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by Jarb 8y ago
My then-girlfriend had something similar happen to her years ago. She drove around 5 hours to interview at an engineering/architecture firm and was put up at a budget hotel for the night. Although she had to pay for the room in advance
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by Jarb 8y ago
Yeah, I realized that recently as well. Apparently when they first rolled out the chip readers, people complained that the authentication took too long (5-15 seconds), so now all you have to do is stick the card in the chip reader, no PIN r
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by Jarb 8y ago
Maybe I'm misreading what you wrote, but how do you societally accept a vice while at the same time stigmatizing it?
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by Jarb 8y ago
How do you know what I do? Admittedly, it doesn't happen very often, but you can bet your butt I'll at least take a cursory glance at a barber's licence before I trust him/her with giving me a straight-razor shave.
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by Jarb 8y ago
It depends. I would argue for licensing in fields where improper training can affect lives, safety, and welfare, e.g. Doctors, Mechanics, Engineers, Pilots, etc. We need some kind of way to verify that an individual who proclaims to be a pr
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by Jarb 8y ago
Slight rant, but those types of windows were one of the first things that bugged me when I moved over from Europe. IMO, not only are they not as practical, but they also leak more energy than what we had in Germany. You can't poke your
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by Jarb 8y ago
I'm simplifying, but Wolfenstein's technique is called Ray Casting, which calculated the player's view by drawing lines from the player's "eye" to objects and walls in the field of view and use that information
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by Jarb 8y ago
Maybe, but stuff tends to erode and shift a lot over millions of years, possibly smoothing over evidence to a degree where we wouldn't be able to recognize it today... on Earth. However, AFAIK the moon is fairly stable, so if there wer
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by Jarb 8y ago
Meh. I quit watching some time around 2010, not long after they were butt-hurt about the 200th/201st episode censorship (which, to be fair, was bs), and did some really shitty episodes. The one that comes to mind was the one with weird
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by Jarb 8y ago
We have ours run three times a week due to the amount of dust and dirt our two dogs track into the house. And even then the floor doesn't look pristine.
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by Jarb 8y ago
This. I work as a sysadmin and the number of keyboards I have to interact with makes using anything other than QWERTY more of hassle than benefit. On a typical day I will interact with my phone keyboard (blackberry priv, hardware keyboard),
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by Jarb 8y ago
Thank you, I had the exact same thought.
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by Jarb 8y ago
do you have any proof of these claims?
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by Jarb 8y ago
Great article! Can you also do an analysis of the lack of security in that galaxy? Some examples that come to mind are accepting expired "passwords" for access to top secret installations and a seemingly COTS astromech droid (aka
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by Jarb 8y ago
Nice, did not know all that. TIL ^^
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by Jarb 8y ago
My architecture wife said houses today are designed (in the US) to last at least 50 years. However I seriously have my doubts that a house could make it that long without some major renovations/overhauls along the way, given that they&
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by Jarb 8y ago
2 Bed, 2 Bath with a combined kitchen and living room, all for the low, low price of $330k? For what is essentially a double-wide with fancy siding and big windows? Haha, nope. If I had land, I could easily build something twice the size or
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by Jarb 8y ago
Thank you, much appreciated! I always wondered if the decision to only have one fire button in Q3A was based off its compatibility with Mac OS, and thus a lack of a second mouse button. Other FPS at the time (e.g. Unreal Tournament, Half-Li
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by Jarb 8y ago
Windows Defender is built-in and is good enough IMHO. But AFAIK you can still install something else on top, if you don't trust Microsoft.
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by Jarb 8y ago
Nope, I don't buy it. I can get Ritter Sport, Kinder Eggs, and other imported Chocolates from my grocery stores that taste just like they do in Europe. That chocolate was shipped over the atlantic in addition to taking the same transpo
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by Jarb 8y ago
That's like saying American beer is an acquired taste. Maybe so, but the bottom line is it's still a shitty imitation of the real thing. Hershey's is mealy, flavorless, sugary (high fructose corn syrupy?) garbage period.
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by Jarb 8y ago
Don't know whether to laugh or cry that 20 pounds is considered a fortune for parking and gas. Depending on the area, you could easily blow through that in an afternoon over here. T_T
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by Jarb 9y ago
I don't read very much, but: 1984 2001
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by Jarb 9y ago
Reality already beat you to the punch: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bitcoin-s-gender-divide-coul... That article was posted here yesterday. :)
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by Jarb 9y ago
My Nokia 6230i (which I still sometimes use as a backup), Nexus S, Xperia Pro, and LG F3Q would disagree with that assessment. Maybe treat your devices a bit better?