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by adwf 13y ago
I agree. I think this point really hit home for me when Rome Total War 2 came out. This has been one of my favourite game franchises ever since the original Shogun TW. But. I haven't bought it yet because it doesn't run on Linux
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah I tend to liken the debate over sentence spacing to the "debate" over whether a toilet seat should be left up or down. It's generally petty and irrelevant (most people don't even notice). And it's 100% an anno
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by adwf 13y ago
NSFW is generally used as a synonym for "potentially inappropriate". And yes, they do have truck here. I clicked the article expecting some further developments or prosecution over Abu Ghraib, I wasn't expecting to see graph
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by adwf 13y ago
"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it." I guess the rule about time management applies even when asking yourself to do something.
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah I remember reading this article a while back: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-1414498... Basically, GCHQ have to operate on the same pay-schemes as other civil service departments. Which mean
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by adwf 13y ago
When you look at it, Google probably already has. 20% time is practically gone, Reader gone, iGoogle going, etc. All the various little projects that may not have had huge numbers of users, but still indicated that Google was a fast movin
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by adwf 13y ago
I think people get confused over how dictionaries work. They aren't meant to dictate usage of language, but reflect it. If "literally" has come to mean its opposite in a large proportion of common usage, then that's wh
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by adwf 13y ago
Good game. Reminds me I need to finish "The Fool and his Money"
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, I remember beign told at the end of the 90's that if you'd bought 100 shares (~$2000) of Microsoft stock at IPO and sold in '99, you'd have cashed in well over a million dollars. Tesla gives me that kind of feeling
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by adwf 13y ago
Whilst not perfect, pgadmin can also be helpful. I find it particularly useful for keeping an overall view of multiple databases/servers. http://pgadmin.org/
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by adwf 13y ago
Perhaps on a straight, but in the bends or slopes you'd still need some sort of control. I'm visualising the kind of oscillations that luge or bobsled riders get in the winter olympics when they come out of the corners. High spee
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by adwf 13y ago
Looks like a good idea, but the major glaring technical point that seems to be missing is the issue of horizontal stability within the tube. When you get very low friction, high speed and no tracks, you're going to start having attitud
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by adwf 13y ago
They don't seem to break down the labour costs of building the tube/pylons very well. In my experience watching big government projects, that's where the massive overages start coming in. It's easy to say that something
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by adwf 13y ago
How on earth are Cloudflare supposed to do their job if they don't track the users going to your site? One of the primary reasons to be on Cloudflare is to make use of their security features such as DDOS protection. How are they supp
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by adwf 13y ago
Wow, particularly scummy practice when trying to close the tab on that page as well. Blocked me from closing it with a popup by saying data I had entered would be lost, while replacing the page in the background with the pricing box. Thoug
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by adwf 13y ago
Oh absolutely, I don't deny that Top Gear almost certainly staged it for comic effect. But I thought it was a decent review of the car upto and including that point. The one major concern that almost everyone has about electric cars i
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by adwf 13y ago
Top Gear are only scathing of Tesla due to being sued by them over a joke. Prior to that, they were actually being quite fair and reasonable from what I could see. So in exchange for a failed lawsuit, Tesla lost the backing of the largest
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by adwf 13y ago
This article is actually from 2008 if anyone wants to correct the title. Original: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131954/interview_the_m... I was tipped off by the mention of the z-index being new, tha
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes, the Onion can be oddly prescient at times. This has always been the scariest for me: http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nigh... ;
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah I sometimes think there must be a kind of Muphry's Law for designers: "If you complain about a design, your own design will have numerous flaws"? Half the time when I follow these design blog links I find a website with nigh on unread
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by adwf 14y ago
Scripts will still work as long as they have the standard #!/bin/bash at the top. Aliases - in .bashrc - unfortunately will need to be replaced by Fish functions; defined in the "~/.config/fish/config.fish" file by default. The only real th
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by adwf 14y ago
I think the problem is when you get into more complicated nesting of code than a simple function. For instance: (setf new-links (append new-links (link-scanner (cu-body url-hash) (parse-uri cu-url url-hash))))) That's a quick one-liner I w
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by adwf 14y ago
Just thought I'd point out that Openttd doesn't require the original resources to run anymore. There are OpenGFX, SFX and MSX packs to replace any proprietary content. http://www.openttd.org/en/download-stable I'm fairly certain they're
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by adwf 14y ago
Yeah I got caught by forcing the /usr/lib update too. Went away for a month, came back and did a full upgrade, failed. Checked the website, the news had dropped of the front page, forced update, broke it horribly. Despite the problems, I
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by adwf 14y ago
I read something similar in this interview: http://www.esquire.com/features/teller-magician-interview-10... "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect"
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by adwf 14y ago
Reminds me of some of the advice in "How to Make Friends and Influence People"; a very good book for teaching people how to deal with difficult situations (like criticism of things you're close to).
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by adwf 14y ago
Depends on your country's tax system, but one of the advantages of only working one month a year is that you usually fall below most minimum tax brackets. Or at least only get lightly taxed and can reclaim most of it.
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by adwf 14y ago
One thing I'm interested in seeing with my new LED bulbs is the potential failure modes. If an incandescent or CFL goes - it's done for. But a quick check of my LED bulbs shows 22 emitting diodes. When it fails, is it more likely that the
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by adwf 14y ago
Good point. Maybe it's something to do with the fact that Lispers are so used to the whole "Code is Data, Data is Code" concept that you get within the Lisp family of languages? I guess I don't really see too much difference anymore betwe
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by adwf 14y ago
I'm using CL-WHO at the moment and I admit it's not necessarily the easiest way to generate html. But I did spot an alternative the other day called Spinneret: https://github.com/ruricolist/spinneret I haven't got round to testing it, bu

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