custos

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by custos 8y ago
Decompile the resulting library and start refactoring and adding comments?
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by custos 8y ago
The article explains why. In Albanaia, where he was going, there have been issues with people pulling money out of the bank and then being robbed shortly after. Sounds like an organized crime problem, where bank tellers are tipping off crim
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by custos 8y ago
Are there any decent plausible solutions to the problem of regulatory capture? Are there any laws restricting companies from "lobbying" regulators or engaging in quid pro quo?
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by custos 8y ago
I think this has more to do with how our brain processes words written in a phonetic alphabet. When reading words we are familiar with, our brain treats the word as a single symbol linked to meaning (or pronunciation). When we encounter wor
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by custos 8y ago
I know I have horrible auditory memory, and really good visual memory; which at first gives some credibility to learning styles being a thing. But then I read this: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03&
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by custos 8y ago
It varies by state: http://www.vocativ.com/412398/juvenile-criminal-records-myth...
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by custos 8y ago
There was a study done on creepiness awhile back. Pretty interesting read: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.20...
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by custos 8y ago
If it worked like normal insurance, people with chronic illnesses would still go bankrupt.
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by custos 8y ago
Car insurance is not comparable to health insurance. It's apples to oranges. Car insurance reduces risk, by exchanging the cost of an unpredictable potentially costly event (an accident) for a regular much reduced cost event (monthly p
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by custos 8y ago
I think you overestimate the capabilities of a software engineer. I'm a backend developer. I can design and implement the backend of enterprise level systems (APIs, Service Bus, Scheduled Jobs, Automation of operations, etc). But you s
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by custos 9y ago
Without proving them "right" by "targeting them" for psychotropic drugs (anti-psychotics)... nothing really. Unfortunately, thought disorders are pretty hard to for the patient to understand they need treatment for.
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by custos 9y ago
I don't know, but I remember when hating Nazi's was as American as apple pie or baseball. Call of Duty, Wolfenstein, Battlefield 1942 if I recall correctly; were all anti-Nazi and it was basically it's own genre of first pers
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by custos 9y ago
While what you're saying is true, I think the dunning kruger effect has an inverse bell curve based on level of confidence vs knowledge. High confidence low knowledge. Moderate confidance moderate knowledge High confidence high knowled
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by custos 9y ago
Best company I've been hired at did a sample project. They had the project all setup and ready to go. All I had to do was fill in some of the more complicated bits (hooking up to the database using LINQ to SQL, and implement some queri
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by custos 9y ago
Because removing an A makes it a completely different framework from Cocoa Framework...
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by custos 9y ago
While I was an admin for hackthissite.org I created some basic encryption algorithms for people to break. One person gave me a step by step guide to how he broke it. It was amazing, and incredibly enlightening how hard encryption truly is.
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by custos 9y ago
The Global Assembly Cache for .NET was supposed to be a shared library storage with support for multiple versions of the same library + signed assembly/hash matching. It just never really took off for some reason. It's where all t
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by custos 9y ago
I have a cheap phone, and due to this I can only have like 6 apps installed at a time. I'm constantly removing Facebook/Messenger for situations like when I had to download Ticketmaster app for a concert ticket. And with all these
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by custos 9y ago
So when I pay for gigabit internet, and netflix pays their "streaming priority" charge, I get netflix content at gigabit speed. But when I pay for gigabit internet, and some random startup doesn't pay the ISPs "streaming
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by custos 9y ago
In priority shipping, only one side pays the fee. If the post office or UPS said "oh you want it there faster, pay X" to both sender and receiver, and both were required to pay for it to be faster, then it would be the same.
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by custos 9y ago
What you're referring to are known as Qualia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
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by custos 9y ago
Yeah I was able to beat that "Robot check" checkbox by Google using some fuzzy bezier curves and random mouse movements/scrolling to simulate a real user's behavior. Unfortunately Google has some other metrics to detect
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by custos 9y ago
Both the US and Russia are well known in interfering with foreign governments. Hell even America has their own foreign propaganda service "Voice of America" radio. Also I have no problem with communism, I have problems with corrup
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by custos 9y ago
Option 1: Could be Russian/Telegram propaganda. Option 2: Could be true because seriously, who trusts the FBI/NSA not to violate our privacy anymore? Really not sure what to believe about this one.
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by custos 9y ago
I can assure you it is not. It's about $0.001 per solved captcha with 97% accuracy rate and refunds on failed ones, from the service provider I know of. I've even written one, it's not complicated and not expensive.
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by custos 9y ago
"You can fly to another industry but the feeling will go with you and you will remain unsettled." <- Totally incorrect. I took a break from software development due to burn out, got my CDL and drove an 18 wheeler for a few mont
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by custos 9y ago
Yeah, let's tell everyone everything about someone who partially foiled an organized crime operation. What could possibly go wrong?
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by custos 9y ago
The title made me think it was someone shooting an iPhone with a firearm...
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by custos 9y ago
Wearing a baseball cap makes me invisible to their scan...
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by custos 9y ago
Doesn't matter what he's thinking, it matters what he's saying, and what he's saying is not something that engenders civil discourse so none should be expected.

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