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by jrcii 10y ago
Unfortunately it's an almost weekly occurrence that a site I'm visiting clearly was only tested in Chrome and something critical doesn't work in Firefox. For those instances I use this extension to open the current page in Ch
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by jrcii 10y ago
An MIT project reached the same conclusion a couple years ago http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/mit... Someone from MIT also contributed to this study in the same vein http://www.
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by jrcii 10y ago
I'm happy that these are out there. I make a point to find the highest quality versions of the products I buy, the product research is somewhat of a hobby. I researched globes a couple years ago and was disappointed that globes appeare
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by jrcii 10y ago
I've become increasingly convinced that western society will accept anything so long as it's fed, housed, and safe. If that's true, as a society we have a lot of rights that we're not willing to fight for but which the g
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by jrcii 10y ago
Is that love for Clojure past tense?
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by jrcii 10y ago
Leslie Lamport. There are a dozen larger than life programmers out there, but reading his biography I was struck with a kind of resigned sorrow at the concrete expression of a certain ideal life that I always wanted for myself and know I&#x
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by jrcii 10y ago
I have a list of project ideas 500 miles long and growing every day. I somehow feel obligated to build all of it and it gives me anxiety.
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by jrcii 10y ago
Whenever I write a bunch of code that works right away I'm highly suspicious that I'm missing something.
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by jrcii 10y ago
Slightly tangential but I'm genuinely curious, does any have a theory as to why nearly every RDBMS post on Hacker News is about Postgres and almost never MySQL or MariaDB? Considering the relative obscurity of the former it seems somew
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by jrcii 10y ago
> It's a private company's prerogative to display whatever content they wish True, but it could be argued that users are reasonable in assuming that Facebook is a neutral or automatic platform, not manually manipulating content
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by jrcii 10y ago
Possibly more frequent, though neither of us have data. Driving at too high a cruising speed to have adequate reaction time is common, I've never known anyone to crash a car because they lost control during acceleration (motorcycles ye
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by jrcii 10y ago
>software based limit on the maximum acceleration That strikes me as a bad idea. There are scenarios where you need to accelerate your car as quickly as possible to move out of the way of danger or avoid an accident.
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by jrcii 10y ago
So much for "developers developers developers developers developers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
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by jrcii 10y ago
All we need now is an issue of 40Hex, 2600, and the Anarchist's Cookbook.
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by jrcii 10y ago
Windows 7 was the VM, not the host.
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by jrcii 10y ago
I lived through the exact same disaster. I spent HOURS on the phone trying to acquire a license for Windows 7 Enterprise, I needed it for Hyper-V. Microsoft's main number, dead-end IVR system. Tried the Microsoft Store, they routed me
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by jrcii 10y ago
Abolish all welfare, phase out social security, and have the poor rely on private charities. If people don't want to donate to the charities that's their choice, it's their money. You're not entitled to money, food, a ho
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by jrcii 10y ago
I love RSS, but I've noticed that every time I explain the concept to a non-technical person and how they would go about adding feeds and setting up a feed reader it's perceived as a complicated non-starter. I could attribute that
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by jrcii 10y ago
I disabled all magic in the address bar so if I type "foo" it tries to connect to " http://foo" or else returns an "Unable to Connect" error. I was surprised how many steps were required to accomplis
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by jrcii 10y ago
You could round it out with that 3D "Unix" file browser from Jurassic Park.
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by jrcii 10y ago
One summer in the early 2000s there was a blackout along the whole west coast, I was in Palm Springs where the temperatures that time of year regularly exceed 110F. The water filtration shut off so all the city's water was declared pos
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by jrcii 10y ago
I was going to say for people who are going to lengths like kernel bypass networking to get these trades out faster I wouldn't be surprised if the key stuff is in assembly.
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by jrcii 10y ago
> without needing to worry about command line arguments. For example, people are generally satisfied with .tar. I have to google the extract arguments for tar every single time I use it. What was it again, -xfv?
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by jrcii 10y ago
> There has been studies that show American politicians are mainly aligned with the wishes of the rich rather than people who vote on them. http://i.imgur.com/e3jOsWR.jpg
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by jrcii 11y ago
Hilariously these releases are apparently accompanied by songs with choruses that make reference to "secure by default" http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song59b.mp3 To me, there's nothing quite like the feel
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by jrcii 11y ago
This makes me wonder at what point incompetent system administration becomes legal negligence.
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by jrcii 11y ago
> Try copying a number from Safari iOS into Google Hangouts Phone dialer. There's no paste option The paste option is there, however it's very tricky to get it to appear. You have to hold your finger down over the space where
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by jrcii 11y ago
I've really enjoyed pf on OpenBSD over the years. My only frustration has been the ever-changing backwards-incompatible rule syntax which perpetually makes large swaths of documentation useless, including the most recent printed book o
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by jrcii 11y ago
Their recent overtures toward open source are heartening, and for me did start to overcome the reputation of the old Microsoft. I was disappointed that they squandered that good will with the Windows 10 telemetry debacle.
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by jrcii 11y ago
This is the shirt I would kill for https://www.eff.org/files/images_insert/defcon20-script-kitt... If you have one in medium please let me know what transgressions I have to commit for it.

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