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by eponeponepon 8y ago
If you just want a text substitution utility, then this is proof that you can implement that by using sed in a controlled manner. Why bemoan something for doing more things than you need it to right now? This is what general-purpose computi
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
It's more than worth it. It's a story that should be required reading for the modern age.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
unless wood and white is now reserved for Apple... I wouldn't put it past them to try...
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Always been Army ration pack Biscuits Brown to me. ...to be clear, I kinda liked those things. Kinda.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
He definitely did. He was a keen pipesmoker, and very definitely not a stoner. (edit: I think he even pins it to "a plant of the genus Nicotiana" or words to that effect in the LotR appendices) Peter Jackson's presentation
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I thought cost was a blocker too till I actually sat down and worked it out. A cheap microserver with about 15TB of disk space came in well under the thousand pound mark - the real blocker is sitting down and actually ripping the things. Th
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Honestly, this could happen at any company, for all the same reasons - in my experience, any workplace that isn't actually, or at least run as if it were, military is rife with subpar physical security. And I can't claim not to
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Comfort is exactly what people seek. You can't make something both comfortable and undesirable. If you're prepared to countenance a world where all people live a comfortable life, then you're implicitly countenancing a world
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
How do you propose that poverty be eliminated without some people holding proportionally less of the world's money?
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Yeah, this doesn't really hold water when your software is as widely installed as VLC - I've lost count of the number of deeply nontechnical people I've installed it for, for what that's worth. Checking file sizes is s
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Ah, awesome - Inkscape has got me out of more than a few holes in the past few years, but it's always been juust crashy enough that I haven't truly felt comfortable pushing it at work, so increased stability is definitely welcome!
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
It's the Unicode coverage that keeps me with DJV Mono - working a lot with document-focused XML, the fewer little white boxes turn up in my editor the better. DJV Sans ended up leaking into my desktop over the years and now I can'
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Good luck taking on a Cambridge college in the courts...
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
This has a slight air of the manganese nodule seabed mining that was propagated as cover for the Glomar Explorer expedition...
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
For clarity, the two people arrested were released without charge. Although not before the press had smeared their names and faces across the whole country.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I kind of struggle to understand how there isn't enough equipment and electrical engineering expertise on site at a modern airport to pinpoint these drones really quickly - especially at Heathrow. Even a small drone surely makes a ton
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I don't really understand how the lossy vs lossless argument turned into a chest-beating contest about whose ears are the best. The point of lossless audio compression is archiving - knowing that you can make a first-generation encodin
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Long-lasting rings would be - fundamentally all you need for a ring to form is some debris and a gravity well. To be clear, something that "doesn't last long" on an astronomical timescale could still quite happily exist stabl
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Well, in the other poster's defence, I thought "nothing concrete" covered things well enough, but these quotes from the article seem sanguine about the prospect: "And we hope to hunt down one more KBO — one more Kuiper B
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Has there been any talk of further fly-by targets? I seem to recall there were a number of possible candidates after the Pluto fly-by, but I suppose the Thule visit might have ruled some or all of those others out.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I think, if we want to play 'what-about', then it's fair to say that the cost of the New Horizons mission ("approximately $700 million over 15 years", per Wikipedia) is a drop in the ocean compared to the US Dept of
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
In a lot of ways, science and patience are the same thing. Not in all ways. But a lot of them.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Be thankful you aren't in a country where three successive governments have been pushing "austerity" for a decade, then. The current one has even had the temerity lately to outright deny that their public sector cuts, which i
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Yeah, the non-emergency number seems to be a placebo to me - I've never heard of anyone getting any results by ringing it. I'm sure things were better when one used to be able to ring the local station direct.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I'm really quite excited about this. I don't know if I'd just completely missed it, or if they it hadn't had much publicity in the mainstream press, but it was a pleasant surprise to read about yesterday!
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Well, I suppose it (the security page, that is) could be seen as a nice example of how good net citizenship works in two directions - 1) good people send friendly notifications when they find vulnerabilities, and 2) good people publicly tha
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
While your fundamental point is very valid, there are plenty of times where a comment to flag up a fine point of your clean and precise code will save future-you hours of head-scratching. I absolutely do not comment enough, but knowing th
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
This is all solid advice imho - and a useful digression from the usual accessibility story that just focuses on making content legible to partially sighted people. The total decoupling of visual presentation from content structure is such
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Bent coppers charge a lot. The guy two doors down probably won't stand to lose his job, so will like as not spill the beans for a pint.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
> Why Apple is the only company making these is beyond me. Loosely defined patents and a litigious corporate nature, at a guess.

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