WizzleKake

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by WizzleKake 12y ago
> That's pretty much how I feel about the Fox-watching population of the US. It's how I feel about everyone who gets their information from TV.
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
What things?
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
Regular toilet paper seems absolutely barbaric after one has become accustomed to wet wipes. Try them and you will understand.
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
I'll switch back to Firefox when they stop re-arranging the UI. Every year or so it gets changed. It's what drove me to Chrome in the first place.
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
I remember reading somewhere that some Chinese miners will mine at a loss because they can purchase the equipment/energy/cooling/etc in RMB but convert the BTC into USD, circumventing the country's capital controls. Does
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
Amazon jacks the price around on a lot of the household items that I buy. There one item that I last purchased for $11.94. I have seen it as high as $29 and some change. Right now it is $23.94. I've wised up to this tactic and will
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
Not everyone wants to use both hands. Some of us would like to be able to respond to a text message while carrying something, for example.
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
If applications from the play store reading your SMS messages bothers you, then I can recommend using something like CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard (which exposes a feature called App Ops that seems to be a part of Android, yet hidden), o
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
Nearly ever country with nuclear power (except the US) processes the 'waste' since only a small portion of it is actual waste. Most of it is U-238 (harmless). Some is useful - plutonium, and isotopes that are used in medicine.
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
If you want to switch the device that gets assigned an IP address by Comcast's DHCP servers, all you need to do is reset the cable modem. At least that is how it always was for me. I have a gigabit ethernet connection now, so I quit u
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
Try saying e2e4 instead.
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
If you are interested in this sort of thing, the chess programming wiki is an excellent resource: http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
He's not wrong.
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by WizzleKake 12y ago
The incessant rearrangement of the UI is why I switched to Chrome. Each time they change the interface, it is unclear to me what the benefit is to the user. I was fine with Firefox when it looked like this: http://en.wikipedia.o
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
Maybe at the same time people realize that writing operating systems in a language like C is not a good idea if you're semi-serious about security. ...
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
Typically one would take harassment issues in the workplace to HR. Is there a stigma attached to this?
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AP: Man said to create Bitcoin denies it(m.apnews.com)
2 points by WizzleKake 13y ago|0 comments
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
There are a lot of new apartments going up in Seattle. I can count five or six new buildings just off the top of my head.
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
$ ping google.com PING google.com (173.194.33.165) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from sea09s18-in-f5.1e100.net (173.194.33.165): icmp_req=1 ttl=59 time=0.857 ms 64 bytes from sea09s18-in-f5.1e100.net (173.194.33.165): icmp_req=2 ttl=59 tim
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
Seattle has Condo Internet and Cascade Link. Both provide gigabit. The Gigabit Squared thing fell apart. Condo Internet uses a combination of microwave and fiber to provide connectivity to the buildings that they service. They only targe
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
If you like this, you might like the Tao of Programming: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
If we are suggesting drugs, may as well throw in a suggestion for amphetamines. But personally, I would recommend intense and sustained cardiovascular exercise.
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
> the $2,160,000 dollars of Bitcoins that come into existence every day, that's also about $2,160,000 of electricity used. You lost me. What?
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
Define non-negligible and show us some numbers. Mining is supposed to be difficult.
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
It looks like Github has pulled a bunch of the repos, including the ones that don't even have "WhatsApp" in their names. Is this because they had something like "compatible with WhatsApp" in their descriptions? If I
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
Is Ron Paul taken seriously in the American mainstream media? Honest/serious question.
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
Ralph's Rule: "There is no technology so poorly conceived, so inconsistent, so aesthetically offensive, or so woefully untouched by theory that it will not see widespread adoption in the Web community."
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
If you just need secure browsing and you have a shell somewhere (like a VPS, EC2 instance, a Linode, etc.) just use ssh. ssh -D <port> user@host Then configure your browser (I use a plugin called FoxyProxy) to use localhost:<port&g
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
Intelligent technical discourse is actively suppressed by the operators on that network.
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by WizzleKake 13y ago
Someone might re-size your site because the design forces them to. I organize my windows so that my browser takes up the left half of my screen - so it's 960 pixels wide. Pretty big. I never make it any wider than this unless I'

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