LarrySDonald

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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
Seconded. I showed a guy Ubuntu a bit back and it is now on his map and being used (not as primary, but it may be heading that way) because it has a start menu. He knows a tiny bit of linux (more like generic nix) and has interacted with v
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
It's a good step forward though. For years, I was always torn about IDEs, it's very handy to be able to do so much automatically rather than having to do everything yourself. So much so that the productivity boost is near-required in a mode
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
There is no law against making your catalog widely available. Yes, currently they seem unable to do so. That isn't the consumers problem (quite literally). Very few things are so awesome that you'll have people begging you to take their mon
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
I've assumed quotes meant one or more words were wanted in that order, not as keywords ("to be or not to be" = I don't mean a lot of documents including all those words, but rather that exact phrase) whereas + meant that particular word or
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
The narrative fits the US hopes and dreams very well, so well in fact that many believe it. I'm not saying people shouldn't be allowed to publish (and in fact they are) but this is a lot like the "I would be a rockstar if someone would just
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
I can't find anything in a quick search, but I recall seeing a report ~15 years ago on what was considered sufficiently random for lotteries. It was kind of tiered, most low-level stuff was based on pseudo with a seed based on dice throw (i
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
You'd imagine someone would do this sooner or later. My skills are horribly rusty, but they might be worth brushing off. Lots of people did it for their ham licenses and it's certainly faster then t9, possibly qwerty-on-touchscreen. Especia
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
A lot of the problem is that practicing something is not only not encouraged but actively discouraged. Getting a CS student to code, a chemist to experiment, a physicist to experiment and a builder to build isn't hard. Throw them the equipm
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
Vidalia is a GUI for tor, letting you start it, stop it, change identity, monitor your connections, etc. Torbutton toggles if firefox goes via tor or not and monitors to make sure it still does and nothing has changed and changes some setti
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
This would seem like the reasonable choice. Or, just leave the tablet market alone. They could, perhaps, enhance the amount of other useful features in it for the "temporary mode before bothering to find a computer" but abandon the very low
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
The problem is that not everyone can afford that. In fact, almost no one can afford that. The internet as a whole is only viable because of vastly pooled resources - it could never have happened on a "my slice, get off my lawn" basis. Even
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by LarrySDonald 15y ago
So.. Essentially man the F up and live without GC in the parts that are going too slow instead of saying "Oh it's cool, just wait ten years and hardware will be fast enough to run this anyway". Use GC for stuff that needs to be simple and i
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by LarrySDonald 16y ago
> 32kB total program space, 8kB RAM > selling these smart watches for the sharp price of $149 Cool idea, but there seems to be a massive misstep in logic somewhere in there. If it's supposed to be a thin client to the phone, then it
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by LarrySDonald 16y ago
It's where regulation gets tricky indeed. Having any government capable of disrupting information flows lead to all kinds of danger. Having no control also leads to other, way more glaring (though not necessarily more severe) dangers. In a
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by LarrySDonald 16y ago
The one day per hour isn't "without being able to power through it" it's for "without a noticeable difference". It's 8pm right now and there's no particular reason I couldn't still be going fairly strong by 4am (if sufficiently motivated),
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by LarrySDonald 16y ago
I can see where free wifi could be a drain on resources. If someone wants to rent an air conditioned/heated cubicle space with a 300w power and open wifi for $2/5 hours.. go for it. I can't quite see the economics in that, but I'm sure pric
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by LarrySDonald 16y ago
Physics is the problem? So like he walked into the headquarters going "Ok, very funny guys! Who made physics apply to our products again?".
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by LarrySDonald 16y ago
Innovative? This is just another name for vaporware, launch a small ad campaign, see how it goes, discard failures brutally. It is also incredible offputting to customers (who actually aren't complete idiots and can remember a brand). I'm s
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by LarrySDonald 16y ago
You'd have to be pretty naive to think being legal would then suddenly mean you can easily make it. Burgers are legal. The vast majority consume them. Now open a burger joint and corner the market! Oh wait.. Health code regulations? Employe
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by LarrySDonald 16y ago
Looking at it, yes, that's pretty much it. Lenticular images (aka, sports flips, those odd things that move when you tilt them, etc) are based on the same principle except with a lens to show each "band" depending on viewing angle rather th