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by etcet 16y ago
> I am inclined to think we're built to go for a walk to a hunting ground, sprint and throw an arrow. The adaption to bipedalism actually reduced our sprinting capabilities and increased our endurance. It's likely that we used our super
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> I thought that hackers and playstation 3 "owners" would be on the same side Apparently, Anonymous took down the PSN for some time in protest to the litigation. I'm sure that galvanized the viewpoint of some Playstation users who may n
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by etcet 16y ago
> C: Macro acrobatics (you've never seen so many parentheses in your life). Programming in common lisp without open/close parentheses highlighting made me cross eyed.
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Also, this use of 'open-source' for of font characters is confusing. Why use an embedded font for a single image? I was under the impression that it's legal to embed images of characters from fonts (i.e. I could scan and use a '&' set i
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The ampersand (&) is an 'E' and a 't' fused together. A fact more readily apparent in some designs[0] more than others. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.svg
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Because manipulating a document with thousands of divs is really slow? Seriously. Like most people in this thread I've made 'life' on the web with both divs and canvas. The implementation using canvas is significantly faster and can even ha
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killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure. killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted. killall se
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Do you really think that Google are going to hide their https signals? If anything, hiding the URL gives phishers less to use. So marlinspike demonstrated that you can 'spoof' " https:// and fake a secure looking favicon. But can you spoof
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Am I wrong in assuming that if you don't power down your x86 system then it will still draw power when you toggle the switch? It seems more like a nice solution for people who dual boot win/osx and linux. I applaud the novel use of the opti
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I got passed the libpng error by installing libpng12 from AUR. Now when I run ./sublime_text I get these errors: http://pastebin.com/NYWSaPSe It's strange because running "python PackageSetup.py" doesn't produce the same errors. My PYTHON
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by etcet 16y ago
is beautiful in firefox but it looks like this in my default chromium: http://imgur.com/NVP1i.png D:
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Horizontability: Readability + fixed height CSS3 multicols(etcet.net)
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