khedoros

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by khedoros 11y ago
Spurt: a short, sudden burst. A short spray of water from a garden hose could be a "spurt". We use the phrase "growth spurt" to describe when a child grows taller in a short time. They're using it to describe a shor
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by khedoros 11y ago
> that is exactly how most families operate. Do you have non-anecdotal evidence for that? Among my own friends and family, there are some images that only exist on one device or account, but most of the stuff likely to draw interest ends
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by khedoros 11y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It's true; if any message can be silenced and any thought wiped out at will before it's even developed, then its hard for even the realization that you're being controlled to spread, let alone an
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by khedoros 11y ago
> Maybe [...] we won't be able to practice it anymore. Do you mean by suppressing the action before it occurs? I thought that one of the points of civil disobedience was to get caught, so as to increase visibility of the problem and
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by khedoros 11y ago
When I did it on a regular basis? "I want it, and I know how to get it without negative consequences.". It's no moral justification, but neither is "I'm poor".
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by khedoros 11y ago
> But for most people that's the wrong default for things like decades of family photos. That seems like a weird assumption, that there'd be a single person with access to an account containing the only copies of decades of fam
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by khedoros 11y ago
> I think his fears have come true to some extent in iOS, but knowing what we know now about government surveillance of everybody, it may no longer seem like too great a price to pay. We're already paying that price, essentially. An
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by khedoros 11y ago
Every safe would have a replaceable locking/fire-setting mechanism with a part, machined to uniquely fit that particular safe, and stamped with the builder's guarantee of security. The important points are these: the mechanism-rep
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by khedoros 11y ago
Hobby Lobby's argument (and the supreme court decision in their favor) involved the element of being "closely held". Apple would need to have over 50% of its stock owned by 5 or fewer individuals to satisfy that requirement.
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by khedoros 11y ago
"can't" is only relative to your level of determination. Deleting Facebook and other bundled apps was my original reason to root my first phone.
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by khedoros 11y ago
I agree with your points and made similar ones on a thread yesterday. A counterargument is that the best version of a device is whichever one you tend to have with you when you need it. The phone's a subpar camera, but it's a bett
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by khedoros 11y ago
What's the threshold where a device could be said to have good battery life? The article talked about devices with 29 and 38 days of standby time. If I turn off data and don't touch my phone, maybe I'll get three days. That&#
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by khedoros 11y ago
The logos and model numbers on cars seem to be about as weird as having Microsoft's name and logos around the OS and the logo of the hardware's manufacturer on the outside of the machine. Unless you're talking about dealer-pr
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by khedoros 11y ago
I don't know about other people, but I put up with it using a DVR and liberal use of the fast-forward button.
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by khedoros 11y ago
Bloat is relative and subjective. I've never used WebRTC, Pocket, or Loop/Hello, so I'd consider them bloat. On the other hand, I need to deal with PDFs fairly frequently, so it's convenient to have a browser that suppor
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by khedoros 11y ago
Agreed. It's important to understand how the hardware works, at least at the theoretical level. If you don't understand what the machine is doing, it's hard to say that you really understand how your program works.
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by khedoros 11y ago
They don't tend to work (you end up clicking a "script error" acknowledgement a lot). It's less fun than it sounds like it would be.
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by khedoros 11y ago
Right, OpenPandora, its predecessors, and its successors. I considered buying one for a time, but never quite convinced myself, so I've never gotten to play around with one.
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by khedoros 11y ago
Personally, I had some courses on computer architectures, and those covered the theory of how CPUs are constructed, how they run programs, etc. I decided to write an NES emulator. So: - Find Wikipedia articles, and learn that it used a vari
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by khedoros 11y ago
I got a solid understanding of CPU operations in my undergraduate computer architectures class, in my CS degree. Of course, it was probably a third year class. First year sounds a little unusual.
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by khedoros 11y ago
I agree that there's room for UX improvement in the software, and as a software guy myself, it's the first place I'm inclined to look at as a source of improvement. It's just that not all the problems have a software fix
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by khedoros 11y ago
> Try using that non-touch early 00's compact camera again I don't have a touch camera at all. The one that I do have isn't a DSLR, but includes various dials. That's my point: dedicated controls will always be better
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by khedoros 11y ago
DroidDevelop and AIDE are available on Android devices. As far as I know, no portable devices ship with a compiler installed, but since it's easily available in the app store, I'm not convinced that it matters.
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by khedoros 11y ago
How often do you take a picture without needing to set the focus, or at least watching the screen to see when the app has finished its autofocus? More generally, beyond changing the volume or initiating a voice query, how much can you reall
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by khedoros 11y ago
> Remember trying to get to the 10th track of the 4th folder in your "physical" CD mp3 player or minidisk? Setting anything more advanced than zoom level and picture mode on a typical 2002-2005 compact camera? I remember puttin
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by khedoros 11y ago
Also, "later" instead of "latter" in their press release.
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by khedoros 11y ago
FTP?
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by khedoros 11y ago
I know the point that you're making, but I'm not sure that the simulation has the 8087, or that the BASIC ROM would use it if it did. The software implementation has some interesting quirks: print 0.1/10 0.01 OK print 0.01&#x
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by khedoros 11y ago
I don't pay cash often, but when I have, I've pre-paid inside the store, and the pump automatically stops when I've gotten the correct amount of gas. It may be regional. This shows people posting a mix of pre- and post-pay an
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by khedoros 11y ago
That looks like an M.2 PCIe connection. Is it something less standard than that?

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