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by earksiinni 5y ago
Serious question. What, if any, instruction do kids these days receive regarding what's allowed on computer systems? I remember in high school poking around a network drive until I found an executable with the name "SEND" in
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Fascinating. Is there a "new" foreign...?
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by earksiinni 5y ago
This find is not as surprising as the Economist article would have you believe. First, what was written about areas beyond Europe's periphery tended to lag behind actual common knowledge of those areas by hundreds of years. An example
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Ask HN: Have you wanted to add 3D printing to your app?
1 points by earksiinni 5y ago|0 comments
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Duh! Obviously ( headdesk :-) I guess I was thinking more of CCS, but for fuel it makes total sense.
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Serious question for all atmospheric carbon capture companies: What happens once you're super successful and atmospheric carbon densities are dramatically lower? Is there a point at which the density is too low for the economics to wor
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Hi Victor! This is such a great project. I posted a comment elsewhere about why I like it so much. Will you be releasing more info about your research methods and pedagogical theory? Really interested to know more about how you make the sau
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by earksiinni 5y ago
This is mapping at its best: challenging our spacial, social and temporal norms, in this case by subverting political geography. Gone are the clear, neatly delineated boundaries of modern nation states. A new, equally clear yet very differe
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Alas, this makes sense.
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by earksiinni 5y ago
> Take the simple exercise of figuring out cost/revenue of an aspirin administration. [...] In your opinion, is this something that could be exhaustively modeled in software? What would the bottlenecks be? I'm guessing probably
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by earksiinni 5y ago
> The fact that the general public as well as journalists think this data is accurate in anyway is really funny. This an exercise of futility that only increases the overall cost and provides job security for me :) People are literally d
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Hellz yes. I remember buying this and hacking together my own Win 98 distros: https://www.litepc.com/98lite.html Can't believe that their product page is still up. I believe it came about after the 90's MS anti-tr
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Interesting. I got 8.999999999959657 on my Mac Mini M1 using Calculator.app.
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by earksiinni 5y ago
> A friend of mine bought the RedHat 5.2 distro from Best Buy Ahh wow, this brings me back. I bought, or rather had my parents buy, this exact same package from Best Buy when I was in high school or maybe the end of middle school. I reme
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by earksiinni 5y ago
At first, I thought this article was going to be about the industrial complex that's cropped up around college dorm construction and marketing. It's as if schools are in an arms race when it comes to building and selling students
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by earksiinni 5y ago
> In summary, I'm surprised at how few OSS games there are considering how much effort goes into modding. Does anyone in the industry (or otherwise) have insight into what's holding us back here? I'm not in the industry, b
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Not a specific law, to my knowledge, but a few court cases that have established over the years that arbitration agreements must make every effort to be reasonable and accessible for the consumer. Unreasonable or unconscionable agreements c
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Wow, this took me down memory lane. Puppy Linux and its crazed Windows 95-esque dialogue boxes (remember Puppy Unleashed?) will forever hold a soft spot in my heart. Not sure how it is anymore, but Puppy Linux circa 2008 was like the GeoCit
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by earksiinni 5y ago
It must be nice to have the luxury of choosing to keep one's identity small rather than having a big identity foisted upon oneself by society, history, and the circumstances of one's birth.
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by earksiinni 5y ago
> Unfortunately it is not a problem for nix to solve, they can’t really mandate upstream projects to not include hardcoded executables. Yet it's normal for Linux distros to patch upstream so that it works well inside of the distro.
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Ahhhh, Nix/NixOS. The package manager/OS that I so desperately wanted to love. I stuck with Nix for about six months. I even became a package maintainer. In the end, I gave up for three reasons: 1. Documentation is really bad. It&
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by earksiinni 5y ago
Fantastic info, thank you, @ollymeakings! As you mentioned in the comments here, your article assumes that the business already has product-market fit. Do you have advice for people who are at the idea stage and are building landing pages a
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What Kazakhstan really thought of Borat(bbc.com)
2 points by earksiinni 6y ago|0 comments
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by earksiinni 6y ago
TIL there is something called "spreadsheet risk management." Wow. Thank you for this gem of human culture.
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by earksiinni 9y ago
"Because I’ve been obsessed with static linking for as long as I can remember and I’m not really sure why." Glad I'm not the only one. When I was younger, I made a hobby Linux distro that ran completely on floppies with a cus
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by earksiinni 9y ago
Nice mug at the end. Lookin' at you, Ajit Pai ;-)
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by earksiinni 9y ago
A good start, though this isn't a bill legislating net neutrality. Rather, it's a bill legislating the possibility of legislating/regulating net neutrality.
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by earksiinni 9y ago
I can't seem to comment anymore on the original article, so I'm going to write here in the hope that the author will see it. Lots of people are commenting about the poor data set selection. I think that's understandable given
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by earksiinni 9y ago
I think that we may be talking past each other. I'm distinguishing between something being "wrong" vs. something being "acceptable." Wrongness to me is a moral attribute; whether something is acceptable is a purely
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by earksiinni 9y ago
+1 for Kryoflux. I used them to backup all my old Mac floppies. Once you've got the raw images, you can even use an emulator like Mini vMac to use the floppies on your modern hardware. I've done so successfully.

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