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by pistle 10y ago
You haven't met enough people who are alternatively schooled and/or home-schooled. Plenty of outstanding, high-performers who probably aren't wearing their Homeschooled! arm bands that day. Most everyone, given enough time aw
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by pistle 10y ago
This is very good work in this space. Rebirth 338 was the bees knees tipping point for virtual analog on a PC. We have been seeing numerous things that hint at the direction of where things can end up and this is a good way to establish cre
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by pistle 10y ago
Ahhh... the days... I remember fumbling through something very similar to this and the time I spent in MainWndProc once the application became significantly complex could be awfully frightening for a noob like me.
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by pistle 10y ago
First, I'm all for AI-based transportation solutions, but why does it seem like there aren't nearly enough redundancies being considered? There are just going to be competing proprietary solutions? In the US, the NHSTA should get
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by pistle 10y ago
Two things. "Brave" = risk and cost/benefited to death decisions that a bunch of people don't understand Generally speaking... Apple sells iPhones, Microsoft sells software The overlap of their profit centers is minimal
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by pistle 10y ago
If you can garner the votes in the legislature. If a majority of the house files charges, 2/3 of the senate has to vote in favor. The house seems likely, but it will be the drama of the century to get through the senate going ahead wit
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by pistle 10y ago
Well, that's his side of the story. Burning bridges publicly while signalling that you are difficult to work with is a twofer. Classy. Subtle. There are 8 people who have any second thoughts answered, and likely two others who might
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by pistle 10y ago
If PV wanted their stuff taken seriously at this point, they would always offer full videos for actual journalists to review and edit. They could license the content and amplify the impact of their work. Instead, they do a hack job to fit t
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by pistle 10y ago
I'm not going to get into parsing the video you watched, but the source raises monumental red flags when it comes to any sort of journalistic integrity. Project Veritas is the same folks who did the widely discredited hack-editing to s
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by pistle 10y ago
The author says "hundreds of thousands of letters issued each year"
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by pistle 10y ago
Anyone have a reference for how NSL's are estimated for the "hundreds of thousands" reference in this article? It seems more like ~20-30k/yr at this point from my cursory search. I interpret "hundreds of thousands&q
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by pistle 10y ago
This was a warning shot to other muni's in NC capable of adding another angle of attack against the entrenched monopolies of internet access there. If Time Warner didn't win this one, they know the cities of, and suburbs around, R
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by pistle 10y ago
The potential impact of a hacking crime is massive. Millions to billions of dollars and a real impact on people's lives for well over 2-3?! years. If someone suffers identity theft, invasions of privacy, etc. the direct impact could ea
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by pistle 10y ago
Can someone school me in why we don't just throttle login attempts (each fail extends time to next attempt exponentially) and put an attempt cap that requires password reset?
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by pistle 10y ago
I'd rather they actually mod it so the switch is removed and the circuit hardwired. I imagine someone beating up the "stuck" switch and breaking the circuit/mic altogether.
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by pistle 10y ago
I have owned multiple pairs, and still use one for my main work. The bass and treble roll-off isn't great for mixing and mastering, but it's a truly great value for the money for most monitoring uses in performance. It's bett
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by pistle 10y ago
Flip the question. Am I being a good developer if I'm not Googling it? You are a creative problem solver. You have to understand your problem and put together a solution. Within defined constraints of time, budget, and quality, you mus
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by pistle 10y ago
Ack. A jittery gif amongst the content. Had to cut out at that point. NPR stations could adapt to the digital shift in content distrubution without a painful disengagement from existing contracts. It just needs the incentive to go through t
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by pistle 11y ago
This wreaks of elitism. Media is not consumed, nor as influential, as you are suggesting. Never denigrate the intelligence or incentives of others. To dismiss others' intelligence, experience, and/or process for developing their p
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by pistle 11y ago
The vendor knows that if someone WANTS a non-windows PC, they are going to be willing to pay more, so the price goes up. They also are implementing a whole new process for a small set of customers which increases their costs. They pass thos
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by pistle 11y ago
They won't fly off the shelves with all that added, unnecessary weight or cost. Oi vey.
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by pistle 11y ago
That doesn't sound like the relationship Miguel and Nat have cultivated with .net or MS, and they could have continued on saying "No." Xamarin didn't NEED MS beyond what it already provides openly, everywhere (.net marke
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by pistle 11y ago
Don't bring facts to the piss on Skype party... This is 100% true. I worked at a state university. If someone was running Skype, because of the algorithm for determining such things, our users all became supernodes on the Skype P2P ne
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by pistle 11y ago
If one event happens 1B years ago 1B light years away and another event happens at .5B years ago .5B light years away... how would we know there are two events?
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by pistle 11y ago
I'm a clinical research ex-data-minion. In that research context, it can take teams of 10's to 100's years to establish a usable dataset which can win grant money to both serve patient populations and reinforce the long-term
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by pistle 11y ago
Relatively old and unhelpful news which begs the question... Why was the article produced and disseminated? Why now? Why with the noted quality issues? Fishy
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by pistle 11y ago
"It's different this time." Said every time. Of course the details of the crashing waves are different, but the tide is the same every time.
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by pistle 11y ago
The big transaction networks are so heavily invested in their own system and the effort to integrate is such that the likelihood seems quite low. Had the foundations of bitcoin had as a primary goal industry transition to using it, it would
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by pistle 11y ago
This was written as if it were an intro to Humanities applications of CS to a math/CS academic. Not the other way round... was that intended? If the target audience for this is someone from the humanities field with little to no experi
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by pistle 11y ago
What a horrible way to determine if people are being forced out... compare the rate against a worse situation. We noticed that people with HIV died less frequently over the time period than people with HIV and stage IV cancer. Therefore, th

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