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by koralatov 12y ago
> I honestly don't care about making my devices thinner > and thinner. My iPhone 4 is thin enough. My laptop may > be heavy but it's more of a desktop replacement anyway. It's the same for me. My 2010 MB
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by koralatov 12y ago
That's exactly my problem with it. Every machine I've ever bought, I've upgraded the RAM later in life when I genuinely needed the upgrade and benefitted from much lower pricing. Now, that cost is needlessly frontloaded; e
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by koralatov 12y ago
In the various laptops, soldered-on RAM is a trade-off for the increasing thinness of the machines. Whether it's worth it will depend on the individual's needs. In this case, the Mac mini is the same size as the previous generati
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by koralatov 12y ago
Looking at the history of that page,[0] it appears a couple of different bots have worked on it, with human intervention. (I suspect ``Ram-Man'' is an earlier version of ``Rambot'', but I could be wrong.) I've read
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by koralatov 12y ago
> The use case of the Pi is a computer that can be given to small > children to be theirs, I completely agree with this part... > to be a counterpart to the BBC Micro of thirty years ago. But I don't reall
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by koralatov 12y ago
> [...] but many people do prefer the extra formatting and > layout that a well-constructed HTML email can provide. I think that's where the issue is --- nearly all HTML e-mail that I encounter is not of the well-cons
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by koralatov 12y ago
I've never seriously used anything except a real client for e-mail (ZIMACS, then Thunderbird, then Apple Mail, now mutt), and any time I have used a web-app for e-mail, the whole process is just frustrating. I'm especially surp
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by koralatov 12y ago
Based of my experience of gerbils and hamsters, there doesn't seem to be a link between feeding and playing activity, but they were always well-fed so that probably doesn't reflect anything like a state o nature. My two cats are d
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by koralatov 12y ago
As someone who has two cats, and has had a dog and a cat previously, I'm always amazed when I come across people who categorically state that animals don't have emotions. Spend a small amount of time with a cat or a dog, and it
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by koralatov 12y ago
I dread to think of the circus /b/ would make of moot treating bug-finders to candle-lit dinners...
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by koralatov 12y ago
The Hall of Fame is the really worthwhile part, and has more value to most users than a small amount of cash. Perhaps something like Donald Knuth's reward cheques[1] for TeX bugs would be a better option? [1]: http://en.wik
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by koralatov 12y ago
This looks really, really useful, and easy to use. One feature-request: a flag to include an attachment. It's probably an edge-case, but I've recently taken over running an account that needs to send out a PDF of the organisatio
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by koralatov 13y ago
Google Groups also removes posts from their public archive when they have the XNAY header. I use the header when I'm posting to the various Groups and lists to which I subscribe, because it effectively `tidies up' after me as I g
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by koralatov 13y ago
The Wikipedia's page on it has an interesting origin[1]: The Oxford English Dictionary has published references going back to 1718 for “perfect storm,” though the earliest citations use the phrase positively, as in a “per
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by koralatov 13y ago
At least in this case, he leads with the fact he has a financial interest in the field: ``At Index Ventures, we have been investing...''. Too many similar pieces either bury that important piece of information, or omit it entire
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by koralatov 13y ago
That would be amazing. Thank you.
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by koralatov 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. It's because of buy-to-let `investors' that rents on one-bedroom flats start at about £550 per month in the city in which I live and only go up from there. That's up by about £250 in the ten ye
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by koralatov 13y ago
Rules that are objective (eg: no noise heard in a residence that exceeds 40 db between 9 PM and 8 AM) are the right way to stop the nuisance behavior not[.] On paper, that sort of thing is great, but as far as I've seen, it falls apa
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by koralatov 13y ago
I hadn't seen this before, but it does a great job of explaining how compression works in a way that the less technically minded can understand. I think I finally have an understanding how compression works, rather than treating it
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by koralatov 13y ago
You and me both --- I remember stumbling across .ARJ files on abandonware sites at the tail-end of the '90s. Even then, they were something of a curio; ZIP was dominant format, and RAR was gathering pace.
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by koralatov 13y ago
Really? I see that sentiment quite a lot, but I don't really think it holds. A mattress is definitely something I'd want to try before buying --- comfort, like taste, is such a subjective thing that no number of online reviews c
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by koralatov 13y ago
Are you saying that an Ikea mattress will sag after just 12 months, or are you actually just saying that yours won't and leaving it up to the reader to infer that an Ikea one will?
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by koralatov 13y ago
Back in the late '90s, the first two Fallout games acted as my gateway drug to `traditional' RPGs. The lack of classes, SPECIAL's flexibility, and the sci-fi setting got me over the RPG learning curve, after which I was ab
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by koralatov 13y ago
The concerning part with that anecdote is that Stallman dodged the real issue --- reading the bill he was encouraging people to complain about --- by brushing it off because of the medium through which it was available. It's not unrea
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by koralatov 13y ago
My TV (not an LG, thankfully) has really very good LoveFilm and BBC iPlayer apps built right into it, both of which require a network connection and are quite compelling reasons to use said network connection. I could watch both of these t
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by koralatov 13y ago
I've suggested this several times, to several different people, and their response is always an outraged, ``But it's mine!'' followed by various reasons why they won't donate something they never use.
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by koralatov 13y ago
I use mutt[1] for all of my e-mail. It's a bit of a bear to set up intially, but really worth it. There are lots of guides online that ease the pain of setting it up. [1]: http://www.mutt.org/
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by koralatov 13y ago
And more to the point, shouldn't this be caught by a sub-editor prior to publishing? I find it incredibly hard to believe that publishers would blindly publish what they're sent without first checking it...
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Ask HN: Best CLI time-tracking software?
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by koralatov 13y ago
Not being able to program is the illiteracy of this century. I'm getting pretty tired of hearing this. It isn't the case at all. Not knowing how to use a computer is `the illiteracy of this century', but claiming not know

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