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by stackcollision 11y ago
Yes, this is kind of like "of course the remote is in the last place you look, why would you keep looking once you found it?" A little more than a year ago I was working on a very space-constrained device: only 2kb of program flas
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by stackcollision 11y ago
Thank you for mentioning this. Things have to get to their destination somehow, and if you replaced these ships with their equivalent carrying capacity of another form of transport you would probably get even more pollution.
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by stackcollision 11y ago
This and "disrupt", please.
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by stackcollision 12y ago
Ah, thank you. I was starting to get a bit of vertigo on how prescient this was, I felt like I was reading The Machine. Now that I know it's satire it makes a lot more sense.
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by stackcollision 12y ago
Thank you for saying this, it's exactly what I've been thinking since the start.
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by stackcollision 12y ago
Maybe that's true, but the fetishization of 'disruption' is getting a little ridiculous. I'm certainly downloading this.
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by stackcollision 12y ago
To be fair, based on some of the other statements I've seen attributed to Churchill, I wouldn't be surprised if he had actually said that.
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by stackcollision 12y ago
I recall a case where the courts did not agree with you. I can't remember names or many details, but the gist was that some guy realized that one of the pages was taking an fdat argument that was his userid, and by simply incrementing
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by stackcollision 12y ago
My grandfather said that he went broke twice in his life: once when he was sued, and once when he sued someone else. Lawsuits are expensive, and if this game isn't making enough money to warrant that money-sink, they might end up putt
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by stackcollision 12y ago
When I get into conversations about what space combat would really be like (if it ever even happens), I usually cite this book, and summarize the combat in one sentence: "The ships are taking evasive actions for shots which will hit th
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by stackcollision 12y ago
I've never used a piece of software from HP that I've thought was of any quality. We use several of their enterprise development tools where I work, due to an ancient contract and some political contrivances, and nobody is happy
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by stackcollision 12y ago
The slack action from a mile-long train is one of the most awe-inspiring, bone-jarring manifestations of raw power I have ever experienced. The first time I felt it, it established in my mind the idea that freight trains are forces of natu
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by stackcollision 12y ago
Absolutely true. I think when people say that robots are going to replace low-skilled workers only the uninformed are imagining an entirely self-sufficient factory that only has one door that the raw materials goes into, and another door t
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by stackcollision 12y ago
As I said in my post, it's anecdotal yes, but I know at least two people who are in this situation. Take one of them for example: She can't afford to eat every night. She can't get a good job in this economy, and she's
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by stackcollision 12y ago
If college really isn't for you then so be it, it's your decision. But dropping out because these famous people did it is really stupid. For every one dropout who turns into Gates, there are thousands who go hungry every night (
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by stackcollision 12y ago
I knew a feminist in high school who wanted to photocopy my draft papers so she could sign up too. Definitely not legal, but she was absolutely adamant that if men and women were to be equal, women should have to defend the country too. Fe
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by stackcollision 12y ago
s/class/common human decency/g I think a lot of what you're talking about has more to do with an apparent inability of some people to act with any sort of common sense around other human beings rather than 'class&#x
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by stackcollision 12y ago
It doesn't look like anyone in this thread is denying anything. Most of the comments here are about how amazingly accurate every single one of these is.
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by stackcollision 12y ago
I think I'm out of the loop a bit on the chain of events. Last I heard, the FCC were the ones holding back the tide by classifying ISPs in a way that prevented them from limiting bandwidth. And then recently a court stripped them of
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by stackcollision 12y ago
You don't need to be overpaid to buy expensive image-"enhancing" crap, you just need to be very stupid about managing your money. I see plenty of people on the subway wearing Beats who don't look like they could buy the
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by stackcollision 12y ago
Is there a repository somewhere of really great bug reports like this? Something along the lines of "commits from last night".
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by stackcollision 12y ago
I have not heard about a west coast launch pad, but I was wondering how they planned to actually accomplish the landing. We (almost) always launch west-to-east, to take advantage of the roughly 400m/s you gain from the Earth's ro
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by stackcollision 12y ago
From what I've heard, this is because many Asian countries have a culture of information flashbang. The Yahoo homepage is extremely cluttered and busy, which fits in with what they expect. The Google homepage, in contrast, is just an
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by stackcollision 12y ago
Can you clarify what you mean? Maybe not 20, but 15 years ago my dad was mucking around in the guts of our family computer, performing his own upgrades. By the time we got rid of that thing the only original component was the case. And n
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by stackcollision 12y ago
Once this is out, you are paying a premium to not deal with modules by not getting one. It's a $50 phone you can swap components in and out of as upgrades become available. To me, that's infinitely better than buying a new $30
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by stackcollision 12y ago
You wanted to jump out of planes, you were good at it, and you got selected to be one of the elites. Your talent for this and other things drove you towards your success. However, other people see jump school as the key to success, rather
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by stackcollision 12y ago
When he says that the employer is sponsoring learning in that company's particular area, he is right. Learning is not just sitting down with a textbook and taking notes. In most jobs, especially computer science, you're learning
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by stackcollision 12y ago
My sister dated a cop for a while, and he offered to give her a PBA Card (Police Benevolence Association, what everyone calls the "Get out of jail free" card). She declined, not because she was particularly honorable or had an av
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by stackcollision 12y ago
I looked at the code and I'm pretty sure I saw that the payload size variable was a long int, so I was confused by this too.
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by stackcollision 12y ago
How could they do that to Ludwig Van!?

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