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by haroldp 10y ago
> > Remember all of their one-off, over the top, skeuomorphic apps? > I actually liked those a lot. I also liked them, and I think skeuomorphism is a good idea, generally. And I think iOS's completely anti-skeuomorphic abst
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by haroldp 10y ago
> They are 100% correct about the spatial Finder; 15 years later and what the current OS has is still laughable compared to some of the gems of the Classic Finder. And every version that comes out, the Finder moves further away from spac
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by haroldp 10y ago
There's no such thing as a criminal gang selling bootleg liquor without a government prohibition.
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by haroldp 10y ago
That was indeed the idea. Sit alone in your cell, read your bible and pray to become a better person.
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by haroldp 10y ago
As soon as we end The Drug War.
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by haroldp 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_State_Penitentiary
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by haroldp 10y ago
I don't think that history is well understood, and there are a lot of urban legends around it, I think. It may have been a political/bureaucratic thing. It may be that Bell needed to stop fiddling around with design and start ma
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by haroldp 10y ago
Yeah, that is true. Mainly because the deletion of its supercharger for production, but also relevant to the topic here, pilots didn't love having that drive shaft between their feet. Still a functional design though, with certain adv
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by haroldp 10y ago
The P-39 was a successful WWII fighter plane with a mid-engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_P-39_Airacobra
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by haroldp 11y ago
But that doesn't really help you if you are using SNI to host multiple sites on a single IP address, does it?
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by haroldp 11y ago
How do you plan to get around LE's 5 subdomains per 7 day period limit? You can only get about 60 subdomains in theory , and that only if you stagger the registrations out carefully over three months and never make any mistakes.
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by haroldp 11y ago
That is 100% true. But I use IRC and have offline messages. It's IRC, so I had to cobble something together to make it happen, and the UI is ass, but... I have that within the IRC protocol.
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by haroldp 11y ago
I'm sure that I'm over simplifying, but can't you just put tokens or markdown right in the chat for those sort of things? If you have an old, flat IRC client, it's ugly but you can figure it out. If you have a supported
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by haroldp 11y ago
19,000+ dead people a year is a astounding fact, not hyperbole. If I were being hyperbolic, I'd call that "Over Six 9/11s per year".
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by haroldp 11y ago
This is not quite right. You can pack up to 100 hostnames into ONE cert. That might be useful if you are trying to avoid SNI issues on a single shared IP address. However, you are limited to five subdomain registrations or renewals per se
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by haroldp 11y ago
If Apple doesn't really care about privacy for its own sake, and this public support for customer privacy is just a cynical ploy to get my dollars... Fine. Let's hope more "greedy corporations" seek out my business by s
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by haroldp 11y ago
Iran managed to "hack" GPS to steer a state of the art American drone to land safely at a location of their choice over four years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid... I would
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by haroldp 11y ago
RMS is wrong on this issue, and wrong in a very insulting way. OSS programmers who disagree with him about license must not talk or (care) about freedom? Really? Jesus that's shitty.
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by haroldp 11y ago
So they in fact talk about freedom with using the word on their home page. That is exactly my point.
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by haroldp 11y ago
> it's entirely reasonable for him to say that other developers don't talk about freedom (as he means it) - because they don't. This is complete nonsense. Clang is replacing GCC in many BSD-licensed projects exactly becau
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by haroldp 11y ago
Similarly, no words like "freedom" appear on the home pages of many popular GPL-licensed projects. That doesn't mean that, "Mono doesn't talk about freedom". It doesn't mean that, "Python doesn&#x27
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by haroldp 11y ago
RMS saying that other developers have a different concept of software freedom is reasonable. RMS saying that the difference is important, and his idea of software freedom is reasonable and worth debating. Saying that other developers, &qu
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by haroldp 11y ago
Yeah, whether I agree with it or not, I'm not suggesting he doesn't have a reasonable point to make. I'm just saying he's an asshole, and to some extent, that is working against his own goals.
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by haroldp 11y ago
This article underscores one of the most interesting points in the book, that was applicable throughout the Americas, but was most startling in regard to the Amazon basin. It was that there was really no "untouched", virginal wil
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by haroldp 11y ago
The video on the linked page mentions, "New unit path finder. Improved performance"
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by haroldp 11y ago
What?
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by haroldp 11y ago
Each of those companies has been implicated as complicit in cooperating with the NSA's warrantless domestic spying.
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by haroldp 11y ago
Can you link to a source, or is this just your conjecture?
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by haroldp 11y ago
Not only that, but the officer making that allegation has subsequently been charged with embezzling bitcoins from The Silk Road.
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by haroldp 12y ago
I know that pain

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