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I Defaulted On My Student Loans (And It Was The Best Decision Of My Life)(thoughtcatalog.com)
45 points by snicklepuff 13y ago|63 comments
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
> C presents a simple "big array of bytes" memory model that totally abstracts all that complexity. I don't understand what you mean by this. Machine code itself abstracts away the underlying hierarchical memory structure.
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
Jesus, $150!? For a smoke detector!? How hard is it to hit the little "mute" button on the cheap one you already have?
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
This is why they use git - subversively inserting code into git is not possible like it is with CVS
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
> but objectively you can't identify which students won't do the work - ergo, you can't discriminate who to enroll I'm calling complete bullshit on this one: isn't that the very definition of admissions? Even if
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
I was jumping around chronologically, the video was shown by a teacher I had in high school. That wasn't clear, sorry.
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
I've seen and read the entire speech dozens of times: In school, I distinctly remember being given the entire speech transcription and talking about it as a class on more than one occasion. In elementary school, we would have an actor
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
To imply that the US is somehow out of order to pursue his extradition makes no sense. What does he expect them to do? IMHO, he should not have run. I don't think he would have any trouble convincing 12 people that what he did was the
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
> they couldn't release it under an updated license (like the > ASL2 or GPL3) or dual-license it for compatibility with > other projects without getting clearance from each and > every contributor. IMHO, this is a huge adv
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
Why the hell is CONFIG_PERF enabled in distribution kernels?? A normal server/desktop user would NEVER USE THAT. If you're smart enough to use Perf, you ought to be smart enough to compile your own kernel. This is a brilliant example of how
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by snicklepuff 13y ago
Wrong -- works on x86_64 Debian.