Millennium

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by Millennium 8y ago
I wonder: they mention that the powder can ignite prematurely when you place the top anvil. Could you prevent that by putting a piece of paper between the anvils? It seems to me that the paper should prevent sparks by preventing direct cont
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by Millennium 8y ago
Since we're apparently all posting vids, here's what happened when the Finnish hydraulic press guy learned about anvil firing: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S8HbhiRlgM0
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by Millennium 8y ago
Notepad++ and your other editor show strange text because they always assume that the file you're trying to open is a text file. This isn't the case (some parts of the file actually are meant to be interpreted as text, but not the
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by Millennium 8y ago
This list fails for lack of Brainfuck.
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by Millennium 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the idea "The sending of the bills with the “Thank you for paying” note could not have been understood by any reasonable person to constitute a claim of any kind." Since the debt had not in fact been
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by Millennium 8y ago
Last I checked, Hatreon didn't ban people for this sort of thing. Let him go there with his basement-dwelling buddies; that's literally what it's for. It's the capitalist way: if some private company doesn't want yo
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by Millennium 8y ago
I subscribed to T-Series because of this incident.
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by Millennium 8y ago
The main problem with imperial units is that it isn't a system. It's a hodgepodge of pieces of different historical systems, many of which made a lot of sense in their original context, but the context has been stripped from them
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by Millennium 8y ago
This will end well.
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by Millennium 8y ago
It's not hard to argue that this is basically what happened in practice. Certainly it feels the same for those targeted. But I'd argue that the mechanism is different in ways that affect how it needs to be treated. If there were n
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by Millennium 8y ago
This is interesting, but I have to say I'm skeptical that it'll do any better than the Linux kernel community's attempt to apply Wheaton's Law back in 2015. The geek community was largely formed by people who had been un
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by Millennium 8y ago
Dammit moonmoon, that's not what you're supposed to howl at.
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by Millennium 8y ago
Only one person at my office even got the alert. I'm going to have to call this test of the system a failure. Dammit, and I'd even queued up Orff's "O Fortuna" to go with the rising crescendo of Emergency Alert Syst
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by Millennium 8y ago
I'm not sure that the CoC-alarmists see a difference. Reject the patch, reject the person: to them, it's all the same. And I'm not sure they're even wrong on that particular point, at least in the case of rejecting patch
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by Millennium 8y ago
People are afraid of being cast out of the community because of the CoC, are they not?
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by Millennium 8y ago
It is indeed a deep betrayal of a hacker ethos: in particular, Geek Social Fallacy #1 (Ostracizers Are Evil). And you know what? That's probably a good thing. The radical inclusivity (i.e. exclude no one, for any reason) of the geek
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by Millennium 8y ago
I'm not sure that really approximates UBI. You're only giving money to some of the people involved, and there's a definite transfer from a specific person to another specific person involved. For a closer approximation, you&#
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by Millennium 8y ago
Data is nothing; interpretation is everything. That's why democracy is needed even in the presence of data: the people still have a need to choose how the data is interpreted and who will do the interpreting.
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by Millennium 8y ago
Which standards are you thinking of in particular?
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by Millennium 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Why is it a contradiction for something with an angelic recipe of 100 lines to generate something with an angelic recipe of 1000 lines?
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by Millennium 8y ago
This is true most of the time, but if it's necessary to keep the ads flowing, I think most ad-supported sites will update very quickly.
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by Millennium 8y ago
Being a polyglot is like magic, but it's not the Harry Potter kind of magic: it's the David Copperfield kind of magic. We look like we're doing one thing, but we're really doing something else. Most polyglots are only re
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by Millennium 8y ago
Yeah, pretty much this. I'm actually willing to accept that this wasn't initially meant to be just a PR gesture, but a sincere attempt to help. But now his tantrums over not getting to be the hero have gone and poisoned it all, re
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by Millennium 9y ago
Point it at an archive of /pol/, work some deep learning magic to link posts from the same person together, then point it at the wider Web and start deanonymizing. You couldn't catch everyone, but you might do some good.
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by Millennium 9y ago
No mention of W59.22xx (a.k.a. the Aeschylus Series)? I am disappoint.
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by Millennium 9y ago
The article isn't very clear on this point, but I think that at this particular juncture, the author isn't so much lamenting "analog versus digital" so much as "public versus private". It's an awkward fit
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by Millennium 9y ago
It's a nifty technique, but I'm not sure it refutes my statement. You still have agents crawling the book to build an index of metadata by (in your experiment's case) subjects and years mentioned. You throw away the entries f
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by Millennium 9y ago
The engines we build nowadays are still mostly based on indexed collections of metadata, just as the old card catalogs were. The innovation was in being able to create new kinds of cards, and then compile catalogs of them automatically from
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by Millennium 9y ago
Tell that to the AAA market.
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by Millennium 9y ago
I'm looking at the Tunequest list at http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/ , and it looks to me like patents #5,924,060 and #5,703,999 (the last two listed) shouldn't expire for a f

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