joblessjunkie

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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
Reducing manual labor through automation is the entire point of your job.
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
We used to rent these discs when I was a teenager. They were terribly unreliable. Skipping, stopping, starting over, my god it was a miracle to reach the end. And that's just side one; halfway through you gotta get up off the couch and
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
It's unfair to say that these people don't understand the free market. They understand that the free market will not push us out of gasoline cars and into electric cars until oil becomes very expensive. The goal is to get Californ
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
No, they are being sued for distributing third party commentary and analysis of the law. http://ia801504.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.gand.218...
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
"This post is a collaboration between O’Reilly and Divergent Manufacturing."
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
Why should random people on the internet be trusted not to abuse the information?
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
On one hand, I'm annoyed because I know that this book excerpt appears in the Times as part of a marketing campaign. On the other hand, this was probably the greatest thing I've read in a long time, so I guess bring on the paid co
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by joblessjunkie 12y ago
I might not mind if Valve just made all the games available this way. No download, no waiting: a button in the Steam client starts streaming the game immediately.
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by joblessjunkie 12y ago
I get poor service, crummy old modems, and glacial support from my commercial internet provider. If those are your concerns for socialized broadband, then you should already be concerned. No one is mandating municipal ISPs. The claim is sim
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by joblessjunkie 12y ago
Headphone surround sound (including recordings made with a binaural "head" microphone) can be very convincing until the listener moves his head. The sounds don't change to match the head motion, and this kills the illusion.
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by joblessjunkie 12y ago
I have poor vision. This website uses a herd-to-read font and disables pinch-to-zoom (an essential feature) on my iPad.
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by joblessjunkie 12y ago
There are no gold plated connectors in a typical studio (exceptions for amateur home studios purchased from Guitar Center). Most cabling in a studio is bulk copper wire from a giant spool, permanently soldered in place for reliability. The
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by joblessjunkie 12y ago
If you walk up the notes of the major scale starting from your reference pitch, the fifth note in the scale will be the one that has the 3/2 pitch ratio.
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by joblessjunkie 12y ago
Ohloh shows Java holding steady for the last several years at about 10% of all commit activity in the open source world. http://www.ohloh.net/languages/java
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by joblessjunkie 13y ago
It's also basically impossible to read on an iOS device.
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by joblessjunkie 13y ago
How did you manage this? I tried to switch to Basic HTML after the new compose box rolled out, but couldn't find the setting for it anywhere.
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by joblessjunkie 13y ago
Yes, US currency also smells very bad. However, the US seems very aggressive about replacing worn bills. This may be related to the fact that so much of our currency goes in and out of automated machinery these days, and people don't hang o
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by joblessjunkie 13y ago
An HD7970 can peak at around 200W consumption, so the entire PC is probably consuming around 300W, or about 7kwh per day. I pay $.11 per kWH, so I would be losing money on the deal. Good luck with the women!
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by joblessjunkie 14y ago
Where everyone seems to be focused on performance, it strikes me that performance is just the flip side of efficiency , and that asm.js might be a great way to stretch battery life on mobile. Will asm.js web pages run with less power than
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by joblessjunkie 14y ago
Rendering Mr. Schneier on CNN's website caused my browser to send requests to: - cnn.com and turner.com - disqus.com - facebook.net, facebook.com, and fbcdn.net - imrworldwide.com - cleanprint.net - outbrain.com - twitter.com and twimg.com
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by joblessjunkie 14y ago
The browsers I use most -- Safari on iPhone and iPad -- do not allow this. The only way to increase font size is to zoom the entire page, which often results in lines that are too wide for the screen. And a growing number of websites take d
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by joblessjunkie 14y ago
And what's up with the growing number of websites which take deliberate pains to prevent me from using pinch-to-zoom on iOS? Surely there's a special ring in Hell for those web anti-designers.
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by joblessjunkie 14y ago
The site features an "Infringement" button at the top of the page. Can I report the entire contents of the first page as infringing, since every item I see is obviously infringing? Can I then repeat that for each subsequent page?
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by joblessjunkie 14y ago
The "copper" is the graphics coprocessor. The "copper list" is the machine code executed by this processor. On the Atari 800 this was called the display list. When you made a game for these systems, you wrote two programs in two different a
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by joblessjunkie 14y ago
These are great design tips for everyone , not just children. When an app becomes easy enough for a child to operate, it becomes easier for adults as well. I can perform delicate hand gestures, solve an app's user interface novelties, an
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by joblessjunkie 14y ago
What will WordPress do with the Bitcoins they receive? Do they have business costs that can be paid with Bitcoins, or will they simply trade them for a "real" currency like USD?
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Ouch, that's a bit embarrassing...
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
FermiLab has been offering HotBits for a very long time: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ The site contains some interesting discussion around randomness and how their service works.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
"...(*excluding mobile)" Why exclude mobile?
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
I find character delay to be an ongoing frustration while using ssh with remote servers all day long. When I've mis-typed and need to backspace, I'm usually a couple of keystrokes ahead by the time I see it. I have to pause, wait, count, an

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