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541.
by jff 13y ago
I just had green tea kit-kats from Japan, brought back by a coworker who is stationed over there. They were AWESOME.
542.
by jff 13y ago
I think I remember that episode. I suppose "aliens" are a much more attractive explanation than "government-funded wartime R&D centers plus post-war prosperity plus Cold War arms race equals massive scientific advancement
543.
by jff 13y ago
Somehow managing to believe everything while believing nothing. Aliens at Roswell? Sure! US managed to land on the moon? Ridiculous!
544.
by jff 13y ago
I am fond of the controls in my car. Pretty much everything is done through a simple knob with a label above it. On the far left, a knob for lights. Pull out one click to turn on parking lights, all the way out for headlights. Twist left an
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by jff 13y ago
The question is not "can you transmit digital information over audio". That's an obvious yes. The question is, can laptop speakers transmit at ultrasonic frequencies, and can a laptop microphone pick those frequencies up suff
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by jff 13y ago
The alleged ability to communicate over audio, since its very existence is questionable.
547.
by jff 13y ago
By someone who should know better, you mean? Because that's a really terrible explanation.
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by jff 13y ago
> That being said, Coraid hardware runs Plan 9, it's embedded, you don't see it. Some of it. Some of it runs Solaris. http://www.coraid.com/products/file_storage
549.
by jff 13y ago
"The developer has not uploaded a game yet..." are we overloading the server?
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by jff 13y ago
These guys didn't design Linux; it would work better if they had. They created Unix. Also, know how you do init in Plan 9? You add commands to an init file, and they run when the machine boots. If a service goes down for some reason, y
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by jff 13y ago
That was my response too, but at least you'd assume a real lunatic who planned to shoot up a school would, you know, have a gun. That's why I don't joke about shooting people.
552.
by jff 13y ago
Why would you assault someone in a club? I thought you're from a ~civilized country~
553.
by jff 13y ago
Don't tell people that, or the Californians will move in and ruin it.
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by jff 13y ago
> Maine has half the population of Chicago. More importantly, Texas is 20x the size of Maine, and represents over 8% of the population of the US. Substitute "many European countries" for "Maine".
555.
by jff 13y ago
Everything in UNIX is modelled as a "file", whereas in Plan9 everything is modelled after a "burrito" - some guy on Slashdot
556.
by jff 13y ago
That old HN favorite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines rears its head once again!
557.
by jff 13y ago
Someone from the FSF suggested the FSF's current license? There's a surprise!
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by jff 13y ago
Yeah that sounds about right for a Marxist: "It's all those evil OTHER PEOPLE's fault that we suck! Trust us, it'll be a lot better after the revolution"
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by jff 13y ago
Everything old is new again: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Washing_m...
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by jff 13y ago
If you weren't worried about it, you wouldn't be posting about it so much.
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by jff 13y ago
My point is that people do a lot of things as signals to groups. When someone (apparently not you) goes out of his way to tell people he doesn't watch the Superbowl, maybe because "European football is so much better" or &quo
562.
by jff 13y ago
Tell that to the healthcare.gov people.
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by jff 13y ago
I guarantee you do it too. Possibly in a way you're blind to, but you're doing it. If you're an American, did you watch the Superbowl yesterday? Or did you smugly tell people you're not interested in sportsball?
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by jff 13y ago
It may just be profiling since I'm a middle-class white male, but I've been waved into the pre-check line several times despite flying coach and not signing up for anything special. Shoes on, drop your stuff on the conveyor belt a
565.
by jff 13y ago
As another poster pointed out, it's different when you work for the government. If you have a clearance, you need to be careful about reading the news at work lest you open one of Snowden's classified slides on an unclassified wor
566.
by jff 13y ago
Everyone's so busy shitting themselves over Glass users "recording everything all the time". Oh no! They might have a recording of me entering a bathroom! Maybe they'll record me talking about the movie I saw last week!
567.
by jff 13y ago
BREAKING NEWS, HN USER TZS CAUGHT URINATING IN PUBLIC RESTROOM URINAL, SHOCKING FILM OF HIS CLOTHED BACK! Are you expecting Glass wearers to suddenly start leaning over urinal partitions to film you pissing? Or poking their heads over stall
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by jff 13y ago
As someone who watches a lot of people use Vim, I think many would be better off with a little judicious mouse use. Yes, you very busily slam keys, but it seems to take a pretty damn long time and a lot of keystrokes to actually accomplish
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by jff 13y ago
Suas forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfv1QtZDirY
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by jff 13y ago
Keep pouring money into that hole!

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