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by dbdr 11y ago
Any specific suggestions?
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by dbdr 11y ago
In other words, "is the new goto" is the new "considered harmful"?
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by dbdr 11y ago
Banky's quote reminds me of the movie "99 francs" (2007), which is I think a brilliant take on the world of advertising.
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by dbdr 11y ago
Apparently, the past models did not, because they did not model the long term interaction of the oceans with the atmosphere, and the current "hiatus" is mostly about the atmosphere temperatures, while most of the warming is curren
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by dbdr 11y ago
The examples you are giving are all about sharing the downside. What are the options for the upside?
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by dbdr 11y ago
Quote from the study linked in grandparent: NiMH batteries compared to alkaline batteries cause about 96 times less damage to each of the three damage criteria (for 400 cycles). So even if batteriser allows alkalines to be used 8 times lo
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by dbdr 11y ago
True. But let's not forget how electricity is generated. In the US 68% is generated from fossil fuels (coal and gas). One also (indirectly) burns fossil fuels when driving an electric car.
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by dbdr 12y ago
> Dell used to. I just contacted Dell sales and according to "Hazel" they do not offer any non-Windows OS for consumer products nor will they sell a system sans-OS. They do, it's called "Project Sputnik". It&#x27
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by dbdr 12y ago
If libpng has a new vulnerability discovered, how do you make sure it is fixed in all the apps that bundle it? http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7294/...
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by dbdr 12y ago
http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/01/31/la-grece-se-...
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by dbdr 12y ago
Indeed there are many different kinds of impacts to consider. For instance if you look at CO2 emission per kilo of food, beef emits apparently more than two times more than farmed salmon and more than four times more than canned tuna (sourc
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by dbdr 12y ago
If you can make that material/pictures publicly available (e.g. in a blogpost), I'm sure other people would be interested.
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by dbdr 12y ago
Suppose an opportunity comes up, but the technical debt in your software makes it exceedingly hard to respond to it. Either you still respond to it (with an obvious high cost), or you let the opportunity pass (and you "pay" the op
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by dbdr 12y ago
I see your point about hidden services severely limiting the practical accessibility of the content. But isn't it a good idea to use Tor rather than HTTP(S) to compose that blog in such situation?
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by dbdr 12y ago
Interestingly, i3wm is designed as a successor to wmii and explicitly decided to avoid the Plan 9 aspect. [1] Does someone have examples of cool things you can do in wmii thanks to this? [1] Google Tech Talk about i3: http://www.
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by dbdr 12y ago
Java projects can be compiled to a self contained native binary using http://www.excelsiorjet.com/ (though this is a proprietary tool, with a gratis license option for non-commercial projects). Curious: why is this a requir
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by dbdr 12y ago
The slides on that page are in "OpenDocument Presentation" format (recognized by the 'file' command). You can open them in LibreOffice, for instance.
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by dbdr 12y ago
Where are the tests?
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by dbdr 12y ago
A scientific paper on this topic: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1368064 Its conclusion: "In jurisdictions where cycling is safe, a helmet law is likely to have a large unintended negative heal
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by dbdr 12y ago
Wow, I didn't know about this suicide :( Is the project really dead though? I have no personal experience, but these stats show a growing number of active users: http://pods.jasonrobinson.me/
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by dbdr 12y ago
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119629/ I saw this film a long time ago, and as I remember it was enjoyable and inspiring, so I recommend it as an easy to watch introduction on this topic and era.
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by dbdr 12y ago
tig is (among other things) a more user-friendly tool that can replace git add -p.
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by dbdr 12y ago
Indeed. There are several hundred millions of people living in parts of Europe alone with non QWERTY layouts, based on the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY
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by dbdr 12y ago
> The s/w is not expecting this, and so interprets 7.6E-3 seconds as 7.6 seconds This sounds extremely sloppy, especially for satellite control software. Anything not fitting exactly the expected format should lead to an error so th
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by dbdr 12y ago
> I'd prefer [...] that the patterns were editable (e.g., typing '&' during a filter would show the currently extant filter for modification) If you type '&' then the up arrow, you'll get the previou
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by dbdr 12y ago
This is under this hypothesis: "the interviewer does not learn the actual relative rank of each applicant. He learns only whether the applicant has relative rank 1." I think this is rarely a reasonable hypothesis. Kepler certainly
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by dbdr 12y ago
5) accept donations
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by dbdr 13y ago
These quotes are from the 1997 film Cube [1], not the 1969 The Cube [2] of your rotten tomatoes link. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cube_(film)
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by dbdr 13y ago
I did see remote bots attempting to guess ssh usernames besides root. For instance bob, john, guest, ...