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811.
by jff 14y ago
He was referring to JROTC, the high school activity.
812.
by jff 14y ago
Equally laughable.
813.
by jff 14y ago
Well, I think that qualifies as a valid response when you're playing as a dystopian bureaucrat :)
814.
by jff 14y ago
I have just showed up at the local AT&T store and asked for a prepaid SIM. Walked out 10 minutes later with a re-fillable month-to-month account that I used for testing.
815.
by jff 14y ago
Go is not an acronym Go is not an acronym Go is not an acronym See also: "ham" (amateur radio) is not an acronym
816.
by jff 14y ago
The whole thesis of the article is that body language is automatic and ingrained, even in people born blind.
817.
by jff 14y ago
There are reasons to be more comfortable with them using a punch card system: * All their "software" (ha!) is stored in physical form, on a shelf, as a board full of wires--hard to mistakenly delete it or lose the registration key. * Their
818.
by jff 14y ago
Not that it's very hard to fix a mangled card--if it's torn, you just look at it and type up a new copy. It's only 80 characters max.
819.
by jff 14y ago
Spoiler: Yeah, they were Y2K compliant. I got a VAX post-Y2K and ran VMS and NetBSD just fine.
820.
by jff 14y ago
Why differentiate? Scams are apparently more profitable, or else these bitcoin lotteries would be running legit instead.
821.
by jff 14y ago
No, it's just karma whoring because the previous submission finally passed the age threshold.
822.
by jff 14y ago
When I heard about this rule change, I checked all my knives. Out of the 6 non-kitchen knives I have, not a single one of them is short enough to go on the plane. Disappointing. Even my little Buck folder, the best little utility knife, is
823.
by jff 14y ago
They call it Motor City because it's where they used to make cars, not because it's pedestrian-unfriendly.
824.
by jff 14y ago
"But Mr. Ford, we already have a method for building horseless carriages, why would you develop a new one?"
825.
by jff 14y ago
The existing San Franciscans seem to be pretty effective NIMBY-ites too... and for a city that seems so proud of being progressive, they can be pretty damn reactionary about changing anything.
826.
by jff 14y ago
I like notmuch with the Emacs notmuch client, because it'll work fine when I only have a terminal available, but when I run Emacs+X11, it'll also display images inline and has some decent mouse support.
827.
by jff 14y ago
Usually "opting in" consists of daring to purchase something from a company, who will then send you weekly "deals" emails.
828.
by jff 14y ago
There's also a certain difference between jamming with a few other players, and getting a whole concert band of 40+ players to sound good together.
829.
by jff 14y ago
Hummingbird notation: lots of little dots, vaguely grouped together Traditional notation: 16th notes are tied together, with the tying actually serving to reinforce the duration of the individual notes while indicating that they should be p
830.
by jff 14y ago
Guitar tabs are simple and easy to learn, IF you're playing a song you already know. Most tabs I've seen just tell you which fingers to press down and which strings to hit, often excluding time signature, note duration, note intensity, rest
831.
by jff 14y ago
It's not a sustained reaction. It's just a bunch of short fusion reactions, one after another. We've been capable of short, uncontrolled fusion reactions for decades--it's just that, being bombs, we didn't have much luck generating electric
832.
by jff 14y ago
Plutonium ain't easy, so you'd probably want to ship pre-made pits into orbit (we've got plenty already made), preferably one at a time so we don't get a big critical mass of plutonium sitting in a desert in case the rocket crashes.
833.
by jff 14y ago
That's not really how fallout works. Fallout occurs primarily when you detonate a bomb near the ground or the water, causing it to suck up a bunch of dirt/water, irradiate it, and distribute it throughout the atmosphere. With a fusion bomb,
834.
by jff 14y ago
Grant County, in Washington state, did the same thing. The Public Utility District (the power company) built a county-wide fiber network; local ISPs have sprung up to sell access. My parents use a microwave link to the top of a nearby mount
835.
by jff 14y ago
The NIMBYs are pretty terrible. The best part is how you won't see a single solitary wind turbine in the "bay area" proper, but as soon as you start heading up Altamont on I-580, BAM everywhere. It's ok though, it's just the central valley
836.
by jff 14y ago
Bitcoin is certainly flawed for a number of reasons, but this article is quite poorly-written; we'd have been better off with just the list of references. Summary: Bitcoin is deflationary.
837.
by jff 14y ago
Nice! Does this let you get around the GIL?
838.
by jff 14y ago
That's exactly it. When we had that article recently about how so many Americans are on unemployment, we had people saying, "Why don't they just learn to code?"
839.
by jff 14y ago
Oh for god's sake HN, learning to code is not the ultimate and perfect solution to every problem. It's not just a matter of providing training and jobs, you also have to treat the substance addictions and mental illness that run rampant in
840.
by jff 14y ago
Yep, you're a very special snowflake, you've always known you were different, and those sheep are just so ignorant . If they find value in telling each other about their life experiences but you don't, that's fine. Maybe they enjoy seeing

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