frooxie

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by frooxie 15y ago
Is it really that usual? I've used computers daily for 23 years, and I've never had a hard disk crash.
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by frooxie 15y ago
> Are there really millions of people who would sign up for the world's most expensive method of committing suicide? To be fair, it doesn't say anything about signing up. Maybe he'll just grab the first millon people who annoy him and s
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by frooxie 15y ago
What I can't wrap my head around is the amazingly slow file search (I'm using Vista). Searching for a filename I know exists in a small directory (say, 100 files) often leads to Windows searching for several minutes and then NOT FINDING THE
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by frooxie 15y ago
"When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so, of course, I was surprised". — Ludwig Wittgenstein
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by frooxie 15y ago
It's dead? Now how am I supposed to make a game with music and sound effects that is easy to play on multiple platforms?
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by frooxie 15y ago
Yeah, I was wondering if this was the same technology that hitta.se has been using for years.
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by frooxie 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, the percentage of ethnic Finns in Finland is 97.5%, while the percentage of ethnic Swedes in Sweden is "probably much lower than 85%". Now, some of these are Finns living in Sweden and vice versa, which complicates t
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by frooxie 15y ago
I have pretty small hands, but I can hold my 4.2" Xperia Arc phone in a stable way and reach the opposite corner with my thumb.
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by frooxie 15y ago
Yes, 2/3 of my expenses are rent (including phone/electricity).
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by frooxie 15y ago
I live in Sweden and spend about a third of what he does. Then again, I bike instead of drive, and I don't often fly to the other side of the world, so that saves me a bit of money.
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by frooxie 15y ago
IIRC, they phrased the trolley question something like "WOULD you push one person off a bridge if it saved five others", not "SHOULD you...", thus selecting not for people who think utilitarianism is correct, but for people who are callous
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by frooxie 15y ago
Well, it says that "For every 1,000 pirated copies we eliminated, we created 1 additional sale", suggesting that piracy isn't anything to worry about, as 99.9% of pirates wouldn't have bought a copy anyway.
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by frooxie 15y ago
"Bilinguals /.../ actually think in that language while using it" I don't. I usually don't think in language at all. Both speaking my native language and programming require translation from the abstract symbols and feelings that my actual
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by frooxie 16y ago
Yes, they seem more "random" to people.
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by frooxie 16y ago
I picked 7, because that's what I expected other people to gravitate to, and I wanted to see if you had some fun response if I picked the most common alternative. :P
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by frooxie 16y ago
What the Eibach and Mock studies show is that if someone criticizes something you have a lot invested in, like having kids, you will get defensive and exaggerate the upsides. That doesn't say anything about whether having kids is foolish -
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by frooxie 16y ago
My first computer (an ABC80, with impressive 78 x 72 pixel b/w graphics!) didn't even have cassette tapes. I'd spend a few days writing a program, and then I'd have fun with it until I shut the computer off, at which point it was gone forev
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by frooxie 16y ago
If the Wacom stylus is high precision, then this is a much cheaper and better alternative to Wacoms Cintiq line. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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by frooxie 16y ago
I'm reminded of this quote from iusedtobelieve.com: When I was very young, my Dad was in the Navy. Naturally I spent a good deal of time asking where my Daddy was. My mother put a big picture of him on the coffee table, so I could see him a
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by frooxie 16y ago
Is it a coincidence that Duke Nukem Forever reappeared only a few months after this comic was created? http://i.imgur.com/6n4x7.jpg Could the Higgs Boson be far away?
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by frooxie 16y ago
"Disappointing of Sweden"? Really? Are you saying that the Swedish police should NOT investigate when rape is reported? Or are you saying that you are disappointed by Sweden as a whole because you suspect that a couple of Swedish women lied
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by frooxie 16y ago
I don't think it's a dyslexia thing - at least not necessarily. As I wrote below, I also don't think in words, but I don't have any language problems that I know of (at least, I understand 6-8 languages, learned to read extremely early, and
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by frooxie 16y ago
Really? I'm bilingual from childhood (and I've since learned a few more), and I seldom feel like I'm thinking in any specific language. Furthermore, I don't see how that could be puzzling to anyone - haven't most people had the experience o