digler999

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by digler999 10y ago
I agree with you. The poor can be affected by this as well, in the case of fines. A $150 speeding ticket isn't more of an inconvenience to most of us, but a poor person could be ruined by it. Nobody should escape consequences entirely,
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by digler999 10y ago
I dont like articles that bait and switch. The title says "into the woods" when it should read "squatting in vacant cabins: how this homeless man lived off other peoples' supplies and shelter for a quarter century".
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by digler999 10y ago
I'm responding to your comment based on the information you provided. You should direct him over to /r/socialskills. If he's neither "neurotic nor dysfunctional" then he just needs to polish his social skills
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by digler999 10y ago
> One of his big motivators is that dealing with people is hard, even for just the brief interaction of paying for his purchase. this is a fine line though. If you have some level of social anxiety, avoiding social contact is about the w
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by digler999 10y ago
I was wondering about his dental hygiene. I've never had a major toothache before, but I've heard they are off-the-charts painful. Maybe he went to the dentist, too, off his stolen goods ?
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by digler999 10y ago
> I don't know that owners were really put out as much as all that They were "put out" for the exact value of the items he stole. Whether the theft results in a direct detriment to the victim is irrelevant.
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by digler999 10y ago
I dont even think it's worth reading about him. He's a criminal who got away with it for a long time because of geography and the supply and demand relationship between cold weather and unoccupied cabins.
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by digler999 10y ago
just to save everyone the suspense: he "survived" so long by stealing resources earned by other people who worked for them. Apparently the so-called "hermit" didn't mind people that much .
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by digler999 10y ago
Generally yes. My gripes in assessment were mainly with science classes that asked subtly different questions on exams than what was covered in class, and english/humanities teachers who had broad reign to judge your performance based
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by digler999 10y ago
I'm jaded to the point that I'm skeptical of any posts starting with the words "Why" or "How". It's creeping closer to the phrase "these n easy steps".
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by digler999 10y ago
what makes other encodings hard ? The two things that come to my mind are byte length and comparison function. If the encoding had a fixed-length byte length, then it should be just swapping n-bytes at a time instead of 1-byte. What else is
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by digler999 10y ago
> if something is "required." Allow me to play Freud here for a moment. Perhaps that question more points to anxieties about not knowing 100% of the material (which, I think we can both agree is ok. nobody retains 100%. But th
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by digler999 10y ago
> SO hits which are mostly just noise. I completely disagree. I'm an experienced dev from C++ learning Android/Java dev. Literally 90% of what I need is on SO (the rest usually from mkyong), thanks to google some of the answers
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by digler999 10y ago
What I meant was if you expect them to die, and discard them on some regimented schedule instead of expecting them to last forever. Flash-based USB storage (and even platter-based HDDs ) suffer degradation and/or bitrot, just at differ
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by digler999 10y ago
> whereas in C++ you'll need to manually chain coroutines. Boost has stackful coroutines: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_63_0/libs/coroutine2/doc/htm...
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by digler999 10y ago
Makes perfect sense to me. Why upgrade some critical piece of infrastructure if upgrading can only hurt you, but can never help you ? Assuming they didn't have ongoing problems such as bit-rot with floppies, why upgrade to USB ? There
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by digler999 10y ago
> but it works depressingly well I dont think it "works" though. paypal can withdraw funds from your linked bank accounts too. I think you would need to create an LLC , open a bank acct under that LLC, then sweep funds out of t
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by digler999 10y ago
you bet whoever's paying for it knows exactly how much fuel each ship consumes.
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by digler999 10y ago
> The harder the enforcement, the more potent this selection pressure gets: And the higher the potency, the easier it becomes to smuggle. Contrast marijuana, where they have to haul the stuff over by the bale , vs even one brick of supe
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by digler999 10y ago
I remember reading that they choose locations because their names aren't trademark-able. So if you try calling your product SuperCPU, then a competitor rushes to trademark the same name, they could force you to rename it, thus tactical
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by digler999 10y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to make a deformable mirror using a combination of liquid mercury chemically bonded with a ferromagnetic metal (if mercury isn't already magnetic). Then theoretically, you could use an electric current
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by digler999 10y ago
did you disable password authentication (to allow only ssh keys) ? If not, why ?
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by digler999 10y ago
double win: it could put to "work" the hoards of unemployed, recent JD grads. Nice try border-guard, but I can't unlock this smartphone because my attorney is "reviewing" my European vacation photos.
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by digler999 10y ago
My reading of the article about windows 10 ads in File Explorer was abruptly stopped by an intrusive, full-screen ad video.
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by digler999 10y ago
There is a middle ground, which is that you dont allow the free import of heroin into the country. Where you have uncut, known-quality heroin available as a tool to treat addicts going through withdrawal (or any other effective substitute
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by digler999 10y ago
This is like the opposite or corollary of the "$5 rubber hose" cryptography cracking device.
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by digler999 10y ago
Thanks, I corrected my response. Was I partially correct about the gaseous reflective coating helping to smooth over any micro-imperfections?
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by digler999 10y ago
Depends on what you mean by perfect. its very precise, but I'm sure if you examined the surface with an electron microscope you'd still see imperfections. Edit: was incorrect about what I said below. Leaving it for posterity It&#x
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by digler999 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherometer
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by digler999 10y ago
I'd imagine the math to be off-the-charts complicated, but I'm interested in the signal processing software people have created for correcting optical aberration (and how effective it is). I believe they pioneered this technology

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