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by aaronem 11y ago
You needn't be; "In the Loop" is a British political satire starring Capaldi in, I think, one of his better roles, and besides which is a cousin of "Veep", easily the most on-point US political satire of the last fi
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by aaronem 11y ago
Really, now -- I like getting trashed as much as the next guy, unless the next guy is one of that interesting subset of HN commenters who appear to regard it as "drug abuse", but how completely buried in your own head do you have
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by aaronem 11y ago
The preferred SV term is "disrupt".
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by aaronem 11y ago
> But if I call myself "privileged" in this instance then all of a sudden people would be whining about social justice warriors or something like that No one has ever managed successfully to divorce the concept of privilege fro
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by aaronem 11y ago
Only against an occupier unwilling to meet it with measures harsh enough to be effective. Historically speaking, I'd say it is more likely for US military forces to employ such measures against Americans, than against occupied foreig
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by aaronem 11y ago
There's a difference between "total war" and "nothing left to rule"; indeed, there's a difference between total war and merely executing civilian hostages in reprisal for acts of insurrection, although the taki
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by aaronem 11y ago
That's nice, especially since he didn't have one of the very many knives which are, I gather from the news, such a perennial problem in your neck of the woods. Here's hoping you stay lucky!
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by aaronem 11y ago
> there are no huge battles like in a war between two nations Nor need there be! That's not how guerrilla or "asymmetrical" warfare works; the chief advantage for the guerrillas is that they disappear into the populace bet
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by aaronem 11y ago
Linguistic quibble: "Alumnae" is the nominative feminine plural of the noun "alumnus", and thus refers specifically to a female graduate of some institution of higher learning, &c. In 1860, there was no such thing
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by aaronem 11y ago
If you run your own MDA, you could do a lot worse than to filter incoming mail against https://www.spamhaus.org/zen/; the free tier is extremely broad, and the coverage is excellent -- I get maybe one spam email a we
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by aaronem 11y ago
It's trivial enough in my usage, which involves a breadboard and a Pi that are dedicated to one another and never disconnected. I'm not sure why that isn't a feasible option for educational use; instead of issuing a naked Pi,
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by aaronem 11y ago
I should think it'd be safe enough just to use a 40-pin breadboard breakout and a ribbon cable with a few of the pins (i.e. all the 5V out ones) not populated. That seems like it should provide all the necessary safety (because the 5V
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by aaronem 11y ago
The word "Arduino", an interface that doesn't involve hand-soldering to a high-pitch Kapton ribbon, level shifters, neat features like RGB backlights and onboard input devices...
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by aaronem 11y ago
> It can blink LEDs as well of course over GPIO but my impression is that this is a bit more complicated and requires extra hardware Not really; all you need is an LED and some way of connecting it to pins on the J8 header. On the softwa
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by aaronem 11y ago
"[Derek Smart]. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...a long time."
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by aaronem 11y ago
You're thinking about Something Awful around 2005, or 4chan's /b/ in 2007 or so. That's not what we're seeing. While I'm hardly a rigorous ethnographer of the Internet's cesspits, my (often firsthand)
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by aaronem 11y ago
That's true of the majority everywhere, I think, but the minority in this case has a disproportionately large impact -- for example, in running Kathy Sierra, a highly competent professional with a great deal to contribute, out of the i
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by aaronem 11y ago
Absent any binding reputation system with meaningful consequences, making such a registry public would be a pretty broad abuse risk; you'd need extremely heavy moderation, distributed over a large number of people, and even then you&#x
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by aaronem 11y ago
Got something for those of us who aren't mathematicians? I mean, I appreciate you've put a lot of thought into this and I'm sure it seems perfectly sensible to you, but expecting us mere mortals to determine our response to a
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by aaronem 11y ago
Here's the part where I play a serious suggestion off as a joke, because I know no one will take it seriously no matter how I put it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBWbpTJRqk And here's the part where I address
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by aaronem 11y ago
That happens at a much, much lower level than we're talking about here.
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by aaronem 11y ago
I won't say you're wrong, but I still think I'd rather regret having gone to school than, as I do now, regret having not gone; not that I haven't done rather well for myself, so much as that I'd have liked to do mor
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by aaronem 11y ago
I haven't seen the second, but the first was...unfortunate in its casting, I suppose; it got everything else pretty much right, but the performances were so leaden that I've only been able to watch it the once.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Speaking of talking about poetry with Vulcans, do you want to cite those bugs? I'm curious, because I've developed against Mobile Safari for years, and never actually had any particular difficulty; granted this has been mostly per
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by aaronem 11y ago
"Apple in 2015 is exactly the same company as Microsoft in 1998." OK, gotcha. Substantiation would be nice to see, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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by aaronem 11y ago
...and yet it's already been through one iteration, two if you count the 1983 video games crash (video games are software), and more and more learned heads are starting to look uneasily at the idea that it's on the upslope of a th
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by aaronem 11y ago
Instapaper is a lot stickier now. But the API appears to be write-only; neither there, nor anywhere else in the documentation, do I see any way to pull my data out of Instapaper if I should decide I no longer want to use it.
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by aaronem 11y ago
> How is that we have a system where we have an assistant district attorney (now running for DA) who not only openly believes we need to kill more people, but thinks they deserve to suffer as much physical pain as "humanly possible&
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by aaronem 11y ago
I could see describing it as intentionally trying to almost poison someone. But that's just snark, really.
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by aaronem 11y ago
> the current lack of lithium in our environment is detrimental to us, and not what we evolved for That's a pretty bold claim.

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