Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
Not according to dictionary.com: "Astro- a combining form with the meaning “pertaining to stars or celestial bodies, or to activities, as spaceflight, taking place outside the earth's atmosphere,” used in the formation of compound
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by Hondor 10y ago
Astronaut is the original English word. Cosmonaut is a transliteration from the Russian word for astronaut. So if we're speaking English, we should use astronaut regardless of the country they're from. Otherwise we're forced
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by Hondor 10y ago
Only with the user's full cooperation. Video games cause motion sickness in some people too, but we don't worry about malware showing us moving images. You'd just take the headset off, close your eyes or let go of the haptic
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by Hondor 10y ago
Those things are usually included in the installer, or at least downloaded on the fly so you don't notice. So it's still self-contained from the user's point of view. Yes, sometimes they're installed globally like Direct
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by Hondor 10y ago
I never quite understood containers and this article makes them seem kind of similar to what OSs already do. How is a container different from just installing all the dependencies along with an application? Coming from a Windows background,
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by Hondor 10y ago
Kind of fitting but I wonder if last few lines will turn out to fit too: "The President say ... isn't it a shame what the river has done to this poor cracker's land."
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by Hondor 10y ago
Not having to copy big arrays when calling unmanaged C dlls from .Net will be great for performance. I wonder if this is going to open up new security holes though.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Taiwan doesn't count as China. It's like saying South Korea is part of North Korea.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Disappointing that it's only HK, not mainland China. Nobody's going to notice the difference. From the headline, it sounded like FB and Google we getting some kind of toe in the door, but their cable is going to be useless to the
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by Hondor 10y ago
What a surprising problem. If the boss mistakenly accuses you of watching porn - why not explain why they're wrong and show them the site? If they won't accept that, then it means you're in danger with any web surfing you do
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by Hondor 10y ago
Why are you modifying things in Program Files? Are you using very old software that expects the user to modify that?
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by Hondor 10y ago
They're interlinked. I've found that when I make more sales on my project, I'm motivated to do more work. Then when there's a lull, I think "I need to give up and start a new project". Money's a powerful m
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by Hondor 10y ago
Fix it? Are there artificial reasons for food prices to mainly go to distributors or are they just the most expensive part? It wouldn't make sense to distort the market to enrich farmers and encourage inefficient ways of growing. When
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by Hondor 10y ago
When the next comet strikes, solar powered desert farms will be wrecked just as much as everywhere else on Earth.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Renewable green energy before it was cool.
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by Hondor 10y ago
I think we invented that definition to exclude machines. So if we make machines that do all those things, we'll probably just add more requirements to help us tell them apart. We might be more concerned with the distinction between nat
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by Hondor 10y ago
I had no idea the border cuts right through a suburb like that https://www.google.nl/maps/@49.0021485,-122.7413957,3a,46.4y... Kids could lose a ball in the bushes and become illegal aliens running to pick it up.
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by Hondor 10y ago
"has to do with" usually means "undocumented hacks". Perhaps MS could have done more to discourage or even break these kinds of apps early rather than letting them linger and become popular.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Good news about signing. I suppose the store itself somehow signs things? Code signing certificates are prohibitively expensive for small developers at around $500.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Thanks for the link but I still don't understand the significance of this post. It seems to be a complaint about somebody else's complaint. Isn't that fairly common in open source software?
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by Hondor 10y ago
Sounding sickly and unpracticed might be a problem in a high school speech contest but here he still gave an engaging talk that clearly a lot of people enjoyed listening to. So it wasn't bad. Just an unconventional style. Try listening
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by Hondor 10y ago
Just about all human effort is directed towards things which aren't curing disease and downloading our brains to a computer. So it's not SpaceX to complain about. It's the corner store and the hairdresser down the road. Colle
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by Hondor 10y ago
What on earth is that graph showing? 2% of households make $150k, and another 2% make $151k, and another 2% make $150.01k, etc. It makes no sense at all. I think they meant to use a bar graph or histogram, and perhaps those circles are the
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by Hondor 10y ago
A great example of the complaint writing process of beginning and ending with a compliment and sandwiching the criticism in the middle. Allowing him to get away with "Your mental existence is obsessed by a monstrous system of contradic
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by Hondor 10y ago
For laptops with removable batteries, you can buy aftermarket extra-sized batteries. They double as a stand which helps with your screen height problem too.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Being born in Aug 1973, he started university at 16 and did the Mathematica code analysis and extraction tool at 19. I expected to see an extreme prodigy but that's still a fast start and he only got faster.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Weak groups need to step on the heads of even weaker groups to gain influence. If anti-FBI-overreach activists appear to be aligned with pedophiles, that'll weaken the cause of the activists. Instead they should appear align themselves
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by Hondor 10y ago
It looks exactly the same but with a different logo. However the speaker in the video does seem to have the system76 (Bonobo) logo on his Clevo: http://www.gentechpc.com/Sager-NP9873-S-Clevo-P870DM3-G-nVid... Bonobo: https
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by Hondor 10y ago
A threat, insider trading information, transfer of copyright material by modem, planning to commit a crime, harassing someone, instructing someone to commit a crime. There are so many ways to break the law by saying the wrong thing. Speech
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by Hondor 10y ago
We're already partly there. Infant mortality is way down, allowing weak babies to live on to reproduce. Antibiotics and immunization of course. A lot of the good things we do for individuals are probably bad for our species because the

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