benplumley

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by benplumley 10y ago
There is a set of files that describes the state of the machine, it's called the filesystem. Anything less doesn't describe the whole machine. The 'poking and prodding' is just a convenient way of querying the very small
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by benplumley 10y ago
Advertising is doing 'better than ever' because for every x% increase in adblocking users, the adverts seen by the remaining people become more than x% more predatory. You can tell that a market is healthy and sustainable by looki
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by benplumley 11y ago
I'd be very surprised if that were the case. The impression I got from the article was that they were just changing the extension on video files so that they could be uploaded as PDFs. For it to be steganography would require the PDF o
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by benplumley 11y ago
No, the parent just spelt it wrong. Practice (the noun) is spelt with a C in Britain. Practise is the verb.
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by benplumley 11y ago
The account was created less than an hour ago, it's parody.
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by benplumley 11y ago
I found the analysis of how the desktop was treated in 8 a little far from how it worked in reality. The impression I got was that if you were using a tablet, then sure, the desktop was 'just another app', but if you were using a
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by benplumley 11y ago
Is it US only? I'm in the UK and I'm interested.
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by benplumley 11y ago
Jordan, Georgia. I feel like if this were the cause then the bug would be a lot more common. My guess is the dialler hashes some parts of the contact to get a UUID, but for this contact it happens to be outside the range the dialler can loo
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by benplumley 11y ago
I'd guess that it was more the relatively short amount of time the author has been programming than their choice of language. I skimmed the article and assumed the author had been programming professionally for 10+ years, just from the
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by benplumley 11y ago
I'd be tempted to make an image of the PDF and insert it into a Word document so it fills the page, but that would probably have broken their workflow (Word's inline comments, perhaps) and dropped me straight into the reject pile.
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by benplumley 11y ago
Actually, he said that if you were to download during peak hours, it should cost ten cents per gigabyte. You'd have the option to download at no cost during off-peak hours. The alternative, what is really happening in some parts of the
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by benplumley 11y ago
Not only could ad injectors not work, they probably wouldn't have been installed in the first place because the ad blocker would block any links to them. Not sure if that was your point; if so, I agree.
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by benplumley 11y ago
That's not under Google's control, it's under the OEM's or (in the US) the carrier. A phone bought directly from Google (the Nexus line, Google Play edition, etc) doesn't have crapware of any kind unless you extend
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by benplumley 11y ago
Thank you for posting that video link! I'm listening to the album ProgXprimetal now for the first time and it's incredible.
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by benplumley 11y ago
Knowing Google, they'll be working on that by the time they release this.
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by benplumley 11y ago
I think the distinction was between console games and PC games, which don't have auto-aim because the player is unlikely to be using a controller.
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by benplumley 11y ago
> a staggering 20GW of overproduction > the recent drought Desalination is normally shot down for being very wasteful of energy, but given the energy can't otherwise be stored and California seems in constant drought, are there a
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by benplumley 11y ago
Any scheme I'm going to replace my current password scheme with (whatever that might be) must be both secure and convenient. A scheme which I must invest time into 'practicing' is not convenient.
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by benplumley 11y ago
We were certainly taught cursive, but I don't know a single person who still uses it other than me. Their writing is (for the most part) slow and legible, mine is fast and almost unreadable. More so when I use a fountain pen. Still, it
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by benplumley 11y ago
This story came to mind: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462
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by benplumley 11y ago
Something I've been meaning to find out for a while: we've all played with tearable cloth simulators in Javascript or HTML5. Surely game engines are more powerful than these, yet even modern games have cloth that doesn't move
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by benplumley 11y ago
Pick the words you prefer. If someone is within 3 metres of your front door and can't find it, you have a more serious problem. On the other hand, if multiple front doors are within the same square (a block of flats, for instance) then
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by benplumley 11y ago
Poorly phrased, but I think the parent has a point. The problem I can see with this analogy is that there doesn't seem to be any discussion/voting at all on paperboy.
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by benplumley 11y ago
I was picturing bank robbers climbing into the 'getaway drone' and making a swift exit.
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by benplumley 11y ago
> We're doing humans wrong. I don't follow. If you asked a human what the linked image looked like, they'd likely say a face, but if you then asked them what it actually was, they're all going to change their answer t
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by benplumley 11y ago
For a product that's disposable, I doubt any such system could justify its cost.
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by benplumley 12y ago
That's possibly the most relieved I've ever been at finding out an article used a misleading headline. This would be, from my perspective, like EA buying Valve. To address his arguments individually: 1. Too broad a category; so do
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by benplumley 12y ago
Surely the thing you'd notice so you could lock them out is admin passwords being changed? Not that this fixes the root of the problem, it would just make you aware that you had a problem.
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by benplumley 12y ago
- All heat not reflected is absorbed. - Solar panels operate more efficiently at lower temperatures. [1] Based on these facts, I'd venture to guess that your idea is already being worked on. [1] http://homeguides.sfgate.com&
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by benplumley 12y ago
I'll bite; why do you think SpaceX was a mistake? They've had some pretty impressive achievements, all while actually making profit. Unless you meant individual errors like this month's landing attempt.

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