Curmudgel

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by Curmudgel 12y ago
I was thinking that in the hypothetical scenario an F-16 would intercept the Concorde head on. I don't think that a Concorde had the right kind of radar to detect a BVR missile launch so it would not be able to turn and outrun the miss
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
A Concorde could not outrun an F-15, which has a maximum speed of more than Mach 2.5 at the cruising altitude of a Concorde. And an F-16 would only need to get close to a Concorde in order to shoot it down with missiles.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> People have taken to down voting things that they don't agree with, it's sad because it stops debate and contrary opinions. Downvoting to express disagreement was explicitly sanctioned by pg back in February 2008. https:&#x2
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
No. Preska is a Bush appointee.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
You should say "smart phones" instead of "mobile phones". The Nokia 3210, which came out in 1999 and was bought 160 million times, has similar dimensions (same height and smaller width) to the iPhone5, and although it is
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> GC'd languages haven't proven themselves useful for things like OSs, What about Lisp Machines?
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
For what it's worth, I also know several lawyers that were unhappy when they were eventually forced to switch from WP to Microsoft Word.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20120217011347/http://danweinreb....
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> the font is incredibly difficult to read. "Fonts" are computer code. Typefaces are what you see, unless you're editing the font that will set the type on your screen.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Really? Do you know of any research that shows this?
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Try changing the values of dom.max_script_run_time and dom.max_chrome_script_run_time in about:config to lower values so that unresponsive scripts can be killed faster.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Flat became popular in the '60s — the 1860s, that is, when Japanese art became available in Europe. It became popular again in the twentieth century in the 1940s, but for somewhat different reasons.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Off topic, but #999 on #FFF (author title and background color, respectively) fails the WAG guidelines for color contrast.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
You'll probably like Lambda The Ultimate. It's a Programming Languages weblog with discussions and forums, but their traffic and updates are miniscule in comparison to news.ycombinator. If you're a busy PhD student, that&#x27
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Efficiency really depends upon the keyboard you're using. If you use a keyboard with thumb clusters, the control and meta keys are under your thumbs and you don't need to twist your pinkies at all.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
I know a few people (not celebrities, but very wealthy) that lost money by investing with Madoff, and one person that got out early and actually made money. Madoff was jailed because he was clearly responsible for what was precedent had det
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
The funny thing is that in Modern Greek the letter μ is pronounced "me", so the name of the software could be pronounced "meTorrent". Spelling it with a u makes the name of the software sound like "youTorrent".
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
The fact that nitric acid is a strong, very corrosive acid (pKₐ of about -1.3) is not exactly esoteric; a high school student taking A.P Chemistry understands that. The story about nitric acid reminds me of my favorite quote by Ira Remsen a
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that the Star was the first commercial computer that offered multiple fonts. I picked the Star because it came before the Macintosh there were good pictures of it available. I believe that the Alto also had a f
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Can you tell the difference between a Samsung Galaxy S5 and and iPhone 5? If yes, then why isn't the Galaxy series a distinct work with its own sensibility and personality?
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> Well Steve Jobs introduced fonts to computer. What? First of all, I think that you're confusing typefaces and fonts. A computer font is computer code that describes how the size and shape, orientation, etc. of a collection of gly
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Apple already has different model identifiers and different model names for their MacBook Pros. That's because they don't sell only one version of each laptop; they usually offer two or three versions that have different processor
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
The problem is that consumers could not know whether they were buying a defective product or not, even if they knew about the problem. Two different products were sold without any means of differentiating them, which is inexcusable. It woul
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
It's not sarcasm. A class action lawsuit was filed in March 2013. It seems that LG screens on a certain model(s?) of a 15.6 inch Retina MacBook Pro suffer from burn in, and that there is no way for a consumer to tell whether the screen
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
'Factoid' was coined by Norman Mailer to mean something that appears to be true but really isn't. If this really works, then it isn't a factoid.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> It's quite disturbing to see this language in a guide that is all about grammar, writing, and the importance of being well-understood. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White is hated by grammarians for the same reason.
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> overly patriotic horn tooting The word you are looking for is "chauvinist".
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
QuickJava is a Firefox extension that lets you toggle Java, Javascript, Cookies, Image Animations, Flash, Silverlight, Images, Stylesheets and Proxy with individual buttons in your toolbar or addon bar. https://addons.mozilla.org
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
Usually when "supporting a company's values" is given as the primary explanation for choosing one product over another it implies that the customer does not gain or is in fact sacrificing some direct benefit because of a fact
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
You don't know anyone that uses Firefox for its wider selection of extensions, more customizable UI, and better privacy (separate search bar and URL bar) features?

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