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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I've done it both ways. Either way, it's best practice to open a few recommended ports, so overall I don't see a ton of difference. NAT seemes to work just fine, so long as tor can establish a few outside connections. (A box sitting behind
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I have a box that sits in the closet and runs a bridge/relay. Bandwidth on a commercial grade cable connection is minimal, and I don't notice it at all. I've successfully run Tor nodes on boxes with 300 Mhz processors and only 128MB of memo
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
It clearly should be fixed, as it is a bug. I'm just a bit amused at the OP presenting it a somewhat sensationalist fashion.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Late 2008. Soon to be replaced, and a bit behind on the OS too. I've had no end of problems with the graphics card and graphics card drivers on this model-- both times I've brought it in to be serviced the Apple techs have simply nodded and
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Isn't it trivial to "fix" this by just disabling smart-cover unlocking? Isn't that exactly why this is a user-enabled feature of the smart cover? It isn't that I oppose viewing this as a "bug" (obviously the user is led to believe that a pa
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
The only really valid criticism I see here is the binary blob problem-- clearly this is a poor way to store user configuration data, and completely antithetical to the kinds of philosophies that undergird Linux and Ubuntu. But really, the
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Well, this completely crashed my MacBook Pro. Although to be fair, I think it has to do with the fairly unreliable graphics card/drivers than anything else.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
A question: how does the fact that these are revenues instead of rates play into this discussion? I.E., one of the arguments of free-market proponents is that lower tax rates can increase revenues by allowing the economy to grow-- which
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Well, it certainly is nice to see that Netflix's promise of securing higher-quality content is at least partially coming to fruition. Also, it is nice to see a content creator finally start talking seriously about internet streaming versus
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Look, I know there's some disagreement with this comment, but why has this received so many downvotes? It isn't wildly unhelpful, is rather reasonably phrased, and doesn't attempt to pounce on the situation and make sensationalist claims...
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Yeah, my degree is in Music Theory/Composition, and while I understand where people are coming from when they complain about music notation, I can't see myself investing any significant amount of time learning an alternative system when I a
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I agree that it would be nice to know where mass comes from, but that fact absent any useful application (or a probability of a useful application) is of limited value to me. I guess if you don't see potential applications of understandin
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
This is, I think, a dishonest question, because we can't know "what they [got] out of it". There is a 5% probability that they might "get something out of it" in the future, and an unknown (likely greater than zero) probability that they wi
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I'm not sure why, but I've never really gotten used to the ribbon. Especially in Office 2010 , I find it incredibly difficult to navigate and, frankly, hugely annoying. To see it brought to something like explorer is horrifying, especially
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I've been quite critical of Gruber recently, but I agree. A wonderful, thoughtful, and bittersweet post.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Yes, but launching an ICBM has the rather unfortunately consequence of telegraphing the message that you are about to nuke someone. Hence the program is a non-ballistic one that seeks an alternative means of delivering a payload as quickly.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Whether one is focusing on national or global wellbeing, the point is the same-- the incentives work against either.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Yes, but I think that's a bad analogy because winning a chess game is good for you , but preserving a national infrastructure of innovation and manufacturing is good for everyone . It can be difficult to make choices that preserve the com
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Many people don't have first principles to begin thinking from. While you're certainly right that the quality of one's first principles is at issue in judging their conclusion, the mere fact that so many people don't even bother to try
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I think Musk is right to point out that many people don't reason from first principles-- basically, that they consciously decide not to think about something, but to allow other's thinking to guide their thoughts. ("It has always been done
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Look, this is Gruber's bottom line, all of his caveats aside. At the end of the day, that's how he views this story, and I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that this is going to be a fairly succinct example of his thinking and argum
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I appreciate the advice, but I did read the article carefully and completely. My original comment, read carefully, has far more to do with the nuances of Gruber beginning to turn his arguments now that he can't bray night and day about how
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Because Gruber's summary of the entire story is "I think Apple and Microsoft probably feel pretty good, competitively, about having forced Google into spending $12.5 billion for Motorola — a handset maker with rapidly declining sales, no re
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
The primary issue that I have with Gruber's argument is that it seems to reverse some of his more recent assertions about the Google Patent Wars(TM). Haven't we been hearing from Gruber for months on end how patents were going to somehow de
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I think it does make more sense. Does it make sense why those of us who have responded don't read your first comment that way? (I appreciate the clarification, btw)
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Of course Gruber is spinning this to be about "one image." Pro-Apple spin is largely what he seems to do these days. Does anyone think that, were this situation reversed, that Gruber would be intentionally trying to make this about a single
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Because it isn't racist.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
How is it at all interesting if it isn't a fair comparison? What you are suggesting isn't what you are defending here: you're suggesting that we compare two entirely different scenarios and then defending it by saying it is worth doing an e
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Google’s blog post comes across as whining that Apple and Microsoft (Microsoft especially) aren’t sitting back and allowing Android to destroy their businesses. No, Google's blog post rightly points out that Microsoft and Apple haven chos
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I was able to get this to work on an HL2140 last year. I just taped a small piece of construction paper over the eye on the cartridge and it happily went about printing for quite some time- I made it through an entire ream before the qualit

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