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by jrcii 11y ago
When Google lands me there, about 80-90% of the time a SO post contains the answer I was looking for, it has tons of votes, yet is closed as being off-topic or too broad. Useful yet puzzling.
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by jrcii 11y ago
I replaced iTunes with a CLI program called cmus https://cmus.github.io/
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Was racistsexistlicense.org not available?
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by jrcii 11y ago
For a sandboxed baseband check out the Neo900 project.
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by jrcii 11y ago
Interestingly, the #1 hit for Tetris on Google is freetetris.org which is endorsed with the Tetris trademark, yet it does not follow these guidelines. For example the pieces do not start "with their flat side pointed down".
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by jrcii 11y ago
The Crusades were hardly an attempt to "conquer the world". For the most part it was an attempt to counter already occurring aggressive, violent Islamic expansion.
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by jrcii 11y ago
I've spent my life learning technology from others. More often than not I've found the IT community to be hypercritical and unfriendly. This appears to be somewhat mitigated with older crowds, which leads me to believe that it may
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by jrcii 11y ago
The author appears to believe that "Tor is the devil" because "4,000-5,000 hidden services are running at any given time. Secondly, the content served by these sites is almost universally illegal or immoral (by my definition
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by jrcii 11y ago
Yep, I use it to provide passwords to my shell scripts, for example. security<->pass integration is precisely what I'm looking for, I get the feeling I'm going to end up having to implement it myself.
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by jrcii 11y ago
To me its aesthetic repugnance outweighs the benefit of the added precision
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by jrcii 11y ago
It's not your fault but I wish the word "grok" would disappear.
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by jrcii 11y ago
It would be nice if there were a way to integrate it with the OS X keychain, unfortunately I haven't gotten around to it and I haven't been able to find anyone who has done this already since it's tricky to google.
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by jrcii 11y ago
I'm not sure how this works, because 900 MHz is a ham band, the FCC forbids encrypted communication over this frequency
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by jrcii 11y ago
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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by jrcii 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:GitHub#Licenses_of_Projec...
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by jrcii 11y ago
I attended a General Studies information session at Columbia. They sit you around a little table with 10 other people, tell you how great the program is and that it will cost $40k/year with little-to-no financial aid.
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by jrcii 11y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=considered%20harmful&type=stor...
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by jrcii 11y ago
I never heard that phrase "thread the needle" before that's good
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by jrcii 11y ago
I use a great extension for this purpose called mingaling. It replaces words you designate with translations when they occur on any page. So as you surf you passively learn vocabulary. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/f
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by jrcii 11y ago
I'm surprised that there seems to be a consensus here that using the GPG command line tool is complicated when the HN community regularly discusses, for example, time complexity of algorithms.
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by jrcii 12y ago
Supposed comment from a real user "I firmly believe this product is a game changer." The attempted deception is insulting.
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by jrcii 12y ago
Since ancient history the rich have gotten away with doing as they please, and they always will. The real culprit is democracy's false promise that it can do anything to change this. Ultimately the masses will only take action if food
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by jrcii 12y ago
tldr Home automation products tend to offer a lot of features to woo early-adopter technical investors likely to be on Kickstarter whereas simpler products would gain more traction long term
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by jrcii 12y ago
They should call their product git for "groupon it"
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So I could potentially run pf and pfs on the same server?
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by jrcii 12y ago
To say nothing of its merit, it looks like they're going to rely on the justification that reversing past deregulation policy would create a situation where their own past arguments would be used against them in court when the ISPs ine
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by jrcii 12y ago
This long-winded essay about "how the civil rights movement will end" boils down to a couple sentences in which the author describes a few Republican votes he didn't like: "Republican majorities in Southern statehouses a