hrkristian

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by hrkristian 13y ago
Eagerly awaiting OASIS... Now, what decade is Gabe Newell obsessed with?
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by hrkristian 13y ago
No, it means motivation would come from elsewhere, we're -as a society- just sinking further and further into a mindset where money is the one and only way for anything to get done. Sickening. The hammer was invented in spite of the
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by hrkristian 13y ago
As the author explains, and I agree, Motorola gave Google a large amount of patents and a way to enter the phone market. The latter lets Google have more influence in how that market expands, in order to tie it even more with their existing
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by hrkristian 13y ago
That's very interesting, considering our smallest nerve-cell -I believe- is about 4 ųm. I'm disappointed the article doesn't mention the significance of age, or even the average age of the study.
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by hrkristian 13y ago
This one was on HN only a few months ago, it's beautiful, so much so I saved it to my phone. It's very interesting to see similarities and differences, and I get chills at knowing this is before it was bombed asunder. England was
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Google added a permissions manager in Android 4.3, but it was removed again in 4.4. I never got to try it (went from 4.2 CyanogenMod to Nexus 5) but there are apps which do the same in the Play Store. They supposedly break a great deal of a
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by hrkristian 13y ago
This was fun! Anyone else feel this is kind of a real-time Worms 2D? Wonderful to see "Download for Linux" on the frontpage, even better to see it's available in the Arch repos. Where is the donation button, though?
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by hrkristian 13y ago
I wish more people did not write out knee-jerk responses every time this topic shows up on HN. When people are typing out a dissertation in a matter of minutes, quality takes the full force of the blow. There are currently more comments tha
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by hrkristian 13y ago
The argument is the same as applied to governance, you don't want to give one person or entity too much power. I find the crusade against Google ridiculous for the most part, they're one of the few entities who are doing actual, q
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by hrkristian 13y ago
>The main reason I am writing this comment is that I believe the way to progress is forward not backwards. I couldn't disagree more, forward only implies new, which isn't necessarily better. The old paradigm of teaching, I find
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by hrkristian 13y ago
I'm uncomfortable because of your comment, where does the line go for having you forcibly removed?
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Yes, and yet that is what brought anti-bacterial into the mainstream here in Norway.
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by hrkristian 13y ago
I've never used anti-bacterials, not when it got introduced into dish-washing soap, and not when H1N1 created a ridiculous scare. This is one of those things where I take the elitist path and my palm hits my forehead at high velocity.
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by hrkristian 13y ago
We're a far way away from seeing what digitization and automation will eventually bring. The Arab Spring would not have been possible if not for social media and the internet in general. It is a perfect example of machines helping the
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Arguably, the unfinished-ness was part of what made World of Warcraft so wildly popular. There is much more to explore and enjoy in an open and chaotic environment, than in a streamlined and closed world. Obviously, we move away from it in
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Retina is just Apple's marketing term for high-density display, and is something that's been common in PC gaming for a decade. Before the age of LCD my monitor had a whopping 1920x1440 res, many gamers opt into similarly high (16:
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by hrkristian 13y ago
That is probably the best prediction I've seen anyone do. He greatly overestimated our capability to store/generate power, the reason is apparent in his Foundation series as what he got wrong (cordless appliances and hovering tran
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by hrkristian 13y ago
I find there's some truth to his philosophy, though. There doesn't seem to go even a week between my having said or thought something, and then realising I've been a fool or at best not quite correct in my reasoning. I'm
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Rambo screenings would likely have a better effect, myself and others often get so pumped up by action movies we're one wrong tone of voice from going postal. Hijackers wouldn't stand a chance in such an airplane.
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Then again, Android comes in different flavors while Windows does not. There is a trade-off there, and you'll usually get the same or better upgrade frequency from an Android OEM than from Microsoft. For those interested in having the
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Either I don't understand the quote, or it's way off. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. By 'beginning', you'd think you want to stop a criminal from becoming a criminal (general: a problem from
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by hrkristian 13y ago
I've found myself arguing that point before, but brainwashing is a difficult topic. I now think it's wrong to claim it, because while the media in PRK obviously lies with intent and that is propaganda, most there probably do not h
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Thankfully, there are easily installable Wine ports so it isn't really a problem. Netflix does not seem interested in enforcing their "Linux (/*BSD) ban"[1], I can even use a desktop recorder to rip straight from Netflix
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Your karma score is irrelevant in a hugely biased community like HN , what matters are your arguments' validity, so far those are zero. Everyone who has lurked and/or participated for a while here knows what kind of comments get
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by hrkristian 13y ago
The "community" has no obligation to keep people in, it is the individual's choice what to do and how to deal with anything resulting from that choice. As for women vs men, we all take our daily abuse, and in an anonymous onl
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by hrkristian 13y ago
This is not really surprising, but it does raise one very important question for me. I have transferred funds to Mt.Gox and traded, will the authorities now automatically assume these are in the form of BTC, and tax me accordingly?
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by hrkristian 13y ago
IIRC, AMD GPUs support and are optimized for newer versions of OpenCL, while Nvidias Cuda solution is much ( much ) less effective for mining. At the very least a Google search with that in mind will get you the info you need.
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by hrkristian 13y ago
I agree completely. I attempted a curve-free and black-on white terminal in my earlier Linux days, and the result was HORRIBLE! This is blatant racism and sexism against white men everywhere.
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by hrkristian 13y ago
Invasion vs invitation. I'd happily share 99% (maybe even all) of my life with the whole world, every step taken and every breath taken, but that would be on my terms. (I kinda am, by agreeing to everything Google asks of me) Would J
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by hrkristian 13y ago
I get the impression you don't play chess? Lets say Paul takes artificial hormones to increase his level of happiness; numbing his receptors. What stops Paul from also taking a drug which improves the recovery time of his receptors? Ed

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