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by bcook 11y ago
My standard interface is a finicky touchpad. Has been for ~30 years & half a dozen microwaves.
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by bcook 11y ago
Are we (HN), the intended demographic though? I personally get twitchy whenever I see a facebook or twitter link, but I also know that the times are changing, so I withhold my angry rants.
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by bcook 11y ago
Please, for the ignorant (no offense intended, as I am an entrenched member), can you more precisely/consisely explain your critiques? The reasons behind your "chills" are foreign to me. My intuition often betrays my experien
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by bcook 11y ago
Cite your source(s), please.
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by bcook 11y ago
I would like to know the reason for the downvotes as well.
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by bcook 11y ago
Exactly... and users are even worse.
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by bcook 11y ago
Moore's Law isn't exactly scientific... It's more like a Nostradamus-esque good guess. Counter-arguments can be just as lazy without deserving unrestrained criticism, I suppose.
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by bcook 11y ago
Are all those actions considered "chat" features? I am probably old fashioned, but I prefer separation of services. If a taxi driver was on IRC, sure, I could "hail" him. I could post my current GPS location to anyone I
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by bcook 11y ago
So, before knowing there was reliable data, you constantly made unfounded claims? You made a good guess. Is that something to brag about? An opinion that you feel the need to "constantly explain to people" borders on ranting... (a
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by bcook 11y ago
Would you not align it parallel with the equator, and therefore get a more squished (horizontally compressed) time display?
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by bcook 11y ago
I would just say that computer savvy people do not click on ads, and Silicon Valley has a concentration of said people.
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by bcook 11y ago
A firewall cannot see encrypted layer-7 traffic, true, but you can block sites by IP/hostname. HTTPS does not help you circumvent firewalling.
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by bcook 11y ago
Plausible, but is it probable? I have no clue how blindly political the internal bureaucracy of the company is. Sure, the recruiter might be sane, but that is possibly only a small part of what gets me hired or rejected.
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by bcook 11y ago
Can you more precisely describe why it is incorrect? Both implementations requests data from the network stack, so both are very similar?
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by bcook 11y ago
I highly doubt it. I use AdAway for Android, and my current (/system)/etc/hosts file is 58626 lines with no noticeable lag on my Nexus 7 2012 and my Nexus 9. I would assume local IO would usually beat network IO.
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by bcook 11y ago
Yeah, but that was for a message sent across a distance of ~1 billion light-years. I naively assume that shorter distances would require less energy.
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by bcook 11y ago
A debt of kindness or knowledge?
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by bcook 11y ago
It was inevitable, even from a purely benevolent perspective. Personally, I am much more worried about heart-disease, dementia, and depression.
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by bcook 11y ago
Your post was motivating enough to singularly encourage me to read the actual article. Truly, thank you for that. (Though, the article is a bit above my pay-grade... oh, the pain.)
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by bcook 11y ago
By "we" I meant males & females.
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by bcook 11y ago
Look at nature. Sometimes the male is dominant, sometimes the female is dominant (or whatever feature you want to focus on). We are different. There is nothing wrong with that.
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by bcook 11y ago
So we are absolutely equal and any conclusion otherwise is false?
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by bcook 11y ago
Hmm, interesting. I think you are right. (NASA is an acronym. NSA is an initialism.)
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by bcook 11y ago
That "paying for" software means "it will be around next year".
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by bcook 11y ago
Hmm... I only (mis)use the tilda as an expression of uncertainty, like "~130Mbit".
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by bcook 11y ago
I hate to be a buzz-kill, but I have never "paid for" Linux. Well, maybe I have... through some hierarchical, open-source, licensing "tax".
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by bcook 11y ago
Join me in the joy of misinterpreting the sarcasm. /sarcasm Edit: GP, please, learn that being clear is important, especially considering how many people are non-native speakers of your language.
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by bcook 11y ago
Hook, line, sinker. Embarassed. :)
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by bcook 11y ago
It should (be), maybe, but is a mistake worthy of downvotes? Probably, I guess. Lesson: Never misinterpret, especially when feeding the ego.
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by bcook 11y ago
If only there were a sarcasm punctuation... Sadly, we only have emoticons. ;)

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