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by jefurii 8y ago
> Well, we are the ones paying those people's pensions, My dad (retired) was a career public employee. He paid into his pension every month of his entire career. He earned every damn penny he's getting right now.
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by jefurii 8y ago
Which ISP is this? (interested)
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by jefurii 8y ago
The author mentions this several times, but the Linux kernel project workflow is built around email, as described on LWN[0] and discussed here[1] and on Reddit[2]. [edited for format] [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/702177
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by jefurii 8y ago
The first time I heard about Eurorack was when the guy behind the Audio Damage plugins remarked on his blog that part of why he he was making the move to Eurorack was that hardware couldn't be pirated.
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by jefurii 8y ago
Caltech used to have a great recycling facility with dumpsters for the various kinds of plastic. It was open to the community and always in use. It required more time and attention to get it right but it certainly wasn't onerous. But
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by jefurii 8y ago
> I feel like the biggest criticism I can make of Gibson is that he plots. Interesting. I've seen him twice at book signings and both times he said that he specifically does not plot beforehand. He starts with characters and &quot
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by jefurii 8y ago
yeah whatever. what are you doing to help things?
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by jefurii 8y ago
> Is this a round about way of saying 'if all the white people died it would fix our problems'? Nope, I've seen racism perpetrated by people of every color to know that wouldn't solve anything. I guess it's an e
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by jefurii 8y ago
I'm white. As I watch the news I can't help but think maybe this isn't such a bad thing. All I see are white people bashing people of color, and other white people standing on the sidelines doing nothing concrete to stop it
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by jefurii 8y ago
What I'm hearing from scientists is that we're already seeing unusual weather patterns that are due to global warming. For the past decade or so nearly every year has been warmer than the year before, and nearly every year is a r
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by jefurii 8y ago
FF runs fine on my six-year-old Thinkpad. Of course I run PrivacyBadger which blocks most adverts and trackers. Are we really saying that Chrome is just more efficient at wasting CPU cycles to show adverts?
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by jefurii 8y ago
> Right now, if I am looking for a code library, I pretty much only use the ones I find on github, even if the google search shows me projects hosted on other places. I don't know what ecosystem you're working with, but I typic
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by jefurii 8y ago
A half-hour is not quite enough. :) I did the tutorial a couple times and found a reference card somewhere which I kept next to my computer for awhile. At first I used "Options > Use CUA Keys" so I could use existing muscle m
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by jefurii 8y ago
FWIW my wife and I have been running Debian on X-series Thinkpads for years with no problems except for having trouble some printers and with the occasional WiFi hotspot. Linux on the desktop Just Works in our experience. I have to run Wind
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by jefurii 8y ago
> Just ask the tens of million of immigrants in this country who have done exactly that. Seemed like more of a thing when America was actually a land of opportunity.
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by jefurii 8y ago
On Firefox try View > Page Style > No Style.
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by jefurii 8y ago
The nice thing about this function was that it was local -- it didn't transmit your thoughts to some outside entity for evaluation. Can't remember if you could tweak the criteria by which it calculated the peppers but whatever, t
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by jefurii 8y ago
The Amish are another group whose name is synonymous with rejecting all technology, but whose story is much more nuanced. They carefully consider each technology and try it out on selected individuals to see what effect it has on them, the
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by jefurii 8y ago
I was hired to my current (remote) job literally the week my son was born; he and my job are both 6.5 years old. I worked from home (with headphones) until he started walking, at which point my job paid for a spot in a local coworking spac
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by jefurii 8y ago
I wouldn't say that all media is PR specifically, but it's true that all media is bought and paid for by somebody. It might be a giant corporation paying a mechanical turk to write what they want. It might be somebody with the
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by jefurii 8y ago
Becoming overweight is a slow problem, something that happens over the course of years. The solution is also slow: changing food behavior and keeping that up for a long period of time while resisting all kinds of temptations and pressure f
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by jefurii 8y ago
That is so meta.
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by jefurii 8y ago
Facebook did just announce a "dating" app...
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by jefurii 8y ago
They had station-specific melodies back in the early 1990s when I was a student. I wonder if these are updated versions of the same melodies or new compositions.
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by jefurii 9y ago
I can see small services like SDF.org and Eskimo.com making a comeback. People who want to #deleteFacebook and who have woken up to the problems with FB's business model, but who don't have the tech skills to do it themselves mig
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by jefurii 9y ago
You certainly can - the code is on GitHub with install instructions. I considered self-hosting but it's cheaper to just pay the yearly subscription fee. Also I feel good about paying for a service that respects me by opening the sourc
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by jefurii 9y ago
HTTP Basic authentication
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by jefurii 9y ago
I have two Asus Chromeboxes that now run Linux. I put GalliumOS on one for my kid and stock Debian on the other. I had to flash the firmware for both of them[1]. If you do this make double sure you're flashing the correct firmware f
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by jefurii 9y ago
I love libraries and my city has some truly beautiful ones. The problem with working there is that unless you work in a group you have to basically pack up your whole setup if you want to go to the bathroom or get a cup of coffee. The cow
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by jefurii 9y ago
Maybe that's just WeWork, maybe it's a culture that develops in certain places. I've worked at CrossCampus in Pasadena for awhile and there are a bunch of programmers, writers, and other types who need to be able to concentr

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