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by keenerd 15y ago
I don't know Latin, but I can play around with google translate! Best I got was Noli loqui et non servant custodibus or "Watch your mouth instead of the watchmen". I guess this was a very complex way of disagreeing with you that "none of
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by keenerd 15y ago
Just want to add one to your list - Nikon P60. It has all sorts of awesome features like a great viewfinder and 8 second exposure time but you can get it for under $200. And uses AA batteries, so your camera will keep on working through t
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by keenerd 15y ago
Plus it is annoying to hear the Li-Ion chemistry described as "humble". It is more of a stuck up diva. Charge over 90%? Rapid degradation. Discharge under 10%? Rapid degradation. Operate at room temperature? Rapid degradation. Even
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by keenerd 15y ago
There would be more video games though. I have avoided all of her books just because she shut down the fan-made Pernband.
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by keenerd 15y ago
> The shift from transistor-based computers to quantum computers will be akin to the shift from vacuum tubes to transistors. The shift to quantum computers will be much larger, more akin to the shift between the Jacquard loom and Turing
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by keenerd 15y ago
No. Arch keeps backups of its wiki.
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by keenerd 15y ago
With the Frozen Synapse bundle, I had come to the conclusion that there is be sufficient market for the HIB to never stop running (eg, a new bundle every two weeks) if they only did one game at a time. One game a month is a little more sust
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by keenerd 15y ago
Sure. Check out the Lisp repl that is built into AutoCAD.
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by keenerd 15y ago
My car gets 60 miles per hour per day, when I am pushing it. At that acceleration I can do a quarter mile in just under 27 minutes.
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by keenerd 15y ago
Ramen was actually too expensive for me. (Spaghetti has identical nutritional information and costs less.) If you are buying food on a minimal budget, you go calories per dollar (which I'll abbreviate as C/$). If you have money left over,
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by keenerd 15y ago
It is fairly easy for one person to live off of $20 of food a week. I say this as someone who has done it in a major east coast city, without ever clipping coupons, buying in bulk or buying on sale. You can feed yourself for less than 1 hou
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by keenerd 15y ago
> I'm not talking about a reader browsing some books and picking one based on the publisher's mark. I have. Killed a few hours in a Barnes & Noble the other week. Every single book on the shelves was drivel, except for the Dover a
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by keenerd 15y ago
> Personally I'd like it if I could hack ... my thermostat. http://www.radiothermostat.com/ http://central.isaroach.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Controllable with JSON. Expensive, but so awesome.
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by keenerd 15y ago
I really hope this puzzle is solved by a mom.
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by keenerd 15y ago
And the firing squad for jaywalkers! Seriously though, this is something probably the majority of HNers do. Those in the minority probably used to, but got burned when the higher ups found out and either fired them or appropriated the tech
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by keenerd 15y ago
Meh. I lost my PDA stylus years ago. Adjusted the setting slightly and my finger worked fine. Palm did not need any radical new tech to hypothetically make touch. Apple did need a different tech (transparent capacitive touch) for multitou
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by keenerd 15y ago
Hard disks are not sealed. Disks from the 1960s were. Then engineers realized they could dramatically reduce the amount of structural bracing if they left a "breathing hole" open and allow air pressure to equalize. This is why all hard d
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by keenerd 15y ago
You can not be serious. It shows up as an external hard drive. Copy your music over. Done. But maybe you've never used a floppy disk or flash drive? I could see it being confusing then.
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by keenerd 15y ago
Woz put up a serious fight to make the Apple II as powerful as possible. Jobs wanted it to be as cheap as possible. Jobs planned to sell two expansion cards, so the Apple II only only needed two expansion slots. Woz refused to hobble the
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by keenerd 15y ago
Yup. Today's smartphones (and even tablets) are pretty much rebadged PDAs. The only advances have been a stylus-less UI, a vastly improved image (PDAs are for stodgy business men), and realizing that a package manager is a really good ide
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by keenerd 15y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=mastech+hy1803d&tbm=shop Posted my thoughts regarding this supply elsewhere in the thread. Good reviews on Amazon too.
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by keenerd 15y ago
I just picked up a new power supply. 0-20 volts, 0-3 amps, adjustable voltage, adjustable current. Digital meters for voltage and current. Only $80. I was shocked. (By the price, not by lack of proper grounding :-) It is even fully iso
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by keenerd 15y ago
Thinking about it more, this may have well been HIB's idea, if only because it is so different and they are very curious/experimentive people. If this bundle works out well, I could see them trying to float an entirely new business model.
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by keenerd 15y ago
I find it much more likely that Mode7 said "Hey HIB, we just finished a linux port yesterday. Can we be in your next Bundle?" HIB has been approached by developers before. There is quick profit and massive exposure in the HIB. Case in po
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by keenerd 15y ago
I seriously doubt the "one game bundle" was HIB's idea. (Or rather, I really hope it was not. Does not bode well for the future.) And I know exactly how profitable the Bundles have been. This de-values the bundle. Here are the options: 1
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by keenerd 15y ago
I am a little annoyed with how Mode7 is handling this. I bought it for full price a while ago (because everyone said it worked great in Wine, and it does). Still no linux download for their previous customers! They should have 1) quietly
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by keenerd 15y ago
On the problematic side, the cheap boric acid solution (pun!) will likely be the most used. And this will be bad. 1) Boric acid will kill any insect that ingests it. 2) If you leave rotting fruit out, every nectar lover will drink it. Fro
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by keenerd 15y ago
If you are a shell or Arch[1] user, curl -s random-inc5000.herokuapp.com | jshon Though jshon[2] is really made for extracting elements from the entire list of companies in one pass. [1] pacman -S jshon [2] http://kmkeen.com/jshon/
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by keenerd 15y ago
Sort of. See http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html#se... for more details. I left out a few steps, but at the very least the system you connected to through kernel.org could be compromised.
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by keenerd 15y ago
My bet is we are going to see more and more of this, as fallout from the kernel.org crack. Kernel.org said "Don't worry about linux, the source tree is in git and tamper-proof. All they messed with was SSH. It was amateur, really." (Some

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