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by Adaptive 14y ago
Upvote. Singapore would probably drive me mad eventually, but there really is nothing like flying into that airport. My wife and I regularly argue whether SIN or HKG is superior. Our conversation on entering the arrival hall is always the s
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Drop an amp meter between the ground cable and your battery's negative terminal (after disconnecting that connection, of course), and you'll probably see and existing, full time current draw (while the vehicle is off and parked) in any mode
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I specifically meant carbon credits. E.g. price of, for example, wood burning stoves could build in a fee/tax charged to manufacturers or importers given the nature of the product. It's not just the air pollution, it's also cutting down tre
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Chrome syncs history for me, but I could not tell you if this is strictly Chrome or the Google Account web history (which can be managed separately from Chrome). Also: Google Now settings come into play here. It is all starting to feel a bi
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by Adaptive 14y ago
(Biggest orig HHGG / Tom Baker era Dr. Who fan ever, here.) Looking back, those effects were bad (like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uynMCvdkp0M#t=2m10s ), but I'll agree with you on this: back then, I never cared or noticed; the wh
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Maybe not ban, nor would we want to, but carbon credits could come into play and impact selection of home heating options, for example.
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Refusing to "believe" that fireplaces is bad is simply indulgent and intellectually lazy. I grew up felling trees, cutting wood and burning it all winter long. Yet my fellow bleeding heart environmentalist friends and I have no trouble iden
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by Adaptive 14y ago
For those that remember the original tv series (based on the books, of course, which were in fact originally a radio play), you will remember the shockingly bad special effects (themselves outdone only by Tom Baker era Dr. Who effects in te
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by Adaptive 14y ago
An agency colleague and I did volunteer design and marketing work for a Hong Kong food bank (St. James). At the time it was one of the few food banks in HK (I don't know if this has changed or not, but I'd be surprised if it has). Part of o
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Yes this. The HK govt is appalling in its disregard of the poverty line. (>6yrs in HK, and I'm no SG fanboy, but it is SO far beyond HK in this, there is just no comparison)
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Sadly, the US legal system does not reward heartfelt, honest statements, particularly in these situations. Which is why fine print almost always makes even the nicest company sound like a jerk.
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by Adaptive 14y ago
systemd encompasses process monitoring functionality by design, which is a strength imho, though it is subject to the "all your eggs in one basket" criticism.
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by Adaptive 14y ago
This is a perfect example of Google's absolute failure at marketing docs/apps. If this had been rolled out as a feature in Apple Pages, we'd have seen it demonstrated on stage, even if only for a moment, and given an easy to remember name
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by Adaptive 14y ago
"Privacy" is not the problem set I'd pick to compete on in this space unless you are going full crypto like Silent Circle. Instead, I'd focus on GV's actual weak points (instead of some invasion of privacy suggestion which ends up sounding
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by Adaptive 14y ago
“We understand technology and we understand education” stands out as just one of many hilarious claims in this article. What News Corp. understands is the perversity of the American public school system. They understand how to market to a s
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Above a certain level in almost any large organization (and, unsurprisingly, many small ones) company structures are are optimized for highly political corporate sociopaths. Thus, the op question could be rephrased as "why do companies hire
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I concur. I use both Arch and Ubuntu in various contexts and the Arch resources are a vastly better experience. Not just the wiki and bbs but also (significantly) the AUR which is a superior experience to the rats nest of PPAs.
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Aggressive, negative advertising is the violence of the marketing world, and as Asimov said "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." I don't have any problem with aggressive advertising if it's done well, creatively, thoughtfully,
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I received this same mail earlier. Very glad that I have a policy of strong random passwords for each site. Not affiliated with them other than being a user, but I recommend Lastpass + Yubikey for two factor (you can Google Auth as well wit
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Anecdotal, but the IPMI software I have to use regularly for access to a specific server is, without doubt, the worst server utility I've ever used. I love having the BMC there, but you are really at the mercy of vendors to update their IPM
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by Adaptive 14y ago
It's not hip indie music and bright colors that make products seem appealing in an ad. Ads succeed when they allow the most appealing parts of a product be revealed simply and cleverly. Microsoft has always failed on this single issue when
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I have an x220 with both touchscreen and pen running Arch/xmonad. I almost never use the touch capabilities, though I use the pen a fair amount for screen annotation and photoshop. I like pens but if you are a serious developer on a laptop
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by Adaptive 14y ago
No, it is insane. Gruber positions himself as a voice of Apple/Design authority and is in a position to do so. For him to make the claims he does and title this article as it is, and then ignore the actual design trends is ridiculous. Anoth
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Over a decade ago I redesigned the website / web UI of a major global bank. Pure flat, pure css, very forward thinking if I say so myself. After months of work, and weeks final revisions and testing, days before going live, the client came
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by Adaptive 14y ago
If you are just doing basic monochrome text, no images, you can probably ignore 99% of this stuff. But any moderately complex document needs to be preflighted to make sure that it gets printed the way you intend. cf http://help.adobe.com/e
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Those with xscreensaver installed can use something along the lines of: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/deco -mondrian Temper your expectations by the `man deco` intro that suggests it draws "tacky 70s basement wall panelling".
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Actually it's not the proof marks that lead me to assume InDesign. It's the Adobe-Offset-Printing-Industrial-Complex. Most professional, high volume offset printers can take any old PDF you throw at them and whip it into shape for their own
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I'd assume InDesign. (edit) I'd love to be wrong about this and discover that it was produced with Open Source software, but given that this is clearly print-ready, I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Once you start interfacing with the actual h
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by Adaptive 14y ago
You can always blacklist a package (such as linux) in /etc/pacman.conf to avoid upgrading it during pacman -Syu, for example. I had to do this during a power regression in the kernel. However this isn't a long term arch strategy. Note also
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by Adaptive 14y ago
The pfSense project http://pfsense.org/ which I use in my own router - https://medium.com/look-what-i-made/84152c1476d0 ) uses FreeBSD for the stable and robust packet filtering option provided by BSD's pfctl. I've been under the impres

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