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by wott 9y ago
When they are inside barrels on rapids, Jesus... Anyway the shots are so short that you cannot understand anything about what is happening. You just have to wait patiently until the end of the cinematic scene so that the game^Wmovie starts
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by wott 9y ago
You still have a whole variety of environments to discover, I believe :-) In none of the situations I've been working, updates as frequent as 2 weeks have been a request. It would have been either a nightmare to do that (you end up spe
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by wott 9y ago
> If you buy a 13" laptop you make concessions for on-device connectors, as you always have for ultra-portables. My old 10.1" has: * 1 power connector * 1 ethernet connector * 1 VGA connector * 3 USB ports * 2 audio jacks * 1 m
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by wott 9y ago
No. As a hardware designer, I can tell you that is a terrible idea. Yes, it looks clever at first sight (all of us went through that phase of thought). But then when you get the physical device and you get to use it, it is only a matter of
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by wott 9y ago
> What I would worry about are endless number of doctors and surgeons that spent a life time mastering a skill and will just as easily be rendered obsolete by the same technology. You mean, because they operate on car crash victims?
516.
by wott 9y ago
Because it smells from 10 kilometres away like bullshit only management/sales people would dare to write? Truth is, most technical projects are failures or are thrashed for other reasons. So if everyone starts claiming a series of well
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by wott 9y ago
> The judiciary in Spain sentenced a Ministro del Interior (the 2nd most powerful political position after President) to 10 years in prison. And now, please inform us of how long this murderer actually served, just for the laugh. Was i
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by wott 9y ago
There is a perfect positive correlation between smoking + alcohol consumption and health! 1 person: heavy smokers 15%, drinkers 16% 3-6 pers: heavy smokers 13%, drinkers 16%, sick leave +36% 2 pers: heavy smokers 10%, drinkers 15%, sick l
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by wott 9y ago
Nothing, they just managed to convince more investors to continue pouring tens and hundreds of millions in the hole of their losses, while others were rightfully let to die.
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by wott 9y ago
> There’s an estimated 40-45% of support for the vote and less than that (30-40%) support for independence. Madrid would not react as brutally as they do if their intelligence services foresee such a result; they would just protest and d
521.
by wott 9y ago
> There's a new mcu from microchip, that has 32mb dram ...and a long list of errata, some of them quite serious: http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/80000736A.pd... (note that if you loo
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by wott 9y ago
Someone who wants a house is not really willing to have an apartment. Someone who is ready to put this amount of money in a house is definitely not willing to get an apartment.
523.
by wott 9y ago
People walk out of their flat, take the lift to the garage (avoiding eye contact), sit alone in their car, spend 30 minutes grumbling at the traffic and other drivers' behaviour, park on the company lot, walk out of the office 10 hours
524.
by wott 9y ago
I see "uses agile methodologies" but I was expecting "doesn't use agile methodologies"...
525.
by wott 9y ago
I claim my right to insult the people paid for customer support, * who cannot understand any 10 or even 5 lines of text properly; * who do not answer the single question you asked and finish their answer with "I hope I answered all y
526.
by wott 9y ago
It is nonsensical to consider memory leaks as reported by Valgrind on a program that uses Glib. It allocates and builds a whole context system and never frees it regularly, which confuses Valgrind. I am pretty certain almost all 'leaks
527.
by wott 9y ago
...in cities, towns and villages (any dense area). But in sparsely populated areas with dispersed housing, this is not such a big deal.
528.
by wott 9y ago
> asm mov ax ,[ WORD PTR rndval ] > asm mov dx ,[ WORD PTR rndval +2] > asm mov bx , ax > asm dec bl > asm mov [ BYTE PTR y ], bl // low 8 bits - 1 = y > asm mov bx , ax >
529.
by wott 9y ago
LOL, no. Most of the few native speakers I knew are dead. The rest is people who learn a made-up language in school as a foreign language.
530.
by wott 9y ago
Not about vineyards, but about market gardening: http://info.arte.tv/fr/espagne-les-naufrages-de-la-mer-de-pl... (Audio in French or German, subtitles in Spanish or Polish.) They say about 40.000 illegals work in those
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by wott 9y ago
> wording shit The head of the first French TV channel himself bragged that "his job was to sell available brain time".
532.
by wott 9y ago
> people don't block ads because they can't stand the site of them. That's cute :-)
533.
by wott 9y ago
It's been resolved for many years.
534.
by wott 9y ago
Another blockchain solutionist in search of a problem to solve. Finland, 15 years ago: free bank transfers from individual to individual, money appears on the bank account of the recipient in a matter of minutes or even just seconds, includ
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by wott 9y ago
Battery backup?
536.
by wott 9y ago
Reading this thread is frightening.
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by wott 9y ago
It happened to me in French a couple of months ago. I read the sentence 5 to 6 times to be sure, I even quoted it in my reply, to express how illogical the proposition was. And then the guy replied that I misunderstood. I was like: " i
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by wott 9y ago
Agreed, but: > If we did not have Postel's Maxim, I think the Internet would have just remained the domain of geeks and not have become what it is today. That would have been a huge benefit as well.
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by wott 9y ago
I am unconvinced that hard earned money is 'invested' in those companies. The target demographic is not hard working class.
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by wott 9y ago
That's not the point. But it might tell something about the mentality and the psychology of a category of people, if they are more prone to such 'hobbies' than other categories.

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