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by cbd1984 11y ago
Huh. I'm running it on a Linux machine with a Core i5 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210M CPU @ 2.60GHz according to /proc/cpuinfo), and it's a bit CPU-intensive (it makes my laptop's fan kick into gear) but it's smoot
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If they weren't making a profit, they wouldn't act the same way; for example, if they weren't making a profit, they wouldn't have any incentive to publish vanity journals. > And again, there is nothing stopping anyone
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by cbd1984 11y ago
To add on to a sibling comment, it's the default browser for FreeDOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Uh, no, it mostly means "insane hypothesis which no amount of evidence can disprove but which some people will believe in regardless", such as the conspiracy theory that Jews perpetrated 9/11 or that vaccines cause autism or
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Dillo by default doesn't show pages if they're being served up using SSL: http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q12 > First of all, beware that this is a prototype in alpha state. It will only provide for very basic we
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by cbd1984 11y ago
OK, now explain ATM-to-the-desktop. Not what, but why: I know what ATM is, I just don't understand why I'd want an internal networking protocol designed to mix voice and data transmissions using short cells running right to my des
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by cbd1984 11y ago
You run into a bootstrapping problem: The information you find first determines which information you see as credible later, so you might end up having to unlearn a lot of bullshit before you actually get up to speed. A good teacher will, i
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by cbd1984 11y ago
You know what would be nice? If there were a good place to learn which technologies were dead, dying, or had gone niche instead of becoming mainstream. Your rant implies ATM is in one of those categories, but it's surprisingly hard to
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> when I hear college students complain that a teacher "isn't a clear lecturer" or "didn't answer my question well," my tendency is to say "there's a book and an Internet out there, suck it up and
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> It should be pointed out that most US-based oligo synthesis companies will screen orders for potentially "dangerous" sequences. Static analysis, in other words. Enumerating badness. Schneier would not be pleased. I wouldn&#x2
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Wouldn't modern theocrats just ignore or discredit it? If they did, so what? It isn't like they could suppress it. > Suppose Americans found a "true" first version of the Constitution that clearly outlawed privat
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I feel compelled to mention here that archives and libraries aren't the same thing. Libraries do (or should do) collections management, whereby the librarians go through the records and find out which resources aren't being used a
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It was meant to; the language of the King James Version was archaic and formal even in its own time, and for precisely the reason you mention. Of course, it's become so ingrained in our culture that the language of the KJV sounds relig
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by cbd1984 11y ago
"Allow the little children"; the original text is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." which is much clearer. https://www.bibleg
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Immediate response: > President Clinton — young, smart, dynamic, the first president whom I understood politically (one of us, I thought) — demanded that Nixon be judged on nothing "less than his entire life and career." Notice
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> What proof do you have the article wasn't written for physicists, engineers or anyone else so technically trained? It's defining the term 'electricity', for a start.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Ah, you're an anti-atheist using a stupid strawman to attempt to argue against the idea that morality can have a source other than divine commands. Most religious people aren't as stupid as you seem to be, so I doubt you'll f
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by cbd1984 11y ago
OK, what's Intel missing for high-performance servers? They've got respectable performance, they've got VT-x and all the other virtualization hardware, what's missing?
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A Real Programmer can write BASICA in any language!
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As she said, her famous "debugging" story is likely the first time the bug was caused by an actual arthropod. (A moth in a relay in a truly large piece of big iron.) I think it's interesting that this folk etymology has had s
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by cbd1984 11y ago
A lot of Americans use the 24-hour format by default.
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Telephone wires are already largely underground. What you see are power transmission lines. That's why the transformers are up there, too. I can only imagine it would be rather hazardous to have power transmission lines buried undergro
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> You are (party to) using the state to withhold justly earned economic value from your landlord. The state is what allows a landlord to be a landlord in the first place, by making a society stable enough that property ownership is a mat
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by cbd1984 11y ago
By that logic, we shouldn't be building houses, but hospitals, homeless shelters, orphanages, and retirement homes. After all, what kind of a monster tears down those things?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If you have enough on the ball to do something like that, instead of operating on pure emotion, you're not going to fall for a lot of these scams anyway.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10349115 That article is questionable at best.
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When I upgrade OpenSSL, I want to upgrade one package and have everything get the benefit. I do not want anything I think is secure to be insecure because its encryption code wasn't actually upgraded. That goes for other packages,
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Sounds like you're a power user, not a novice. Smile when you say that. ;) "Power user", to me, means someone who knows a lot of trivia about specific software but no underlying theory; none of their knowledge transfers
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This post alone shows enough misunderstanding of economics to discredit you on the subject.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I find git extremely usable, and I despise IDEs that hide anything from me. Every hidden thing is a thing that, when it goes wrong, I can't fix. Something "goes wrong" when it's either not working as designed, or it&#x27

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