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rev_null

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    Comment #34818961

    I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try…

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    Comment #24553838

    Honestly, I was just looking to learn Rust and this seemed like a reasonable project for it. It's small enough that I could conceivably rewrite it in a couple of months and the sta…

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    Comment #24550134

    It's a music live-coding environment that is part of the befunge family of (obfuscated) languages.

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    Comment #24549847

    Creator here. I just updated the README and name for this project since it is the legacy implementation. I started the new implementation in Rust earlier this year. If you're inter…

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    Comment #21906373

    If you divide the total revenue by the number of HR employees, you will also get a much larger number. (Total revenue / total number of employees) will always be less than (total r…

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    Comment #21815479

    If you don't pay and they expose your data to the world, doesn't that mean you can effectively get it back without paying?

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    Comment #20142149

    Zuckerberg never had to interview at Facebook.

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    Comment #19574776

    How is gold created out of the collision of stars composed of neutrons?

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    Comment #19256414

    If you're having trouble getting etsi.org to load, try using their static key for diffie-hellman: 0x00000000.

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    Comment #19144005

    Biosphere 2 was meant as a self-sustaining ecosystem capable of supporting human life. It wasn't entirely successful, but was along the lines of what you described. https://en.wiki…

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    Comment #17576812

    I don't believe it is accurate to say that nothing happened in the Sony case. They were sued by state governments, the FTC, and faced class action lawsuits. They also incurred the …

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    Comment #16755765

    I think it's also worth noting that the US does have laws against slander and libel. I feel like this article missed that the "right to be forgotten" is meant to cover speech that …

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    Comment #16321476

    I'd suggest going to Philly to taste the water ice, but from what I understand it was recently sacked.

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    Comment #16249672

    I actually have a musical project I call Intercal which is based on the idea of obfuscating well known musical works algorithmically. It generally takes a lot of attempts to find s…

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    Comment #16246780

    This is a major plot element of the 2013 film "The Congress". I highly recommend it.

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    Comment #16156196

    What if it was an accidental poisoning? Maybe the embassy got a shipment of bad rum. Methanol poisoning would explain the white matter damage and disorientation.

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    Comment #16095120

    Inedible Plantains Version 6?

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    Comment #16077891

    Yarr. In me day, "piracy" didn't involve computers and had actual pirates, Matey.

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    Comment #16077723

    Do they really need 100 formats? 1. Video ad that autoplays. 2. Punch the monkey. 3. ???

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    Comment #16022515

    I once saw a person smuggle in a small bag of microwave popcorn in his hat. Except he had overcooked it and it smelled terrible.

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    Comment #16005150

    I'd buy into that Initial Crab Offering.

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    Comment #16000174

    And my first thought was of pipe organs.

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    Comment #15939985

    My grandfather started playing piano at the age of four. He taught music as an adult. In the last years of his Alzheimer's, he didn't know who I was and could barely remember conve…

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    Comment #15930419

    Net Neutrality repeal was very popular among deceased Americans.

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    Comment #15853976

    Wasn't Pai appointed by Trump instead of by election? Didn't most of the voting Americans vote against Trump? It seems like a better approach to US politics is to be rich.