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by lake99 11y ago
You're mixing up matters in your analogy. Riding a school bus is a passive task. Using a computer is an active task. You need a Mech. Eng. to design and build a bus. You don't need a Mech. Eng. to maintain a bus. Practically every
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by lake99 11y ago
This is not Asimov's usual style. The book you should be looking for is "Azazel", later re-packaged as "Magic". It's never establishes that Azazel is a demon. The book vacillates between "demon" and &
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by lake99 11y ago
This is a difficult question to answer. I switched a long time ago, when bash did not provide the kind of completions that zsh does. Nowadays bash is catching up. Try these things in bash (with completions installed): 1. cd to a git reposit
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Don't know. The last I met them was about 10 years ago.
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> It must either be maintained or treated as disposable. While I agree with this, I understand where Swizec's comment is coming from. I have a few business acquaintances who have been automotive engineers for 30-40 years now. They
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by lake99 11y ago
I think they'll do it, but not because they see Trump as a threat. They'll do it to prevent "hate speech". Websites that criticize Trump will be signal-boosted, and those that criticize Sanders or Clinton will be suppres
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by lake99 11y ago
Now, it's just funny that Samsung hasn't learnt important lessons from its success with Android: serve hackers first, and market-share will come automatically. Someone please show them the Ballmer "song".
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by lake99 11y ago
> Can you imagine minimizing and maximizing windows without some subtle effect to show the window shrinking or expanding? Easily. I work mostly on Linux, and have turned off all animations. The first time I tried Windows 10, everything f
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by lake99 11y ago
I don't use Hangouts, so I'll never know. But I'll keep your comment in mind for other software. Google doesn't help matters by being so terribly slow to act on bug reports.
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by lake99 11y ago
Don't use Power Saver for this. The mode affects many things pretty pervasively. Instead, under Settings->Developer Options, you'll find three settings related to animations. I keep them all turned off. Of course, this is the f
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by lake99 11y ago
I would apply more lenient standards when looking at lists of arts or crafts. Sure, Spike Lee is a professional in the field, and I am not. But many of the films I see in his list, I would consider "boring". This is his personal
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by lake99 11y ago
Rust is secondary to the issue. I am more concerned about how much browsers divulge when asked. Test your browser at https://www.browserleaks.com/
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by lake99 11y ago
I already use a crippled browser for my day-to-day browsing: Tor Browser. I'd be happy with a browser that's as non-leaky as that. Tor Browser works fairly well, but I'd prefer a lighter browser if I had the option.
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by lake99 11y ago
> Neither of these have any bearing on the topic of the article itself. I disagree there. I think diligent fact-checking encourages readers' trust. While I don't expect the author to have consulted a geologist, when I read &quo
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by lake99 11y ago
I've had good experience with big "chain" hospitals, be it Apollo, Columbia Asia, Wockhardt, or whatever else. I never found them pushy. One of the docs from there quit and opened his own clinic. He doesn't even charge m
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by lake99 11y ago
> As for running a GUI on a PLC, wtf? Seriously? You find this[2] surprising? People have real needs, and they are working on solutions, be it Wayland, Mir, Freon, running GUI on a PLC, or whatever else. I get that you don't have th
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by lake99 11y ago
> i have no trouble running X on a "weak" computer. Well, obviously, your "weak" computer is powerful enough to handle X. Remember that not all computers are desktops, laptops, or phones. We have Linux running on in
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by lake99 11y ago
According to people in the know[1], X is severely bloated in terms of CPU usage, interface complexity, and useless code. X spends a lot of time performing useless actions, such as drawing a gray rectangle even when it knows that part of the
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by lake99 11y ago
> Sanskrit is a formalized version of the Prakrits that people spoke. Panini, and to some extent, his near-contemporaries formalized Sanskrit. It wasn't formalized before that. Vedic Sanskrit was never formalized. Moreover, the book
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by lake99 11y ago
Same book page 21: "But there are evidences to show that to all intents and purposes, Sanskrit was a living language and view that it was spoken by at least a large section of the people." The author then writes a more nuanced ans
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by lake99 11y ago
> But the masses never 'spoke' Sanskrit, it was more of a formalized language for literature and administration. That's a strange thing to say. Panini formalized it, but the language was in widespread use for a long time b
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by lake99 11y ago
This may be the case in the current age, where ships have freezers. But this article[1] says that in a refrigerator (not freezer), mozarella lasts for just a couple of weeks. I have no first-hand knowledge of this myself. http://
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by lake99 11y ago
Or even Pypy. This is how they measure up: % python2 fibtime.py elapsed time: 83.330840 seconds % python3 fibtime.py elapsed time: 89.325043 seconds % pypy3 fibtime.py elapsed time: 5.799757 seconds
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by lake99 11y ago
> Experiment if you want, but as a guy, I would "nope" right out of there. As would I. I found the PyCon2015 talk by Ola and Ola rather too cutesy, but I liked the djangogirls' tutorial online just fine. I can imagine th
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by lake99 11y ago
I'm in the "whatever works" camp. If someone were to create a "guy's programming workshop" with weight-lifting and sports-talk, I'd welcome the experiment. It's all fine as long as the market demand
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by lake99 11y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/littlefox-for... This firefox theme makes the app's decorations really small. The icons look as if they were designed in 1995, but if there is a choice betw
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by lake99 11y ago
The one for Scribd is wrong too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816112 is identified as a job in Berlin. I think the mods should enforce some address formats to make things more convenient for tools such as yours.
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Your comment is breaking the formatting of the entire page.
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by lake99 11y ago
The Selfish Gene -- Richard Dawkins. Not crazy to grasp, but figuring out how nature works is mind blowing. Of all the books I have gifted to people, this one tops the list.
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by lake99 11y ago
> His argument basically is that an article in a general-news newspaper is not meeting the same standards as a peer reviewed paper? Are you assuming that not meeting the standards of peer reviewed journals means not meeting good journal

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