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57,650karma·19,241submissions·June 16, 2015
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Trying to figure out what to burn my $120 credit on.
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Seriously what are all those doo dads attached to the rifle? Doubt she knows. What stuck out to me was the hair. Long hair should be worn neatly pinned above the lower edge of the collar when in b…
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That's already been a thing in all the Redhat variants. RPM/DNF have checksums of the installed binaries and there is GPG signing of packages and repositories. The only part of that ecosys…
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View the headers and use regex (if your mail provides that level of details in rules) to block the the PTR records and reverse DNS from sending to you. If not then block emails based on keywords in…
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Something which causes a whole continent to lose electricity for a year needs to be a catastrophe of epic proportions, it’s not a mere emergency. Call it what you want. It's a change in lifest…
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Food: If you can afford it freeze dried foods last 25+ years (much longer if stored right). They maintain 97+% of their flavor and nutritional value. They can also be bartered with neighbors. Dehy…
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No offence meant, but this sounds like those doomsday prepper fantasies where they store chainsaws and crossbows in the garage because they think they’d thrive in a zombie apocalypse. I think that&#…
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You can post images using Markdown but the images themselves have to be hosted elsewhere. Ah I see. That's easy enough, though I have found people nowadays find that to be too much friction. …
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That looks really cool. What's the biggest memory usage one of the instances has ever climbed to? Is it first-in, first-out when the memory limit is reached? I assume if people are uploading…
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How can regular developers create cryptographic algorithms if nobody really knows how quantum cryptography or even quantum computers work, assuming these computers even exist? How does one test thei…
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How do you handle it? Just move onto the next customers and prospects, it's out of your hands. I'm not losing sleep over this stuff Perfect. It's on the people in those countries t…
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I think NoHello [1] is one such example of speech optimization that may rule out some small talk. As for being rude everyone can be offended by something some people long for it so I stopped concer…
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That's a nice start. Next thing I know he might give me a toilet that can flush one of my infamous Falcon Heavy's.
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I would expect the weaknesses to be in the exchanges. Load 'em up with pretend money from many mule accounts, convert to fiat, drain 'em down. 1920's bucket shops all over again but d…
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I think you are right.
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My theory is they are counting on sting operations to be quite a PITA to set up. They cost money whereas writing tickets all day brings in money. It would probably take a pirate targeting the home o…
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