fapjacks

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by fapjacks 8y ago
This guy is hilarious and his work is really awesome.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I love this lecture. He dispenses a number of classic stoic principles.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
There are actually servers running your "serverless" crap, you know. And they are AWS servers, because that's the whole point: To get people locked back into AWS as a provider.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I like to shit on jQuery like anybody else, but it did have its place in the world. It was totally abused by people, but that doesn't make jQuery bad per se, any more than PHP or JavaScript is bad. Yes, I avoided using those things
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Oh, cool. University of Twente makes an SDR available online which I use to listen to number stations. [0] [0] http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Crows go apeshit for plain peanuts and granola bars that I've kinda crushed up or broken into pieces which seem reasonably-sized for them to eat. Usually that means I break a peanut of "average" size into four pieces. Once al
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Corvidae are smart as hell. I think they're one of the most clever animals around. I'm not sure when or why I started, but I have fed (American) crows for years wherever I live. At my current place, I have been feeding a particula
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Well, Mister Wonderful put it nicely: "I love weddings. They're one of the only times in a person's life when they're completely irrational about price."
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by fapjacks 8y ago
You would if you could see what the military does with data about people.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Well, okay, sure, but then you're in Kansas City. And KC certainly isn't expensive, of course, it's dirt cheap. But even Kansas City is really thin on the specialized jobs which people typically move to big, expensive cities
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by fapjacks 8y ago
HFS! I just watched the Numberphile video literally today with those two incredible wire memory, oscilloscope display calculators from the 60s. What a phenomenal piece of engineering! Cliff needs his own channel. I could listen to him tal
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by fapjacks 8y ago
But it was adopted on it's merits and not because of politics! /s
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Yes, faxing is done with T.38, and faxing is actually more reliable than using a modem. I spent some years running a fax system over VOIP and trying to get it to work. It's doable (as in some special cases of using a modem over VOIP
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Thanks for your post. This makes a lot of sense, as I've done this myself for other topics for the same reason. The account I normally post from grew out of a situation just like that. It makes perfect sense and could really account fo
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Oh, now that's an interesting proposition! I hadn't considered that, but it seems logically sound. Housing however is still a big issue in Sweden, not only with rent but with waiting lists in metropolitan areas, so it's still
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Yeah, it's an interesting question. I'm sure the lawyer-nerds are really having a great time with it. I've heard it said elsewhere and here on HN that EU courts are mostly concerned about the practical intent of the laws an
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I'm just guessing, but GDPR does require that if a person says "no" to tracking (or rather, if they do not explicitly opt-in), that the service cannot be degraded. So I'm wondering if NPR is just serving completely scrip
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by fapjacks 8y ago
There was also a push in the 90s to make a kind of "postage stamp" where the cost of sending an email was CPU, which would have had the same effect of prohibiting spam by making email too expensive to spam with. ISTR the guy who c
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Everything already is VOIP. You haven't been able to use a modem on a phone line in fifteen years. The problem is these behemoth telecommunication companies. There's no reason at all for the phone system not to be exactly like usi
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by fapjacks 8y ago
No. I don't know what list you looked at, but Lawrence, Kansas is not a place with job growth or much opportunity that doesn't involve driving to Kansas City every day or working for the university in some capacity.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Well, it's the same thing it's always been about and always will be about as long as there is executive management: Trust is a one-way street.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
So, you really took my post and ran with it, and it's not the first time this has happened. I see you didn't copypaste that text and you actually typed it out, so just to state it clearly, I did not say it must be some kind of a
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Don't let the Descent From Antiquity people hear you say that!
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by fapjacks 8y ago
This is very interesting and sort of tangential to something I'd realized after I married a Scandinavian woman: If you want to get famous doing some thing, you haven't a shot in hell in a country with three hundred million people
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by fapjacks 8y ago
One thing I have noticed over the last year or so is the strongly pro-PRC (but anonymous) posting that happens in HN comments. I haven't tested the waters with a post like this before, so I'm not sure if it will be brigaded. But I
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Just to add something, we can make some guesses about the circulation of the ocean and wind currents during Roman times because we know that the Roman Warm Period approximated the climate we enjoy today, for several reasons. For example the
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I have lurked your forums for a long time. You and your team are experts at delivering limitations through omission while hyping something. Signing your post doesn't make this less true, and isn't going to make my criticism of y
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by fapjacks 8y ago
This is going to sound weird, but... One of the best nights of my life, I was on the beach at Bellows in the middle of the night with this Israeli chick the week after I got back from my last tour in Iraq. We were laying there in the sand,
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I am 100% sure that if I went and "the code is the contract"ed whatever ends up being DAO2.0 out of 5% of all existing ETH, that Vitalik would come save it "just this once" one more time... I absolutely do not believe f
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Surely you're not implying that it's a ridiculous expectation when that's what the company advertised, are you?

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