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by ben7799 7y ago
It's a backdrop to a lot of the Western and Latin American world as well.
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by ben7799 7y ago
This is not really any different than customers clamoring to get the direct email/phone # of developers instead of going through the normal tech support process, or to clamor for daily meetings/phonecalls/sessions. Slack migh
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by ben7799 7y ago
This is such an awesome book. I read this back in the day and loved every minute of it. I think there is a lot to learn from it still, even if you're highly unlikely to be writing the same kind of graphics code. The book has a great b
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by ben7799 7y ago
Doctorow can come off as dramatic but he does it for good reason... if he wrote something without the drama we'd ignore him. The whole problem with DRM is everyone got used to it and has started to ignore how bad it can be... I include
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by ben7799 7y ago
Good reminder I should be cracking the DRM on all my eBooks to take a backup again. This is a perfect time for the companies to do stuff like make DRM digital goods go "poof" cause everyone (including the .gov) seems to have bigge
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by ben7799 7y ago
Lots of other people have pointed out the issues with this analogy. My reasoning for thinking this is not a good analogy is the supercar is a device that cannot be used/exploited in normal operation. It is illegal to use the top spee
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by ben7799 7y ago
This is pretty interesting to read... I think our media normally ignores North American pests travelling to other parts of the world. Around here we have a lot of talk about pests that have arrived from China that affect our local plants bu
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by ben7799 7y ago
Sounds like a reporter who doesn't really understand how a lot of this stuff works (didn't study it, never worked in the field?) but think he/she does. It seems really common. He's missing the whole thing about the doc
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by ben7799 7y ago
Denthor of Asphyxia! I didn't remember what it was by read those back in the early 90s as well, learning to program on a 486 with an early SVGA card. I think I downloaded them on a trial of AOL, my parents wouldn't/couldn&#
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by ben7799 7y ago
Also good to call out the better digital reverb units do this: 1) Split analog signal 2) Pass through one side to output (probably with a signal boost) 3) Take the other side & digitize 4) Apply effect to digital signal 5) Convert outpu
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by ben7799 7y ago
Thanks, the reviews were entertaining.
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by ben7799 7y ago
This can be spoofed/hidden extremely easily if both devices are open source and you want to change it though. It's not like TTL can't be changed. The tethering device can just rewrite the packets to hide the tethered device.
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by ben7799 7y ago
Wait how can I set my preferences for the activity they're tracking on me if I don't have an account? I'm not under any illusions they're not trying to track me despite me not having an account with them.
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by ben7799 7y ago
Prevention is worth a lot here. I've been aware of Lyme for 30 years now probably? (I have lived most of my life not that far from Lyme, CT where it was first noticed.) Because I've been aware of it so long it would get brought
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by ben7799 7y ago
I keep thinking I see this on my wired (Comcast) connection too. Stuff just behaves too strangely for it to be anything else. One video provider will get slow. Switch to the mobile connection and it's fine. Switch to another site on
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by ben7799 7y ago
This part is a great step for some of the people uploading videos. Content ID will not catch stuff like a guitar teacher teaching a 30 minute lesson on soloing in E minor Pentatonic and playing 5 notes of a copyrighted song with a totally d
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by ben7799 7y ago
These #s are way off. 30mph does not require anywhere near 1000w, it's more like 350-400w on flat ground depending on the riders position and size. I'm a former amateur racer. I've done 30mph steady state for a mile on flat
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by ben7799 7y ago
Not sure why this is coming up again a year later. They put it out as a marketing thing. It had a bunch of impractical caveats. They haven't announced they solved any of the problems with it in the year since they put it out. The fric
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by ben7799 7y ago
It's amazing how amateur photographers seem to think there is something magic about pros... the difference between a Pro and a Keen amateur is almost never about the last 5% in exposure accuracy or focus accuracy. It's about get
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by ben7799 7y ago
A bolt vs a 3-series is probably the same situation as the detailed comparisons we've seen from limo operators comparing the Tesla Model S vs MB S-class, BMW 7-series, Lincoln Town car, etc.. In those comparisons the Tesla proved to be
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by ben7799 7y ago
For sure.. it sounds like Google has more of a problem with everything becoming public as opposed to a higher % of people behaving badly. Stuff like being able to call a Town Hall Meeting to criticize the decisions of upper management seems
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by ben7799 7y ago
Should have added, I worked one place we got acquired by a giant company that most here would say is really f*cking evil (TM) and even there I never detected any of the toxic stuff these Google stories talk about. That place was actually Ev
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by ben7799 7y ago
This current story does not sound like anything weird is going on but some of the stories it sounds like some employees spend a majority of their time setting up protests internally. It is hard to understand how someone can spend significan
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by ben7799 7y ago
I'm always amazed Google management tolerates things like internal message boards aimed at letting employees create Memes on company time. On the "evil point haired boss" level it seems these types of things like their intern
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by ben7799 7y ago
This is the same kind of thing as guitar lessons you Youtube. There is a lesson for free for zillions of songs on Youtube. The people in the videos are excellent. They might have different approaches that offer different insights. But non
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by ben7799 7y ago
I'm not sure how that's fasting. I don't consider myself as someone who fasts and it is typically 13-14 hours from my supper to my breakfast. Eat dinner around 6-7PM Eat breakfast around 7:30-8AM My schedule I would assume is
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by ben7799 7y ago
And back when almost no Americans were overweight intermittent fasting wasn't a thing. IF may be great but it is definitely also riding a diet fad wave right now. At least IF doesn't involve the sale of anything... that elevates i
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by ben7799 7y ago
What's interesting here I think is how often these other founders of FB or companies FB gobbled up react when they get in contact with Mark Zuckerberg.. It seems like an awful lot of people he was deeply involved with have turned again
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by ben7799 7y ago
I mean insect screens. If you've got biting/disease-spreading insects you can't open your windows when it's hot if you have no AC. There were very few biting insects that I saw in France/Germany/Switzerland b
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by ben7799 7y ago
I was in Paris earlier this month when it was very hot and it was really amazing just how unprepared everyone is. No Screens on the windows No fans No AC except in the museums No insulation in any of the places we stayed (France, Germany,

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