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by ksml 10y ago
This is a great point. Reminds me of how airplanes have redundant flight computers and compare the outputs of the computers to determine if one might be faulty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire#Redundancy The
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by ksml 10y ago
The accounts are worth reading. It sounds like people band together when facing a man-made disaster as well. He notes that prepping was useless since the preparation didn't last and everyone depended on each other anyways
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by ksml 10y ago
This is slightly off-topic, but I just wanted to say thank you for writing this article! I never knew people thought/imagined in so many different ways. Personally, like codingdave, my "milk voice" is my own voice. I can &quo
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by ksml 10y ago
> For example: I'm sure you can imagine what it felt like when something really funny happened to you, right? And you could probably also remember listening to a song you heard on the radio. Now - recall what it felt like when you w
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by ksml 10y ago
> There was a (possible hoax) story a while back about a guy who could only remember the previous 15 or so hours of his life. He kept journals and had to jog his memory daily. This is probably not the same condition, but those with anter
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by ksml 10y ago
One option is to look at when the user last logged in. I would be a lot less pissed if an account that I've never touched in 10 years got compromised... I'm probably going to remember my info for recent accounts and want it to be
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by ksml 10y ago
He definitely doesn't expect it to look like an iPad; he points out that he's cool with them cobbling together off-the-shelf parts like the motherboard and the touchscreen controller. His issue is with how badly things are botched
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by ksml 11y ago
> The cost of a dependency for a good package manager is zero I disagree. Another non-zero cost that I don't see mentioned yet is a licensing cost. What if there is some GPL'ed code somewhere in the dependency chain, but you do
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by ksml 11y ago
Actually, no, the Surface Pro is a tablet. The Surface Book is a laptop.
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From Novice to Master, and Back Again (2013)(blog.djmnet.org)
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by ksml 11y ago
In the original post, he says that you need to create a directory, and then write a script to recreate it in the event that it gets deleted (to prevent Adobe from nuking your files). Since Adobe deletes the contents and not the folder, it t
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by ksml 11y ago
Adding more tools generally adds more complexity...
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by ksml 11y ago
Apple continues to release security patches on older versions of OS X for a while. In my case, I am on Yosemite and have not upgraded to El Capitan yet, but I have all the latest security patches.
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by ksml 11y ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. My understanding is that it is perfectly legal to download OS X 10.8+ this way; the updates were offered by Apple for free as long as you run them on a legit mac (which I'm assuming you ar
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by ksml 11y ago
This is probably a consequence of relying on AJAX to load content, and not of using a text-based browser. If I visit Forbes in Firefox with noscript enabled, I also get a mostly blank screen.
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Mathematical Envelopes(cre8math.com)
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by ksml 11y ago
For the curious, looks like more info here: http://www.davecraige.com/magic/
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by ksml 11y ago
I'm only one person, but I (and my family) have computers and smartphones but no data. It saves a whole lot of money to be on a prepaid plan when you have wifi in most places you go.
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by ksml 11y ago
You're probably being downvoted because you're nitpicking language and missing the entire point of what the parent comment is saying, which is that there are more types of compute-intense workloads than raw "number crunching&
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by ksml 11y ago
Hm, this is actually a great response. I can't think of a good counter argument. It would be interesting to see someone with more technical or legal experience to comment on the implications of this
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Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City (2014)(theatlantic.com)
3 points by ksml 11y ago|1 comments
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by ksml 11y ago
Project Euler does have a lot of good puzzles, but as parent comment says, they're more math related. If you don't like them (FWIW I never managed to get into them) you shouldn't necessarily think that programming isn't
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by ksml 11y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10436803 I actually think this NY times link is better because it provides more info and context, FWIW Edit: Actually the NY times link was posted after this, so I guess it&#x
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by ksml 11y ago
I would not call that a definitive "recent link"; as many in that thread pointed out, that was not the greatest research and needs far more work to confirm
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by ksml 11y ago
For what it's worth, it's working pretty smoothly on my Nexus 5. Maybe it depends on some hardware acceleration that only newer (but not necessarily high-end) GPUs have
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by ksml 11y ago
Not only is there an issue of the user interface changing significantly, but there are also driver issues when manufacturers are slow to release updated drivers (big problems for older devices). Anecdotal, but I have heard many people compl
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by ksml 11y ago
I felt that this video was particularly bad; not only did they stitch together very short video clips, but they also stitched together short audio clips to form sentences. It makes me feel like they could be making the lady say something co
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by ksml 11y ago
Wow, my high school is on HN! IMSA was an amazing place. There are so many smart people with so much motivation and it feels like anything is possible there. There is a dark side, though, not often mentioned publicly. Mental health issues a
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by ksml 11y ago
This certainly isn't universal. I graduated from IMSA and many (likely the majority of) kids stayed on most weekends, including myself
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by ksml 11y ago
I second this recommendation, even for those not using Ruby! The Sass compiler is written in Ruby but that doesn't mean you have to know Ruby to use Sass.

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