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by jff 10y ago
See: almost anyone in San Francisco complaining about "tech bros"
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by jff 11y ago
Like this: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21g%2Bop3AZBL.jpg
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by jff 11y ago
Yeah, I tried taking notes on my laptop a few times in engineering classes before I realized how hard it is to sketch digital logic in an emacs text buffer! Even the guy who used a Windows tablet with Onenote didn't actually use it muc
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by jff 11y ago
For a while there, when built-in webcams weren't quite as common, my employer would either remove the camera completely or, if that wasn't possible, they would smash the lens and sensor with a metal punch. They eventually quit (no
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by jff 11y ago
The Department of Education sold my loan to a private company within a year or so of graduation. No rate change or anything, I just started logging in on a different web site to pay. Same thing with my wife and with many people I know.
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by jff 11y ago
Forcing fluids into underground cavities has proven to be so popular in other energy fields :D
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by jff 11y ago
Don't forget "flyover states", to be uttered in the same tone of disgust as "southerner"!
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by jff 11y ago
That's a pretty good comparison, I like it!
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by jff 11y ago
Since it's intended for an art installation, any shortcomings in the actual functionality of the device can be excused with the magical phrase "we're trying to start a dialog / get people thinking about X, not actually d
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by jff 11y ago
> Unfortunately, in the US the alternative to government power is corporate power. What's the alternative elsewhere? Warlord power?
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by jff 11y ago
It's a little off-topic, but this was one of the few websites where I've had to shrink the text to make it readable. I'm not complaining, completely the opposite--it just reminded me of an article the other day that said it
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by jff 11y ago
Good! Have you heard anything back?
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by jff 11y ago
Tendercare Pediatrics in Huntington Park, CA
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by jff 11y ago
Oh, a pediatrics clinic, very nice (redacted image because it contained GASP addresses and names, like one might find in a phone book)
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by jff 11y ago
> Here you come to find highly opinionated and more-often-than-not wrong commenters. You can find those on slashdot too!
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by jff 11y ago
I'd hardly call it desolate, it's about 2 miles from the edge of Albuquerque and pretty busy most times. Neat, though.
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by jff 11y ago
I've also played a little bit with Devuan, which is basically just Debian without systemd, and it seemed to work pretty well.
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by jff 11y ago
Installing it is actually pretty easy, because they provide a reasonably straightforward console-based "graphical" installer, rather than pretending that copy-pasting a bunch of commands off the [Gentoo|Arch] wiki will teach you a
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by jff 11y ago
Hey, and if he moves away again, it'll be white flight and he can feel guilty yet again!
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by jff 11y ago
This repo worked for me on a modern Debian install: https://github.com/floren/ching
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by jff 11y ago
Good old alma mater, some of those guys really like coffee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffenol
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by jff 11y ago
"Dark Dungeons" is also the name of a rather good "retroclone" of the Basic D&D Rules Cyclopedia, which a lot of people consider to be the best rule set. Dark Dungeons also does a really good job of organizing the ru
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by jff 11y ago
How are you finding so much Kraft? Are you shopping at a 7-11? Even here in Albuquerque, not particularly known as a mecca of fancy cheeses, the vast majority of cheese is not Kraft. One trick to remember is that a lot of grocery stores hav
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by jff 11y ago
> Landed gentry kept grays in cages [...] A Mr. Brocklehurst, who had brought over gray squirrels from America, released two on his property near Cheshire in central England. > Parker had said he wanted me to shoot the squirrel — that
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by jff 11y ago
Poe's law strikes again with this post...
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by jff 11y ago
Because on HN it's considered poor form to say "I think you're full of shit" or "I don't like what you're saying", instead it's better to say "got a source?". It casts doubt on the trut
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by jff 11y ago
Ah, but you see, if you redefine violence to include "anything I dislike"...
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by jff 11y ago
He considers this a "whitepaper", rather than the more accurate "blog post" (see the Documents section on his website)
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by jff 11y ago
Wasn't there an article some years back that pointed out how whenever someone dares criticize Apple, they're always careful to mention how they use Apple products everywhere and Apple stuff is still very nice, but please Mr. Jobs
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by jff 11y ago
> (obscured by the upper receiver of the assault weapon) You mean the stock of the semi-automatic rifle which happens to be scary and black?

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