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by erbo 11y ago
Also with abbreviations and codes used by ham operators communicating via CW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code
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by erbo 11y ago
"paradigm shift" gets turned into "BULLFUCKINGSHIT," so I guess you need the full phrase to trigger it.
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by erbo 11y ago
I did that too. In particular, it doesn't seem to distinguish capitalization right. It appropriately turned the line "We must monetize our assets" into "We must BULLSHIT our assets," but left the capitalized versio
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by erbo 12y ago
Because, at that point, you'll be seriously threatening the ability of the bankster fraudsters to keep stealing from the public.
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by erbo 12y ago
I had this book recommended to me by someone when I was in college; the person that recommended it to me thought I might very well go on to invent the Glass Bead Game... This summary kind of mischaracterizes the book, though. Far from &qu
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by erbo 12y ago
This reminds me of a passage in The Andromeda Strain. I don't have the book here to do an exact quote, but it mentioned that, just as a person easily killed by bacteria was a failure (in that they wouldn't live long enough to r
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by erbo 12y ago
Fallacy of relative privation. [1] Just because things are bad in Cambodia doesn't mean a startup can't spend its money how it likes, for good or ill. If a startup chooses to spend money on a fancy office with massage rooms, the
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by erbo 12y ago
"Great...now I'm a party to this ugly little secret." http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-07-12
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by erbo 12y ago
"Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada."
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How to Setup Your Own Software Development Company, 6 Years Later(raibledesigns.com)
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by erbo 12y ago
They announced it on my high school's PA system, during my second-period civics class. Following that class was our morning break; I went immediately to the classroom for my next class, physics. A number of people were there already,
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by erbo 12y ago
Heck, any Heinlein fan could've told you this would work. In the "Future History" series (specifically, Methuselah's Children ), we learn that the first effective rejuvenation technique was to transfuse in younger blo
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by erbo 12y ago
This is a point which Lewis explored in fiction, through the trials of Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength. Studdock has tried all his life to become part of that "Inner Ring," whether as a schoolboy, as part of the "Pro
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by erbo 12y ago
Redstone (a powdery substance mined from deeper levels of the Overworld in Minecraft ), when laid out in trails on a surface, conducts "redstone current" if it happens to be present. "Redstone current" may be generate
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by erbo 12y ago
See, I see this and the other photo of her as conveying the message, "You don't have to look like the stereotypical 'NASA nerd,' the white guy with the white button-down shirt and the pocket protector full of pens, in
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by erbo 12y ago
I do believe it was. The Simsups threw a 1201 alarm at them, and the controllers got confused, and Kranz called an abort. Afterwards, they told him, "It wasn't an abort, you should have continued the landing...I thought you guys
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by erbo 12y ago
When Electric Minds was running under my administration, I had a policy that we would delete any account from someone we knew to be under 13, just because the requirements for dealing with the personal information of children under 13 wer
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by erbo 12y ago
All the more reason to buy locally-sourced bottled water. I have Eldorado Natural Spring Water ( http://www.eldoradosprings.com/ ) delivered, which actually comes from a local natural artesian spring.
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by erbo 12y ago
DOOM was really easy to understand: "If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, shoot it anyway."
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by erbo 12y ago
What I found interesting was a quote from his previous post: http://notch.net/2014/06/literally-worse-than-ea/ Mojang does not exist to make as much money as possible for the owners. As the majority share
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by erbo 12y ago
What's interesting here is that the practice of cyclists doing so goes back a century. By contrast, the fashion of women shaving their legs dates back primarily to around World War II, and the influence of pinup model Betty Grable. Se
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by erbo 12y ago
I had a "smart watch" at one point...a Fossil Abacus WristPDA, which actually ran Palm OS 4.0 and had 8 Mb of storage, a fair amount for a Palm device. It was cool, but certainly not as usable as a regular Palm PDA...but you ca
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by erbo 12y ago
There was a similar project a couple of years ago, where someone got iOS apps running on a BlackBerry Playbook: http://crackberry.com/developer-gets-ios-apps-running-blackb... At the time, I said that RIMM/BlackBerry s
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by erbo 12y ago
Sort of backwards to what you might expect: they give away the server and sell the client. (Which makes sense, since the client can also be used to play standalone.) The client costs $26.95; you can buy it online with a credit card, or buy
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by erbo 12y ago
Have they tried modded versions? You can add mods to Minecraft for almost limitless capabilities.
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by erbo 12y ago
Here's a quick tutorial from DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-... My server is actually at my home, so my godsons and their mother use a VPN to log into it. It's
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by erbo 12y ago
How about playing with your kids? I have a private Minecraft server set up where I, my fiancee, our godsons, and their mother all collaborate. We use a custom-assembled modpack with a lot of different options; my fiancee has been lear
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by erbo 12y ago
ComputerCraft isn't working with the newest versions of the core Minecraft game (1.7.2/1.7.10). There's another mod, OpenComputers, that does similar things: http://oc.cil.li (I've assembled a custom modpack
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by erbo 12y ago
I'd remove that exemption in this case. I want an officer that uses excessive force to be at risk of losing his house, his car, and all of his assets right down to his underwear. And I want him to be aware of this, because I want
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by erbo 12y ago
(1) Nothing prohibits officers from having to agree to these policies when they join the force. If they don't like it, they can find another job. Members of the military already have to give up certain rights while serving. (2) A publ

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