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CoastalCoder

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    Comment #49227730

    Even better. It's web-scale .

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    Comment #49220829

    For what it's worth, I think I understood your original post as you intended it. (Just mentioning this so you know the wording wasn't universally confusing.)

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    Comment #49209252

    You might want to reconsider using "gypped" in that way.

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    Comment #49209228

    (looks at Secretary of the Treasury...) "SCOOOTTTTT !!!!!!"

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    Comment #49074108

    "As of 4:47 PST / 11:47 UTC the errors " From Wikipedia: "The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing the western United States and northwestern Mexico. Places in this z…

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    Comment #49063550

    > There's a lot to criticise of every country, but we're trying. The US is not trying (*) I'd argue that it's a bit misleading to treat the US as a single entity for this topic. Th…

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    Comment #49014854

    Not sure, but I would 100% buy a copy of your family cookbook. Just imagine the titles you could use.

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    Comment #48975773

    The "stupid" question is generating a lot of interesting conversation.

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    Comment #48963859

    Yeah, I really like Slashdot's approach to both regular and meta moderation. I don't understand why it never caught on elsewhere.

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    Comment #48952166

    Honest question: If you have no evidence, then why do you believe it?

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    Comment #48913732

    It does now, apparently.

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    Comment #48871250

    One of the comments provides an archive link to the story. I was kind of able to read that on my Android phone, but something on the page made panning really janky so I gave up.

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    Comment #48847775

    Most of us who build weapons of war live with some awful dilemmas. One of them is: We want to perform our work skillfully, effectively, and professionally. But we never want our to…

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    Comment #48847720

    If you think Milspec is expensive, you should see the cost of not having a Milspec supply chain while still being risk-averse.

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    Comment #48835854

    I don't do web stuff, but I wonder if one could easily create a browser extension that hides AI-centric submissions?

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    Comment #48815873

    Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I have the urge to grab a pitchfork, but I know better than to make assumptions about why that functionality was added. Time to do some homework I g…

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    Comment #48812396

    Some of the comments here talk about the risk this poses for multi tenant vm providers. Wouldn't this also be a risk for people using VMs to sandbox untrusted code running on trust…

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    Comment #48812366

    I'm just starting to read up on capabilities-based security in Linux. Would they potentially be a solution to sudo's all-or-nothing granularity in this domain?

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    Comment #48799166

    Chuck Norris will pass his torch to Jim Keller. Jim won't have a say in the matter.

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    Comment #48794180

    I really dislike the complexity of modern C++ language specs, but does it obscure much detail about FP ops? TL;DR: A vast majority of the programmers I've worked with don't underst…

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    Comment #48784820

    I feel like I'm ignorant of some classical fable here. Is this an allusion?

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    Comment #48707270

    Any reason he couldn't try advancing it somewhere like China or India, which (I assume) are less vulnerable to that kind of interference?

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    Comment #48703345

    Sounds like we have the basics of an oscillating system now! I wonder what it's resonant frequency is.

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    Comment #48666692

    > The closest I can think of is the bronze age collapse. No idea about your question, but I'd love to hear more about this part.

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    Comment #48639124

    Ask your local unemployment benefits office if Nope™ is right for you!