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by aaronem 13y ago
What kind of overcurrent protection did the circuit have? A fuse would've blown and needed replacing before the power point could be used again; a circuit breaker would've tripped and had to be reset. Are polyfuses used in that ro
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, as I was writing a comment in a Hacker News thread, I figured it'd be excusable to restrict myself to that which is relevant in the context of the discussion at hand, rather than trying to encompass the whole world. Perhaps I was
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by aaronem 13y ago
Yes! Yes, we do. Because there is no way to prevent bad things happening . All the foam padding and cotton wool in the world won't prevent the occasional kid dying or being badly injured; if nothing else, there will always be at lea
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, sure, fighting back doesn't always work. But even if you failed, at least you tried . Perhaps that's not the best thing in the world for your self-respect, but take it from me, it's a hell of a lot better than not even
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by aaronem 13y ago
Perhaps you've had the good fortune, possibly by dint of having been raised in some sort of isolation chamber, of never encountering bullies in childhood. Had you done, you'd probably have noticed that most bullies are basically c
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by aaronem 13y ago
Which invites the further question: Short of hindsight or experience, is it possible to tell good ideas from bad?
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by aaronem 13y ago
Eight, more or less, and at the start of that period, scientific medicine was barely out of infancy. I don't believe anyone has suggested that either perfect wisdom, or immunity to political considerations, are among the traits of that
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by aaronem 13y ago
Except if your surname is 'Escher'.
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by aaronem 13y ago
I look forward to seeing it, once it quits 503ing.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Some governments have elected representatives; while lately very much in fashion, this is by no means a requirement.
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by aaronem 13y ago
> Can you imagine a corporation with unlimited power that is free to do anything it pleases? Quite easily! It is called a "government".
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by aaronem 13y ago
"We have students who are now working at places like Google" is nothing like the same as "99% of our graduates receive job offers from companies like Adobe and Google."
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by aaronem 13y ago
"Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proved to work? Medicine. " (from http://www.altairiv.net/Storm.html )
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by aaronem 13y ago
I have Googled it. I found mention of a couple of compromises, both of which I already knew about and which haven't substantially damaged my opinion of the company. I have yet to find any information regarding Linode attempting to co
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by aaronem 13y ago
The original post may have overstated the matter somewhat, but in the responses it received, the underlying issue was clarified to the point where it is easily recognizable and can be trivially addressed by the site developers if they so ch
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by aaronem 13y ago
[citation needed]
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by aaronem 13y ago
Sounds like AOL happened. As far as I can tell, they've never been all that comfortable with this new-fangled "inter-web" nonsense.
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by aaronem 13y ago
It's an example of poor design; the font color and weighting draws the eye straight to the product names and away from the descriptions, which are the real meat of what the site has to offer. Sure, it only takes a moment's squinti
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by aaronem 13y ago
Why let bad design make it harder than it has to be?
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by aaronem 13y ago
Seconding all of this, and further noting, first, that I only need to log in to the Linode dashboard a couple of times a year, if that; second, that I love how, every time I do so, there's new stuff waiting for me. Just now, for exampl
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who finds this outright horrifying.
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by aaronem 13y ago
It emphasizes the product name, rather than the description, which I'd argue draws the reader's eye to the wrong place; that emphasis would be better placed on what something is , which information the reader will find useful in
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by aaronem 13y ago
Have you some reason to believe that's what I'm doing, or do you just enjoy snark? I can't blame you in the latter case; so do I. But I'm curious whether you know, or think you know, something that might change my opinio
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by aaronem 13y ago
All of what you say is true, but I was referring to a dropdown or radio button set for choice of card type, and not the card type images themselves, which I always included unless the client preferred otherwise -- something I don't rem
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by aaronem 13y ago
"Oversized" only by comparison with the regular mail slots in the postbox, not by comparison with actual packages. It wouldn't be a bad idea to add a few much larger slots, perhaps in a second housing alongside or below the e
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by aaronem 13y ago
How do you imagine software development resembling something like football? I'm honestly curious; that statement gives the impression of considerable thought having gone into it, but I can't for the life of me imagine what sort.
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by aaronem 13y ago
I thought about an Ergodox; I don't mind soldering, but I decided against it anyway, because to me it looks like it's a bit short on the "ergo" -- it will help with the need to rotate the wrists outward, but they still h
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by aaronem 13y ago
We already drop food -- MREs, essentially, whose meat entrees have been replaced with a variety of heavily leguminous, thus protein-rich, entrees intended to be compatible with almost all religious dietary restrictions. They're called
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by aaronem 13y ago
> [...] it has been applied in my home country (Germany) to astonishing results. Well, sure. Blue jeans, fast food, rock 'n roll, and two-thousand-pound bombs.
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by aaronem 13y ago
"Previous to the 20th century?"

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