honkhonkpants

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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
The navigation assistance in my car is significantly better than the one Google Maps offers. For one thing it doesn't lose its mind every time I go under an overpass. For another, the UI is vastly superior: it shows me the distance t
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
"The Bolt starts at $37,495 in LT trim, but a $7500 federal tax credit will pull the price under $30,000." I don't understand this because the last time I went into the VW dealer they had the MSRP of the e-Golf crossed out wi
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Fair enough. My analogy was about the practice of remaking a place of worship into a place to worship something else.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
It seems to be an allusion to the christian cathedral in Córdoba that's built around a mosque.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Emacs' redisplay architecture is an adaptation for ancient serial terminals with very low rates. On those terminals emacs has always been "buttery smooth" compared to other editors! Of course very few people have any reason
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
There are definitely roundup-resistant weeds, if that was your question. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environ...
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Answering my own question: this late-2016 MacBook Pro does support four external monitors using its four USB-C ports.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Old photos are usually metal-on-glass plates, and the plates are usually enormous. They compare very, very favorably with teensy little 35mm films.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
If you think the NSA has everyone's emails squirreled away in their teensy little data center then you do not understand the scale of email.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
The metal body of the MacBook means that if you drop it one time the lid never closes right again. Plastic thinkpads don't have that problem. They have different problems that I happen to prefer, like the doors to ports that I never us
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Why can't I do that? GPU can't drive five displays?
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
So how does this relate to uprobes? I've been looking into that lately because I want frequency counts (or coverage analysis) of user space programs but without the nop-sled overhead of xray. Does dtrace supplement or replace uprobes?
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I take it that in Germany when I go to the news stand I hand over my money and the shopkeeper gives me a randomly selected newspaper? Or do I still get to distort my perception by choosing my favorite newspaper? Are the daily editorial me
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
For most topics the Wikipedia entry is the top result.
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Best part is that what you get for a slot can and does change over time.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Anybody who claims to be going for an executive position through front-door recruiting is a rando. Look at the SVPs at Google and look at how they got that job. Either they have been at Google since the dawn of man, or they came in throug
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
The idea that randos are just interviewing to be SVPs at Google doesn't seem particularly likely to me.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I wish. That would be the sane way to do it. The way it seems to be done around here is they don't start until 10AM because of rush hour, then they come in, uncover the trenches, work for an hour, cover the trenches back up, and kick
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
"Every corporate office in the world is running Windows." While many companies do use Windows, many others do not, including some very large ones. You think they are using Windows at Apple? That's the world's most valu
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
The NYT article inadvertently addresses the problem: dozens of workers were at the site. Dozens. Not hundreds or thousands. Dozens. With all that capital equipment laying around and all the opportunity costs being ignored. There's a
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Does it come with a gallon of Windex?
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I was being a bit US-centric there, wasn't I? Sorry about that!
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You're applying your own success criteria to someone else's project.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I would just about give my left arm for a consistent 56k mobile connection.
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All that stuff sounds really great if you had a lot of engineering resources and you are writing Gmail, but for 99% of the sites out there the JS hacks that load just the deltas and whatnot just get confused by packet loss and I end up havi
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Interesting, but you couldn't have been using a Nomad Jukebox 3 when the iPod was announced. The Jukebox 3 came out after.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
A lot of people have said this over the years and I still just can't fathom it. The iPod was much smaller than the Creative Nomad of that time, which had a 2.5" HDD and intentionally mimicked the size and shape of a Sony Discman.
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See, that's just the thing right there. Jobs wanted to market a great product and was in no way concerned that some people might not be able to use it, because expanding the product to those users would compromise the greatness of the
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
That's completely backwards. If you try to use Siri while your phone is offline, it reads "Siri not available / Connect to the Internet." Google's voice system works perfectly well offline. You can dictate, or yo
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The state has plenty of water for people to drink. It doesn't have enough water for all those people, and to irrigate a gigantic desert, at the same time.

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