small anecdote, I had the opportunity to shake the retired General Yeager's hand at a swearing-in ceremony at Beale AFB in 2006. He seemed a bit tired after a long day in the Central Valley summer heat, and quite grumpy with a gaggle
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by snerbles 6y ago
A lot of CE degrees are EE with just the barest veneer of software to meet ABET requirements. Mine had data structures and software engineering as CE-specific requirements (along with a dash of microarchitecture and HDL/FPGA stuff), th
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by snerbles 6y ago
Big guy keeps little guy out of mainstream hardware with threats of intellectual property litigation.
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by snerbles 6y ago
> Do I limit the number of users so that I never hit these metrics? A darkly amusing solution to Eternal September.
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by snerbles 6y ago
The new record holders wait until after statutes of limitations have elapsed in the various jurisdictions they traveled through.
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by snerbles 6y ago
You can set your display name to whatever you like, and there are loads of other federated homeservers besides matrix.org.
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by snerbles 7y ago
Due process went out the window in this state a long time ago.
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I Am Not A Lawyer: The order is pursuant to California Government Code § 8665 ( https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/government-code/gov-sect-8665.h... ): Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or wh
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by snerbles 7y ago
And for those that don't have exes?
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by snerbles 7y ago
> I don't recall anything nefarious If an SSL backdoor installed by the OEM doesn't strike you as nefarious, I have beachfront property in Arizona to sell you.
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by snerbles 7y ago
> Would we have a stronger middle class if we Thanosed the population? There is historical precedent for it, see 14th-century Italy after the Black Death halved the population. https://dailyhistory.org/How_did_the_Bubonic
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by snerbles 7y ago
> EEs don't use AutoCAD; they use EDA systems ranging from schematic capture and PCB layout (like KiCAD) to HDL synthesis systems, and they use SPICE, and they write a lot of C++. If you're designing PCBs and chips, sure. For
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by snerbles 7y ago
Fresno, Tulare (home of the World Ag Expo), Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Merced, and Kern counties are all on the top food outflows list and in the Central Valley of California. EDIT - for a total outflow of 53.9 billion kilograms of food. Of
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by snerbles 7y ago
This was their promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftV2HeKPeBM Timberjack was bought by John Deere in 2000, and the subsidiary discontinued in '06.
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by snerbles 7y ago
See also the NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
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by snerbles 7y ago
I saw more dicks drawn on random objects when I was in the service than anywhere else.
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by snerbles 7y ago
> I'm astonished that this argument-enhancing cheat-code still flies in 2019. I'm not. Preying on instincts is a classic tactic, one that will continue to work until the Allied Mastercomputer implements human extinction in
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by snerbles 8y ago
Some (not sure if all) Microsoft Sidewinder joysticks had cast signatures of the engineering team: https://imgur.com/GBi5cjR https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4g678s/found_on_the_c..
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by snerbles 8y ago
That's a Harvard architecture microcontroller, a bit different from the POWER CPUs in the rovers. Still subject to the same engineering constraints, but significantly less complex.
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by snerbles 8y ago
This is already starting to happen. Where's the hellfire? https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/card-payment-gu... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/banks-gun-
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by snerbles 8y ago
It's more readable on desktop as well. Long lines in HN's code blocks render with horizontal scrollbars - using them to quote paragraphs is downright obnoxious.
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Compliance. You're more easily molded into an economically productive little cog for the workforce.
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by snerbles 8y ago
Changing how people fundamentally think and reason about things is a big deal . Probably the biggest deal out of your suggestions from a societal perspective. Such transformative things will be met with pushback, and if such a program is

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