Namrog84

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by Namrog84 7y ago
There is a difference between the military and government agencies. It's like asking why not get rid of military in favor of militia, Hired guns, And police forces? Who had what authority. Funding. Jurisdiction and related. And plenty
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by Namrog84 7y ago
> After strong AIs are common, we can persue the even more interesting task of dumbing them down in fun ways An artificially handicapped or limited smart ai in video games is often obvious and not fun.
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by Namrog84 7y ago
I predict hn will have not have fixed the code block vs quote bad experience on mobile.
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by Namrog84 7y ago
I disagree and think it will decrease because self driving vehicles will act as pace cars and smooth out traffic considerably
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Thanks. I use unlock origin but hadn't tried that. I'll do that now. Thanks!
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Thank you! I feel like I've been seeing more and more paywall reaching top links lately and its mildly annoying do most people have subscriptions or something?
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by Namrog84 7y ago
> "Also, they have (recently introduced) a sync option, in which fake files are visible in your file system, but no actual contents get put on the drive until you try to open them. " I thought that was a first in the earliest o
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Just fyi. I thought counter strike didn't used projectiles but used raycasts for almost every weapon. But your point still stands and applies for most shooters.
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by Namrog84 7y ago
I play a lot of pubg(player unknowns battlegrounds) and you can often hear the bullet whizzing past you before the initial shot of the gun/rifle/bullet. And you can often gauge how far away someone shot because of this.
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by Namrog84 7y ago
- I've been using the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 for however long its been since it replaced the 3000 or whatever predecessors. Probably close to 20 years now. I use this same keyboard at work and at home. - I keep a sm
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Counter point. If this(free postage) is an easy and good proxy for detecting this type of scam. By doing this they might stop(doing free postage) . And then you and others lose their easy no effor detection?
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Individual contributor. In contrast to a lead, manager, or pm. The IC is usually the person who actually writes software/code. (The bulk of employees at a software company are ICs)
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by Namrog84 7y ago
They might be getting exactly what they're voting for. But they might not be voting for what they need or want. It's not that hard to spin things in a way that people unknowingly vote for the opposite of what they actually want or
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by Namrog84 7y ago
I think the site predates it? Apparently the websites been like this for many years.
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by Namrog84 7y ago
You mention safari. Are you on a mac? So it works in firefox and chrome for me on windows. Not sure, I have pretty vanilla setup.
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by Namrog84 7y ago
"Microsoft has their enterprise hardware, but not sure what they're thinking about otherwise." Do you consider the hololens exclusively enterprise?
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by Namrog84 7y ago
>in error rate I dont have source at moment. But I remember reading a few years ago that wikipedia had fewer errors than most all encyclopedias on average. There is definitely something to be said about consistency and clustering but on
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Even here at hn. Look how many people never read the article and only the comments. I'd imagine the number of people to go down into a link from an article to be quite small unfortunately.
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by Namrog84 7y ago
How do GPU cores differ in that they have thousands of cores?
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by Namrog84 7y ago
No criticism but just curious why you chose blizzard and wow here? Compared to other virtual worlds you could walk around with friends?
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Yes. In the US and Europe I believe.
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Not every finite resource has to be used toward the advancement of civilization or for some greater cause. Also, lots of things can have indirect positive effects. I know lots of people got interested in space and other cool things as a res
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by Namrog84 7y ago
I see what you did there!
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by Namrog84 7y ago
Although I provide no link to them. I believe I've read numerous articles and studies that even with generic anonymized data that many have been successful in deanonymozing the user behind the data. Depending what they data is. It migh
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by Namrog84 7y ago
> So the question becomes in what instances would a person have a record/memory of the fake name but no record/memory of their password? I have both recorded in password vault and both are random. The benefit is it they've
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by Namrog84 7y ago
I split the difference. My name namrog84 Looks like a pseudonym and number from previous era. However it's my last name backwards. Gorman. And I was born in 84 so it's not just a random throw away. Also namrog without number is o
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by Namrog84 8y ago
I have this same problem. In factorio for example. Either I use other people's efficient designs that are more optimal and then I feel like I'm just copy pasting and not playing. Or I end up wanting to write a program or design th
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by Namrog84 8y ago
But even traditional social networks change and shift and dont really last the same way. Facebook has had some lasting power but it has decreased and died in many ways. Vine. Snapchat. And many other things have taken huge chunks of mine sh
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by Namrog84 8y ago
And as they grow up. Other younger children will grow into being into it and wanting to play. Minecraft is still very popular among certain age groups. Some age out as others age into it.
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by Namrog84 8y ago
I take it then that there are legitimate sites that do offer this service but properly verify owners first?

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