rangibaby

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by rangibaby 5y ago
- Jeff Bezos
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by rangibaby 5y ago
I remember they got past the Iranian air gap using a USB stick. It’s a mistake to think air gaps are safe but they are certainly better than having your network open to the internet.
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by rangibaby 5y ago
The article wants it to "just work"
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by rangibaby 5y ago
What’s wrong with installing WinXP+office and calling it a day? Even if someone fulfilled your request and got an up-to-date browser etc working on your 256MB laptop Would YouTube even work?
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by rangibaby 5y ago
Tactical Intervention had tons of wacky broken creative ideas, to me it felt a lot more like old school CS than Source or GO
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by rangibaby 5y ago
Agreed. I think people forget that smart animals are smart enough to do bad things because they feel like it
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by rangibaby 5y ago
> (Of course, it's also possible that by thinking we've 'cured' the common cold, we will open ourselves up to a once-a-century pandemic, where millions are wiped out by what used to just be a common cold.) H.G. Wells
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by rangibaby 5y ago
You could put your fax machines in a locked container
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by rangibaby 5y ago
Because it is a quote
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by rangibaby 5y ago
The crown is just a rubber stamp, until it’s not, like in the Australian constitutional crisis
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by rangibaby 5y ago
> That's some fake Prada bag shit I think it's different because they started out as actual Nike shoes
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by rangibaby 5y ago
I read a book or something online by Michio Kaku where he was passionately against launching any kind of nuclear material because of the possibility of the rocket exploding before reaching space.
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by rangibaby 5y ago
I was a big fan of Soulseek back in the day. Everyone else I knew used Limewire
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by rangibaby 5y ago
> The Dutch hosting company doesn't obey US law. My god! Can you believe these assholes? Running a hosting company that just hosts, and doesn't snoop into what their customers are doing? And how dare they make enforcement agenc
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by rangibaby 5y ago
I downloaded plenty of music on shitty dialup. It’s not like there were any other options. The hard part was finding them until Napster etc
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by rangibaby 5y ago
This is Youtube's revenge for users not loving the Rewind 2018 video
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by rangibaby 5y ago
Considering that they literally invented JIT manufacturing, yes I think it counts
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by rangibaby 5y ago
> Ha! Things can disrupt JIT operations, don't these bozos know that For a real world example of bozos not knowing that, see Toyota in 2011.
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by rangibaby 5y ago
Which translation of War and Peace?
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by rangibaby 5y ago
> It's truly amazing, and I wonder what I would have felt if I had seen that on an IBM PC back in its day. I felt the same way about the 8088 MPH demo, knowledge that the original IBM PC could do that would have had unimaginable e
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by rangibaby 5y ago
> Then they should simply charge the higher amount. Then, to make things go smoothly, you will have to pay the higher amount as well as a bribe. > This even goes higher up, as paves the way for higher levels of corruption where things
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by rangibaby 5y ago
It’s interesting to me that someone smart enough could have thought of this in 1981, but considered it impossible because 90MB was an absurdly large amount of data
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by rangibaby 5y ago
> Is it supposed to reflect the simplicity of a back-to-nature lifestyle and the characters therein? I'm inclined to suspect is the latter of the two; especially if kana is only employed in character speech while other parts of the
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by rangibaby 5y ago
> I am no expert but I would hope that satellites are now used for defence based communication. If a war gets to the point where nation states are cutting each other’s undersea cables, I think satellites are coming down too
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Relax, it’s iPhone* *until you do the thing we showed in our commercial and break your phone. When you come to the Genius Bar, we’ll point out that the commercial did in fact warn you to not do the thing we clearly showed in the commercial.
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Imagine you’re a NATO accountant planning for a war with Russia. Which is a cheaper and more effective way to detect submarines in that area? A. An extensive submarine detection network, with sonar buoys, aircraft, and boats able to pinpoin
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by rangibaby 6y ago
In Japan there is traffic priority (right of way) but all drivers also have a legal obligation to not hit anything, which means that in nearly every accident blame will be split between both parties, usually 80:20.
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by rangibaby 6y ago
> Cars with Level 2 automation can perform key driving tasks like steering, acceleration and braking to keep a set distance from the car ahead, center the car in its lane and stay at a certain speed. Yet they can't handle every situ
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Coca Cola and McDonald’s advertise and sell a lot, and I don’t think anyone would accuse them of being cool.
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by rangibaby 6y ago
It is a brain teaser and you explained why

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