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by bloat 12y ago
The point being made here is that if I run an xterm on your machine (forwarded to the X server on my machine), then you can now access everything happening in the X server on my machine.
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Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat(theguardian.com)
17 points by bloat 12y ago|13 comments
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by bloat 12y ago
Is it possible that when you try and recreate your image from scratch, the code you have pasted into your editor is not sufficient to recreate the image? Maybe you pasted some things in the wrong order, or maybe you redefined a function, bu
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Britain’s most racist election: the story of Smethwick, 50 years on(theguardian.com)
1 points by bloat 12y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 12y ago
But can you remember (or derive) a password for every site you visit, without having to go somewhere else anyway (lastpass perhaps)?
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by bloat 12y ago
I second the recommendation below to read Graeber's "Debt". It is really a fabulous book, and can help explain why many people in many cultures feel as you do, who benefits from that belief, but also how debt has never histor
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by bloat 12y ago
For a peak into the future: go on the Metropolitan / Hammersmith & City line. They already have them there.
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by bloat 12y ago
How is Pollen ( http://pollenpub.com/ ) coming along? Have there been any more books written using it, apart from Butterick’s Practical Typography ( http://practicaltypography.com/ )?
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by bloat 12y ago
This does not invalidate your point of course, but note that the article describes one of the tests some of these drives have passed: write a large file and power the drive off for a week and then check the file.
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Introducing Collar(theguardian.com)
2 points by bloat 12y ago|1 comments
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by bloat 12y ago
I also couldn't see the little Gaulish village we know so well.
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by bloat 12y ago
Whether you believe that or not, the actual point of the article is that a white child behaving that way is much more likely to remain in school than a black child.
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How to fix California? Make six of them, says billionaire Tim Draper(theguardian.com)
1 points by bloat 12y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 12y ago
This is not a serious article. It is a rant. "The population at large is, statistically speaking, not very bright. Many are deranged from overuse of alcohol or drugs."
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The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control(theguardian.com)
13 points by bloat 12y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 12y ago
"some of the worlds most driven, focussed, intelligent and inspiring individuals" It's quite possible that a company does not contain any people like this. This article seems to assume a lot about a large group of random prog
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by bloat 12y ago
Leipzig is a application on top of Overtone which works at a similar level to The Music Suite i.e. scales, keys, phrases, melodies. https://github.com/ctford/leipzig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_k
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by bloat 12y ago
That's not much different here to the hello world in the article. Lets see... You import some stuff... check. You create an instance... check. You define a route... check. You define a method to implement the route... check. You return
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by bloat 12y ago
You, and the parent of my comment, are not backing up your arguments. I posted a reasoned comment which does not worship the power of private enterprise, and asserts that the public sphere is better at some things than private wealth. This
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by bloat 12y ago
"No, we do not." Why not? If I am rich enough to have my pick of the best researchers and doctors, and to divert their attention to a disease or condition of my choosing, then shouldn't there be some oversight of that? Perhap
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A modern list library for Emacs(github.com)
1 points by bloat 12y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 13y ago
Not sure where you're getting this. The article says they currently do a lot of Ruby work, and they're moving to Clojure for most new back-end projects. It also talks about how Trapperkeeper works with Clojure, JRuby and Java modu
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by bloat 13y ago
You don't have to outlaw homebrew vehicles. The car already has to pass an inspection to be allowed on the road. I guess, if it doesn't already, that the inspection will soon have to include that any safety critical software is un
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by bloat 13y ago
Why would a poor person move anywhere? The most likely reason is that they had an offer of employment, or maybe the hope of getting one.
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by bloat 13y ago
I like Fowler's explanation. http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...
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by bloat 13y ago
I expect so. But of course you get to choose whether to use it or not. If you want something done your way - then just start, and inform people what they should do to back you up. If you want someone else to take care of all the thinking fo
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by bloat 13y ago
Thats true, but my son has enjoyed typing in "moving asterisk" games from an old VIC20 book into an emulator, and has enjoyed playing them too. He would still rather play on an iPad though. Oh well.
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by bloat 13y ago
Many people, myself included, cut their teeth on machines where graphics were far from easy. Most of my early programs on the VIC20 and C64 were text adventures, and occasionaly I'd get into some games where the graphics were as exciti
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The 30 greatest video games that time forgot(theguardian.com)
3 points by bloat 13y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 13y ago
Why should it be cool? Why can't it just be useful? There are many, many uncool people in the world, or people who couldn't care less what is cool, and who just want to keep in touch with some mates, or find out when the next meet

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