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MagSafe Power Adapter Settlement(adaptersettlement.com)
1 points by blahedo 15y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 15y ago
I don't really want to intrude on her life to ask just what happened---it's not any of my business---but I would like to know if, whatever did happen, the technorati/HN/FB/etc publicity helped find/save/help her.
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm guessing it has something to do with a lot of people confusing which direction is the "savings" time. As in, did we just enter or leave DST? (I hear people making this mistake or its converse every year.) "Summer" time is harder to m
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm reading it now, and this is a great little book. I particularly like how many of the illustrations and examples came from students (presumably course projects of some sort) in earlier iterations of the course.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Off the top of my head: could be a breadth/depth thing, could be that the books are a union of California and Texas (in which case CA and TX also have the problem of unused chapters), or it could be that the time not spent on those chapte
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Most people have never heard of Washington University in St. Louis unless you work in Medicine. Or are old enough to remember the heyday of ftp.wustl.edu. :)
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by blahedo 15y ago
That's the part that puzzled me. The comment was only that the parrot clause was "up there with" other extremely specific rider clauses. And the Van Halen clause is these days pretty widely known as an interesting system hack rather than
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by blahedo 15y ago
I read the Wired article about this, and was loving it, and then: "Indeed, the Nest will not only do its learning thing in your home, but also report data to a web site." Really? Does every goddamn thing have to report my habits out to t
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by blahedo 15y ago
This stood out: > Lemon’s name is derived, he says, from a Web site address he had purchased years ago; it made sense for this venture, he said, because it’s easy to remember and it reflects the process of making the “lemonade” of digi
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by blahedo 15y ago
I confess that when the news about Dennis Ritchie was posted, I immediately flashed to the thought, "who's number three?" Thing is, so did a lot of other people, and tagging John McCarthy's WP page in this way would be just the sort of pran
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by blahedo 15y ago
> There is no legal way for anyone to just come to US and make it their home country. Are there countries where this is possible? This is a real question, I'm not snarking---is there some country X where I could just up and say, "I w
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by blahedo 15y ago
> > meaning they're still fully prepared to roll over on you > I'm not sure what the suggestion is here. They should be prepared to flout the law? Why would you draw that inference? JWZ seems to be presuming the opposite, i
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by blahedo 15y ago
> That's what I consider pseudonymity But that's not what pretty much everyone pushing pseudonymity in this fight considers pseudonymity, so your distinction is not very helpful.
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by blahedo 15y ago
What I particularly like here is that the title of the article, and thus the title of the HN post, fully conveyed the puzzle, so I was able to think about it for a moment before reading the article, solve it, and then confirm that I had the
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's true. About five years ago my bank upgraded their systems and, no kidding, set everyone's password to their login name as part of the transition. When I called them on it, they stonewalled me and repeatedly claimed that I was being u
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Am not aware of US law This is in New South Wales (Australia).
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by blahedo 15y ago
A reasonably happy note of sanity is sounded at the end of the article: 'NSW Police said it was not taking any further action on this matter. "There was no criminal offence committed and the company in question has been informed of the outc
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by blahedo 15y ago
Four choice variables each with tens of thousands of possibilities, yes, yielding greater entropy at lower cognitive cost.
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Samsung expands sales ban requests against Apple iPhone(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by blahedo 15y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is, of course, the legal default (at least in any country that subscribes to the Berne Convention). Unless there is some alternate policy somewhere that I don't remember signing, that would be the policy here as well. (IANAL, TINLA)
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by blahedo 15y ago
And as bad as it is, that post is more than a year old, apparently without any effects on the dashboard. Alas.
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by blahedo 15y ago
> The "correct" place to put user data on iOS 5+ is any place that syncs with iCloud. Um? My understanding is that Apple has forbidden developers from storing in cloud-sync areas anything that is re-downloadable or temporary. Instap
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Yet many young people in no way require the amount of health coverage older people do. Why should they be forced to buy into something they don't need? Young people in no way require the amount of health coverage older people do, u
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by blahedo 15y ago
It'd work robustly enough if the links didn't expire, and if we believe other posts on this page, the links are expiring due to memory limits on the system. (The other possibility is a timeout, I guess, which is easily fixed.) If it's run
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by blahedo 15y ago
Well, it's hard to argue against your 25-year-old personal experience and your amazement. Less snarkily: I teach university-level CS, and of the five schools I've had direct involvement with (as student or faculty), all covered GC algorithm
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Any decent CS course covers garbage collectors. In the required core? I'm not so sure that's true. The concept of garbage collection, yes. But garbage collection algorithms would usually be presented in courses like PL or maybe c
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is a bizarre post that is wrong in almost every detail. o "In America, you don't ever see them." This is just screamingly false. There are satellite dishes all over the place in both urban and rural areas all over the country. (Su
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by blahedo 15y ago
> For another thing, these days pixel densities can vary by at least a factor of 3 between devices. It pains me to point this out, but the solution to this particular problem is that CSS has redefined what "pixel" means, or rather, th
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by blahedo 15y ago
I think I need to put together a form email, or possibly a webpage to link to, to send to web designers who pontificate about web design and reaching your audience---on a webpage that doesn't fit in my window AND has disabled my scrollba
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by blahedo 15y ago
From her Twitter feed ( https://twitter.com/#!/TheBloggess ), a different VP of that company posts a lesson learned: "Treat every blogger like they potentially have a dark army at their disposal."

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