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by jff 12y ago
So you couldn't provide any real source, instead linking to something about the Chicago police. What's the Georgia Tech connection?
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by jff 12y ago
I'd way rather see his guns and/or knives than his $500 mechanical pencil.
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by jff 12y ago
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
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by jff 12y ago
I used to do the spelling bee thing. I did ok, would generally make it from my school -> local -> regional, but not beyond that. That's because I was good at spelling from all my reading, but I didn't study for the bee at al
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by jff 12y ago
Every political candidate says that they will prioritize OUR CHILDREN, WHO ARE THE FUTURE. Seems like every proposition on the ballot always has a little mention of how it'll put more money into local schools, too.
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by jff 12y ago
The opportunity to meet children from families that aren't either white & well off or white & religious?
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by jff 12y ago
Why would you 8.3-ify filenames when you're trying to emulate a Unix system? I don't think any Unix system has ever used 8.3 filenames.
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by jff 12y ago
At my school, they did indeed put an interpreter in any class with deaf kids (we had a lot of deaf students). The school would also pay hearing students for their course notes for distribution to deaf students, so if you were deaf and felt
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by jff 12y ago
> Seems a bit like sect behavior to me (arbitrary rules and punishments). Wikipedia in a nutshell.
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by jff 12y ago
> Listening to a Vinyl is an experience, plus it's lossless Nope, your record loses information every time you play it, because you're literally rubbing a needle over those tiny little grooves.
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by jff 12y ago
Something Positive is a wall-of-text comic which, unfortunately also has very bad writing in its walls of text. I'm embarrassed to say I read the entire thing in high school in 2004, but in my defense I was starved for content and di
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by jff 12y ago
> some states are still ruled by people who want to teach creationism, or legislate that pi is 3 sweet dig but this is Maryland we're talking about, they go in for a different kind of loony there.
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by jff 12y ago
So you're saying you like working in coffee shops, but it's hard to find a seat because there's all these other people working in coffee shops?
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by jff 12y ago
But the assertion was that aluminum itself is toxic, so the presence of impurities is irrelevant.
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by jff 12y ago
I have looked at openpandora on and off since... I swear I was hearing about it as a college freshman, in 2005-2006? It was interesting and promising then but they completely failed to deliver. It has NEVER been available for purchase, rega
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by jff 12y ago
Unfortunately that describes a huge variety of microcomputers from the 70s and 80s. You probably could have hooked up a cassette recorder for permanent storage, but they took a very long time to store or load.
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by jff 12y ago
> Does anyone know why the specific decisions and guidelines used here may have been made? Presumably the guidelines were designed in such a way as to disqualify all previous definitions of "the first personal computer", allo
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by jff 12y ago
> Call me a conspiracy nut, but now that social media is how most young people get their news, I wouldn't be surprised if the US gov paid people to post and promote bullshit fluff to keep people distracted from major events in the w
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by jff 12y ago
Well, if he blocks a hydrant and the fire department needs to use it, they will grab their leakiest hose, smash his windows out, and run that hose right through the car. I've seen pictures, it's pretty sweet justice.
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by jff 12y ago
> Maybe having a bench not be a cool option is an answer to those problems? Ah, yes, exploit the well-known fact that homeless people are slaves to fashion. "Attention homeless people, sleeping on benches is so over "
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by jff 12y ago
I imagine he just hasn't implemented them yet--they're not incredibly difficult and can usually be added later, as I did for Plan 9's rio WM at some point.
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by jff 12y ago
He's already mastered the essential strategy of selecting a handful of indicators to make your point seem right.
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by jff 12y ago
I was just about to switch over to Guile-WM on my desktop today, but it doesn't look like it has virtual desktop support, which kind of kills it for me for the time being. Otherwise it ticks pretty much all the right boxes.
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by jff 12y ago
I use StumpWM, but it can be a real pain in the ass to get running and configured. I like that it has static layouts: you manually split the screen into panes and windows go in those panes, rather than everything resizing & shuffling wh
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by jff 12y ago
> I mean, if you look at the vast majority of screenshots, you don't even see that much work. The obligatory IRC client, fake-GUI music players and/or file managers and probably an editor with the configuration file or some min
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by jff 12y ago
And they look fucking awful.
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by jff 12y ago
Or if you miss your connection while in New Jersey, and you have a gun in checked luggage: http://volokh.com/2010/03/30/unexpected-flight-delay-hotel-s...
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by jff 12y ago
Pedestrians have the right of way in crosswalks UNLESS there is a signal; if there is a signal, the pedestrian only has right of way when the signal allows them to cross.
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by jff 12y ago
> Of course, there's always a race condition and potential for deadlock when two cars arrive simultaneously at an empty intersection, and waving people through is a safe and necessary way to solve that. There are very clear right-of
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by jff 12y ago
Say the speed limit is 30, and you can pedal along at 15 mph. If you ride with traffic and get hit, your relative speed at collision will be 15 mph and the collision will push you away from the car. If you ride against traffic and get hit

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