JackCh

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by JackCh 8y ago
That's not a terribly uncommon position, not everyone wants to live forever. Arguably it's a healthy attitude to take, since death will come for you eventually whether or not you make peace with that inevitability.
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by JackCh 8y ago
It really depends on what sort of organization you're dealing with. My credit union has always been a pleasure to deal with because their phone people are all hired and trained locally. On the other hand they only take calls during b
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by JackCh 8y ago
I'd expect reading to be fine, but probably not writing. I could be wrong though, I'm just speculating.
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by JackCh 8y ago
I bet the electric company probably takes all instances of "electric pole" to be a probable emergency report, since that is probably the most frequent reason for somebody to be mentioning an electric pole and it's safer to de
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by JackCh 8y ago
As a tech oriented site we're nearly all accustomed to unix/unix-inspired general purpose CLIs. However that's not all that exists. There exist more specialized systems, such as those designed to be used over teletype machi
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by JackCh 8y ago
There is also `man -k`. -k of course is short for "apropos". It's all very logical and intuitive. (Seriously though, reading the manpage for man is where I first learned about apropos.)
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by JackCh 8y ago
I worry the human operators will hold it against me. The quality of assistance they provide may be biased by how irate and short tempered they think I am, even if I was just putting on a show for the robot.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "more and more are requiring you to interface with the system in some way, even if disabled or impaired." In a sort of sick and very selfish way, I find myself somehow glad that blind and deaf people exist and are protected
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by JackCh 8y ago
I expect that even if it works on 'naked' Windows, many antivirus systems will take a dim view of it.
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by JackCh 8y ago
A new purpose for Yucca Mountain?
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by JackCh 8y ago
Whether regulation is insufficient or excessive should be determined on a case-by-case basis. Anybody making blanket statements about all regulation as a whole is an ideologue who probably should not be taken seriously.
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by JackCh 8y ago
These cars aren't crashing into stationary objects that don't have a radar return. The software in the cars is deliberately filtering out the radar returns of stationary objects. It wouldn't matter how many radar reflectors
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by JackCh 8y ago
Tesla claims their cars have all the hardware required for full self-driving, but their cars do not have LIDAR. Every serious self-driving outfit understands LIDAR to be necessary. Tesla's marketing department would have people bel
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by JackCh 8y ago
It's good at determining whether something is moving towards it or away from it, but bad at determining where that object is; whether it's directly in front or slightly to the left or far to the left. Its "vision" in th
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by JackCh 8y ago
Is conversation not a limited form of collaboration? I've got to say, I find it really hard to take your outrage at a little mild profanity seriously if you so casually use it yourself during normal conversations. To be frank, I think
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by JackCh 8y ago
I've found that unnecessary use of cat can sometimes have a noticeable performance impact, and I suspect that on the right system with the right filesizes this could be one of those circumstances. (Obviously it doesn't matter on
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by JackCh 8y ago
Colorless is not my cup of tea, but here is one perspective I read a few years ago: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/i... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "to make it easier to spot for the human eyes," I suppose in that sense it does aim to be fast. Fast for the human to parse.
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by JackCh 8y ago
That's a fair point, but somebody without much exposure to copyright law should avoid saying inflammatory things like: > "The internet wayback machine is one of the biggest copyright thiefs in my opinion." ( https:/&
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by JackCh 8y ago
Now you're being as profane as Linus.
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by JackCh 8y ago
That doesn't stop a few 'Finnish Finns' I know from considering the man something akin to a national hero.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "I don't understand why people feel the need to go Kremlinologist on his tone." It's easier to discuss his profanity than it is to discuss a technical topic. (I'm not unaware of the irony inherent in this ve
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by JackCh 8y ago
Is this speed competitive with tools like the silver searcher (`ag`) or is the focus here on color?
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by JackCh 8y ago
>NSA isn’t stealing data from _ American _ companies and providing it to competitors That's quite the qualification, since the NSA has been accused of industrial espionage against foreign companies, including German companies. ht
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by JackCh 8y ago
Yeah, Xi turned down the offer too. Probably the most bizarre Zuckerberg story I've read yet, which is saying quite a bit. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/119106...
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by JackCh 8y ago
Mea culpa , I gave way too much benefit of the doubt here.
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by JackCh 8y ago
You're just flat out wrong dude. You've got some very bizarre believes about copyright law and I can't fathom where you got them. Whoever you learned from did you a great disservice, or if you 'taught' yourself th
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by JackCh 8y ago
You seem to be very confused. Getty pays photographers for the rights to their photographs.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "I didn't use the word "cabal". I used "conspiracy"." You didn't? > "Among them, he believes that USSOCOM is run by a secret cabal of Opus Dei Catholics"
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by JackCh 8y ago
The contention of the comment to which you originally responded was with the use of the word "prevent." If they had used a word like "disincentives" there wouldn't be an issue. I thought that was clear from that c

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