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by bayareanative 7y ago
FireChat works over BT without any WiFi.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Thunderf00t will debunk it. ;)
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by bayareanative 7y ago
It's called the Werther Effect. That's why some countries outright censor stories and talk of suicide because it sparks a rash of them.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Oh noes... not more Russiagate conspiracy theories. Chris Hedges and Aaron Mate were just on with an American RT host Rick Sanchez talking about the reasons for this sort of theme. I also think it feeds into rising nationalism that (inevita
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Did California's GATE actually have a purpose? I was in it for 13 years (~1982-1996) and it seemed completely and utterly pointless. No extracurriculars, no meetings, no resources... it seemed like a smart-kid inventorying service for
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Hehe. I believe it. So I took the SAT-I (out of 1600) with zero prep around 1994. Math - missed one question (dumb mistake) English - ~560/800 I was too depressed and anxious (undiagnosed, untreated) at the time to be able to concentra
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by bayareanative 7y ago
MacTeX 2019 doesn't appear to be available yet and Homebrew isn't sufficiently wise to work with pre-releases in-advance to get formulas working sooner rather than later.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
HK is slowly-but-surely heading towards full Orwellian Chinese rule. The handover was the beginning of the end, and all promises would be unenforceable and breached. It doesn't matter about petitionings through some international bodie
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Nothing. There's a coffeeshop down the street that has them.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Get something like a Mighty Mug and no more throwing away single-use cups.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Most cities of the SF Bay Area blend into one another, take Berkeley and Oakland as an example. Or Sunnyvale.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
We use Crystal for networking code, and it has nice C binding semantics. Haven't had to drop down to pure C much because Crystal just works, and doesn't have the learning curve or un/boxing hoops of rust. It's basically
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Laser printers economics: The more expensive the printer, the amortized cheaper the cost per page and the more repairable it is. I worked at nuclear engineering firm and a Pac10 university in IT on the budgetary side. The cheap laser printe
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by bayareanative 7y ago
The danger of giving up on IRC and going with a hosted corporate product is the chilling effects on free speech by being at the whims and mercurial mercy of corporate interests. They ought to stay with a self-hosted product that cannot be s
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by bayareanative 7y ago
ALWAYS and NEVER don't pass-through their values consistently as claimed in debug builds, they pass through truthiness instead, with actual values in release builds. Perhaps this would be better for debug builds: #define ALWAYS
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by bayareanative 7y ago
:) I used some of that free fusion power to charge my laptop around lunch time with 5W left over to trickle-charge a bank of 200 Wh SLA batteries. (100W panel + MPPT CC) The sun does emit ionizing radiation, and that will hurt you with long
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by bayareanative 7y ago
It's not ionizing radiation AND it's low power. Stop spreading baseless FUD hysteria.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
That's a strawman because the shriekingly-obvious difference is ease of facilitation. With Docker, it's a mere couple of commands to pull a box and run it. Docker weakens trust because it lets anonymous people, as well as trusted
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by bayareanative 7y ago
You can't. Not without end-to-end integrity with nonrepudiation. Checksums aren't anywhere near enough. But that's Docker.. security optional and run random, untrusted code from the internet.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Regulatory capture might be an understatement. How about "regulatory innovation?" That will confuse people and make it look like the corporations aren't running yet another banana republic.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Ireland: Europe's Texas.
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by bayareanative 7y ago
Opioid crisis, crushing debt, taking away healthcare from the poor to give to the rich (literally killing people for money) and bankruptcies from healthcare costs and lopsided divorce arrangements. Because of wealth capture of the political
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by bayareanative 8y ago
There's hard science, and then there's pretend social science being used to justify politics. HN doesn't do politics and hopefully not SJW/hierarchy-of-victimhood drivel either. Keep civil debates raging but I don't
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by bayareanative 8y ago
China continues to force the world to bend to its totalitarian demands: changes to Hollywood movie plots and editing, arbitrary keyword bans and FAANG helping to "accommodate" their platforms to facilitate censorship.
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by bayareanative 8y ago
IIRC, the Erlang BEAM format is based on IFF: http://erlang.org/doc/man/beam_lib.html Edit: also http://www.erlang.se/%7Ebjorn/beam_file_format.html and https://web.archive.org&#x2
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by bayareanative 8y ago
This is asinine. What is the point of a symphony of holistic privacy initiatives like the GDPR cookie policies on websites and a so-called "privacy browser" if the browser people inconsistently move away from opt-in to opt-out and
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by bayareanative 8y ago
Yup. Bio bags like for camping/pets at a minimum. Public urinals for numero uno. No million-dollar toilet that charges people like it's Europe.