Workaphobia

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by Workaphobia 12y ago
I wonder how the treadmill affects its stability. It doesn't need to overcome its own momentum in order to accelerate; rather, slowing down requires acceleration.
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
There was a lot of repetition about X, Y, and Z being anathema to the systemd people. I would've appreciated some links backing up these claims of their hostility. I've heard so much against systemd, and so little that wasn't
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
Article makes it sound like the student was being shut out unfairly and that the entrenched editor was hostile or even sexist. This isn't borne out at all by the talk page. It looks like there was just an edit war and a call for citati
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
A strange rant. I saw nothing in it to back up the title. Indeed, it seemed to completely contradict itself when it quoted the text of the first amendment.
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
What does that have to do with this vulnerability? The problem was a missing bounds check in the implementation. It's not as though they suspect heartbeats are inherently insecure, right?
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
I intend to dual boot next time I upgrade laptops, so we'll see. I absolutely loved the customizability of the desktop environments. But I hated worrying about graphics drivers, updates, xorg.conf, automake, and finagling my system con
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
Incredible. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt until comment 10.
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
I haven't used linux on a desktop in several years, but my experience was that "it broke many days, something about everything". Why should this one component be held on a pedestal as make-or-break for the whole OS? Is a brok
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
> "How are we going to attract and recruit the best engineers unless we've got a reputation for the very best and most foolish April Fools trickery?" You say that sarcastically, but I see that as a legitimate concern. Why
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by Workaphobia 12y ago
I didn't look at the game, but converting from hex to binary is easy since one of those bases is a power of the other. It's a 16-entry lookup table, but just like memorizing the multiplication table, there are easy-to-remember pat
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by Workaphobia 13y ago
What's hard about it? If you can eliminate even one answer it's in your favor to guess.
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by Workaphobia 13y ago
I always assumed analogies were explicitly designed as a mechanism for testing vocabulary, not reasoning. I don't understand how analogies would have any value in testing reasoning skills. I can't imagine an analogy question that
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by Workaphobia 16y ago
I've actually experienced this years and years ago on my grandmother's machine. It played Fur Elise because it had a short. We needed to figure out the name of the song in order for tech support to help us identify what it meant.