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by jff 9y ago
The Crown Victoria is quite pleasant to work on in general, although changing the rear spark plugs on my '86 was a huge pain--not as bad as a transverse V6, though!
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by jff 9y ago
Having an http option makes it better for those on restrictive work networks--I'm downloading the file because I want to experiment with it, but I certainly wouldn't want a call from Networking asking why I'm torrenting stuff
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by jff 9y ago
> by the time that millennials walk the halls of power, their parents will have signed away all their rights. It's not as though 'millennials' are so big on rights, take a look at Twitter to see how happy people are to sup
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by jff 9y ago
Strong crypto used to be considered 'arms'; export was forbidden under ITAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_... If one accepts that part of the intent of the Second Amendment was
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by jff 9y ago
> the TV urging you to continue binging on your saved guilty-pleasures watchlist The shelves in the grocery store calling out to me because they know I like potato chips! Can't wait!
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by jff 9y ago
I saw a reference to a "zettelkasten", a system for hierarchically organizing index cards containing knowledge, about 6 months ago. Interested by the idea, I put together some code to automate the process to some extent and starte
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by jff 9y ago
E-Mule isn't a web app at all, it's just an Internet application. The fact that we have so confused the Internet and the WWW, to the point that even people complaining about WWW conflate it with the Internet, is a fucking tragedy.
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by jff 9y ago
I've never worked at a McDonalds, but I've done my time out in the hot sun and honestly when I look at these poor bastards standing in front of a pot of boiling grease all day I wonder if I wouldn't go back to the farm. Unles
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by jff 9y ago
Most of them still make plenty of sense to me.
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by jff 9y ago
When my wife and I visited Japan, her Tokyo-based friend came with us on the Shinkansen for the first part of our trip. If I remember right, it cost her something like $200 to ride the train to Nagoya and back. Now, that was something like
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by jff 9y ago
All those places are sick to death of Californians moving in and fucking things up.
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by jff 9y ago
Governments typically already do this for classified information. If there's data that really shouldn't get out to the Internet, don't let anything on that network connect to the Internet. They'll also have procedures fo
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by jff 9y ago
Or have the pandit come out to your house... every puja I've been to has been at someone's home, rather than at the temple.
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by jff 9y ago
I think he means he's not blaming Google for the behavior of other website owners.
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by jff 9y ago
> his then-belief that MIT was going to succeed doing its variant of the same thing (Multics -- insert notes of irony) And yet Multics did in fact succeed, delivering an operating system that was used throughout the US, Canada, and Europ
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by jff 9y ago
Yes. They also have a reputation for preferring quantity over quality (half-assed pullups) and a generally sloppy approach to safety (yeah sure do squats while balancing on an exercise ball). Check out the deadlift form in the "crossfi
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by jff 9y ago
The pig had died at some unknown time before. It was summertime. The residual heat of the internal organs would have quickly spoiled the meat; this is why hunters, even in the winter deer season, try to get the guts out and the skin off as
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by jff 9y ago
Processors are cheaper than ever, and there are multi-core multi-gigahertz processors with multiple gigabytes of RAM scattered throughout most homes but yes, as you point out, nobody wants to use them, they want to ship them up to "the
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by jff 9y ago
vagina.to is available, so it seems that medical/technical/'proper' terms are not blocked, merely slang. Edit: I love the web page design, unironically. Makes it feel like there's a cgi-bin directory full of Perl sc
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by jff 9y ago
Automatically selecting what portion to crop is impressive, but just slamming the saturation level to maximum and applying an HDR filter is the sign of "professional" photography rather than good photography.
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by jff 9y ago
However, it's still Real Stupid.
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by jff 9y ago
I don't even bother using 'find' to actually find files. 'du -a <path> | grep <name>' works easily enough and I don't have to remember find's weird syntax.
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by jff 9y ago
If anyone else is using uBlock Origin, at least for me the page displayed completely blank until I disabled uBlock temporarily. Nice one.
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by jff 9y ago
Don't forget the same meeting populated 2-3 times because somebody set up a recurring meeting invite and then made a new one and the old one never really deleted properly so you've now got the same meeting twice from 2:30-3:30 eve
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by jff 9y ago
The typical Soviet response to any accident: "What fire? What power station are you talking about? Why were you there instead of in your home? A photograph? Give it here" rip "What photograph?" Establishing the destruc
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by jff 9y ago
> "I see a monitoring and surveillance system on farmers and traders," says Ramdas. "It's very Orwellian, our Animal Farm." Mr. Ramdas may be confusing his Orwell stories a bit :) Although I gave it a shot, it&#x
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by jff 9y ago
Just a combination of those joke plaques that say "On this site in 1897, nothing happened" with the date of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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by jff 9y ago
"On June 4 1989, absolutely nothing happened here" :)
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by jff 9y ago
We got Keen 4 bundled with this Gravis joystick: http://mocagh.org/forsale/gravis-back.jpg I played Keen exclusively with a joystick for years and was pretty good at it. If you sat me down with the exact same joystick
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by jff 9y ago
> This seems like a lack of familiarity with the scientific method. First, there's a hypothesis about the world. Then, that hypothesis is tested against evidence. The origins of a seasoned researcher's hypotheses about the worl

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