algorias

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by algorias 16y ago
> And the way to address this problem is to put all of your sensitive stuff into one third party whom we trust more, for purposes of our conversation we can just call them "the monopolist". You're missing the point. Giving out your pass
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by algorias 16y ago
Getting a "PASS" is not good enough when it comes to security.
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by algorias 16y ago
Because the government should not be partial, and treat everyone the same, (barring laws being broken)? AFAIK, it's not (yet) illegal to be disliked by the government.
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by algorias 16y ago
Adding too many feeds to my reader. A site like HN is tolerable, since I won't even notice if I've been away for a couple of days, but the unread count on my reader...
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by algorias 16y ago
>And given that's my motivation, I'm pretty careful about how I engage people. I don't shame people, I don't push them. I honestly don't give a shit what they decide. I just like having the options all out there. A very important point.
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by algorias 16y ago
That's an interesting thought, but it'd be sad if they actually think that way. Actual success counts less than imagined one, because you can't inflate the numbers as much?
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by algorias 16y ago
I find the argument of language favoring base-12 very weak. If a groundbreaking change like replacing base-10 with 12 (or anything else), language would also be able to evolve and adapt to it. Spanish has words up to fifteen, by the way.
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by algorias 16y ago
So What? Does that make it obsolete? I guess indicating the year is important for older tech articles, but definitely irrelevant in this case.
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by algorias 16y ago
Possible, but very unlikely. More education is good advice either way.
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by algorias 16y ago
A classical case of survivor bias.
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by algorias 16y ago
19%, actually
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by algorias 16y ago
Strictly 3.0, because of backwards compatibility.
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by algorias 16y ago
All that is just syntactic sugar. print "comma prevents a newline from being printed", print >> sys.stderr, "Any file object can be used" The change to a function is purely for consistency, not functionality.
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by algorias 16y ago
Emphasis on: The odds aren't in your favor.
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by algorias 16y ago
And to make this problem worse, there's a great deal of variation among different dialects of the same language, which means that there's no 1:1 mapping of IPA phones to written letters.
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by algorias 16y ago
Also, if you live alone (or have a diet incompatible with your housemates), try cooking for several days at once. Cooking and meal planning are skills you're guaranteed to be using for life, so put in the time to become at least moderately
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by algorias 16y ago
Agree re: Excel. Great product. Competitors don't even come close.
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by algorias 16y ago
Of course, but the point is that Blizzard is still interested in maintaining the game for the foreseeable future, whether or not battle.net is the chosen medium through which serious players compete.
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by algorias 16y ago
Yes, StarCraft is still alive and kicking on battle.net. Hardly surprising considering that the game is still incredibly popular in Korea, with a pro scene and all.
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by algorias 16y ago
Counterexample: Just last year a StarCraft patch (1.16 IIRC) came out which drops CPU usage from 100% to around 3%
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by algorias 16y ago
50% would be wrong if you said above-median driver.
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by algorias 16y ago
I used to have issues getting it to run in Ubuntu, but as of 10.04 it works right out of the box.
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by algorias 16y ago
It rhymes!
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by algorias 16y ago
Second that. These guys have really been working on their presentation. It's hard to believe they're amateurs doing it in their spare time.
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by algorias 16y ago
So the solution is to fund defendants so they can stand up to this abuse. Wear the trolls down. Easier said than done, of course.
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by algorias 16y ago
You have a point regarding pathological users, but this promotion also draws in people who might have already played or heard of one or two of these games, and are willing to drop $30 or $40 to check out the remaining ones. Also, even a cos
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by algorias 17y ago
I didn't like the buttons at first, but decided to stick with them anyway. Took me all of 10 minutes to get used to them. Most of the time I Alt-F4 anyway, so it's really not a big deal.
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by algorias 17y ago
mogrify is the right tool for batch image processing, not a kludgy convert loop.
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by algorias 17y ago
The logistics involved are hard. Really really hard. These are not boxes that are stranded. They're people. And people move around, change their minds, make other plans, book themselves multiple times, etc.
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by algorias 17y ago
Python is in the same boat, by the way. Core is writen in C, but there's a huge number of things to be done in the stdlib.

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