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by larkeith 8y ago
> don't widely distribute content that's actionable This is a strange argument to apply to the first few users, sharing a document with one or two friends. I should have been more clear: Legally private as opposed to publicly p
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by larkeith 8y ago
I did not know this. I guess this is much more relevant in the era of the internet, where conversations are both permanent and third-party hosted - previously, any similar discussion would take place either in person (and be infeasible to p
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by larkeith 8y ago
The idea that, because a single user broke confidence and published a private correspondence, the real identities of each contributor might be exposed is, quite frankly, horrifying to me. While it might, possibly, be reasonable to accuse th
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by larkeith 8y ago
> this list was privately circulated One user published a private correspondence. Sure, that was shitty on that person's end, but nothing done by the other contributors is wrong, unless you consider talking to a colleague about your
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by larkeith 8y ago
It should be noted that, being strictly suborbital, both the challenges and risks are orders of magnitude lower than even a launch to LEO, and that unlike many space programs, they have quite a bit of prior history and information to draw o
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by larkeith 8y ago
As someone who's absolutely abysmal at recalling names and physical features, but with a good memory for personality and interactions, my experience has been that the impact's rather minimal - while it can lead to a few awkward mo
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by larkeith 8y ago
Why is it I'm so dubious that anything "hailed by the Music Industry" will prove beneficial for anyone except the corporations who own the copyrights?
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by larkeith 8y ago
Any time a site asks me to disable tracking protection, it has the curious effect of reinforcing my desire to leave it enabled - that site has made it clear that they are intentionally and unapologetically violating my privacy for a quick b
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by larkeith 8y ago
At 1080p60 it's probably doable (heck, I wouldn't be surprised if I've beaten 34GB when sick), but it's still a rather absurd figure. Are they counting each site visited, including javascript and CSS, without caching, an
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by larkeith 8y ago
Does "ballistic descent mode" mean that the braking thrusters were inoperable, or just that the launch escape system was not in use?
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by larkeith 8y ago
To add to the other poster, while the LES was jettisoned, in this case it seems that the booster failed to ignite, which allowed normal staging separation.
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by larkeith 8y ago
You may want to reread OPs comment - it mentions nothing of withholding information from the family, nor what they themselves want to hear.
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by larkeith 8y ago
8g was probably from the parachutes deploying, although you do experience very slightly more than 1g acceleration while in freefall, as you encounter increasing air resistance (and significantly more in reentry).
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by larkeith 8y ago
Relevant technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkySails
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by larkeith 8y ago
IIRC you don't need to pipe to less at all for that - man already supports it. grep -C gives a good summary of the various options, then you can just pull up the man page and use that selfsame search to get details that might've b
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by larkeith 8y ago
Moreover, man pages serve as an essential resource that is much more reliably available than any other - when my network's routing packets in circles, the database server's on fire, and the duplicate has repeated the last transact
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by larkeith 8y ago
--help is fine, but almost never a substitute for a full man page, except for the most trivial of applications (unless your --help is as complete as a man page, in which case... good on you for providing full documentation, but I'll ha
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by larkeith 8y ago
> Sometimes I end up passing the help output through grep, then copy-pasting the flags from the output, and then hoping I got the right flag. man x | grep -P y -C 3 | less ...is my standard here (-C 3 includes the pre- and succeed
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by larkeith 8y ago
> All police in the US are, of course, armed. There is also the very real prospect that they could face criminals who are, too. While I doubt it is the sole issue, I wonder how much of the United States' absurd frequency of police k
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by larkeith 8y ago
Perhaps that HN is a rather tech-focused community, and that the other story has more relevance to most users? Or perhaps that it's a more unique story, as depressing as that thought is. My inner cynic believes OP meant to imply that H
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by larkeith 8y ago
This serves as a good example of why privacy should be protected. Even under the assumption the police use data collected only for legitimate purposes, it only takes one corrupt officer for anyone to have access for less savory ends; While
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by larkeith 8y ago
Warning: Stream-of-consciousness rambling ahead. FB and media sites are especially egregious offenders, but are symptomatic of the modern internet as a whole. I'm not really sure how we change this - the web is based around user intera
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by larkeith 8y ago
This is the reason I've somewhat recently switched to Searx - I've not had to run any !g searches, as I did when I was using DDG, but my privacy remains intact. "elixir ecto" on a public Searx instance: https:/&#x2
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by larkeith 8y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I love the fact that the first post regarding compile-time Fibonacci in C++ was submitted in 2000, another user expanded on the original in 2008, and now it's being usefully referenced in 2018. I stumbled across
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by larkeith 8y ago
I find these claims extremely dubious. Everything they claim the Pi is needed for can be accomplished without the equipment and postage costs with a purely software solution; The hardware allows them to monitor all traffic and avoid antivir
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by larkeith 8y ago
That's a good point - I pretty much always use cellular, so I wonder if the quality cap for the mobile player is there as a misguided attempt to reduce data usage. Would make it more understandable, if no less irritating.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Also of note: On the maps app, saved home and work locations are unavailable any time you have the location function disabled. Allow maps access to your location, and suddenly all saved locations are once again visible.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Not OP, but I posted a comment regarding YouTube for mobile here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075895
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by larkeith 8y ago
Separate from the recommendation problems, which seem to vary by person, the site has gotten substantially worse for mobile players, to the point I've almost entirely stopped using it: - The mobile page does not allow quality selection
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by larkeith 8y ago
Does this follow the relevant standards, which I presume exist? Or is Google making a breaking change and requiring the web change to accommodate?

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