joshuapants

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by joshuapants 11y ago
And that's why you base decisions on facts rather than emotions. Nuclear power is safe, and only getting safer as time goes on. The Fukushima plant was 40 years old, not state of the art (even when it was built). It does not reflect th
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> 2. "Rare earths" are not so rare. Their prices have tumbled substantially as new mines have opened up and substitutes have been found. Yes, but mining them is an environmental disaster.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Beg pardon? The parent post was whining that running Windows wasn't in the open spirit of the project. The project was never open in a meaningful way, so it doesn't seem like a problem at all to do so. I'm not encouraging any
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by joshuapants 11y ago
The Raspberry Pi may be openwashed, but it's not really that open. edit: oh no, I've run afoul of the Broadcom shills. Oh well.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
London is huge, City of London is just about a mile square and is probably bathed in surveillance.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
It could end up like cable TV. Initially you just pay for the service, eventually you keep paying but also get sold.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
But Intel does make a C/C++ compiler!
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by joshuapants 11y ago
If only Y Condomnator would fund a startup trying to get custom-sized ones approved in the US.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I got a decent self-winding mechanical watch for about $30 from Seiko. Granted, I bought it used, but you really don't have to spend much at all unless you're really into watches.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
There's a difference between someone dying of a 9mm cerebral hemorrhage in Lubyanka after being disappeared and someone getting a fair trial and sentence in a Western Democracy. > If spying is good, it doesn't matter who's
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Honestly, I'd say this is a rare example of a good non-clickbait article from Vox.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Presumably, the same, or almost the same, outcome (of his dental practice being closed, not the other harrassment) would occur if he were, say, imprisoned for his actions after a lawful trial, but no-one would claim that it was the cou
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Pygame supports Python 3 in development releases. If you try to grab releases from their site they're something like 6 years old.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> They had the sense to build the city not in a desert The hubris of the people who built up the southwest United States in particular astounds me.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> So the only way this is "waste" is if it's depleting the aquifer faster than it replenishes. That's possible of course. But unlikely, because NYC has been huge for hundreds of years now. If they're depleting aq
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> If you read a lot of text on a Macbook, being able to zoom quickly and efficiently becomes a high priority I read lots of text on my Macbook and I have never purposely used this feature. On occasion I have accidentally engaged it, whic
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> I just want to see the most impressive things the human body can pull off This may be a ship-of-theseus sort of question with no widely agreed upon answer, but at some point doesn't it stop being what the human body can pull off i
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I upvoted you because Apple's drivers for Windows are notoriously bad, but the major impact is on user input (trackpad, for example) rather than on performance (in fact, Windows tends to perform better than OS X on a number of tasks on
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Hosts file, I assume
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> and you're saying BI wouldn't help with that? I think someone only earning BI probably wouldn't have the resources or motivation to do Bell Labs-style research. > how do you think they got there? by being forced to be
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I'm not certain that you can extrapolate the behaviors of highly-paid, highly educated engineers with the hypothetical behaviors of the typical person getting a subsistence allowance from the government.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Maybe add a few zeroes since we're talking about an automotive product.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> GPS signals don't work underground do they? They probably wouldn't. But you also don't necessarily need GPS to do this. Have someone survey it topside, use that data and a compass underground.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Just threw v0.0.4 into gedit for a trial run. I like it a lot, very readable. I will echo JohnDeHope's comment that the double quote seems a little too light to match well with the other characters. I'm eager to see where this goe
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by joshuapants 11y ago
You're splitting hairs here, common usage of "texting" includes sending pictures, video, and audio.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
If I have 3 dozen bombdrones I get set them up automatically to take off at a certain time and proceed to their targets via GPS. I will have been seen absolutely nowhere near a bombing site, and could easily be out of the country before the
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I've been playing with Typescript in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code and Intellisense is great.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> The 2004 Madrid bombing killed 191 people and wounded 1800 without requiring neither suicides nor drones Shakers in the 18th century made some of (in my opinion) the most beautiful wooden furniture with simple hand tools. But each piec
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I think a measure of independence is very appealing, especially if your career so far has involved sitting in a cubicle doing uninteresting work for other people.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Tabbles is an option if you use windows.

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