KC8ZKF

39 ms·

331.
Emacsy accepted as 2013 Google Summer of Code project(google-melange.appspot.com)
2 points by KC8ZKF 13y ago|0 comments
332.
by KC8ZKF 13y ago
Texedit on Mac opens ODT, as does Wordpad on Windows.
333.
by KC8ZKF 13y ago
Perhaps Emacs could me made to produce ODF.
334.
by KC8ZKF 13y ago
Higher art has trends and such. Consider the trend for period instruments and alternative tunings in music. For example, the new Decca studio recording of Bellini's Norma . http://ceciliabartolionline.com/norma/
335.
by KC8ZKF 13y ago
"To produce the map all tweets containing each 'hate word' were aggregated to the county level and normalized by the total twitter traffic in each county ." Emphasis mine.
336.
by KC8ZKF 13y ago
Ya, hardly anybody tweaks Emacs.
337.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
You have to live as if you have free will. You can't say, "I've considered all the possibilites, and have decided that there is no free will", because considerations and decisions are acts of free will themselves. Of course, that doesn't me
338.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
My mother used to tell me that my eyes were bigger than my stomach when I took food more food than I could eat. I have the same problem with MOOCs. The future me always has more time, is always more dedicated to learning, is always more fo
339.
Androids in Amazonia: recording an endangered language(theconversation.com)
2 points by KC8ZKF 14y ago|0 comments
340.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
I got to "play" paintball in a cruiser of that fleet as part of Ship's Self-Defense Force training as a USN sailor. This was 1988 or 1989. First and last time I ever played paintball. I'll never understand why anybody would enjoy that gam
341.
Ask HN: Novels about or featuring malevolent AI?
5 points by KC8ZKF 14y ago|7 comments
342.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
When you notice that you are thinking, go back to the breath. You don't go back to the breath so that you can meditate, going back to the breath is meditating. It can happen dozens, even hundreds of times during a session. That's the p
343.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Sounds like a "Gentlemen's Club" from an Ian Fleming novel.
344.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
At least for now, this is my replacement for Google Reader. I've set up Emacs Gnus, subscribed to the half-dozen or so blogs that I care about, and now I read in the comfort Emacs.
345.
Gwene is an RSS (and Atom, etc) to Usenet News (i. e., NNTP) gateway(gwene.org)
39 points by KC8ZKF 14y ago|7 comments
346.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
"The rape of the Sabine women", to give an example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women
347.
Oscars put online voting problems back in the spotlight(blog.nj.com)
1 points by KC8ZKF 14y ago|0 comments
348.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Prohibiting alcohol would require an amendment to the constitution.
349.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
International correspondence chess allows, or at least does not forbid, using computers for analysis. Most serious players use them. http://www.iccf.com/
350.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
It has some semantic errors. "allegedly minor and non-violent electronic crime", for example.
351.
Rational Suckers(science20.com)
32 points by KC8ZKF 14y ago|15 comments
352.
Fitbit, why can’t I have my data?(simplystatistics.org)
211 points by KC8ZKF 14y ago|101 comments
353.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Actually I'm saying that even the most ardent player of these sorts of games only plays a few of them at any one time. If Farmville is capturing $n net per player, but a new game is capturing $n x 1.25 net per player, your better off killi
354.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
You are overlooking opportunity costs. All of your players could be playing a more profitable game instead.
355.
After Ten Years: the Fateful FRR(waynehale.wordpress.com)
1 points by KC8ZKF 14y ago|0 comments
356.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Nor is it equivalent to handing over the fruits of your work to armed thugs, another incredibly common conflation.
357.
NIH peer review system identifies innovative biomedical investigators(simplystatistics.org)
1 points by KC8ZKF 14y ago|0 comments
358.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Tu quoque. Perhaps Dalmatians should be allowed to go extinct.
359.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Who the fuck would wear a Cecillia Bartoli or Yo-Yo Ma t-shirt?
360.
by KC8ZKF 14y ago
I apologize. I downvoted you by mistake.

More ›