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by duaneb 10y ago
It depends entirely on the version. The version I learned insinuated the lady in the lake did something to the sword in the stone after Arthur threw it in.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I don't know what to say other than The Windows brand was permanently damaged from the ability to install a virus by double clicking a .jpeg. For years. UAC should have arrived with NT.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I actually had assumed it was cross platform but there was no reason to use it. I certainly wouldn't invest my code anywhere near Apple unless that was also my market. Who knows what direction it's moving, aside from in Apple&#x27
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by duaneb 10y ago
Then they found actual evidence. I'm happy to change my mind if there is something convincing beyond "hey this fits our expected timeline"; there are extremely convincing textual clues matching the location of Troy. We don&#x
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by duaneb 10y ago
And who even knows how many Arthurs there were.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Arthur is just a name, and there's not much direct evidence the legend was a "Romano-British Chief" except via hand-wavy reasoning about themes. In the same vein, we could call the idea of Atlantis plausible just by being ref
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by duaneb 10y ago
The idea of a historical King Arthur is a silly quixotic quest, at least with current evidence. The point of the story is not historiographical. It's even more hopeless than discerning a historical Moses, where we actually have texts a
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by duaneb 10y ago
Yup, this makes sense. Sorry for the confusion.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Implications are just as real as facts--that is, not at all. The world runs on implications. This is what advertising is. We expect to be lied to daily.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well knowing is obviously impossible, it's a bet for a reason. Actually knowing is most likely insider trading.
611.
by duaneb 10y ago
Ahh, I've never heard the term before. I assumed it was the screen lock and the activation prevention was in apple's servers.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I think it speaks to people with 10k hours in X activity. It's a nice ego boost. Who cares if it's entirely speculative?
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by duaneb 10y ago
i can't speak for other OSs but if you click on the file you can see the extension. It's really only a pain in the ass when I can't remember and write the extension twice. Somehow you found the comment more interesting than I
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by duaneb 10y ago
I'm not sure why you're grouping those four languages as they overlap very little. Go has latency and emphasizes network bound services (and randomly docker for some reason, I'm sure a good one); rust is a c replacement; swif
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by duaneb 10y ago
Memory management is difficult, extremely difficult, to get correct in the way rust does. I don't think I've seen a leak or bad dereference in years. The only way it really manages this is by tying references into what amounts to
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by duaneb 10y ago
What's the reasoning behind that? Kind of defeats the entire purpose of remote wipe.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Why does it display the name of anyone not in your contacts? Seems trivial to abuse. Hi, I'm Barack Obama, and I'm looking for a donation to prevent terrorism and child porn.
618.
by duaneb 10y ago
How do you protect against lead boxes or freezers drainig power? it seems trivial to prevent it from phoning home.
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by duaneb 10y ago
it still values Facebook less than Netflix, which is not for the rich. I'd easily pay $10/month. But I highly doubt Facebook has ever seriously considered it. It would alter their brand as a data mine to businesses way too much. I
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by duaneb 10y ago
Pop psych on HN, really?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Seems like a poorly negotiated acquisition if your employees don't get anything of value out of it. Hell of a way to encourage work.
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by duaneb 10y ago
What are people doing with their chargers? My first one failed because I kept pulling at the cord instead of the head. My next ~5-6 chargers have been great.
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by duaneb 10y ago
How do you figure? If they've vested they'll make cash.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I'm not convinced most human city drivers have general intelligence. I don't see it being much later than other roads.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Does "a minor" have a different meaning, or is there a thriving underage slavery ring there? I suppose it could also be "a minor ticket" or "A Minor" (the scale).
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by duaneb 10y ago
> That's hilarious. Leaving the (almost entirely upper-middle-class) ivory tower of po-mo navel-gazing and self-righteousness, getting married actually makes a very significant difference to some of us in the real world. Hence my re
627.
by duaneb 10y ago
> some people the term implies acceptance of a heteronormative framework. Hmm, this makes sense—I didn't interpret "queer" as meaning "different from you or me" but rather that the way they appear in society is d
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by duaneb 10y ago
Wow, even in the early 00's I walked to and from school myself. Summers were about exploration. I was just taught strong "stranger danger" skills because it was preferable to my playing video games. I guess the Nintendo lobby
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by duaneb 10y ago
A) It's not always about sexuality. B) What does "imposing a category" even mean? Nobody is forcing you to identify as anything. Very few of my gay friends will self-identify as queer. I identify as queer. I find a lot of str
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by duaneb 10y ago
I can respect this. On a personal level, I think it's a positive movement. Self-identifying as queer does take some of the power of the pejorative away; these days I hear the term exclusively used as self-identification or for shared i

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