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by jff 12y ago
I'm getting really sick of people calling this kind of thing an Operating System. If your first step is "Install Linux", it's not an operating system. It might be a meta-operating system or something like that, but we&#x
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by jff 12y ago
A diesel motorcycle would probably be the best bet, since diesel engines can be made to run on a variety of other fuels. The US Marines have one, the M103M1 ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/automobiles/
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by jff 12y ago
But the maintenance is really pretty simple, the biggest problem with any gas-burning vehicle would be that all modern gas will be more or less useless after a year or so.
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by jff 12y ago
Carefully re-read the parent comment and ask yourself if he was being truly serious.
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by jff 12y ago
Are you sure that's the right team? Pretty much every commit in the repo is by a man, and I thought the author mentioned an all-woman team.
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by jff 12y ago
Ah, but this is my big fancy expensive Dell screen at work... I think it was a combination of the webpage and my brain flipping out.
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by jff 12y ago
I don't know, but the white text started sort of "flickering" between bright and dark after a while; a paragraph might look pretty bright, then it would suddenly seem darker again while the paragraph above looked brighter. It
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by jff 12y ago
Ever since reading that article about how dangerous it is to criticize Apple, and how authors always start out by flying their Apple cred... man I notice it all the time in any article that has to say something critical.
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by jff 12y ago
Take an amazing and interesting demonstration given by a brilliant man, and play bad electronic music over it. I'd have gone to see a screening of the Demo un-modified, but this thing looks rubbish.
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by jff 12y ago
The long nightmare is over, Linux finally has a package manager!
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by jff 12y ago
> Everybody can just only guess why... NOAA says it isn't because of climate change, if that's what you're implying.
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by jff 12y ago
E-6 is easier than K-14 but it's still a lot pickier than B&W. I want a color film that's as easy to process as B&W in a Rodinal stand dev.
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by jff 12y ago
I'd rather they just made a new Kodachrome line, but easier to process than the original... film is still pretty popular in the amateur crowd, and if they released a color film that was as easy to process as b&w and looked like Kod
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by jff 12y ago
I made the same assessment, strongest on ibi7
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by jff 12y ago
That's because he's not a very good Go programmer, which is not surprising since he's clearly far too intelligent to use Go.
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by jff 12y ago
It's almost as if, like most people who write articles complaining about Go's lack of "expressiveness" and generics, he took a cursory look at the language, wrote some naive examples that supported his point, and squeeze
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by jff 12y ago
This is his MO on this site. Yes, I too have noticed that things tend to get posted multiple times, or that the same fucking Jargon File entries get posted every time the previous one "expires". I just don't harp on it (much)
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by jff 12y ago
> I can't believe how many words were used in this article to convey such little substance. Does the author know anything other than 50 cent words, or is this style supposed to mean it's an intellectual piece? Click around the
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by jff 12y ago
On the website it says seventh grade students were encouraged to start studying for it, so focus on the test was high even then.
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by jff 12y ago
And you thought chicken farms were disgusting...
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by jff 12y ago
> Third, for those who don't give a shit about anybody but humans, how long until this is used in humans? I hear people are eating chickens and even cattle! How long until this is done to humans?!?!
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by jff 12y ago
"Testing these concrete things is bad, let's instead attempt to test these poorly-defined subjective things."
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by jff 12y ago
SF is the same way, down to the oppressive height restrictions.
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by jff 12y ago
> They are claiming that global warming is responsible for the fact that the reservoirs have not been replenished by rain and snow melt. Even Mother Jones and NOAA disagree with you: http://www.motherjones.com/environment
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by jff 12y ago
Once we saw that Go had moved to Github, we decided Google Code was probably being shut down soon. And now, a week after we moved our own project from Google Code to Github, it gets shut down. Feels good to have called it :)
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by jff 12y ago
You really want to hyphenate "out-consuming", unless David Hume is now a cannibal :)
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by jff 12y ago
$10,000 paid per user. Damn.
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by jff 12y ago
At a first pass, I'd try to implement such a thing with a Distributed Hash Table-like situation. Generate chunks in some fashion (either one chunk per file, or glob files together up to N megabytes), take a hash of the chunk, and then
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by jff 12y ago
This is more or less a tool-supported version of what we do at work--I've posted about it a few times, to sneering response. The config file thing would hopefully be nice and small/simple so it's not a hassle to use. I think
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by jff 12y ago
Still not seeing any G.T. connection. Mind taking off the foil hat and beaming the info to my mind or something?

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