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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Oh yes - definitely not for me generally! I find them okay for some gaming purposes though, oddly enough.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Neat news. I've been thinking about trying one of those out for a while now - I really want to find a pointing/clicking device other than a traditional mouse as my hands age, but nothing's properly worked yet.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
One of those accounts uses a different name for him ("Crispus"? Maybe? You'll have to forgive me not looking it up, but it eludes me and I don't want to disappear down a wiki-rabbithole when I should be wrapping presents
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I think the previous poster's point was precisely about the vernacular - don't forget the flags in the articles derive from news headlines, of which the vast preponderance are very much expressed in the vernacular. Speaking for my
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
A similarly tiny percentage of your users are blind. Another tiny percentage are dyslexic. How many different tiny percentages can you justifiably invite to "go somewhere else"?
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
It's hard to say - "never ascribe to malice what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity" is all very well, but on the other hand, sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity...
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Crikey, yes. I hadn't seen the video - that's pretty bad. Fingers crossed this was a one-off, I guess.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
These things can be done in an organised and controlled fashion - one has to hope that those in charge did so. There's no particular reason to assume that "a horde" of journalists were allowed to rush in, though. Fundamentall
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I don't think there's any perhaps about it - the visual surroundings of our childhood and youth will always have particular associations. FWIW, I've been stoically making every desktop I've used look as close as I can ma
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
There is still a limit, and beyond that is Sagan's 'Forbidden Zone'. We can move the line, but only infinitesimal amounts.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
There are two ends to the true picture here - they do exist to protect and maintain the status quo as you say, but the underpinning (largely unspoken) assumption is that the general public, as the GP hopes, are among the set of 'those
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
An important subtlety that's often missed. The iterations before it would have been numerous .
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Strikes me that you meant this as a joke - but whether you did or not, it is not such a bad call.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I think LetsEncrypt uses it, no?
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
For the sake of anyone uncertain what to search for: hit 'start searching' and then 'random result'. It's a worthwhile endeavour.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Well, no. People are trying to draw a functional distinction between two types of libraries that isn't really there. First, old-fashioned academic libraries existed; later, public lending libraries existed, but only because various peo
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
What kids should be encouraged to do is not merely attend a library as if simply being there is an end in itself, but to learn to appreciate and enjoy quiet, reflective learning.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Good luck taking a Gutenberg bible or a Shakespeare first folio away to read quietly at home.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
No, that wouldn't be ideal - but that's also not how it is.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
The point here, though, is that it doesn't matter whether the driver could've seen them, because culpability rests with the driver by default (except, as mentioned, in situations such as motorways, where pedestrians aren't
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I risked reading below the line on the article, and among the frothing rants is one very salient point - not that long ago, old-guard public utility companies (the example in the comment is AT&T prior to the 1980s, but other firms in ot
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Neither proposition is true to the exclusion of the other. British ${plumbers} have had it easy; those from the East will work for less.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
A lot of countries had their own educational computers for a while - like the BBC in the UK. I wonder if there's lingistic study that could be done on modern programmers working in today's standardised languages that could identif
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
> you may find that the ones who > your pogrom are more willing to > fight, and to fight dirty. ...neatly justifying your continuing oppression of them and others and investment in your security machine. This st
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
An authoritarian government that has declared as a matter of policy that the system on which it has spent billions is flawless doesn't need to worry that it isn't flawless. You'll say that wasn't you entering the subvers
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I think I've told this story before, but several years ago I discovered this stuff for myself. I had tidied up a script distribution that had been unloved for a while and got a bit out of hand. I'd been working at home on a Debian
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I'm also no lawyer, but it's worth pointing out that there are plenty of publishers (and not a few authors) who will argue that corner - they certainly think it reasonable.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Taking an existing website and removing Javascript may well be a challenge. But building a website and simply not adding unnecessary Javascript in the first place? Far less of a challenge.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Instinctively, I want to think that post-quantum crypto means both ends. That is to say, if it transpires that quantum computing can break all pre-quantum encryption schemes, it ought to follow that there will be post-quantum encryption sch

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