Kadin

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by Kadin 16y ago
Yeah; he needs to give some care to who he hands them out to. At smaller firms where the person doing the hiring has some sort of technical background, it would probably work. But at a big company where everything is going through HR peop
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by Kadin 16y ago
So it's passive investing with a pretty interface and a 0.9% fee. No thanks. Users would be better off just deciding how much they want to risk in stocks vs bonds, and moving it into Vanguard. The major difference is that Vanguard doesn't
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by Kadin 16y ago
It's only blocked if you use https search, not if you use http. Most users don't use https and there doesn't seem to be any evidence that Google is going to redirect http://www.google.com to https, so they seem to be doing what you sugge
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by Kadin 16y ago
It's not a "recipe" for brownies. It's a specification for a very specific food item (actually, two items: a brownie and a oatmeal cookie) which form part of an MRE, which has to be shelf-stable for a very long time. One might similarly po
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by Kadin 16y ago
I suspect they're doing all of this while on tourist visas, which may or may not be entirely kosher depending on where they're traveling. Of course, it's also extremely unlikely that they'll get caught (except, perhaps, as a result of bragg
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by Kadin 16y ago
Imagining an existing company implementing a policy like this and forcing it on its employees is pretty different from a small startup deciding on it (with the enthusiastic buy-in of the principals) and then going off and hiring people who
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by Kadin 16y ago
Yeah I don't quite get that either. Apparently Marvell thinks that there's a market that's being overlooked for systems with lots of low-power, highly-efficient cores. I guess I can see how that might work; it would be competing less with b
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by Kadin 16y ago
> Nobody thinks it would be efficient to privatize the federal highway system and turn everything into a toll road. Not sure it's safe to say that. The usual arguments against making the Interstate system toll-based are practical ones:
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by Kadin 16y ago
Were you doing the RAID using the card's drivers (BIOS softraid/fakeraid), or using regular software RAID? It seems odd that the controller would drop drives like that, but I would never trust the "RAID" features of low-end interface cards
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by Kadin 16y ago
I wondered about that also. I was a little surprised to see that he didn't (appear to) put in any sort of shock mounts or buffers between the side plates and the drives themselves. He seems to know what he's doing, though, so perhaps it wa
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by Kadin 16y ago
Assuming it's connected via GigE, it's 70% wirespeed write and 213% wirespeed read, and that's without accounting for any sort of network overhead. It's fast enough.
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by Kadin 17y ago
My concern is that all of their new products seem to be sealed boxes. Yes, they still make Macs, and still sell MacOS, and MacOS is still fairly open. But it seems like the Mac is quickly becoming a legacy product, and Apple is no longer a
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by Kadin 17y ago
> Why is it different for the telecoms? Because the telecoms have gotten tons of help from the public, via the government, over the years. At the Federal level, the cable and satellite companies got the original anti-circumvention laws
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by Kadin 17y ago
Downloading a separate file and then launching an external application is obnoxious, particularly when it creates a new window. I know a lot of people who actively avoid and refuse to click on PDF links for that reason. I've always thought
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by Kadin 17y ago
> That means wealth-creation is possible in an economy based largely on services. How so? The service economy is basically masturbatory. I can trade my services for your services, around and around, but at the end of the day we both s
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by Kadin 17y ago
Oracle is definitely showing itself to be a bunch of scumbags, but I'm not sure they're quite that stupid. Attempting to squeeze OpenJDK would almost certainly call off the long-held truce with IBM, who has their own (admittedly unpopular,
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by Kadin 17y ago
> it's also the fact that the ecosystem is richer for that chipset anyway Well, it's richer mainly because that's the platform Windows runs on exclusively (or near-exclusively; there are probably a few non-x86 Windows installs out the
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by Kadin 17y ago
That's all true, but in the last few years Apple does seem to have undergone a rather alarming shift away from open systems. I don't think anyone is disputing that they've done a lot of nice open stuff in the last few years, since jumping o
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by Kadin 17y ago
The codebase is arguably more open but the platform as a whole is not. I think the closed platform thing is a lot more troubling and has the potential to be worse for the market as a whole than if they had decided to build a proprietary bro
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by Kadin 17y ago
I have a friend who has diabetes and uses a glucometer. He doesn't test every half hour (more like a few times a day, maybe every 4-5 hrs?). The data is actually fairly interesting. I wouldn't want to have to poke myself in the fingers a
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by Kadin 17y ago
Far be it from me to question anything about your life, and that is truly not my intent, but your comment does make me wonder a little what it is you think would be depressing about having that information? If it's just that the act of coll
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by Kadin 17y ago
I can't think of a religion that doesn't deal with disrespect from outsiders. Catholics? The Pope and his crazy hats. LOLpedophiles. Bad conspiracy theories. Basically everything Dan Brown has ever written. Gay priest jokes. Mormons?
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by Kadin 17y ago
The analogy is a tough one to work with because the word "nigger" has a lot of historical baggage, and is connected to and used by a lot of groups with very violent histories. So it's tough to say what I'd do if someone who was honestly rac
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by Kadin 17y ago
Disgust and offense are very different things. There are many things that I find disgusting, yet I am not offended by them since they don't affect me. I can think of a lot of sexual practices that strike me as really disgusting. Eating sh
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by Kadin 17y ago
A number of problems with that analogy: 1. You can legitimately argue against the KKK as being a dangerous organization with a violent past. Although I'm glad that we have strong free-speech rights in this country that guarantee even their
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by Kadin 17y ago
I think you raise a pretty decent point, but if some comedian who makes use of "the n-word" were to suddenly start getting death threats, or actual attempts on their life, from some militant group that felt offended by the word's use, then
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by Kadin 17y ago
I don't see how that's possible. It's not reasonable to get offended because of a harmless cartoon; anyone who does is by definition unreasonable.
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by Kadin 17y ago
> Is your average citizen just dying to be worried over the next catastrophe and willing to throw money at whomever can scare them the most? If you doubt this, I'd like to introduce you to the Department of Homeland Security.
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by Kadin 17y ago
Well, monochrome is 1bpp, so it makes the raw image about 8Mbit or 1MB. The rest you'd only be able to determine empirically, and it depends quite a bit on what you're scanning and the scan quality. "Noisy" images, including poor-quality s
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by Kadin 17y ago
Lots of manufacturers charge extra for various security options, on all sorts of hardware and software. We can go back and forth all day on the "ethics" of it, but it's pretty standard practice. And Sharp's add-on module might not be requi

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