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by cxseven 11y ago
Sure, and it's often used to heat up things like Hot Pockets. For this reason and scary radiation , the microwave is heaped with undeserved disrepute. This is unfortunate for another big reason: it's one of the most convenient wa
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by cxseven 11y ago
Microwaving cooks food without generating as much carcinogenic char as other methods, so it can actually be healthier. Relatedly, freezing is the healthiest way to preserve and transport fruits and vegetables. It also allows them to be harv
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by cxseven 11y ago
Do you mean this annotation? http://genius.com/8083073
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by cxseven 11y ago
Yes, though once there are enough of them on the road, they could be made to help each other out. In fact, they could make it so that human drivers are at a disadvantage.
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by cxseven 11y ago
My theory is that this has something to do with the average Googler's tenure lasting 3 years. With such a high turnover, the overwhelming majority of employees are probably much happier achieving the supposed glory of making something
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by cxseven 11y ago
| If she really was concerned about the faculty's control over students she wouldn't herself have tried to influence the students That doesn't follow. Furthermore, she was signing her single name to her response to a letter s
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by cxseven 11y ago
The frat incident happened two days after the email that provoked the ire, for what it's worth. Also, the email seemed to be the main point of contention in the videos on 11/5: https://www.thefire.org/yale-students
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by cxseven 11y ago
Did we read the same email? It's at https://www.thefire.org/email-from-erika-christakis-dressing... "I don’t wish to trivialize genuine concerns about cultural and personal representation, and other challenges to
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by cxseven 11y ago
Don't forget that UTC has leap seconds, too. This may not cause problems for trains, but it does for servers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8839458 TAI is like UTC but without leap seconds.
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by cxseven 11y ago
Consider the UDP-based QUIC protocol that Chrome now supports. From http://blog.chromium.org/2015/04/a-quic-update-on-googles-ex... : "For latency-sensitive services like web search, the largest gains come fro
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by cxseven 11y ago
Not only do the accused have to face the possible penalty of a conviction, they also have to face the penalty of mounting a defense. Public defenders are so swamped that the cost of a competent defense would almost surely ruin the average f
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by cxseven 11y ago
Fake virus warnings also sucker a lot of older people. Putting them on Chromebooks kills a lot of birds with one stone.
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by cxseven 11y ago
On some old systems, I remember that env vars of other UIDs could be seen, even if you weren't root. I wonder if that's still true for any systems out there.
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by cxseven 11y ago
It'll be nice when it becomes cheap and easy to live stream video from a cellphone to multiple viewers and secure storage.
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by cxseven 11y ago
What happens if all versions someone has are expired?
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by cxseven 11y ago
There's a retrospective on WarGames that's even better than the CS Monitor Hackers article at http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16... WarGames was another case of life imitat
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by cxseven 11y ago
It captures an optimistic spirit of the culture about as well as Hunter S. Thompson talking about the middle 60s: DUKE (V/O): Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. (he gets up, pours himself a drink.) DUKE (V/O): Ha
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by cxseven 11y ago
Why not filter out those 80 with a dead-simple (fizzbuzz level) online quiz? In my experience it was enormously difficult to find qualified candidates, especially if HR or recruiters were allowed to pre-filter candidates using relatively su
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by cxseven 11y ago
It should be roughly as hard as cracking a hash of 1024 bits, i.e. very hard.
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by cxseven 11y ago
This is what I was remembering: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6940/discuss There was (and might still be) an escape sequence that allowed setting the xterm title, and another sequence that caused that title to
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by cxseven 11y ago
like wslh said, more can be done. I seem to recall that characters can be bounced into the tty's input.
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by cxseven 11y ago
One thing Google Reader did great was "sort by magic" where it somehow knew VERY well according to my individual tastes what article I'd be most interested in reading from my massive set of subscriptions. Feedly and other rea
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by cxseven 11y ago
I think he meant the author was bemoaning the demise of the rise of decentralization.
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by cxseven 11y ago
Groupthink takes hold on Reddit even without tailored sorting. In fact, I suspect allowing more isolation between factions would allow for a diversity of opinions to brew in those pockets, with the good ideas inevitably metastasizing to the
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by cxseven 11y ago
That's too bad. I'd especially like to see how it'd work on comments, where I'd try to teach reddit to avoid in-jokes. As for Amazon, maybe its recommendations are intentionally unrefined, like how Target discovered it n
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by cxseven 11y ago
Instead of spending energy on preventing people from patting each other on their back, I think it'd be more efficient to spend it on not having to watch them do it. Those who are patting backs in order for others to watch would wind
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by cxseven 11y ago
It would be cool if Reddit's karma and upvoting worked more like Netflix's DVD recommendations: tailored to each person. Rather than the surfaced comments being a function of raw upvote count, the upvotes could count for or agains
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by cxseven 11y ago
I'm looking forward to something like this rescuing a few harddrive platters.
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by cxseven 11y ago
I'd guess that a lot of those sites permit password reset via email verification, in which case a lot of your eggs are in one basket anyway. In fact, considering that SMTP is even less robust versus encryption downgrade attacks than HT
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by cxseven 11y ago
Yes, and a single irrational power of a non-zero number has an infinite set of possible values to choose from.

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