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by drinian 17y ago
Rikaichan -- remarkably detailed Japanese - English dictionary (hover over words to show definitions) http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
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by drinian 17y ago
Even more remarkable, its generator was powered by a highly-efficient Stirling external-combustion engine. It is worth noting, however, that this isn't a "hybrid" in the same way as the Prius or Insight. The drive train is much simpler and
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by drinian 17y ago
Microsoft apparently has done a number of studies on Powershell usability, but I don't think they've published the results: http://www.google.com/search?q=powershell+usability+study
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by drinian 17y ago
I just wanted to point out this tangential comment from the article, which contains a really good point about data persistence: "But in an orthogonal scheme you save it all, indiscriminately. The problem is not so much that it's bulky, thou
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by drinian 17y ago
There are many old-line industries, especially when lots of money is involved, where computers have not been used to their full advantage yet; right now they're just used as electronic filing cabinets with better auditing and retention than
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by drinian 17y ago
Hopefully they will fare better than Rocket Guy: http://ask.metafilter.com/72873/What-happened-to-Brian-Walke... He was planning a H2O2-based suborbital launch. Guess he chickened out.
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by drinian 17y ago
I was there at the launch! Some of the ingenuity that went into building a model rocket of this size is remarkable. Talking to some of the folks involved afterwards, it turns out that the mechanism to separate the rocket into two parts at a
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by drinian 17y ago
So long as they still allow unlocked phones with removable SIMs, I guess there's probably a place for this in very small devices or something.
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by drinian 17y ago
It's not unreasonable to say that you can run Windows XP without antivirus, assuming that you are a competent computer user and keep Windows Update going. Once you have a virus, you will have to reformat to guarantee a clean system anyway;
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by drinian 17y ago
Similar in spirit: Bemmu posted this idea on Hacker News some time ago, but to the best of my understanding, he had to pull out. http://www.coworkthailand.com/
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by drinian 18y ago
The reasoning offered for this law is that communications infrastructure is too important to let go, and therefore the President should be allowed to ignore privacy laws in "emergencies." Does a similar law exist for the postal service, sud
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by drinian 18y ago
Excusing peer-to-peer file-sharing because it falls under the nebulous cloud of "non-commercial" use seems ridiculous. Espousing a social-contract model for copyright doesn't suddenly mean that only the end-users get to dictate the terms of
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by drinian 18y ago
I'm sorry, I thought that the CS computer lab was for doing CS work. Yes, there's some stuff you probably should have had available -- automount and a better print manager come to mind. But, really, what are you doing in CS classes that can
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by drinian 18y ago
The Firefox extension LeechBlock is a much more effective tool, mostly because it is somewhat harder to circumvent and has more options: http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html I use it extensively for time-based lockouts.
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by drinian 18y ago
Yes and no; the BBC is perceived as independent even while publicly funded; so are NPR and PBS, to a much lesser extent.
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by drinian 18y ago
Breck, is that you on the left side of the picture? Glad to see you're doing well. (This is Drew, who used to run DULUG back in the day when you were working on Free Culture stuff).
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by drinian 18y ago
Unfortunately, my experience seems to be that very few wireless manufacturers are really willing to make their hardware "open." This problem seems to have hit OpenMoko as well; I'm guessing this is why they don't have 3G. So it'll probably
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by drinian 18y ago
Especially since he explicitly eschews "reductive" biological evidence.
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by drinian 18y ago
Boxee is under no obligation to pay local affiliates. Hulu clearly has the geolocation ability to make that happen, if they really wanted to. All that Boxee does is provide a specialized Web browser that happens to be more useful than Firef
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by drinian 18y ago
In summary: Content providers are Luddite control freaks, but without their material Hulu is nothing, so we have to be the ones to convince them otherwise. I wish that they had posted some contact info for the content providers who made thi
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by drinian 18y ago
There are few societies that don't teach respect for parents in some form. The difference seems to be that there are many fewer obligations on the parents in the Confucian model; in the extreme version as related in the article, children ar
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by drinian 18y ago
You know, I went to a top-tier private school in the US, followed by a top-tier private university, and I never understood the obsession with getting As in everything. I certainly wasn't, especially once at university, but I didn't feel lik
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by drinian 18y ago
Perhaps you should read this article, "How Singapore Rigs its Elections." It's only showing up in Google Cache right now, and I have to wonder why. The rest of Knife Tricks is still up. http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:xcGwQS3twnsJ:knif
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by drinian 18y ago
Also, it's "Mercurial." "Mercury" is the former name of a pretty awful commercial bug tracker now known as HP Quality Center.
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by drinian 18y ago
Expanding on the issue of finding bugs, everyone should check out git's "bisect" feature for when regressions crop up: http://lwn.net/Articles/317154/
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by drinian 18y ago
When I was in Tokyo in 2007, there were several billboards near my hostel with a well dressed man on them, and the caption was something like (bludgeoning it here) "トキょ　ダンヂイ？" which transliterates to "Tokyo Dandy?" My impression is that it'
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by drinian 18y ago
It would be more interesting if he talked about the details of his lifestyle, for instance showers, etc. Also, it seems like sneaking into youth hostels without paying crosses some kind of ethical line; sleeping in your office at university
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by drinian 18y ago
All I know is that he didn’t want money. He wanted access. Cash isn’t always the most important currency.
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by drinian 18y ago
Interesting starting point to a real problem with "genius," but not a great strategy. If she's arguing that internalizing blame for not being constantly brilliant or being able to maximize your brilliance puts undue stress on amazing people
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by drinian 18y ago
It seems that one lesson to take away is that there's more to "public works" than just construction. Technology and science development, for one. However, having been to Japan, I can say that, along with all the "waste" in rural areas, they

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