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by jrcii 11y ago
Dr. Lustig is known for his interesting and thorough, if somewhat controversial, case against sugar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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by jrcii 11y ago
This was the funniest thing to me, CERN released the Higgs boson finding in Comic Sans http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-com...
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by jrcii 11y ago
I was reminded of RMS's autoreply: I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is concerned, I appear to be well outside the solar system. After you
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by jrcii 11y ago
Where's Ben Wellington when you need him? http://iquantny.tumblr.com/
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by jrcii 11y ago
> random and useless 'nice to have' touches We can probably conflate this type of problem with the second you mentioned. If the changes are that much of a problem there is probably something wrong with the software architecture
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by jrcii 11y ago
I've expended 0 effort to find the answer to this myself, but I wonder if this is based on the OTR protocol, and if not, why not.
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by jrcii 11y ago
Headlines like this just reinforce my feeling that the "Internet of Things" concept is bad/premature. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but it strikes me as "Let's take this network technology that we've yet to make
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by jrcii 11y ago
Live sports moving online would be the final nail in the coffin of the cable television industry.
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by jrcii 11y ago
Hopefully Tesla doesn't end up crushed by blood-sucking union pension liabilities and can afford to continue making a marketable product.
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by jrcii 11y ago
Wasn't this in the Batman movie?
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by jrcii 11y ago
I am confident that knowledge exists which is not only undiscoverable by humans, but also beyond our intellectual capacity and impossible to grasp.
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by jrcii 11y ago
It's interesting how you can exchange "academia" for "Hacker News" and your comment remains true.
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by jrcii 11y ago
I'm a big fan of this project, too. However I'm disappointed that the final price is going to come out to about $1200 http://neo900.org/estimate There seems to be a fair amount of money and attention being investe
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by jrcii 11y ago
There's one more factor which is the configuration of QoS. This can be as easy as checking a box in a GUI for home routers. I've also spent days configuring Cisco switches, OpenBSD queues, VLANs, etc to achieve this.
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by jrcii 11y ago
I'm switching to Netscape.
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by jrcii 11y ago
It could be argued that the power of lame duck presidents cuts both ways since they can act with less fear of reprisal. You may still be right about prioritizing congress. Related, I once read an AMA on Reddit where a congressional staffer
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by jrcii 11y ago
Still rings true for Mac.
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by jrcii 11y ago
Maybe in San Fransisco. For billions of people around the world it did not.
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by jrcii 11y ago
I'll bite
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by jrcii 11y ago
This bookmarklet http://pastebin.com/raw/Rur0Lrza works if you have less than 500 karma. I haven't figured out how to make it work for over 500 karma.
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by jrcii 11y ago
> It's certainly not working for the echo chamber of HN True. I would also go a bit further and say it doesn't appear to be working with the House Judiciary Committee. I watched all five and a half hours of the inquiry and over
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by jrcii 11y ago
>This will sound moralistic, and I don't mean it that way It's truly sad that the culture of people in computing reading this forum, which reflects the nation and west as a whole, is so disconnected from God that you feel the n
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by jrcii 11y ago
You've touched on a larger issue that occurs to me often. Though your point is valid, my response to a company making the argument would be, "too bad." /They're/ the ones making billions in revenue by voluntari
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by jrcii 11y ago
>remove the copy protection that prevents them from being digitized In other words, cutting that little square of plastic off of the top right corner of the 5.25" disks? I distinctly remember learning that skill myself.
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by jrcii 11y ago
Here's our spending on ed, virtually the highest in the world https://polisonic.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/education20spe... Here are our scores, among the worst https://softwarestrategies.files.w
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by jrcii 11y ago
Check out my favorite media player, cmus. It's a light weight iTunes alternative for command line.
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by jrcii 11y ago
What gets me is when I see software designed this way and then start imagining how much money was spent developing it, and fellow software architects sitting back with their arms folded staring at the screen thinking what a good job they di
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by jrcii 11y ago
I don't know about routers but I've had very good experiences with Cisco's SMB switches like the SG500.
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by jrcii 11y ago
I have this reliable bookmarklet which makes comments collapsible, however it stopped working once I got a downvote arrow: http://pastebin.com/raw/iMkHgmNZ
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by jrcii 11y ago
The name reminded me of the animated ASCII Star Wars: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

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