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by darkpuma 8y ago
It's my impression that the vikings were operating some logging camps in North America, so a marketing ploy to get more laborers seems plausible.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "building repeaters" In other words glorified wifi, except the AP is no longer owned or controlled by me.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I don't understand the IoT craze. My light switches work just fine, and if I really wanted to operate them remotely, I'd just get a clapper. A clapper is a lot more convenient than pulling out my smartphone and poking at the s
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The problem with powerpoint is it doesn't give people leverage, which is to say it doesn't make poor presenters better at presenting. I've never even seen evidence of it making good presenters better at presenting.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "It was impossible to tell how much damage this foam had caused hitting the wing nine times faster than a fired bullet." This figure is GROSSLY inaccurate. From: https://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Troxel
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by darkpuma 8y ago
That doesn't seem to quite square with them being reassigned. In Ham's particular example: > "Ham's attitude, and her dismissal of dissenting points of view from engineers, was identified as part of a larger cultura
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I find uMatrix+uBO (with uMatrix set to block everything by default and uBlock Origin set to it's default easy mode) to be best setup. Ads virtually never get through, and most websites don't need javascript at all to read the a
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Difference what powerpoint allows you to do and what you can do with a static PDF on the projector. The extra that powerpoint offers you is virtually useless; a bunch of flash with little substance. Hardly any justification for its existe
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The only sane arguments against banning tobacco entirely are related to organized crime. I assert that there is no risk of cartels re-implementing the dark patterns of facebook. This libertarian rhetorical meme of reducing every instanc
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I agree, I think these professional archivists are letting perfect be the enemy of good enough. There is no real reason they couldn't give a large team of interns armed with smartphones a crash course in how to turn the pages of a bo
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Maybe the sovereignty of the Vatican should be clawed back. I wouldn't be the first of Mussolini's decisions to be undone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Treaty
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by darkpuma 8y ago
NASA once accidentally depressurized a man while testing space suits in a vacuum chamber. He lost consciousness in less than 15 seconds, but fully recovered after depressurization. He reported feeling his saliva boil which is... exciting.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Portion control means serving yourself less, but failing that, it means stopping when you're full, not continuing to eat what you've served yourself in the name of preventing food waste. Once you start doing that, you reinforce t
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I'm not a biologist but I believe the pressures should be equalized inside and out. The problem humans have with pressure is mostly related to humans being filled with gasses. Contrary to popular belief, humans don't explode whe
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Poor portion control plays a large role in it. A great many people simply eat way too much.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Right, lending money without interest is pretty common within families and trusted friendships. But obviously the amount of credit available loan free from friends or family is going to be significantly less than what a financial instituti
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by darkpuma 8y ago
If anything, Americans should be throwing out even more food. With the astronomical obesity rates, I don't think we should be encouraging people to finish what's on their plate. If that seems wasteful to you, then I assert you&#
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Pigs eat anything . Well, maybe not rocks. I'm not sure about that though, they might still try.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
If they don't have compressible gasses in them, I don't see why they shouldn't. There would be gas dissolved in the water inside them that would have to be dealt with I suppose. But the water itself is damn near in-compre
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Do you know if GLONASS is also being spoofed in these same areas?
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by darkpuma 8y ago
In cases where the file is written and read by the program, without the expectation that the user will typically edit or read the file by hand, sqlite is something that should be considered. A sqlite file isn't an ascii text file that
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "- xml contain comments, sooner or later someone will try to add data to comments, but you already have the thing for data, the format itself, adding data to comments is stupid" That's easily the worst argument against
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> " It isn't profitable because fossil fuels are artificially cheap " Not that cheap. In the aforementioned metal recycling example, the energy is typically coming from fossil fuels too; refining aluminum from ore take
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Don't be ridiculous, HN is a bastion of rationality. Comparing breaking government computers to reveal war crimes with burglarizing your personal home convinces you to take the matter personally. This is how rational dispassionate
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Why should a gif begin playing if you can't see it?
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by darkpuma 8y ago
9 times out of 10, news websites don't require javascript enabled at all to read the text of the article. I strongly recommend blocking all javascript (including first party) by default then building up a whitelist over time. uMatr
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by darkpuma 8y ago
That 'feature' does nothing. I've tried everything, but getting youtube to stop suggesting to me videos from Jimmy Fallon or Conan Obrian or any of those other 'lame obsolete-format "late night" shows for tep
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Light weight satellite construction will still be a very high priority because making the structure of the satellite lighter extends its operational lifespan. The reason is attitude control. Reaction wheels can be used to orient the satell
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "Bot comments" Pretty obviously. Gods know why though.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I prefer to see if those users will come forward and comment on this without being named directly. However, if you're genuinely curious, algolia brings up plenty of examples pretty regularly. In particular I am thinking of a discussi

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