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by kej 11y ago
This was a fundamental part of Athenian democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition We trust it for juries, it's not too outlandish to think it could work for policy-making, too.
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by kej 11y ago
We're trying different things, I think. I was doing notepad i:/whatever on the command line and you're using the file open dialog within notepad, which doesn't work. Sorry for the confusion.
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by kej 11y ago
I just did exactly that on Windows 10 and it worked just fine.
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by kej 11y ago
It has somewhat died down, but a lot of the strategies people came up with and other information have been collected at https://www.reddit.com/r/theeternalwar
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by kej 11y ago
Pretty sure the new stuff is based on the aborted attempt to get Android apps to run on Windows phones.
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by kej 11y ago
It's not really a static Python .exe, but PyInstaller can create a single executable that embeds all of its dependencies in the file. Except for a small delay at startup it works really well.
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by kej 11y ago
If you want to do it in your head, there's Conway's Doomsday Rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
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by kej 11y ago
There's an online playground/tutorial that can show you the basics. Even if you never write another Go program, it's worth trying it out just to see what else is out there: https://tour.golang.org/welcome&#x2F
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by kej 11y ago
Google already did the work for you: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=laptop%2C%20notebook https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=laptop+compute...
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by kej 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that a car capable of driving itself, with everything that entails, is capable of getting itself back to the service facility before its gas runs out.
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by kej 11y ago
Nim uses your C compiler to produce the final binary, so it can produce statically linked standalone programs everywhere a C compiler can (which is pretty much everywhere).
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by kej 11y ago
I think his warning is appropriate, not so much because medical ultrasounds are dangerous, but because your homemade device probably doesn't have the same level of testing and oversight that your doctor's does. We know that ultras
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by kej 11y ago
This seems like something Donald Knuth would own.
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by kej 11y ago
I always heard it explained as the author plus everyone who laid the groundwork in the field. Sort of a standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants thing.
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by kej 11y ago
Mea culpa. While my general experience doesn't show much overlap between the groups, my making assumptions about you was just as wrong as the other guy making assumptions about you. Carry on with your interesting research, whatever you
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by kej 11y ago
I just meant that working in the non-profit sector and working on public domain research generally coincide with wanting to benefit society at the expense of your own bank account, whereas the taxes are theft people would usually preserve t
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by kej 11y ago
I'm gonna guess that PhDs working on non-profit public domain cancer research probably don't overlap all that much with the taxation-is-theft crowd.
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by kej 11y ago
This is kind of a weird criticism since there's so much variety in Turkish Delight. It would be like saying "cereal is too sweet" or "snack bars have unfamiliar flavors", when both of those things, like Turkish Deli
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by kej 11y ago
To promote Verizon, obviously.
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by kej 11y ago
Sure, and the KKK is objectively primarily a right/conservative movement. It still derails a conversation if you lump all conservatives together with the KKK.
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by kej 11y ago
>...because we see the servers allow us to, and don't allow us to, respectively. Did you really have to attempt "ssh root@google.com" and be denied to know you weren't allowed to do that? If you had been allowed in an
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by kej 11y ago
>But that doesn't work here. You will never meet the "owner" of google.com. You send it packets and it sends some back. There is no other relationship or interaction from which to infer authorization. And yet even without
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by kej 11y ago
> The canonical way people know whether they're authorized to do something to a computer system is that it allows them to do it. If you aren't authorized then it comes back with "access is denied" and you can't d
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by kej 11y ago
Wow, I had somehow missed Hydrogen but that looks amazing. It will probably be what finally gets me to drop Sublime for Atom.
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by kej 11y ago
You can also work around it by using the subst command to map a drive part way down the tree, and then switch to that drive.
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by kej 11y ago
You could make it harmless but not a valid cURL, also. Something that just prints to the screen that there's a good chance it was downloaded by the original malware and points you to a page on haxx.se where you can get the real version
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by kej 11y ago
I'm surprised that Windows Vista is included in this, since Microsoft will be supporting it through April of 2017, a year after this Chrome announcement takes effect.
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by kej 11y ago
This reminds me of the guy who was caught a few years ago for putting homemade UPC stickers over the printed UPC symbol for expensive LEGO sets so that they'd ring up as inexpensive LEGO sets. After the felony fraud charges, he would h
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by kej 11y ago
On most microUSB cables I've used, you can take a needle or safety pin and gently pry the locking pins back out to whatever locking strength you'd like.
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by kej 11y ago
Heck, the IRS actually had an automated easy file system[1] but it was discontinued in favor of making you file electronic returns with for-profit third parties. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleFile

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