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by gwillen 11y ago
It would be good if -- in addition to emailing customers BEFORE you archive their backups -- you specify in the email what counts as 'connected'. I already responded to this HN post by digging an ancient machine out of the closet
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by gwillen 11y ago
As other people have said above, "What even is X?" is a sort of odd phrasing being used for emphasis, similarly to other odd dubiously-grammatical constructions that the Internet likes. A more typical usage of "even" in
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by gwillen 11y ago
You can bypass essentially all paywalls using DNS tunnelling. The connection you get has _terrible_ bandwidth and latency characteristics, which is why nobody does it.
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by gwillen 11y ago
Google does follow every link, and those people do notice, because their forums get deleted. Very few people do it this wrong for very long. (Or they get fed up and patch the problem without understanding it, by using robots.txt to block al
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by gwillen 12y ago
Can you explain, or point me to an explanation of, _in detail_, exactly what GTalk broke in terms of federation? I find that in practice I can _sometimes_ communicate with _some_ users from _some_ clients, but it seems like it's flaky
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by gwillen 12y ago
You'll probably get a chuckle out of the first five-or-so paragraphs of: http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ The referenced paper can be found here: http://psychclassics.
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by gwillen 12y ago
I'm curious why this article seems to have gotten flag-bombed off the front page: http://hnrankings.info/9266769/ Is there something particularly un-newsworthy about this change?
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by gwillen 12y ago
> I think SF has already ceased to be an attractive place to live. Or as Yogi Berra allegedly once said: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
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by gwillen 12y ago
You can also get around it, at least in Chrome, by going to the console and entering: $('div#storytextp.storytextp').css('-webkit-user-select', 'inherit'); If that doesn't work, I would also try:
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by gwillen 12y ago
I have a theory: Doctors don't feel that someone with ALS can have an acceptable quality of life, and so do not provide the strongest possible lifesaving care. Since Hawking is a celebrity, he gets a significantly higher level of care
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by gwillen 12y ago
Can you give more details about the broken integration? I'd be interested to see the error message / the code in question.
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by gwillen 12y ago
Great, so now we don't even make email clients anymore; now we make Gmail clients. The open Internet sure is alive and well in the age of Google.
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by gwillen 12y ago
I was assuming 'cheating'.
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by gwillen 12y ago
As usual for wild-eyed headlines like this, it's not quite what it sounds like. This is condensed-matter physics: These aren't "particles" in the usual sense, and they don't exist by themselves in free space. They a
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by gwillen 12y ago
I would be interested to know (1) what the legal and regulatory implications of such a deal would be, and (2) what the implications would be with respect to the deals the founder would have signed with regard to the equity they were holding
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by gwillen 12y ago
General anesthesia really does knock you out, so you were very probably out like a light for the removal of your wisdom teeth. But when people talk about a lighter kind of anesthesia called "twilight sedation" or "conscious s
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by gwillen 12y ago
I know (at levels varying from 'friend' to 'acquaintance', so the field is more like 100-200 than your 25; but these are all people I have at least conversed with multiple times) two trans men and at least seven trans wo
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by gwillen 12y ago
What those programs are likely actually doing is not deliberately resetting the attributes, but saving a file by (1) writing to a new file, and (2) moving the new file over the old file (thus destroying anything about the old file that they
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by gwillen 12y ago
Because if you don't want them to take a mile, you'd better watch out when they start taking an inch.
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by gwillen 12y ago
I feel like people vote only partly on whether they think something is good or bad; they also (or maybe mostly) vote based on whether they think something has a higher or lower score than they think it deserves. So as a post or comment&#x27
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by gwillen 12y ago
sanderjd: Your comment (sibling of this one) appears to have been moderated. I suspect it's because of your use of is.gd.
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by gwillen 12y ago
This story is from 2011, and the title should be changed to reflect that; it's missing VAST changes that have happened since then.
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by gwillen 12y ago
As a followup, someone finally did find a full-blown 'execute whatever you like' exploit for the patched version of bash. http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/bash-bug-how-we-finally-...
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by gwillen 12y ago
You are being downvoted because the 5-year survival rate of pancreatic cancer is 5%. In all probability Jobs was going to die no matter what he did.
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by gwillen 12y ago
Don't think "how can an attacker get me by prepending '>' or '<' to a commandline?" (You did realize that '<' is also possible, right? Did you check what else is possible?) Think "t
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by gwillen 12y ago
The last I heard about this 'hack' was a fast food employee claiming that it's stupid, because (1) the fries turn over so fast that they're basically just as fresh anyway, (2) you're stalling the line and creating h
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by gwillen 12y ago
I don't think Burning Man will ever have a true September. There's no amount of money that can make it perfectly safe and comfortable, and it takes rather a large amount to make it even modestly so, at least by the standards of th
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by gwillen 12y ago
Eh, I think that's a little premature. Plus I don't think you actually tried applying it; it doesn't look like he scores that high. The worst thing I think I can say about this guy with my undergrad-level physics knowledge is
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by gwillen 12y ago
In the United States, Professor is a correct formal title for a university professor with a PhD.
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by gwillen 12y ago
To be clear: I think it's _great_ that we went out of our way to get those doctors back to the US for treatment. If it would be resource-prohibitive to help everyone, I think it's important to help the helpers first, and we owe th

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