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by xtreme 8y ago
> If a USB device identifies itself as a keyboard, the system shouldn't accept its keystrokes until that keyboard has typed the user's login password. Wireless presenters often identify themselves as keyboards so that they can
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by xtreme 8y ago
I have lived on $20k/year when I was in grad school. I was also into body building, so my staple diet was rice, chicken, eggs, and veggies. If I was pressed for time, I would go for whole roasted chickens which I found quite tasty and
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by xtreme 8y ago
Which will be followed by reduction in the number of workers and increased unemployment.
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by xtreme 8y ago
Canada's Express Entry system for skilled immigrants gives you more points if you attended college in Canada. Giving priority to people who have already integrated into the society makes perfect sense to me.
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by xtreme 8y ago
HPC software like MPI has been using these kind of tricks for years to achieve sub-microsecond (often as small as 0.2-0.3 us) latency for inter-process communication.
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by xtreme 8y ago
The problem is enforcing such a policy when people inevitably end up having babies without a "permit". What do you suggest should be done to those parents and the kid? Fining them doesn't help, neither does throwing them into
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by xtreme 8y ago
While not as powerful, a number of modern tools support a --dry-run option which can be useful in avoiding mistakes.
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by xtreme 8y ago
NRA has donated a maximum of $9,990 to any politician[1], a rather small amount considering the huge cost of running a campaign. In 2016, the total political contribution of the NRA was roughly $1.1 million[2]. In the meantime, gun control
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by xtreme 8y ago
According to this interpretation, arguments supporting capital punishment is hate speech and should be banned.
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by xtreme 8y ago
A cynical explanation would be that Amazon has looked into it but have decided that it is more beneficial to promote Chinese crap over quality products, precisely because they break more often (more replacements sold) and more people buy lo
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by xtreme 8y ago
USCIS considers pretty much everything that results in monetary gains (other than investing) as "working". Even renting your own house counts as working, so people on H1B can't do that either.
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by xtreme 8y ago
A great improvement to that would be an option to silently reject all suspected spam calls and send them to the voicemail. This has been suggested many times on Google's product feedback and suggestion boards but for some reason they h
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by xtreme 8y ago
There are not many cities with $15 minimum wage either.
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by xtreme 8y ago
Definitely not a free market. If the government didn't guarantee student loans, the banks would have been a lot more conservative in giving out loans. In fact, this is easily the biggest factor in the rapid rise in tuition.
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by xtreme 8y ago
Maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but "inserting a king" is absolutely an act of deregulation in this context. Because earlier there would be only one supplier of electricity (the government) but now anyone would be able to
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by xtreme 8y ago
Can you elaborate why solar roof tiles need such intelligence, especially the secure part? I don't see what data they would need to hide.
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by xtreme 8y ago
I am genuinely curious to find out which number or percentage you'd consider a reasonable number or immigrants to admit each year, and how you arrived at that number. Are there any published studies that have tried to calculate this?
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by xtreme 8y ago
> We live in concentrated environments because walking down the street is a higher quality of life than needing to travel tens of kilometers to buy necessities. A smaller house is easier to maintain and clean. I see this sentiment often
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by xtreme 8y ago
One could argue that self-defense is also an "intrinsic quality" of people and guns are the means to preserve that right. Of course, protecting the right to own guns wouldn't have been necessary if they were never invented. B
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by xtreme 8y ago
I am always impressed by the UNIX tools because of their simplicity and yet how easily you can build powerful systems due to their composability. But what I find even more amazing is that they "got it right" so many years ago. We
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by xtreme 8y ago
24/26 core CPUs have been in the market for quite a while. The caches generally look like this: each core has 32KB instruction + 32KB data cache (L1) and 1MB L2 cache. All cores share the 30-40MB L3 cache and the 4/6 memory channe
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by xtreme 8y ago
Since we are just speculating, I hypothesize that not sharing a land border with relatively poor countries has something to do with it. Australia does take in immigrants, but since most of them come legally they can pick and choose. They do
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by xtreme 8y ago
I think the original question (what are some limitations of your favorite language) is similar to other questions that asks the interviewee to justify their choices. While I am not convinced it makes a great interview question, the ability
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by xtreme 8y ago
One of the major issues not often discussed is the "powermods", or the small subset of users who are the moderators of a huge number of subreddits. They can and often do enforce their biases on multiple unrelated communities. Redd
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by xtreme 8y ago
It can be helpful to view in-house employees as workstations and contractors as AWS. Employees can take more time to find, train, and manage while contractors can be hired (and fired) rather quickly.
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by xtreme 8y ago
Sounds like the dream city of strongtowns.org.
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by xtreme 8y ago
There are a whole lot of treatments different from emergency care. In many of these cases, the patient does not need to go to the hospital immediately and can take the time to go through various options and choose the one suitable for them.
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by xtreme 8y ago
Have to disagree with the article. The author claims "Back when targeted ads didn’t follow me around the internet, I still somehow found what I wanted to buy." What's different about the job market or the housing market, the
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by xtreme 8y ago
Maybe they just don't see the value in losing weight? People smoke and drink despite being well aware of the associated risks, what's so different about food?
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by xtreme 9y ago
Absolutely true. Embarrassingly parallel problems are generally not the most interesting, because you can just throw compute power at it until it is solved. Most applications running on actual supercomputers are communication bound.

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