Grishnakh

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by Grishnakh 10y ago
You don't drink wine for the alcohol, you drink it for the flavor. It's just like tea; no one drinks a nice cup of Earl Grey with Bourgamot for the caffeine. If you want to get liquored up, there's far cheaper and more effi
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Years ago, I had a relative who was running a restaurant, and she did a wine-tasting for the staff to educate them on wines and pairings, and I got to sit in on it. It wasn't a blind taste-test, but they opened a bunch of bottles of w
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Yep, it's insulting in just the same way it's insulting that people now program computers with high-level languages like C++, Java, Erlang, Python, Lua, etc., instead of using patch cables or punch cards. Or in the same way that
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>it's just that a giant space station is even more pointless. Sorry, but this comment is just plain ignorant. Would you also call the Apollo missions pointless? Building a giant space station would give us a permanent and signific
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Antarctica is NOT more habitable. It's really cold there, so you have to use a lot of energy to keep it warm. Space-based habitats don't have that problem, because there's no convective cooling like there is in Antarctica.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>I'm not sure if there's any proof that we could create artificial gravity such that these decreased loads wouldn't still occur. Acceleration is acceleration. Your body doesn't care whether it's coming from a bi
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
It seems to me we should be putting more effort into building very large space-based habitats. With a large space station, it can generate 1g artificial gravity simply by rotating (which is much better than Mars with only 1/3g), you d
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
No, because as he stated before, the thing is going to hit the Earth in 10 years. If you wait around for 10 years, it's already too late. A 300-mile-wide asteroid is huge, that's the size of a dwarf planet. At the last minute,
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>Regarding drivers, they are probably present as linux kernel modules in original phone firmware. Cannot they be reused in a custom open firmware? Generally not. Linux kernel modules generally can't be loaded by kernels with differ
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
That's weird; Android works pretty well for me these days. I have lots of problems with sluggishness, freezing, rebooting, etc. on my old HTC phone which had Gingerbread (I think), an ancient version of Android. But on my Galaxy S4 an
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Well maybe if internet ads were regulated like that, we wouldn't have this war over them the way we do now. Regulation like that likely would have prevented many of the abuses that drove people to invent ad-blockers, and so many peopl
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I've never seen an art gallery that required you to pay for entry. I have seen museums, however, that require a paid ticket to see their artwork. You're not going to sell a lot of wares of any kind if you require potential custo
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>No they are not. They are willing to serve you pages with ads. Not pages without ads. This is an out-and-out lie. They are willing to serve me pages without ads, because they do it every time I browse there with an ad-blocker. I mak
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
KDE's changed its look, but more importantly, it's not set in stone: it's entirely possible to change its settings and theme. It's the most configurable DE out there. I really wonder sometimes why distros don't use
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
It's probably all legacy stuff. The avionics stuff I worked on was all C++. I got to see some Ada code, but it was all ancient legacy systems that hadn't been replaced yet. I seriously doubt anyone is starting any new projects
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
No it's not. I have far more problems with my Win7 and Win10 systems at work than I do with my Linux system at home.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
A typical Windows user is going to have no clue what to do if they have a serious OS issue too.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
That's the exact same complaint I have about Windows.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
That's incorrect. Commercial avionics are written in C++ these days. Automotive systems are in C or C++. Ada never got any real use outside the US military, and even there it's dead.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>I'd happily pay $100/y (year being, new versions/etc) for a stable and awesome UI/UX. Good luck with that. The problem is that no one will make a UI/UX that's both awesome and stable. It's not like t
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>I don't think the Windows OS team is dumb by any stretch. I do think they might have been hampered by NIH syndrome I think NIH qualifies as a form of stupidity.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Huh? Annoying to maintain? Leather is really easy to maintain: you just wipe it off with a damp cloth! It does help to use some leather cleaner and conditioner on it a couple times a year. But leather seats are easy to keep looking new
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
You can reproduce at 80, but sperm quality goes down with age, so there's a higher rate of birth defects. The other problem is finding a willing female. I don't know about you, but I would not expect to find a 25-30 year old woma
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I hate open-plan offices with a passion. Especially when I get stuck on a high-traffic corridor. Strangely, though, I do like spending time in coffee shops. Maybe companies should just do away with offices altogether (walled, cubicles, and
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
There's plenty of women who prefer "older" guys, but that means something like 5 years older, and no more than 10. The extra maturity is attractive to the woman, and women seem to become emotionally mature faster than men. B
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>Similarly I have met divorced men who opt for brothels in place of pursuing other relationships. This is probably exactly why brothels are highly illegal in most places. Can't have people disrupting the social order...
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I agree completely, however there are practical problems to being polyamorous, namely in finding partners. This is a common complaint if you read poly discussion forums: couples decide to open their relationship, and pretty soon the woman
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
You need to ask your wife for an open marriage. Monogamous relationships are morally wrong IMO.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Not only that, there's a bunch of Republican politicians who still refuse to admit they're gay, including that "wide stance" Craig guy who was caught in the airport bathroom.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
That's not true in Massachusetts. There, Tesla does provide access to repair information, at an exorbitant price, because Massachusetts has a "right to repair" law on the books that requires automakers to make repair informa

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