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by suid 3y ago
That was the starting point of my undergraduate independent seminar topic. Back then the complexity was even more mind-boggling, as I had barely any appreciation of the object-oriented world, and the idea of pushing all that into the micro-
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by suid 4y ago
There's the old gag about a letter received by the Post Office that it managed to deliver (at least, in the story): It just said: Wood John Hants and is supposed to be read as "John Underwood, Andover, Hants"
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by suid 4y ago
> "hp.com" "There is too much content, please try a different website". Yup, I guess so.
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by suid 4y ago
> Other countries like Canada, the U.K., Germany, Japan, etc don't allow money to influence politics like in the U.S. Oh, they do. Money talks everywhere. It's just a little less obvious and in-your-face than in the U.S.
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by suid 4y ago
It really depends on how much has to be manually counted, and when the manual counting starts. Most states in the US used to start validating and counting mail-in and early-voting ballots as they came in (keeping the running total confident
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by suid 4y ago
While I mostly agree with that assertion (we do run with mitigations off in our small dedicated devices), there is an important caveat: this only applies if you're 100% positive that you control everything that runs on your box. If yo
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by suid 4y ago
Heck, in that case, our pit mix has been 'splooting' on hot days, whenever she is hot, and sees a cool, damp lawn. Ever since she was a pup. I guess it's a common thing.
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by suid 4y ago
I mean, it's not even that hard to put together a child-size dummy of ballistic gel (a la Mythbusters). Doesn't have to be a work of art, and it should be indistinguishable from the real thing (in terms of radar signature, etc).
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by suid 4y ago
Musk has that quality that Steve Jobs had - the so-called RDF or "Reality Distortion Field". Proximity to Musk seems to scramble a lot of people's minds and thought processes.
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by suid 4y ago
Watching this battle is like looking at a Mussolini vs Franco battle. Who to support? Who to support?
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by suid 5y ago
Ha, ha. Way ahead of you there, OP. We've been paying $5 per gallon for our gas around the SF bay area for nearly a year now.