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estrabd

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    Comment #13320259

    The last game I played was Wolfenstein 3D. After that, I considered all video games a waste of time. They might satisfy some need, but one the game is over or your mom cancels your…

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    Comment #13320220

    I just want something that'll collapse 2 columns into 1.

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    Comment #13310852

    Perl, sh, awk, sed, C, Fortran. There's a freedom in not chasing down all the shiny new things.

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    Comment #13310492

    It is frighteningly effective.

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    Comment #13303812

    LOL Yeah. Sounds like bullshit to me.

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    Comment #13176831

    > If an organization is in a position to confiscate the camera from a journalist, they're almost certainly ALSO in a position to extract the encryption password from the journalist…

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    Comment #13148927

    Always a good cautionary tail.

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    Comment #13134525

    9/11 doesn't count? Sounds like "fake news."

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    Comment #13125064

    Whoa, those images kind of weirded me out.

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    Comment #13107115

    "Alert, alert you are too poor to be in here."

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    Comment #13107107

    What Would Glenda Do?

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    Comment #13024681

    You had me until I had to use pedo twitter or Fakebook. No thanks.

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    Comment #13007017

    Regardless of who you think was behind the leaks, what makes you think that the blockchain and crypto-currencies in general are not compromised somehow? Based on the BTC mania of 2…

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    Comment #12606490

    I have had a situation where I had what was I thought deja vu, only to realize that I accurately "knew" what was about to transpire for at least 1 minute after. I've had regular de…

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    Comment #12385217

    1. sell house 2. buy van 3. get someone to customize your van 4. ??? 5. profit

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    Comment #12250336

    I once went fastmail -> gmail. It's been a while, thinking about going back tbh.

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    Comment #12212091

    In the past I have always declined, no one has ever pressed it. I even have refused to define a minimum salary or salary requirement. Let them tell me what I am worth. Giving any o…

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    Comment #12182984

    I find that eBay's bread and butter is really small fry to small fry - or at best, dealers in collectibles to collectors.

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    Comment #12132330

    TIL what language Stack Overflow is written in.

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    Comment #12112843

    I heard a similar story about Polaroid having their own digital camera. Not sure about the details.

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    Comment #11918045

    You can use prove for anything that outputs TAP, not just Perl scripts.

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    Comment #11808748

    Why one would like to have an atomic operation is easier to understand. For example, one can use the atomic nature of creating a symbolic link on nix to create a lock file to preve…

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    Comment #11808620

    Always a nice reminder.

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    Comment #11769161

    ZFS doesn't have history in that way; snapshots are far too coarse. HAMMER, for example, is closer to what you want if you're going to replace git with a FS. https://www.dragonflyb…

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    Comment #11716594

    Any idea about what the political ideologies of the full 100% looks like? It's bound to be vastly different that the low percentage that turns out.