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by frio 9y ago
Having just downsized to a smaller more central apartment, I can understand this. There's no room in this place to shove my array of techno toys in a cupboard; instead, there's an ugly corner of the room that's currently a m
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by frio 9y ago
> If you have data to back up your points, show the data. If you are making a point which is not supported by the data, don't use slight of hand to make it seem like it is. The New York Times has made the 545 page report available (
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by frio 10y ago
The bq cervantes[1] is open source[2] but isn't so cheap. [1]: https://www.bq.com/es/cervantes-3-bq [2]: https://github.com/bq/cervantes I'm planning on picking one up soon (or, hopefull
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by frio 10y ago
So it does; thanks! I didn't see any indication that existed on the various NZ government sites about travelling. That would've made for an unfortunate arrival.
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by frio 10y ago
You're right -- the concept is great :). Last time I got an ESTA, however, the site was somewhat byzantine, chock-full of confusing legalese and the response was slow. Comparatively, to get into Europe for 90 days we just have to arr
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by frio 10y ago
My partner and I are visiting Europe shortly (from NZ). We were going to transit the US on the way back, stopping for a few days. Luckily we hadn't booked return flights yet, and have since decided to visit Canada instead (luckily, A
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by frio 10y ago
Keens are a good example because they're really nice. I really wanted a pair, but their footbed just doesn't fit my foot :(. Good luck for when you head back to the store. There's always going to be wear and tear on your fo
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by frio 10y ago
Get new footwear :). Get some flavour from somewhere like outdoorgearlab.com, then find a proper outdoor store that'll fit you properly. You'll find that you probably won't end up in whatever reviews best, but you can use t
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by frio 10y ago
The Minister in charge at the time is claiming (feigning?) complete ignorance; apparently he "doesn't recall the application" which, given it was granted under "special circumstances", is pretty rich. The Governmen
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by frio 10y ago
I see; fair enough :). I'm not personally opposed to personal income tax, but I'm from a country that leans a little more to the left overall and the benefits of my taxation are evident. It's also less vexing; the tax comes
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by frio 10y ago
I think the core thing that both sides of an argument like this need to agree upon before engaging, is defining the word racism. As an observer, it's clear that you both have different understandings of what you're discussing. T
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by frio 10y ago
Right -- so those 7 states listed in the article have alternative forms of tax (corporate income tax, oil-production taxes, etc.). Are you opposed solely to personal income taxes (while still supporting alternative forms of tax), or are yo
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by frio 10y ago
Late reply, but, neat! I'll have a look.
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by frio 10y ago
I didn't say it was :). What alternative do you propose?
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by frio 10y ago
Who enforces the law? How does their labour get paid for?
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by frio 10y ago
OK, thanks :). The itch I'd like to scratch is some features from TaskPaper; my ideal "Notes" app is an open-source, cross-platform combination of TaskPaper and nvALT. However, adding nvALT-ish-ness and TaskPaper-ish-ness w
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by frio 10y ago
It looks like extensions essentially fire off your note data to third parties. Is there a method for extensions to add Javascript to the running application instead?
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by frio 10y ago
Sorry -- I'm not an American, I misunderstood what "supermajority" meant (I took it to mean a majority in each of the houses). My bad :). I'm not saying the Democrats weren't roundly drubbed in the last election, j
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by frio 10y ago
They have; most notably the Republicans when LBJ crushed them in a landslide ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... ). Or even -- again, the Republicans -- as recently as 2008 when Obama won (
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by frio 10y ago
The problem with tree-shaking is that it's recursive -- every module has to do it properly, and at the moment, I'd wager most frontend modules in NPM don't. If I responsibly say `import { map } from 'lodash'`;, but
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by frio 10y ago
FWIW, I use Lastpass with e10s and it all seems to work OK :).
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by frio 10y ago
I had a wee wonder whether this could in itself be exploitable -- whether some other compromise could end up dropping a file in /boot/ssh and then waiting for a reboot to enable persistence. I guess by that point, however, you&#x
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by frio 10y ago
Sure, but in the age of IoT, you probably shouldn't consider your local network safe :). If your IoT lightbulb, toaster or television has UPnP-ed itself and been compromised, it may be quietly nmapping away to discover other easily ex
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by frio 10y ago
There was an interesting presentation at Kiwicon (a New Zealand security conference) the other day; someone demonstrated mimicing a GPS radio to trigger NTP drift in servers. The upshot was that it wasn't difficult, and gave you an av
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by frio 10y ago
They do have employees in the South Island too (mainly Christchurch), and were looking at Birdling's Flat as a launch site. However, I imagine anyone involved in the South will also be fine -- Christchurch rolled around but didn'
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by frio 10y ago
Yes, absolutely agreed. Last night's quake exposed my flat's somewhat chronic lack of preparation. I'll be visiting the supermarket tonight and ensuring our insurance policies are up to date, as I imagine much of Chch will
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by frio 10y ago
I found Design for Hackers helped make my work less vomit inducing, but I'd suggest that it's really mindfulness of what you're building (rather than just flinging interface at a screen) that'll get you over the first hu
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by frio 10y ago
My understanding is that this is small because it's a specification :). Most of the things I've seen implement it (eg. Ramda) are larger. Yes, I have a concat/minifying step, but as I mentioned, I'd love to see broader
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by frio 10y ago
Yep! As I mentioned, I agree that this is the future :). We're just not quite there yet (mainly because lots of libraries still don't ship `jsnext:main` entries, and plenty of downstream libraries end up doing an `import _ fro
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by frio 10y ago
Javascript is in somewhat of a weird neverland currently. I really want to use this style of library -- mori, Ramda and others are extremely tempting, and fantasy-land (/static-land, which is more up my alley) are doing great work. ..

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