kylec

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by kylec 12y ago
Social skills are very hard to learn. The best way to learn something is to get a result, positive or negative, for a given input. When interacting socially, results can be difficult to observe, especially when you don't know what to l
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by kylec 12y ago
You're right, that statement was poorly phrased. Apple wants to meet a certain price point for their notebooks, but they also don't want to sacrifice on their margin to reach that price point, so they reduce the cost of manufactur
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by kylec 12y ago
The entry level MacBook Airs (and retina MacBook Pros) only have 128GB SSDs. I get that Apple wants to keep the price down so they can keep their margins high, but it's a bit small for a primary computer in 2014.
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by kylec 12y ago
When I went to college, we could use our ID cards to pay for printing, meals in the student union, etc. If MIT did something similar and accepted "Mitcoins" for transactions done on campus, they would give the currency an inherren
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by kylec 12y ago
Not all the author's reasons have to with going out or party/club culture. Look no further than the first two points: - It makes me feel bleh. - Alcohol does not increase my enjoyment of activities. Those points have
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by kylec 12y ago
Judgement abounds, though. Look no further than elsewhere in this comments section.
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by kylec 12y ago
In your case? Absolutely. In the average case? Probably. In his case? You have no way to know. In my case, I don't like the taste of alcohol, to me it's very pungent. Also, I tend to run on the warmer side, and alcohol tends to he
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by kylec 12y ago
He's not making an argument about nuanced tradeoffs, though. He's saying that he gets no benefit ("It makes me feel bleh", "Alcohol does not increase my enjoyment of activities") and that there are some drawbac
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by kylec 12y ago
The author's not telling you not to drink, he's just explaining why he doesn't. It's OK for some of those reasons to be against specific kinds of drinking he doesn't want to engage in.
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by kylec 12y ago
Completely agree. It makes no sense to me that you have to pay to check your luggage, while carry-ons are free. It definitely should be the other way around.
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by kylec 13y ago
This is really disappointing. I have been a paying Loom member since shortly after the service was released, it's too bad it wasn't enough to keep it an independent company. After DivvyShot, Everpix, Snapjoy, and now Loom, I don&#
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by kylec 13y ago
The stuff I have there (mostly lightly-trafficked PHP sites) is not memory-intensive. Why rent a 3000 sq ft office when I only need a 1500 (or even 750) sq ft one? And yes, if I could halve ($20 -> $10) my monthly cost, it would most def
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by kylec 13y ago
What if you want to have several tiny boxes? For example, if you want to host a mail server as a separate box for security, that's another $20/month. Or what if you need to use a different Linux distro for something? Another $20&#
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by kylec 13y ago
Yeah, my current Linode I've been running since it was a 512MB instance. I definitely don't need 2GB, I'd rather pay a bit less per month than get the upgrade. I don't think they need to go down to $5/month, but a $
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by kylec 13y ago
Weird, I replayed your simulation and you lose a planet at 336 years (89m score). I wonder if the game was subtly tweaked since you played it, or maybe your browser produced slightly different results than mine.
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by kylec 13y ago
Link? The high scores on the page top out around 400m.
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by kylec 13y ago
Interesting, rerunning your simulation you lose a planet at 140.9 years (44m score). I wonder if there have been some subtle code changes that affected the results.
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by kylec 13y ago
3 bodies, 94.9 million, 500 years: http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2987733 Surprisingly stable, given the Earth-sized planet's erratic orbit.
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by kylec 13y ago
I would be willing to take a stricter driving test and have my vehicle subjected to higher inspection standards if I could be permitted to drive faster than the speed limit. Sure, some people and some cars can't safely do it, but why n
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by kylec 13y ago
No kidding. Not to mention that a lot of Android developers have the mentality to request every permission they could possibly conceive of using in the future so that the user doesn't reject a potential future update for asking for mor
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by kylec 13y ago
I've never seen an app ask for the same permission more than once. I'm pretty sure that if the user declines it the first time, all subsequent times will be automatically declined without prompting the user.
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by kylec 13y ago
No, he's leaving Mozilla https://brendaneich.com/2014/04/the-next-mission/
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by kylec 13y ago
Interesting idea, but I wish it had a larger radius. The area covered goes up with the square of the radius, so even a small increase (say from 1 to 2 miles) would greatly increase the chances of bumping into someone else. As it stands I&#x
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by kylec 13y ago
Excellent! I'm glad that we're on the same page here. Thanks for making the service, once the single point of trust (your client) is removed I should be able to fully recommend it to everyone I want to communicate with. Just a tho
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by kylec 13y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that. I still need some way to produce the verification files/tweets for my own account, though, and currently the only way to do that is with the client. (Maybe it works in the browser if you upload you
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by kylec 13y ago
How do I know that the changes keybase-installer is downloading are the same as those in the repo? I'd have to do a lot of legwork every single time I update just to be sure. Better to use a tool I can verify once and use forever, or b
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by kylec 13y ago
I like the idea of Keybase.io, but I would prefer to use it in a way in which I don't have to trust them at all. As it stands, you need to install their command-line tool and have it directly manage your GPG keychain. For that, I'
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by kylec 13y ago
If you don't upload your key to keybase.io, you need the command-line tool to generate the file to upload for you, and then subsequently verify it. She can't install keybase via npm because the version of npm she has with her OS i
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by kylec 13y ago
I didn't ask them to do anything special, they must have automatically done it when setting up my service. My ONT is inside my apartment, though, so that might make a difference.
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by kylec 13y ago
This is not a good game. It's much harder to control the fraction and keep it from impacting the obstacles (or the edges) than Flappy Bird, and there's no explanation that you can safely touch fractions of the same value. And give

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