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by dnr 10y ago
Completely agreed. I disable my trackpad and use the nipple exclusively. (And am stuck with thinkpads because of that preference. But I like my new X1 so I'm not too sad about that.) As for the keyboard, my favorite was the "old t
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by dnr 10y ago
I just got a 4th gen X1 and installed Ubuntu 16.10 on it. Everything's been great so far. Wifi has been working fine. The only weirdness I've noticed is a few background chrome tab crashes. Perhaps something with the gpu? I had to
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by dnr 10y ago
Yup :( My email is <first name><middle initial>@gmail.com (six characters total) and I get about 1-1.5 misdirected emails per day. Receipts, phone bills, homework, meeting minutes, personal messages that someone passed away, ang
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by dnr 10y ago
I recently turned on 2FA on a bunch of accounts (nine total) and ran into the same problem. My solution was to save the initialization QR codes and print them on a piece of paper (actually three copies, stored in separate locations). This i
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by dnr 10y ago
My favorite "secret" vim feature, that no one has mentioned yet: set scrolloff=999 That will keep the cursor in the middle of the window always, except at the start and end of the file. Before discovering that I used to `
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by dnr 10y ago
Unless they dally for a year or two, then hold another referendum: given the age demographics of the vote, even a year or two of old people dying off and young ones coming of age is probably enough to shift it back (and it's even possi
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by dnr 11y ago
It's even worse: as he himself said in his second paragraph, he has no personal experience with Tinder at all, it's all from "from speaking to people who use Tinder"! This is the most aggravating thing, even beyond the c
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by dnr 11y ago
Please don't generalize outside of areas that you have experience with. In the gay community (male at least), tinder is more relationship-oriented than your description (because there are already many other apps for hooking up).
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by dnr 11y ago
There's another way it wouldn't work: if the pent-up demand is so large that it would take an impractical number of units to make any dent in the non-luxury market price. It's possible that this is the case: I read about one
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by dnr 11y ago
Hah, I just read that a few weeks ago and that's the first thing I thought of also. I wonder if the author was a member/participant in this.
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by dnr 11y ago
I think the OP meant ten months per year, or in general, a fixed fraction of the period that the property tax is assessed over.
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by dnr 11y ago
Yes! The first time I used the mobile app I literally spent five minutes trying to figure out how to play an album in the correct order, until I eventually realized I could hit play on the first song. Definitely a huge wtf. Does anyone at S
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by dnr 11y ago
The spotify queue system is just awful. Various examples: - I can't just put music in the queue to play and then stop with an empty queue. There always has to be something in "next tracks", either an album or a playlist. - I
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by dnr 11y ago
I had some raw whale meat in Norway, and it was really delicious. A lot like beef tartare. Not gamey at all, as the article implied. (They have quotas on the number of whales that can be killed, and this meat was legally harvested, or at le
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by dnr 11y ago
I've built most of a very similar thing, for similar reasons. I recently moved the software to a CHIP instead of a Raspberry Pi, so I could buy a bunch of them and put one or two in each room. The MXL AC404 is really expensive if you h
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by dnr 11y ago
It can handle a single incognito session per profile. If you start another one from a window belonging to a different profile, you'll get a different session. (And you can tell them apart because they copy some of the theming and appea
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by dnr 11y ago
Lyft Line (the thing where you share with other people) is capped at $6 within a decent size swath of SF. Muni is $2.25 and Bart is $1.95 for within the same general area. I think that's where the $4 came from.
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by dnr 11y ago
Add me to the HN/Subspace club: I played quite a bit of it starting from the end of beta (~'97) and also got pretty involved in the bot/modding/development scene that rose up after VIE left the picture. Some of the best
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by dnr 11y ago
Can I join? :) I've tasted a few of those but always happy to try more rye. And yes, what I had in mind with my original comment was mostly Willett, and the fantastic Rocky Mountain Rye 21yr.
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by dnr 11y ago
While your comment is technically correct, I think you're discounting the huge amount of value added by barrel selection and blending. I agree companies should probably be more transparent about it (maybe call it "independent bott
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by dnr 11y ago
I'm just using razberry as an api to send z-wave commands and occasionally get status updates. I'm writing all my own logic and scripting and stuff in my web front-end (using coffeescript on node). I'm sure I'm duplicati
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by dnr 11y ago
I signed up for spotify for now. They're doing a promo so you get the first three months of premium for $1. I like some things about the interface better, some things worse. Overall, I wish rdio wasn't closing, but spotify seems l
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by dnr 11y ago
Another vote for Z-Wave. As others have said, the lack of being "open" means that stuff actually interoperates. I'm using a Razberry with an older Raspberry Pi as the controller, and Linear brand in-wall dimmers and lamp modu
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by dnr 11y ago
Nope. Since I signed up for rdio several years ago, I listen to much much more music than I did before. If I was listening only to stuff I owned, I'd get sick of it pretty fast. People who listen only to music you own: isn't it re
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by dnr 11y ago
[If anyone else is reading this: warning, spoilers!] It would have been more satisfying to me if the dialog on the mountain was actually important in the context of the story at all. It was enlightening to the reader, but when Erasmus got t
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by dnr 11y ago
Hah. I actually just had this conversation earlier today with a friend (who I know is interested in this stuff): Me: Have you read Anathem? A decent chunk of the book and the plot is all about orbital mechanics. Him: No, but have you read S
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by dnr 11y ago
You might want to take a look at my solution: http://dnr.im/tech/articles/dotstuff/ It lets you mix platform-specific bits in the middle of a file, do basic macro substitution, and some other things. (Now tha
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by dnr 11y ago
I was on a civil trial jury for a very similar situation. Construction worker 30 years ago, exposed to asbestos, lung cancer. Oh, and also a lifelong smoker. Originally sued ~30 companies, whittled down to 3 by the time the trial started, 1
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by dnr 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_violence_research Not to mention all the (I think justifiable) talk currently about how violent rhetoric from politi
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by dnr 11y ago
Right, and if it were possible for a "good person" to prove that they have been the target of illegal surveillance, they would have standing and they could challenge the law without creating any unfortunate situations. The problem

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