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by eutropia 8y ago
Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" has the space marines using "kiloseconds" and "megaseconds" conversationally, and it was always tricky for me to convert those to hours and minutes in my head accurately.
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by eutropia 8y ago
I had to spend several days manually ripping out huge chunks of Win10 to get something resembling the usability of XP. That included removing all of the updating utilities, hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers, removal of most of the p
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by eutropia 8y ago
Part of me hopes that the continued drive to reduce fuel costs on shipping eventually results in a resurgence of sailing vessels to ship things across the ocean without noise or greenhouse gas emissions.
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by eutropia 8y ago
It's not false. But it's also not a universal constant like the speed of light or something, absent a reason why it couldn't be planned for and dealt with, I'm inclined to treat it as an as-yet-unsolved engineering chal
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by eutropia 8y ago
Somehow dealing with neutron radiation seems like the lesser problem between it and confining fusing plasma at 100 million K. You make it sound like there's literally nothing to be done about neutron radiation, but something tells me
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by eutropia 8y ago
Is there anyway to make use of grok on the command line like the post does with rosie patterns? I rather like the idea of `| grep 'net.ipv4'`
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by eutropia 8y ago
It was nice of you to put all of this effort into writing up this post, but what gave you the idea that GP wanted to do software full time for a living when they've got a great job already? Seems like they have autonomy, efficacy, resp
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by eutropia 8y ago
There are companies out there quietly doing a great job see this and making money, but not the news. ;)
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by eutropia 8y ago
If everyone behaved as you did, then you would get either substantially worse service or substantially more expensive restaurants. Right now you're arbitraging the good will of other people to pay for the service that you're not
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by eutropia 8y ago
Seems, neutral to positive then? Excepting the part where perpetual copyright seems to be the future (not like this bill would have passed if it took an activist stance against it). Still, am I the only one who instantly thought that the ti
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by eutropia 8y ago
The threshold could be computed batchwise as you aggregate the stats out of band, so it would at least be dynamic, if not instantaneous.
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by eutropia 8y ago
Doesn't this seem a bit uncharitable a characterization? What's an example of a "real low-tech website" that does better than the work presented here? Are you browsing hackernews using lynx or surfraw?
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by eutropia 8y ago
I sometimes look at my spice cabinet in awe, or down at my eggs when I crack pepper over them and think "people used to die for this." As a side note, its interesting how similar pepper's preparation is to coffee (in the harv
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by eutropia 8y ago
It took me several days to root out all of the programs and services in my enterprise windows 10 install which were spying on me or attempting to install software without my consent, had to prevent cortana from running, block windows server
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by eutropia 8y ago
At the risk of sounding partisan, why should I trust a breitbart dot com link?
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by eutropia 8y ago
Is it possible to mitigate this by blocking traffic on the ports that the ME uses for communication at the router level?
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by eutropia 8y ago
It corresponds, but its interesting to note how they portray rather opposite judgmental tones on the people in question -- TFA betrays the now-popoular left-leaning view of "seeking comfort in irrational things", a.k.a conservatis
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by eutropia 8y ago
It sounds like you think that most pro gamers are cheating. Isn't that akin to claiming a massive conspiracy? Wouldn't someone have been found out by now?
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by eutropia 8y ago
Note: in the study they read an article about a different polarizing topic before the conversation, not an article about the topic they were about to discuss
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by eutropia 8y ago
This is a dual-core 2.2GHz processor at a TDP of 15 Watts, how does it compare to modern ARM mobile processors?
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by eutropia 9y ago
this happens for me on my portrait mode monitor. I suspect some sort of mobile styling is at work.
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by eutropia 9y ago
Why does this make sense? Do the owning companies get to rid themselves of debt they transferred to the child company?
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by eutropia 9y ago
The game had been out for a few years, but as a MOBA-style game (like DotA, or League of Legends; thus competing with two of the largest video games in the market period) it didn't attract a critical mass of players to keep the ongoing
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by eutropia 9y ago
As someone who wears glasses that look like those every day -- I think they look great! Big glasses like these help frame my overly-large head and face features, making me look better :)
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by eutropia 9y ago
>>> Cloudflare's decision today is going to be devastating not only for them, but for the Internet as a whole (as usual :/). How is this devastating for the internet as a whole? How does this interact with trademark la
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by eutropia 9y ago
Remember that AlphaZero played 44 million games of chess, whereas your average professional chess player has played somewhere on the order of 10,000-100,000. Self-play works, but rather slowly.
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by eutropia 9y ago
Torvalds gets upset about people messing things up because he cares. He reminds me of Gordon Ramsey, who also gets a bunch of shit for being an asshole to people who ruin food in his kitchen -- but Ramsey has more Michelin stars than anyon
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by eutropia 9y ago
Yeah, LHC's is the largest in the world at just 15,000 cubic metres -- equivalent to about 1 km of hyperloop tunnel (assuming 14ft diameter mentioned in the Boring Company's FAQ)
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by eutropia 9y ago
I'll be a bit pedantic here, but Fred Turner, CEO of McDonald's from 1974-1987, started at the company as a grill operator.
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by eutropia 9y ago
One of the advantages that doctors and lawyers have over us is that their field is no longer nascent. Their professions have existed in some form or another since ancient Greece, and were cornerstones of western society. We programmers ha

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