honestcoyote

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by honestcoyote 11y ago
It's a fun thought experiment. I've had a similar one, imagining an alternate cold war with the divergent point being the mid 60's Mariner probe visit to Mars revealed canals, cities, vegetation, and a shallow ocean. A city o
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by honestcoyote 11y ago
What a great toy. Wish there was a way to feed it text from the Library of Babel so we'd get an idea of the sick beats the librarians dance to while trapped in their endless hexes. I put in a few of the improbable words from the Librar
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by honestcoyote 11y ago
I don't think you should be too concerned. For WoW specifically, there are private servers available which allow players to experience Classic again. There's also servers concentrating on the other expansions. Runescape also has a
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by honestcoyote 11y ago
One thing that helped me was the professor emphasizing email and the class forums on the crappy uni CMS. I know you'd probably prefer students showing up in person, but for people like me, email ensured I would stay in communication wi
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
Despite 2014 being very good for Republicans in general, the Kansas governor was unpopular. Approval ratings well below 50%. The Kansas Secretary of State reacted by making some very suspicious moves, including throwing a substantially larg
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
You could. There was a keyboard kit for the 400 and I remember it being decent. But the kit may not have been very well known.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
I prefer choosing my own install location as well. For me, Portable Apps works well for several different applications. No worries about something quietly installing spyware and, since the applications are portable, I can put them in my Dro
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
I agree. Nothing beats pure text files. These days though, I save them to my Dropbox folder so they're accessible anywhere. I feel like I'm getting the best of both worlds this way.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
The diamonds are too big. I think this convention could work if the diamonds weren't the height of the line. Maybe at 50% or 30% of the original size. Then it would be obvious but not nearly so distracting. As it is, it's fairly u
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
The operative word is 'yet'. You're right. Things aren't that bad now, compared to the Stasi. But the problem lies in the tools and information available. All it takes is for one of the parties in power to decide they wa
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
The Public Domain Review ( http://publicdomainreview.org/ ) is probably perfect for you. Covers a wide range of archive.org and Gutenberg books and it's well tagged so you can focus on particular interests.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
Not that small. Lawrence is the home of the University of Kansas. I've lived all over the country, and Lawrence would rank towards the top for me. It's much like Austin, only smaller and less expensive. And probably more relaxed.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
Thank you. I knew about the DSN but didn't know there was a status page. Quite fun.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
If a prosecutor's chief career metric is his conviction rate, then he doesn't have much incentive to reelease exonerating evidence. I wonder if changing the rules would help. Releasing such evidence and causing the case to collaps
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
Probably best to make code review an extra credit exercise because you don't want to ever penalize a good student by tying their rewards to the actions of someone who might be slacking.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
Subreddit moderators do have input. The admins wanted to make AskHistorians a default and the moderators, who are already work overtime to ensure the posted answers are highly professional, said no. And some moderators have, I think, chosen
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
As you might remember, there were a few days after 9/11 when all air traffic nationwide was grounded. Some scientists took it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to examine what effect air traffic might have on climate. Here's an
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
weev's fame and notoriety is based on not only offending but also direct harassment, often of people who could not fight back. He's a classic bully & troll, and his opinions on this matter cannot be taken seriously.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
Seems like Dropbox has already solved this problem on mobile devices. Using the Dropbox client on my Nexus phone or on the iPad, I can read or edit a file, and then mark it for offline use which keeps it in local storage, or just leave it a
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
I think it would be possible now. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, of course, already on the desk. Chromecast hooked up to the monitor. Use one of the Android automation apps to automatically mirror the display via Chromecast when the phone is
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
I'd welcome a chat / email. I've spent most of my career in educational software, thought frequently of how to improve it, and would be happy to talk with someone of a similar mindset. Added an email to my profile here. I do
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
I think you could get away with almost any language as the base and English as the target since the English alphabet is almost universally understood. Going the other way around, English - > Japanese or English -> Russian for example,
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
Thanks for the encouragement. Might be worth trying again to make this.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
When I worked as a developer at an EFL / ESL educational software company, I proposed something similar for the Japanese market. Make an RPG (JPRG in style, of course) where the base language was Japanese. Have the usual storyline wher
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
You may be correct regarding a Hollywood lifestyle, but I think there's a bit of confirmation bias here. There's only a relatively small number of elderly celebs who are still active in the public eye, and those actors who have su
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
If you're building a Macintosh System 6 or 7 style page, use this site[1] to create 1-bit Atkinson[2] dithered images which will fit perfectly. [1] http://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither [2] http://en.
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
I personally think there's a simple answer. Give the candidate the technical questions as a take-home exercise and let them have X number of days to finish it. Probably best to have a relatively simple exercise and give them only 1 day
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by honestcoyote 12y ago
I realized the drug war was a farce when I was a teenager watching the evening news with my parents. They ran a story about arresting a Colombian drug lord and raiding his mansion. Immediately following was a commercial break which featured
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by honestcoyote 13y ago
Sitting in front of a screen doesn't completely block your vision. I think there will be a certain level of discomfort, no matter how lightweight the goggles, at being completely blind to your surroundings. I have no idea if this will
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by honestcoyote 13y ago
It's a little too old to do 4g, but the Nokia phones which ran s60 / Symbian would do what you want. Many of them had GPS and could run Google Maps, most had wifi, and all were solidly built with several days of standby time. Look

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