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by etatoby 8y ago
In many countries you have to show your ID before buying alcohol, entering a gambling establishment, or using a tobacco vending machine. I don't think this is so much different in spirit. I agree that the implementation is a bit weird.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Using Braille patterns is a pretty cool idea. But you're still using 3×8/2×4=3 bits per pixel, excluding colour information and SSH compression. If you used the various extensions that are present in most terminal emulators (Sixel
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by etatoby 8y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I seem to have the 1976 edition (I didn't think of checking the edition before buying mine! DOH!) I would say it was good enough for learning the language, although the references to mainframes and terminals a
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by etatoby 8y ago
Ohhhh.... I never connected these two aspects, but now everything makes a lot of sense! I wonder if it was all fortuitous chance, or long-term planning of the most cunning type, by EU leaders. Also, now I wonder how Brexit fits into this ch
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by etatoby 8y ago
As mentioned above by @adwww: > Mindgeek lobbied hard for this. They (owners of Pornhub etc) are the government's approved age verifiers, so are in theory now in charge of access to all the other porn sites.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Porn addiction is real and its psychological effects on kids has been studied. This is akin to banning underage consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. Very hard to enforce in practice, but overall the right thing to do, and probably
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by etatoby 8y ago
If they can identify individual human faces through algorithms, they (= technology companies with deep pockets) can surely recognize most porn pictures, given the right incentive (regulation.)
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by etatoby 8y ago
And now they are shutting down G+, so all those posts and pieces of missing documentation will simply disappear! (Unless Archive.org ot somebody else saved a copy.) Oh, the irony!
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by etatoby 8y ago
> Through every day of combat in Vietnam, American troops fired cartridges filled with the ball powder that was the legacy of the ordnance corps. And if American troops were sent into battle today, they would use the same kind of ammuni
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by etatoby 8y ago
Flame mode on. Can anybody explain to me why people seem to prefer using unsafe and interpreted/slow languages (Python, Ruby, Javascript... which is only fast now because companies have invested millions on it) and then spend a ton of
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by etatoby 8y ago
> [K's] source is famously small (just a few C files) Yes, but they look like this: https://github.com/tangentstorm/j-incunabulum/blob/master/ji... Call me crazy, but I'm wary of code writ
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by etatoby 8y ago
I would highly recommend GNU APL over A+. GNU APL is a full-fledged, modern implementation of the official ISO APL 2 standard, supporting things like Unicode and modern terminals, and is currently maintained by very friendly people. While A
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by etatoby 8y ago
Have you considered using your smartphone, which is right next to you and already configured with your email and a web browser? That was probably the intended use case anyways.
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by etatoby 8y ago
And it will remove minerals, making the water unhealthy. Drinking distilled water is a horrible idea.
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by etatoby 8y ago
You would be surprised. Even if you control for income (rather than blanket exclude "3rd world countries") I bet the majority of the population, across all age groups, could not proficiently use a traditional computer, let alone o
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by etatoby 8y ago
I always go CSV-over-SCP called from a crontab, over anything more complicated like SOAP, whenever I have any say. I try to strengthen both accounts, for instance having the target account only accept SCP connections, but still this kind of
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by etatoby 8y ago
That's a complaint about the JS language itself, that variables are global unless otherwise specified.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Because: 1. WhatsApp was the first widely-used such app and it was phone number-based, so all the clones use the same system. 2. Non-technical people have a hard time (read: bordering on impossible) remembering their usernames, let alone pa
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by etatoby 8y ago
Shaving cream? Why?
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by etatoby 8y ago
CD-ROM? As in ISO 9660 data disc? That's going to be a hell of a challenge to reverse engineer for alien civilizations.
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by etatoby 8y ago
I also usually accept those requests. I don't see what all the fuss is about.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Have you ever opened an old phone earpiece, maybe as a kid? They contained a big slab of cut metal inside. Weight, or more appropriately density, is a big part of how an object "feels" in your hands.
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by etatoby 8y ago
I replaced my irrigation device with a new one and now I'm only using water that has been boiled for 5 minutes in a brand new kettle and cooled down. I'm also considering using specific salt packets instead of common salt. Thanks
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by etatoby 8y ago
Both frequencies are also exactly the same used by cell phones and—more importantly—high power cell phone towers.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Really? A SD card is a few dollars.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Oh, thank you. I'm going to try it!
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by etatoby 8y ago
Thank you for the info. On a related subject, do you know anything about the benefits and/or dangers of nose/sinus irrigation? A few years ago I solved my life-long struggle with chronic sinusitis, rhinitis, and other assorted nas
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by etatoby 8y ago
A side note to passing readers: thousands of times smaller in mass or volume means of course only tens of times smaller in diameter, which agrees with the pictures shown in the article and elsewhere.
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by etatoby 8y ago
What if the captcha are mostly shown to uses trying to get into porn sites, their minds would be primed for the wrong answer.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Go ahead. After trying many options I settled on XUbuntu. But any of them will do. To bad, I liked the older OS Xes.

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