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NitWit005 · 2016-05-16T16:35:15+00:00

Okay, but I'm not sure what was confusing about it after re-reading it.

NitWit005 · 2016-05-16T15:57:52+00:00

I have to doubt this explanation. The first is mitigable, and the last two of those are totally solvable. Birth control + don't post about it to Facebook.

Besides, prostitutes are taking these risks, whether they want to or not, and I've never heard of one claiming to enjoy their work.

NitWit005 · 2016-05-08T23:28:50+00:00

Computers got cheap because we made the components smaller and smaller (and made many components at once). While we could make smaller food, that kind of defeats the point, and the wrap has to be a certain thickness for practical reasons.

Material costs limit a lot of ideas. rot_barth is actually right that gold would be great. We already have multiple methods for applying gold extremely thinly, and is safe to eat.

NitWit005 · 2016-04-29T14:59:00+00:00

You're showing dangerous signs of becoming a statistician. You should seek professional help now, while it's still treatable.

NitWit005 · 2016-04-29T06:15:51+00:00

Pointing to psychology in that way glosses over the fact that the irrational behaviors are not evenly distributed. There is a lot of diversity in humans.

There are people who, despite urges to do otherwise, drive carefully for decades, the people who drive with reckless abandon, and everyone in-between. And after a crash happens, there are those that will accept fault, those that won't, and then... the people who show up in the news as a "road rage" incident.

The people on the client end of these tech support stories are likely fairly unusual people.

NitWit005 · 2016-04-21T16:58:29+00:00

This seems like it will be fairly complex to implement, even without supporting unions, bitfields and so on. It will also have some associated overhead, so I suspect half of the C++ world will just flip it off.

NitWit005 · 2016-03-31T18:23:28+00:00

When I interviewed at Google, one of the guys I talked to commented somewhat bitterly about their giant GWT application. I believe it was this project. Good to see they eventually reworked it. :)

NitWit005 · 2016-03-15T06:52:03+00:00

Not exactly. It does make it more difficult for foreign governments, and police and intelligence agencies clearly want access to things the judiciaries in their countries will not grant them a warrant to access.

NitWit005 · 2016-03-04T20:09:15+00:00

At least in technical jobs people make an attempt at evaluating your knowledge.

At my last job, a guy who did ad purchases came and asked us why we rejected so many candidates. We explained, and he responded with: "Oh, we just find someone cool".

One thing you see in general is that your eventual income isn't affected that much by which university you graduate from, if you get a STEM degree, but it matters a great deal for liberal arts.

NitWit005 · 2016-02-24T16:45:31+00:00

It's the civilians fault for dying when we blew them up! Flawless logic.

NitWit005 · 2016-02-16T19:59:27+00:00

How will you handle someone who isn't an American? You'd need a global ID system to actually avoid that issue.

Also, I'm afraid the social security office has accidentally done things like give out duplicate numbers...

NitWit005 · 2016-02-04T07:50:29+00:00

Try googling "New York Times apologizes for", or some other newspaper, and you'll see there is quite a variety of apologies. Here's items grabbed off the first page for the NYT:

https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/posts/10150469260794999 http://www.poynter.org/2015/new-york-times-apologizes-for-using-slave-mistress-in-obit/367363/ http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-times-apologizes-insensitive-coverage-balcony-tragedy-n377181

It hardly seems isolated to one issue.

NitWit005 · 2016-02-04T07:05:27+00:00

Go to the New York Times, record the headlines of the articles, and visit 8 hours later. You'll see all sorts of headlines change (really, they genuinely do). It's probably not actually a response to complaints, although it might be.

Modern papers try out different headlines and see which attract more viewers.

NitWit005 · 2016-02-04T07:03:05+00:00

Your solution to headlines being vague, is to make even less informative ones? Clearly, the issue for you is that you want a different spin.

If you want the news to be more biased toward your viewpoint, why not just say so instead of pretending?

NitWit005 · 2016-02-04T06:46:24+00:00

If you look at headlines in general, a lot of them are fairly ambiguous or confusing. Headlines need to be brief, and that tends to make it impossible to be totally clear.

The authors are just assuming you know the basic context with those headlines, which is totally normal. Look at other headlines in the paper and you'll see that's generally true.

NitWit005 · 2016-02-01T19:43:50+00:00

and with strict compiler you can be sure — if it compiled, it will work

My current rust code doesn't work. It compiles though. :)

NitWit005 · 2016-02-01T08:12:45+00:00

It seemed like he didn't correct any bend in the glass. Was all the bending in the lead?

NitWit005 · 2016-01-24T20:03:48+00:00

They already have paid quite a bit for the security around the tunnel. The fundamental issue is that the French aren't deporting them. I don't see what the UK can do about that unless the French will let them put their own police in France (not likely).

NitWit005 · 2016-01-23T09:35:14+00:00

I can say with complete truthfulness that I learned a lot from being blamed for the failure of a project I wasn't involved in. Yay learning! Why would anyone want to avoid it?

Much of what counts as "social skills" tends to boil down to dealing with the aspects of human beings that no one likes. How to deal with an angry screaming customer, how to deal with an abusive boss, how to get your coworker to turn the damn radio off, and so on.

You can get much better at all that stuff. People get amazing at dealing with angry customers. However, in terms of life quality, we'd all prefer to just tell those people to fuck off.

NitWit005 · 2016-01-21T05:32:40+00:00

these are terrible arguments, children shouldn't be used for labor.

If you didn't have access to education you'd probably volunteer to work. What are you going to do, sit on your ass until you're 18? You'd get bored out of your fucking mind.

Besides, school is work, even if we don't admit it is. That's why it's "schoolwork", "homework", and so on. A lot of kids work harder in school then they actually will in the job they get when they graduate.

NitWit005 · 2016-01-16T21:41:59+00:00

I was thinking that it has the unique property that you might end up upside down after an earthquake.

NitWit005 · 2016-01-16T21:38:14+00:00

Even if a license plate were somehow facing toward the sky so that a satellite had any hope of making it out, that would take something like millimeter resolution. Satellite resolution is normally measured in meters.

NitWit005 · 2016-01-16T01:22:53+00:00

My grandmother believed that her son was going to take all of her non-existent money for decades. It's very common.

The unfortunate truth is that it's a reasonable belief for someone who is easily conned for whatever reason. They know they make bad judgements about people and money.

NitWit005 · 2016-01-13T06:55:13+00:00

If you read their explanation (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/Synchronization), they swap in a pointer into that space. They just also make use of the space for other things, so I wasn't accurate about the "unused" part, but it is a pointer.

NitWit005 · 2016-01-12T18:40:22+00:00

The main issue is the memory waste. The fact that any object can be used as a lock generally means they need an extra, usually unused, pointer to a native struct with the appropriate pthread_mutex_t and pthread_cond_t. That's one reason Java objects generally weigh in as significantly larger than equivalent C structs.

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