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by snerbles 5y ago
> Why is compensation #1 though? > There is a threshold where you have enough money. You've answered your own question.
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I finished my degree after returning from an enlistment, and was about 8-10 years older than the typical "college-aged" peer group. Though ages tended to skew older in the ECE department I attended, with at least a quarter of the
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by snerbles 5y ago
Personally, it was quite effective at garnering my attention - so much so that I cancelled my subscription when I returned to college. While I've enjoyed many FPS' over the years the rush just doesn't compare with my own phys
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Once, after a particularly intense fight in EVE Online I found my hands shaking. The only other occasion I surpassed that level of adrenaline was in Iraq in 2007.
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A significant fraction of HN's readership resides in that district as well.
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Zoom ringtone please, I had a boss that would call me with horrible timing on a routine basis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlyGdpyI1zI
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by snerbles 5y ago
> or maybe like Parchive par2 even has options for specifying level of redundancy. I've had good experience in recovering large corrupted files from an external drive - since then, I've incorporated it into the automated backu
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by snerbles 5y ago
You've answered your own question. The System constructed by Googlers is so smart, the Googlers themselves are subject to a form of papal infallibility.
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by snerbles 5y ago
Censorship can be conducted by private or public entities. https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship
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by snerbles 5y ago
Can confirm this happens with Matrix/Element. Amusingly, the brief contents of the note are visible in the preview along with "This note has now been permanently deleted".
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IR is line-of-sight, and the receiver can be blocked with a small piece of electrical tape.
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One hypothesis is that the gay men have more time-efficient sex lives, whereas straight men waste much more time attempting to woo women.
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> Otherwise, there will almost certainly be violence. People still have their Big Macs and Netflix, they will seethe in relative silence while they're smothered.
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Anecdata, but my smallpox vaccine scar is a small, ~1cm spot. The risk of "inadvertent autoinoculation" was my bigger concern - if you touch the site before it's fully healed, you can spread the vaccina virus to other parts o
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by snerbles 5y ago
While I heard that the effect of double integration is bad, attempting it as a student with consumer MEMS devices was quite dramatic. Really underscores the importance of Kalman filters and updates from sensors with fewer derivatives.
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by snerbles 5y ago
"Handed them" may be an understatement, given the scope of the OPM breach. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/congressional-report-sla... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Per
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by snerbles 5y ago
Do what my Tandy 1000 did, and burn DOS 3.3 right to ROM. None of this wimpy flash-but-with-a-read-only-bit, no fancy UV-erasable EEPROM...just honest-to-goodness-blown-fuse ROM. Boots immediately too.
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by snerbles 5y ago
The OSHA requirements apply to companies with >100 employees. The deadline federal contractor requirement (which is more strict) has been updated to match the Jan 4 OSHA deadline.
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by snerbles 5y ago
The positive "alternative" presented at the end seems like a friendly veneer over the same dystopia. Having an AI referee permanently embedded in my spine ready to cut motor functions at the first detected bad behavior sounds almo
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by snerbles 5y ago
If the MS Access application is backed by an actual MS SQL server, maybe. But if (and in my experience this is more likely) it uses MS Access itself with MDB files (Microsoft's Jet database engine - imagine SQLite but inferior in ever
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In our case it escalated to scripts with silent, random time delays. Launch it from a floppy, walk away and 87 minutes later everyone is wondering why a notice went out saying that a Toyota Corolla in the parking lot has its lights on.
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by snerbles 5y ago
I received a similar punishment for running an autoclicker against some charity adware installed by a well-meaning administrator. That semester of internship was pretty fun, all things considered.
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About a year after the college prank, I was recounting the incident to a helpdesk coworker on a relatively quiet Saturday. He refused to believe that "net send" even existed, and dared me to do it. So I did, the content of that
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by snerbles 5y ago
> All the computers displayed a popup window When I engaged in `net send` shenanigans at the local community college, at least the IT staff was smart enough to know where to scramble a runner whenever those dialog boxes popped up across
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by snerbles 5y ago
It'll be up to the estate of the rights holder, and they are less likely to understand the nuances of open source licensing.
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That's the rub of it...eventually there will be crimes that involve said "proper authorities" who will not want the public to know.
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It's distro-specific, for one.
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I'd really hate to ruin your naïveté...but sufficiently riled-up mobs have gone after individuals for much, much flimsier evidence than "because this AI says so".
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Android filesystem permissions. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent... https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1008 https://gi
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USAF pilots are also subject to a ten-year service commitment after they are rated for their aircraft type, which is usually around two years of training.

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