HeXetic

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by HeXetic 7y ago
My understanding of the rare earths issue is that the reason China controls that much of the production is because all the extraction & production elsewhere shut down due to an inability to compete with China's prices. You basicall
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by HeXetic 8y ago
... Why on earth are the article's images hosted on a .xxx website? Is this specifically designed to trigger blockers and corporate proxies?
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by HeXetic 11y ago
But, to be fair, that's not the same quote. jwz was paraphrasing Tilbrook on awk, but the new utterance about regular expressions was his own.
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by HeXetic 11y ago
Your reference link literally says that Jamie Zawinski is the originator of the quote.
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by HeXetic 11y ago
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. - Jamie Zawinski
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by HeXetic 11y ago
> What happens when it adjust backwards in time. NTP deliberately makes only very tiny changes gradually when adjusting clock time backwards. Automatic updates also normally abort if the time difference would be more than 1000s (~16m). T
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by HeXetic 11y ago
> The people who would drop $1500 ... on a first-gen thing are more likely to be the early-adopter types who are less interested in a Windows-only device. I feel pretty confident in saying that the people who spend big bucks on computer
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by HeXetic 11y ago
> Different stoves, different water starting temperature, different pots..these these will all affect how quickly you can cook the eggs. No matter what model of stove or pot or starting temperature you have, water boils at 100C* . If the
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by HeXetic 11y ago
People are commenting that this is a great flowchart, and I'd agree that it has some great information, but... what kind of awful flow chart has multiple outputs with the SAME value from them? I mean, really, do No Fifth Amendment
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by HeXetic 11y ago
> It's a podcast Could've fooled me. Completely obscure to a first-time visitor to the site.
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by HeXetic 11y ago
This is neat but kinda useless without some written analysis. I am not a crypto expert so the graphs mean little to me.
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by HeXetic 11y ago
Kind of interesting premise but the article doesn't really take it anywhere. "Food used to spoil in refrigerated containers but now it doesn't because of science." OK, but there's almost no elaboration about what wa
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by HeXetic 11y ago
Am I the only one who finds this style of usually-just-one-sentence-per-paragraph almost completely unreadable on a visual level?
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by HeXetic 11y ago
Is there anyone unhappy with the F-35 program who does have a fiscal/political stake in it?
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by HeXetic 12y ago
The "Mario" character is copyrighted.
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by HeXetic 12y ago
> combined printer and scanners are a bad idea So, photocopiers are a bad idea? Because that's what that is.
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by HeXetic 12y ago
It would be nice if the link was to the top of the page, or the start of the Readme, instead of to #installation. A bit presumptuous there.
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by HeXetic 12y ago
It's concerning that so few cities are left in the 2022 games bidding process, but this article seems to ignore that there are still plenty of interested bidders for the 2024 summer and 2026 winter games. While the author's conclu
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by HeXetic 12y ago
If they're assigning each domicile its own effective GUID as a post code, this should certainly make delivery unambiguous, but the headache of filling in online order forms would remain, as rural houses would still have no street names
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by HeXetic 12y ago
He's referring to the accusation that Uber employees are deliberately ordering and then, shortly afterwards, cancelling rides with competitors' services in order to screw with the dispatch system and waste the drivers' time.
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by HeXetic 12y ago
> immortal practices Heh.
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by HeXetic 12y ago
As a Doom 3 modder myself, I experienced considerable headaches juggling the interplay between scripts and code, especially since so much stuff (like firing a gun or moving around) spanned the two systems so inelegantly.
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by HeXetic 12y ago
It's important to note that what is being talked about in this post is not, "why we wrote the Unreal engine in C++", because it already was in C++. Many games, older Unreals included, had a separation between "code&quo
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by HeXetic 13y ago
I have Skype on my phone and the log is filled with that app logging in all the time (looks like every 10 minutes!), which makes this kinda useless. It would be nice if the UI had a way to trim that list down somehow. e.g., group by country
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by HeXetic 13y ago
But the intended public wasn't French in this case? The guy is an English-language blogger.
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by HeXetic 13y ago
I don't understand how this court system can be so silly as to fail to recognize that it has no jurisdiction over someone. Isn't the question of jurisdiction one of the first steps in any court case?
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by HeXetic 13y ago
Can't you link to those numbers?
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by HeXetic 13y ago
> making it ideally suited for video creation services, 3D visualizations, streaming graphics-intensive applications ... And, presumably, cracking hashes!
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by HeXetic 13y ago
Kinda ridiculous that the titles of each gag post are getting trimmed off, but the full-text isn't.
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by HeXetic 13y ago
I see everything OK with NoScript enabled and blocking everything except google.com, googleapis.com, and blogger.com.

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