Lagged2Death

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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
I am close with my family and I already know very well how pretty much everyone voted. Some of my family members are outspoken racists who were planning to vote for Trump. Some recent family gatherings have been explosive and memorable. Wha
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Yes, let's label a group of people as racists for supporting a particular canidate for elected office. That's not hypocritical or anything... At other times, in other situations, I have been sympathetic to this line of reasoning
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Wasn't Trump rallying against such crony corruption aka 'pay for play'? He straight bragged about participating in such schemes from the other side.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Harmonics of an ultrasonic signal are even more ultrasonic. You're right. I was thinking of resonances. Even in that case, I might be wrong.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic. The press I saw served mainly as a gigantic megaphone used to amplify a river of Tr
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Since I don't hear a thing I'm not sure what is going on here. Click on the gem and the web page will play a "chirp," which is loud and beepy and not ultrasonic or secret at all. It's an analog modem type system,
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled I think it's kind of troubling that "the vast variety of information services that comprise the internet" apparently means "Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook" to laym
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Would anyone be surprised if a high fraction of similar goods at Target et al were also counterfeits, though? The supply chain can be long and complicated, full of opportunities for an enterprising person to skim a few dollars.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
I use Everything as well, it's really useful, very focused. It may seem "lightweight" in a modern desktop machine, but I believe the way it works is: it keeps the index of your entire filesystem in RAM at all times. And it co
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Why should they? Roads are not there only for those actually using them... Okay, but a big part of the opposition to raising necessary taxes to maintain infrastructure is the notion: "I already pay for that." So pointing out tha
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
UrbanVolt solves the problem by replacing its customers’ lights at no initial cost; each client then pays UrbanVolt a monthly share of the savings on its electrical bill. This is exactly how the makers of advanced stationary steam engines
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Political solutions change as politics change... "Mathematical security" can be politically banned, is banned in many parts of the world. You only have the option to use mathematical security because other people have been doi
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
The Apple A10 is trouncing lower-end Intel kit already. The version of this story I saw was based on Geekbench scores. Browsing Geekbench results, I noticed that identical CPUs had scores that varied by huge amounts, as much as 2x. That m
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
A positive development, sure. But 80MWH is a little less than the amount of energy a 1GW power plant produces every five minutes. I want alternative energy to work, but it's sobering to see the scale of the problems involved. It doesn&
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
This has an editorial point of view, for sure, but it's also an approachable introduction: http://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-w...
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Thanks for the tip, but Rufus was one of three programs I tried, and it created a couple of duds (and a working stick) for me. I suspect that the paradigm of bootable flash drives simply leaves more variables uncontrolled than write-once di
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
I'm a Linux noob, I've played around with some live CDs. The other day I tried to set up a flash drive to work the same way as a live CD. I did get it working eventually, but it was a surprisingly bad experience. Some of the flash
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
The FAQ says: TP5 loads 100 popular webpages, served from a local webserver. I don't know if that means the test pages are up-to-date copies of real-world pages or not. On one hand, real-world pages have certainly been getting heavie
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
I'm surprised by the responsiveness claims because my ancient Windows PC runs FF superbly. I think Win10+FF is already more responsive now than it has ever been. I am also using Ghostery, however, with virtually everything blocked. It
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Pretty sure Win 3.x had no concept of processes and no memory isolation of any kind. Contemporary Macs were in a similar position. Both were ludicrously unreliable by 21st century standards. And in both cases the hardware - Intel 80386s and
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
In an world where standard ads are being phased out, these types of product placements are becoming more and more necessary. Are you arguing that without the revenue from product placements, Skyfall 's budget just couldn't be m
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
"Did you know it was possible to outfit an open-plan office with Ikea desks -- in the midwest ? TIL." This reads like a parody until it inexplicably turns out not to be. Columbus and Ann Arbor both have big, important universitie
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Regulation has never fixed anything. Young, inexperienced but passionate fish sometimes have been known to deny the existence of water. Later they're embarrassed.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
They say "There’s nothing inevitable about the level of crime at Walmart." and justify that statement by saying that if Walmart: added more greeters, scrap self-checkout, made stores smaller, it would reduce crime. That's a
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Would you like to live without fire? More humans lived without it than with it after all. That's not actually true, though. There's evidence that domestication of fire predates humanity as we know it. Maybe use "vaccines&qu
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
...as if we've had better alternatives all along... In the case of about 95% of the Flash that's been written, we have had a better alternative all along: Not writing Flash. Not animating the self-help menus at your ISP, no
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
A hardware project I worked on some years ago included a chip that contained a small SRAM and a lithium battery, all soldered right onto the board, as a form of nonvolatile storage. Some SRAM can indeed be very low-power, but caches are pro
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
This isn't 1990 anymore - if the kind of UI design that the devs have gone for (have settled on?) alienates a tech-friendly user such as myself, there isn't a hope in hell of people like my parents using it regularly. I bet Micr
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Or by using a browser that doesn't silently and promiscuously attempt to connect to remote network shares. Like, any other browser. Good grief.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Fair enough to look for a counterexample, I guess, but here's the thing: I've never heard of Jack Dorsey. That's not surprising to me. I'm not a Twitter user and I don't read the biz-interest publications. Meyer&#x2

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