🔗 Quick links thread
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What are you upsert about?
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The Windows logo according to Apple, just because I know there is an unusually high concentration of die-hard Windows fans here.
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Gotta love Apple Satire.
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I know there is an unusually high concentration of trolls pretending to be die-hard Windows fans here.
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What? I thought everyone is here, so you claim there are non-trolls lurking here
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###David Jennison, former lead character artist in Austin, tells why he left CIG
A lot of drama surrounding Star Citizen right now. This exit interview / blog post supposedly written by a graphics designer who worked under Chris Roberts is my favorite.
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
Nice introductory level article
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Now with less
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, morehref
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
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i guess i really need to sleep more...
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http://richiecarmichael.github.io/sat/index.html#
Every satellite in orbit.
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Note that Star Citizen is quite calmly and rationally responding to The Escapist's journalism by threatening defamation lawsuits:
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Derek Smart styled himself a crusading consumer advocate, which would be an apt label if Ralph Nader had appeared before Congress and said:
"Mr. Chairman, these vehicles are unsafe at any speed. And now, I invite Congress to admire my balls. RELEASE THE LAWYERS.
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"Do what I want or I'll bring in our outside counsel" and "look at me cc'ing lawyers" is the "my brother will beat you up" of the business world.
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... you use your outside litigator as the bad cop to control your difficult executive. That way your executive doesn't do don't-take-me-seriously things like post angry messages referring to written statements as "slanderous."
https://popehat.com/2015/10/04/in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-threaten-lawsuits/
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People love to make fun of Derek Smart, but he has a legit civil case in their changing the conditions of the EULA without informing previous signers of it, or giving refunds to those who did not agree to the new terms. That's long been considered lawsuit-worthy.
Additionally, they changed the conditions of the EULA specifically to remove the clause allowing refunds if the game didn't make its ship date. That's really really really shitty.
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Additionally, they changed the conditions of the EULA specifically to remove the clause allowing refunds if the game didn't make its ship date. That's really really really shitty.
It's also the kind of thing a court is likely to look extremely dimly upon. While games might not be the most litigated space ever, the history of scumbaggery has been well-mapped by the bottom-feeding end of home improvement contractors and courts are all too familiar with it. Magical “can't sue us or get a refund” clauses are pretty consistently set aside as “unreasonable”…
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I want this so bad with some real windows /Linux.
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Amazing time we live in :)
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Snowden (the mot wanted man) is ing FBI on twitter. We as s should appreciate the sense of humor after what he has gone through.
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Ah. Wasn't sure what happened. Sorry for making you explain....
Filed under: I actually have no idea who that is actually...
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Amazing time we live in :)
Amazing indeed.
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Smartphone market is even more brutal than I sudpected...
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US foreign policy
Pakistan has mastered the art of pretending to help the United States while actually supporting its most deadly foes.
Taliban’s new leader, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. It turns out that Mansour lives part time in Quetta, the New York Times reports, “in an enclave where he and some other Taliban leaders . . . have built homes.” His predecessor, Mohammad Omar, we now know, died a while ago in Karachi. And of course, we remember that Osama bin Laden lived for many years in a compound in Abbottabad. All three of these cities are in Pakistan.
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###DuckDuckGo CEO: 'It's a myth you need to track people to make money in web search'###
maybe we don't need to get raped by google to find things in the interwebz?
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Good essay from the writer of Wondermark about how people with vested interests in the old always oppose the new throughout history.
About the telephone in particular, the author of this piece declares, “The telephone is the most dangerous of all because it enters into every dwelling. Its interminable network of wires is a perpetual menace to life and property. In its best performance it is only a convenience. It was never a necessity. In a multitude of cities its service is unsatisfactory and is being dispensed with.”
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Padding is hard
Why allocating zero bytes of data can use up 32 bytes.
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It is most likely more, because of book keeping. Reading the article I wonder why no mention of slub memory management, instead of re-discovering the techniques. After all OS kernels have been doing this for a longer time.
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Good essay from the writer of Wondermark about how people with vested interests in the old always oppose the new throughout history.
Excellent article. They should do more of these instead of that stupid comic book.
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###There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive
We could have had a
.bro
extension for the new compression format. How awesome would have that been? But no, stupid feminists had to poo all over it.
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According to the initial "controversy", it was opposed by a feminist named "Patrick"? Weird what passes for a controversy these days.
Also, we have a whole fresh thread about it.
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Any idea what talk that's from? I'm always looking for humorous talks about quality.
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sorry no sauce! someone suggested it could be this.
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Does that come in posters?
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Perhaps (I have not looked) but the name of the conference is Droidcon. I think that is cool enough a name for me to want to participate.
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It hurts to look at that. Those parentheses shouldn't be there dammit.
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yup almost like when I see something like
#define NUM 1+2
without parenthesis, it goes on my nerve.
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bullshit jobs and more bullshit jobs everyone who’s employed should read carefully:
there is a decent chance that "bullshit" administrative jobs are merely a halfway house between "bullshit" industrial jobs and no jobs at all. Not because of the conniving of rich interests, but because machines inevitably outmatch humans at handling bullshit without complaining.
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The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042), or how to stop loving life and believe in afterlife. This is really strong stuff, and highly disturbing. The story you listen to while it unfolds:
A total of 909 Americans died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in an event termed "revolutionary suicide" by Jones and some members on an audio tape of the event and in prior discussions.
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He puts it on a scale, where slightly crappier IT market is on one end and African children starving to death is on the other.
I doubt he had african children on his mind.
His charity doesnt affect his life in any way, its like when you throw a coin to a homeless guy.
Very easy way he found to improve his reputation. I remember someone telling that some robber baron also used charity to improve his image once retired.
There are many possible reasons he chose to work with charity now, and its pointless to try guessing it.
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The teacher's post will probably be deleted as "not an answer", so here it is:
[User name], I thought that we agreed not to use the boards since everyone can see your work and steal it. I already found that another student is using variable names and style much like your [file name]. As we discussed last week, I can't damn them, but I can damn you. Come to me for help. Don't turn in your midterm. I will not accept it. I also recommend that you withdraw from the class. If you do so now, there will be no academic penalty.I wonder what would have happened if the teacher had left this as a comment instead of an answer. I'm not sure they wouldn't have deleted it anyway.
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##The little book about OS development
Pretty fantastic tutorial on how to make a simple OS. I found it very easy to read, even with my limited understanding of C and assembly. Really demystified a lot of this stuff for me.
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TIL you can edit source code with multiple cursors as well as save it back to disk right from Chrome.
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TIL you can edit source code with multiple cursors as well as save it back to disk right from Chrome.
Ctrl+P was the biggest win for me. Good article.
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Guy notices his tweets are censored in an ingenious way. A glance at the shape of the future.
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Troubling.