SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I don't like the idea of a hoodie blasting high power IR which could easily get into your eyes. Perhaps it'd be better to make a camera-shy baseball cap.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> The free “Personal Edition” limits the program size and the amount of time it can run, making it pretty much useless for anything but evaluation. Also very good for education purposes.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
What has struck me was how many times the top answer to a question on S.O. has been utterly, pitifully wrong. That alone has gotten me thinking about whether S.O. is actually a force for good.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I wonder how many of these websites are presently being used as citations to lock whitewashed claims made about clients on their Wikipedia pages.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Has Wikipedia blacklisted these sites yet? I wonder how many of these websites are presently being used as citations to lock whitewashed claims made about clients on their Wikipedia pages.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This reads exactly like a posting from the reputation management company trying to salvage its reputation.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Germany in the 1800s did not have copyright protection, and it was boom time for them Because England's book publishers had a cartel. Eckhard Höffner's argument is absurd on the face of it (he basically says: England had cop
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Ugh, "trialed" instead of "tried" or "tested". This awful word became popular, as usual, through managementspeak. I was always taught to never use a word if a shorter, more common word existed which meant essen
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Just abolish copyright. I'm not joking. You are proposing eliminating viral licenses. > There are many ways to earn money from films, music, art, books, etc., without needing copyright. This an extraordinary claim, and extraord
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Anecdotally I know a lot of really old people who still drink. I know someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day who is almost 100 years old. Smoking is good or you!
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Um. No. Stinky Tofu's smell is so distinct, so awful, and so powerful, it is the subject of numerous scientific studies on that topic alone. Wikipedia notes that "The main volatile compound was indole, which has an intense fecal
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Tasteatlas apparently has never heard of ChauDaufu (Stinky Tofu), a common street hawker dish in southern China, notably Hong Kong. This dish involves marinating tofu in, as one cartoon put it long ago, an extract from the unwashed socks o
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Just how many submarines does Ukraine have right now?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Wait, you actually think CEOs own their companies? The CEO is an employee like any other. He was hired to do a specific job. He didn't do it. He should be the first to be fired.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I didn't do my job as CEO to keep the company sufficiently profitable, so you must be fired instead of me.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
A colleague of mine told me a story about Roger Schank, whom he knew well. I'd like to think this was apocryphal but I suspect it is not! As soon as Schank's PhD students graduated, he would start talking trash about them. The c
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Indeed. I use km/h
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
That's not what a "saying" is. Googling "bank disguised as a country" reveals a microscopic number of citations. It is not a thing. The Geostorm quote appears to be just crappy writing, ripping off the famous McCa
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> The given title here is much more informative than the article title of "WA outback proves no match for Aussie nuclear know-how". It's in violation of HN guidelines.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This is not the title of the article, and it should be changed. Besides, what's kph?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
There is no such saying. The quote, from John McCain, is "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country".
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I completely agree that the horizontal junk across the top of GNOME is a horrible waste of space. But... > For a long time, the looks of macOS, and therefore the looks of elementary OS fascinated me. I found the dock elegant and the bla
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Well, the MacOS X dock can be pinned to the right. And recall that in NeXTSTEP, minimized window icons still populated the bottom of the screen. As the menu, that's not surprising at all. After acquiring NeXT, Apple's job was to
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Of course. But that's not what it says.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I was very confused by this title. $18k in 5 years is $300/mo.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Wait, charging extra for credit card use is illegal ?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> The regulator is investigating in particular rules that say merchants may not offer their goods and services at a lower price to customers who choose a cheaper payment method than PayPal. In the US this is standard behavior for credit
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
??? I just tried this on Java 8 and it compiles fine.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
BASIC wasn't invented in the 1980s: it was just used by PCs because it was already popular and easy to implement. Dartmouth BASIC was introduced in 1964, and it and DOPE (its immediate predecessor) were heavily derivative of FORTRAN;
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
<sigh> I still use the svn bridge as my primary way to acces GitHub repositories: I get around much faster in svn than in git and have little need for a VCS except in special circumstances. Kinda dreading this.

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