fluidcruft

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1981.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
For the uninitiated: It's fairly notorious both for the frustration among power MS Office users who try to switch to OOo (personally I find OOo extremely inconvenient to use compared to MS Office specifically for the lack of this feature) a
1982.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
I will use whichever of the two finally closes Issue 3959 first. This is my cathedral vs bazaar gauntlet. May the best model win.
1983.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
You don't need to find oaks that don't produce acorns in order to measure how many acorns an oak produces. And, yes, if you measure 1000 acorns on a tree, you actually do have an idea how many acorns are on that tree.
1984.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
> It's deeply flawed, both for methodology (it has no control group) Why do you require a control group for observational data?
1985.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
I see sparks regularly. Usually when the vacuum cable gets yanked from the wall while vacuuming (tripping, too short).
1986.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Did he? I thought he drove through the checkpoint with the machine turned on/suspended in his back seat with the drive mounted.
1987.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Same case. Look later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher
1988.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
This is extremely cool.
1989.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
In the context of masturbation following intercourse, it probably has a flushing effect (which presumably would reduce the risk of infection reaching the testes and possibly causing infertility--post-coital urination supposedly has similar
1990.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Macintosh prior to OSX used Chicago and Charcoal. These are fairly distinctive and aren't really "Helvetica-like" in my mind. Chicago in particular was pretty much synonymous with "Macintosh" and was used in early iPods. Pre-MacOS machines
1991.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Cryptographers won this argument in 1996 with the Clipper chip. They are the first "winners". The agencies that want the backdoors were the "losers", but the premise is that the agencies will just keep trying until they succeed. It's asymme
1992.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Just to supplement your caffeine trivia, most over-the-counter pain relievers contain caffeine as a fast-acting component to provide some relief for some types of pain before the medication has a chance to kick in. The "night-time" versions
1993.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Excellent! Safe search didn't occur to me.
1994.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Well, as a single sample, I tried the first thing that came to mind in google and duckduckgo. "breast shimming" which refers to the process of adjusting the magnetic field of a MRI scanner to obtain images of the breast (relevant to a proje
1995.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
R has been really surprisingly shoddy about it's license enforcement on dynamicly-loadable extensions (esp. for an official GNU project). Crucially, they declared an extremely useful subset of their API as usable for non-GPL works (similar
1996.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
except that it covers 99% of what I actually use dropbox for.
1997.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Sorry to be alarmist/morbid, but what happens to tarsnap if you suddenly disappear/die?
1998.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
When you go to subway do you pay for the sandwich or do you subscribe to a $x/month recurring charge that gives you up to y sandwiches/month whether you eat them or not?
1999.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Nice try. If tarsnap does anything that duplicity or s3napback doesn't do, I wouldn't know it from the tarsnap website.
2000.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
You know what? Newsflash to all the brilliant people trying to make a mint by playing S3 middlemen... You're one free-software client from being irrelevant. $10/month is enough to motivate me to hack in my spare time. At $3/month... meh, ma
2001.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
I don't see any evidence that corporations and capitol are following any pattern of "decentralizing" whatsoever. What do you base that assertion on? Rather the opposite. Multinationals already run roughshod over nations. Stronger internatio
2002.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
I'm surprised that as a researcher you have not had notification or training about Bayh-Dole (someone mentioned they are in your lab so I assume you're funded). Universities have to report that they have notified researchers about the act.
2003.
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Wouldn't things like Bayh-Dole have to be repealed before that could even be anywhere near remotely possible? At this university source-code transfers must be rubber-stamped by the university IPO office. For publishing we only have to tell