3chelon

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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   The actual city centres buck the trend, as you point out, by attracting young, mobile, educated, affluent people who are more likely to be open minded and engage easily with people from other backgrounds. But get out of the cities in the no
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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   I suppose having grown up with 24-hour digital clocks since they first appeared in the 1970s, and most of the clocks around the house and on various devices being 24-hour digital, and using public transport which operates in 24-hour time, t
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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   Thanks for the list! The Massive Attack album is one I already love, so I'll check out the others.
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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   I swim a mile. I've been doing it for about 15 years so it's automatic and almost meditative, plus a full-body workout. Surprising how much head work I can do in that half hour. I also paint, but you can probably insert any totall
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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   See, I would get distracted if it did have that extraneous comma!
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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   You're probably right about urban prisons. I always think of them as remote but there are plenty in places with very high signal strengths, which would create problems. Low-power pico-cells inside the prison walls could presumably be c
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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   Thanks, I'll check out that Spotify channel.
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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   Maybe the author's name has some weighting around these parts? ;)
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   by 3chelon 10y ago

   The richest company in the history of the world could hardly be called a joke, unless you were joking of course. I for one am concerned about their current trajectory, but their R&D budget is $25m per day so I don't think they ca
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    I think I read a later article by Paul Graham advocating thin client netbooks (aka Chromebooks et al).
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Could conceivably have been a temporary test network, run by a Chinese mobile manufacturer. Typically they'd be doing on-location testing of their hardware. I used to do a lot of this kind of work with Chinese and Korean companies and
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    I always wondered why these things weren't used in prisons. Maybe they are? Here in the UK there is a massive problem with smuggled phones in prisons, and since by definition their use is illegal in that environment then surely it&#x27
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Yes, I find the sub-genres hard to describe. Future Sound of London. Burial. Four Tet. Boards of Canada. Some DJ Shadow. Suggestions welcome, actually, it's all a newish field for me...
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Certainly MBV is one of my favourites in that genre, yes. Slowdive, Lush, Mazzy Star... that kind of thing is my "night programming" playlist.
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Thanks for the info. Sounds like I might have some level of ADHD based on those symptoms, esp. the squirming, which I've never been able to explain before!
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Rammstein makes sense. I suppose my preference for the loud stuff at night comes down to stimulation and energy levels. Never actually thought of it in that way until now, thanks.
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Does anyone know of any actual conclusive studies in this area? Like most here, I have my own rules and preferences. The main rule seems to be it must be familiar, in fact it's best if I've heard it a thousand times already. But t
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    It astounds me the number of so-called quality news outlets that seem happy use these providers. Do they even know what kind of NSFW trash is appearing on their readers' browsers?
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    My neighbour came to me last week to ask for help. Exactly that had happened to him, from of all things a Facebook ad. It was a simple matter of killing the browser, but it had put up a phone number for "support" that he had alrea
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Sadly, the lessons learned in legacy systems do not necessarily address the problems we have now. Older systems were typically combating noise, signal degradation, power consumption, processor speeds, poor user interface technology, etc. Of
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    I read somewhere recently that the exact same thing happened when Ballmer inherited Microsoft. As others have intimated, profits != future growth. The new owner can be very good at making money but will not tend to take risks, and there&#x2
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Almost as soon as I heard the sad news about Steve Jobs I feared this would happen. It also coincides with the 15-year cycle that seems to happen in tech and certain financial markets. Let's face it, Apple can't be top dog forever
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    And vi too - works just fine, but you have a valid point about muscle memory, which is pretty much the only kind of memory many of us have left when it comes to vi-like editors, since the key sequences disappeared from our brains decades ag
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Awwwwww man!! You just brought back such green-CRT-tinted memories there...
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Sure, the actual vehicle systems had better work and be properly authenticated, and that could be achieved in numerous ways... but none of this stops a hacker war-driving with a laptop, or sitting on an overhead bridge, or on the other side
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    I agree, that is probably going to be one of the most difficult problems to solve. However, as we dive headlong into self-driving tech, we are going to have to find an answer since the tech will be so much easier to implement if the vehic
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    What can I say? I'm an idealist :)
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    Crumple zones assume a nice, controlled, head-on crunch. Not so useful against getting whacked in the side by a truck. But then, probably not much is.
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    This is all fascinating stuff, thanks. Of course, in the future when all cars are connected (even if they're not self-driving), combining all this sensor data and sending it to the vehicles behind you would save countless lives. The n
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    by 3chelon 10y ago

    They killed the Mac Mini when they stopped making it upgradeable. They can kind of get away with that with the Macbooks because of the form factor, but there's no excuse with a Mini. I'm hanging on to my late 2012 model. Specced o