Deebster

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[–] Deebster 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's enough words there - I read it as "when this widely-used client added feature x"...

[–] Deebster 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Attacking and undermining inconvenient legal institutions, straight out of the fascist playbook.

[–] Deebster 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why, who's Joseph M Basile?

[–] Deebster 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can imagine the delivery trucks being held up by locals wanting their water back. The trouble is, the people who work at the plant are the locals - as the article makes clear, some welcome Nestle et al because they want the jobs.

[–] Deebster 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's irrational, which just appears random (which is why I said pseudorandom).

[–] Deebster 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I don't see why not, it's just numbers, which is all we store most data as.

You could use it as a source of pseudorandom numbers to encrypt an infinite data steam, e.g. we'll encrypt using e, starting at position 40468.

[–] Deebster 7 points 8 months ago

It's the modern answer to office toys.

[–] Deebster 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I love the BBC, but their science reporting is awful.

[–] Deebster 5 points 8 months ago

I laughed at that too - they knew what they were doing, right?

[–] Deebster 13 points 8 months ago

I watched and enjoyed that one yesterday, and he's bang on the money. People here are saying "well it's EoL" but that means it's got all the way through development and its full lifetime with such a prominent set of bugs.

I don't think I'll be buying D-Link if that's what supported means.

[–] Deebster 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And this is me, doing exactly that!

edit: turns out it's not down, just that my search term seems cursed

[–] Deebster 1 points 8 months ago
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