karlshea

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   by karlshea 11y ago

   I switched to Chrome about 6 months before MemShrink, right around the time everyone from Mozilla kept blaming addons for memory problems and saying there wasn't a problem with Firefox. When the MemShrink project was announced I just l
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   by karlshea 11y ago

   Just like Mozilla's pedantry about what's a "memory leak" that let me to ditch Firefox for Chrome years ago.
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   by karlshea 11y ago

   But those pop-up blockers weren't always the default, and when people started installing addons to Firefox back in the day to block them I kept hearing all these same arguments about how it was immoral and going to kill the publishing
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   by karlshea 11y ago

   So you must have the built-in pop-up blockers built into almost all browsers turned off too, right? Since that's the only non-hypocritical way to make the argument you're making.
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   by karlshea 11y ago

   Thank you, that made this super-interesting video actually watchable. Also, I learned VLC will just happily play a YouTube video right from the page's URL.
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   by karlshea 11y ago

   GitHub doesn't even have your private key.
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   by karlshea 11y ago

   There's a great interview of Andy Weir by Adam Savage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SemyzKgaUU
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   by karlshea 11y ago

   Data rate to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can be up to 6Mbit/sec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter#Te...
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   by karlshea 11y ago

   And, the battery is non-replaceable. Once it dies (two years) you have to buy a whole new card. Nothing about Coin ever made any sense to me.
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    Not from the editors, from the commenters. The IPv6 coverage on Ars has been pretty decent.
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709438
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    The FUD surrounding NAT going away both here and on other sites (Ars Technica in particular) is just completely amazing to me. IPv6 with privacy extensions is just as "private" as NAT would be, and a default-deny firewall is just
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    I was wondering the same thing last night, pronunciation on Wikipedia seems to support either "Sharon" or "Karon". (If you didn't know this, you can hover over each letter in the IPA pronunciations to see how it sho
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    I don't think this is true. I doubt they would have a problem with someone implementing their own DOM rendering engine within their own app. The real restriction is on executing JavaScript, scripting language execution isn't allow
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    The best part of that story is realizing I haven't seen the term "Web 2.0" recently.
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    It'll be interesting to see if the quality eventually changes now that Apple owns them.
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    This was great, thanks!
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    If you're trying to get this to work in a Java IDE on OSX (IDEA/PhpStorm for me) the only way I could get real italics to work was to put the TTF (not OTF) fonts into /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines&#x
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    Older browsers dying so we can actually use Flexbox on sites that have to work back a couple versions will probably help even more.
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    Thanks! Looks really slick, I'm giving it a try. It's too bad there's no snapshots or restore/recovery but that's probably fine, with Windows those end up being pretty flakey anyways.
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    Automated. Macs: Time Machine to a NAS, plus Backblaze. Windows: Genie (which sort of sucks performance-wise but all of the backup solutions on Windows seem to be terrible. I miss the built-in one from Windows 7.) to NAS, plus Backblaze. Li
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    > It is a nightmare to keep Drupal updated and ensure that nothing is broken. Except in very rare cases, I've only found that to be the case for websites I've inherited that were built by someone that didn't know how to bu
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    You can definitely say nothing, or just keep saying "I'd like to see a lawyer". An overnight stay at the police station is not a big deal compared to saying something stupid that you'll have to deal with for a lot longer
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    by karlshea 11y ago

    I don't think you're the target demo for the cutesy circus events. Unlike SpaceX, NASA needs all the public exposure and goodwill it can get, which is what the Twitter accounts are for. There are plenty of data and science-heavy w
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    by karlshea 12y ago

    Electric WRC would definitely be fun!
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    by karlshea 12y ago

    I had heard it was happening but nothing more, and after this article I looked around and found race footage to jump around in and get a feel for what it's like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJZS0QhPmhs It seems lik
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    by karlshea 12y ago

    I tried on the watch, and while the screen isn't as vector-sharp as the press photos, it also doesn't look anything like that photo.
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    by karlshea 12y ago

    This is the very first paragraph of the Guidelines: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gr
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    by karlshea 12y ago

    Why am I seeing so many of these comments lately? It's on HN because it was voted to the front page. Not every thread has to be about a VC, startup, or argument about a database engine.
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    by karlshea 12y ago

    Which documentary is it?