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by coldacid 8y ago
So rather than feed Intuit, you'll feed Google? EDIT: Ignore this comment, poster threw ID-10T exception
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by coldacid 8y ago
Rather than slang, it's more appropriate to call it argot[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argot
513.
by coldacid 8y ago
"Refusing to comply with the law" sounds like assisted suicide is mandated, when it's really a voluntary thing. As it is, where are there even still private, religious hospitals in the country? At least here in Ontario hospit
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by coldacid 8y ago
To add even more nuance, even protected mode 16-bit Windows ran Windows apps in v86 mode. Essentially protected mode was a hypervisor you could launch from DOS and your actual Windows session would run on top of that. Before the VT-x extens
515.
by coldacid 8y ago
There hasn't been one.
516.
by coldacid 8y ago
Or imprisoned locally indefinitely.
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by coldacid 8y ago
I love my Yubikey for SSH auth, but it's a complete pain in the ass that gpg-agent and OpenSSH won't play together on Windows. I and others have tried to make broker apps that let them talk with each other but to no avail thanks t
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by coldacid 8y ago
It's certainly unambiguous! It's just not idiomatic at all.
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by coldacid 8y ago
Leibniz would be pleased, it sounds like his monads might be making a comeback.
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by coldacid 8y ago
So Automattic is pulling an Amazon with their Jetpack plugin? Colour me unsurprised.
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EU's latest move to stifle the internet: The Terrorist Content Regulation(techdirt.com)
2 points by coldacid 8y ago|0 comments
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by coldacid 8y ago
Getting rid of padding bytes would be great were it not for the number of processor families that _require_ multi-byte types to be aligned in some way. Even processors that don't require alignment tend to perform better with alignment.
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Microsoft kills off the book store you probably didn’t know it had(arstechnica.com)
2 points by coldacid 8y ago|0 comments
524.
by coldacid 8y ago
There are still ten or so of us on Diaspora.
525.
by coldacid 8y ago
Sure sucks to live in New Zealand right now, doesn't it?
526.
by coldacid 8y ago
To me, "little green men" meant aliens.
527.
by coldacid 8y ago
My guess is that with the restoration of name and insignia of the Royal Canadian Navy, various traditions that had been dropped or elided from unification onwards were also brought back. Paying off of stone frigates probably changed in cere
528.
by coldacid 8y ago
Except that Japanese eras actually go back to approximately 645 AD, and some emperors reigned through multiple eras and others shared eras (Emperor Meiji himself began his rule in Keio year 3, and it wasn't until Keio year 4 that that
529.
by coldacid 8y ago
Quite amused to see that Presto card! Always great to see something done here in Ontario. On the other hand, the privacy/security implications of this are very frightening.
530.
by coldacid 8y ago
How often would keys be rotated, and can that be done from the ground? And then, the nightmare of ensuring that updated certs for the keys get rolled out to all the devices so they don't all panic and say that the GPS isn't workin
531.
by coldacid 8y ago
That's why astral navigation is better, at least if you can be above the clouds. It's much, much harder to change the stars in the sky!
532.
by coldacid 8y ago
Bob is either a brown-noser or a complete turncoat. Don't be like Bob.
533.
by coldacid 8y ago
Unfortunately, most court cases involving businesses don't involve facts of law as much as they involve having more money to fling at lawyers.
534.
by coldacid 8y ago
I wish my dad was still that clever and he's almost two decades younger. Your dad is awesome.
535.
by coldacid 8y ago
Just have to make sure to fill up on helium, not hydrogen.
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by coldacid 8y ago
My guess is that anyone in the USA who doesn't do business in Europe will be able to get away with saying "F you" to the EU.
537.
by coldacid 8y ago
I'm pretty pissed with TD's complete unwillingness to switch to a better 2FA scheme than SMS codes. Hell, even TOTP would be an improvement.
538.
by coldacid 8y ago
Different model animals are picked for different types of medical studies, or at least they are supposed to be, based on similarities between the model and humans within the context of the functionalities under test.
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by coldacid 8y ago
I think that comes in under GP's exception for server images.
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by coldacid 8y ago
Yep. It's never been a better time to go BSD instead.

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