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by fnj 10y ago
The word "xenoracism" has actually been applied, but it strikes me as a make-do lashed-together word. "Xenotyping" is no good because it already has a precise scientific definition. "Stereotyping" ends up the b
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by fnj 10y ago
"The driver was following the pilot car too closely: more than half the recommended distance for adequate response (400 feet, or a five-second response time, instead of the recommended 865 feet, allowing for a 10-second response time).
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by fnj 10y ago
God save us from the insane low-contrast mafia. No, that's not intended as sarcasm.
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by fnj 10y ago
That has nothing to do with the OS. The Intel ME is nothing more than some tech which can be leveraged/controlled by the BIOS/EFI - or not. There should always be a setting to just turn it off. The hysteria over Intel ME amuses me
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by fnj 10y ago
No, Nothing about Lumina ties it to BSD. On the contrary; it's fundamentally easily portable to any OS. It runs just fine on Arch linux. The "idea" was to generate a basic DE that is not mired into any lame dependencies suc
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by fnj 10y ago
I liked GNOME2 also, and I found MATE to be the perfect recreation of it.
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by fnj 10y ago
Well, I do use a DE (MATE), and I think the appearance of Lumina DE is just fine. What kind of "polish" do you find missing?
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by fnj 10y ago
Actually trivalent chromium is an essential nutrient (trace amounts). Hexavalent chromium is the "bad" chromium. Chromium metal is not considered a health hazard. Chromium salts (chromates) can cause allergic skin reactions.
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by fnj 10y ago
Understood that mating the payload is a lot of work, but it is one hell of a lot less work than building a complete new payload.
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by fnj 10y ago
I find the openbsd.org site to be excellently laid out and presented. Most sites on the web would do well to take lessons.
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by fnj 10y ago
I fondly remember from my childhood the smell of wood smoke from fireplaces, and leaves being burned in piles in people's yards. Namby-pambyism has not yet stopped all burning in my town, and I occasionally get reminders of those day
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by fnj 10y ago
I find intolerance in general mystifying. Inconvenience is inescapable. From my earliest age as a toddler, I was never bothered by cigarette smoke; in fact it was pleasant to me to breathe it in, and this used to give people some amusement.
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by fnj 10y ago
I get that the right to consume any substance one wants into one's own body is a basic human right, but outlawing LSD and cannabis are two cases of outrageous, striking dumbness and pointlessness. Neither one is addictive, and the LD
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by fnj 10y ago
Could you justify the downvote for a factual correction?
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by fnj 10y ago
The large volume of very hot exhaust you mention is your clue that the thermal efficiency of small gas turbines is poor to dismal.
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by fnj 10y ago
1) That's not a "jet engine". It's a turboshaft. A turboshaft is a gas turbine producing its power mechanically at the shaft. A turbojet is a gas turbine producing its power in the form of reaction thrust out the tailpip
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by fnj 10y ago
It sounded like a gigantic loud vacuum cleaner even just idling, and gave the impression of straining mightily to achieve even mild acceleration. Fuel consumption was TERRIBLE.
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by fnj 10y ago
You heard wrong. Diesels under optimum conditions can easily exceed 45%, and state of the art is right around 50%. Gasoline engines can reach 40% or better (again, under optimum conditions). Turboshafts are generally around 35-40% efficienc
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by fnj 10y ago
Power, not energy.
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by fnj 10y ago
Both FreeNAS and NAS4Free are nothing more than FreeBSD with some GUI stuff pasted on. I am comfortable using ssh and [ba]sh, so I couldn't care less about the GUI. I just use the real thing: FreeBSD.
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by fnj 10y ago
NAS4Free and FreeNAS are just relabeled FreeBSD with GUI stuff pasted on. FreeBSD doesn't have /dev/disk/by_{id,label,partuuid,path,uuid}. It's its biggest failing IMO. Their /dev/diskid is NOT what it sou
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by fnj 10y ago
xonsh is the only shell you need. It is far and away the best of all.
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by fnj 10y ago
Rvalue references and std::move have largely obsoleted the argument of copy overhead. It makes particularly a dramatic improvement in container efficiency. C++11/14 really is a different language than C++98.
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by fnj 10y ago
Rather than continue with unsupported opinion, I'd rather make the specific point that Boost served well as incubator and proving ground for such constructs as shared_ptr and unique_ptr, which have been subsumed into the C++ standard a
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by fnj 10y ago
There is a difference between language complexity and library complexity. The Java language is very simple, but the Java standard libraries are a collosal, complex system. C++ the language is extremely complex and riddled with pit
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by fnj 10y ago
Comfortable? Exactly how does $1200 per month come anywhere near paying housing, food, and clothing even for one single person?
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by fnj 10y ago
Since the definitions of pathogen is not just "microorganism", but "microorganism that can cause disease", the idea of "beneficial pathogen" appears to be a contradiction in terms. That said, hormesis is a conc
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by fnj 10y ago
Dating myself, the way I learned copy and paste was CTRL-insert and SHIFT-insert, and those still work fine in konsole, mate-terminal, most any other half-decent terminal program, and straight text mode outside of X. Not xterm, but I never
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by fnj 10y ago
I find this criticism of xonsh's "modes" baffling. Xonsh is brilliant precisely because it isn't modal the way, e.g., vi is. Xonsh lets you freely mix python code and command invocations in a highly transparent way.