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by danaliv 9y ago
Twitter is not journalism. And as you yourself have pointed out, Trump is one of the most powerful people on earth—meaning he has at his disposal more platforms than any of us can even dream of. Twitter can no more "police his speech&q
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by danaliv 9y ago
It's not the aircraft they're worried about, it's the cellular network. The phones-in-airplane-mode rule is an FCC thing, not FAA.
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A certain Indian MP tried to play the female president card with me. I pointed out that the election of Barack Obama had hardly heralded the end of racism in my own country.
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by danaliv 9y ago
Absolutely agree. India is a huge place. I may not have been strong enough in my caveats: this was a delegation with a specific purpose and fixed meetings; we visited two regions only; the use of the word "local"; and obviously no
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by danaliv 9y ago
Indeed. When I visited India on a delegation to learn about these very issues, I was told that the local elementary schools didn't even have girls' bathrooms, that young women can't attend the entrance exam prep classes becau
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by danaliv 9y ago
University of Illinois Springfield offers a BS: https://csc.uis.edu/online-undergraduate-admission You can save major bucks by doing your gen ed at a community college and then transferring. (Edit: just noticed you already
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by danaliv 9y ago
I've gone deep in the hole on Z80 emulation more than a few times as a result of my all-time favorite video game (Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System). I wrote some debugger emulators just to step through the game's code and a
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by danaliv 9y ago
I highly recommend Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft , which includes a discussion of how kids are railroaded into college even though it makes no sense for everyone to go. The destruction of vocational schools is a real prob
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by danaliv 9y ago
> Some (many?) would like to see a government funded system Depending on how the debt situation falls out, we might already have that. :-\
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by danaliv 9y ago
Do you mean more Soviets died fighting the war than Jews were rounded up and exterminated? Because that is not at all the same thing.
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by danaliv 9y ago
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -William Paley
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by danaliv 9y ago
Not to get all "when I was your age we walked uphill both ways and we liked it," but I really do think the frenetic pace of software updates across the whole industry these days is insane. In web software I see companies releasing
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by danaliv 9y ago
I will never understand this trope of "pointers are hard to understand." Yes, they can get you in trouble if used without care. But hard to understand? What's so hard to understand about an address?
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by danaliv 9y ago
Those things screamed. We made the M68k → PPC jump with a 7100, and I used to sit there just opening and closing windows in awe of how fast it was.
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And right at the time of year when techies are going home for the holidays to do tech support. Brilliant!
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by danaliv 9y ago
I looked into joining a crew on the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers once and I remember being told that long-distance sailing is less about sailing and more about making repairs at sea. Controlling the boat seems like the easy (I know, "ea
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by danaliv 9y ago
Depends on the keyboard I suppose; if you want to remap keys I recommend Karabiner: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ I use it with my WASD custom and it works great.
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by danaliv 9y ago
I didn't think her English was limited at all. Are you just hearing her accent?
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You might want to get your color vision checked!
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Here's one. https://imgur.com/a/Z5jwl
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Decline and fall: how American society unravelled (2013)(theguardian.com)
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& is simply a ligature of et, is it not?
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by danaliv 9y ago
If the writer has records of his interactions with Nintendo, in particular his goodwill in returning the extra Switch, there isn't a judge on Earth who would take Nintendo's lawyers seriously on this.
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by danaliv 9y ago
Was it though? Gmail is just a frontend to a system of services running in a data center. All Gmail does on our computers is display data, accept commands, and relay those commands to a server.
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by danaliv 9y ago
Leaving everything and, more importantly, everyone you know is not an easy choice to make. There are many, many reasons—human reasons that pure economics can't capture—to stay in a place. A sense of home. Social support. Simple attachm
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by danaliv 9y ago
Only 250M. ONLY 250M. Gives up and dies I don't mean to be dramatic but this is a huge part of the problem. How is it that the exact same application (email) ran perfectly well on systems with 1M of RAM (and no virtual memory!) and
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by danaliv 9y ago
I am suddenly very uncomfortable, imagining myself as a roiling blob of goo.
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> Regulatory compliance. > there are plenty of regulations in certain setting that require us to disallow client applications from auto-filling form fields. And which regulations would those be, specifically?
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by danaliv 9y ago
> Apple has a strong brand… because it’s consistently been building good products since the 1980s This writer wasn't using Macs in the '90s. Not crucial to the argument, I know, but seriously, Apple was famously inconsisten
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by danaliv 9y ago
It's not the mass, it's the wing loading—the amount of mass being supported by a given area of wing. Airplanes with lower wing loadings get battered around more than those with high wing loadings.

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