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by larkeith 9y ago
"...which has gone backpacking, kayaking, and hiking..." Of the three listed activities, two have notable costs associated with them, while even hiking requires transport, food, and, depending on the hike, sometimes more specializ
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by larkeith 9y ago
Which presumably prevents them from using university resources and funding. It may also limit their ability to recruit and hold meetings on the campus, depending on Penn State's policies. So yes, this is still a fairly big deal for the
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by larkeith 9y ago
He had battery under misc: "Battery: The battery is really good for a GNU/Linux laptop. I was used to laptops with two hours maximum while typing and 30min while painting. This one can go almost to four hours while typing and 1h30
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by larkeith 9y ago
True, desecration is too strong a word in my opinion. I'm not familiar enough with other cultures and religions to say whether that would be true for everyone.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Which makes it all the more disconcerting that they would appear to have less legal protections, at least in this case.
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by larkeith 9y ago
My understanding is that, generally, the purpose of identification is to find living relatives. It's a matter of respect - identification allows for appropriate rites to be provided, while this is taking advantage of the fact that the
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by larkeith 9y ago
While I disagree with your view that police reliably handle privacy and personal data with "respect and circumspection", it's unfortunate that you're being downvoted for expressing a legitimate opinion.
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by larkeith 9y ago
This was originally misreported, and has now been updated. It appears users have not been auto-enrolled. Article title is now "Facebook starts its facial recognition push to Europeans". From the correction: " This article w
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by larkeith 9y ago
I guess it depends heavily on the locale - I live in Portland, and while we're one of the most bike-friendly cities in the US, going helmetless would be risky at best, though outside city limits wouldn't be as concerning.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Heck, you might turn slowly if you just rode around tilted, due to the way the tires deform - although I've nowhere near enough familiarity with tire physics to know which direction.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Huh, that's an interesting result, though perhaps not entirely unexpected. Another aggregate study can be found at [1]. I still suspect that the difference in risk between biking without a helmet and with a helmet is significant, and t
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by larkeith 9y ago
There is a severe lack of evidence in this post for the author's assertion that "Common Lisp, Erlang, and F# would all be safer bets" than a nebulous "several more popular languages" - his entire argument seems to b
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by larkeith 9y ago
More dangerous than riding a bike? I exceedingly doubt that, could you link those statistics?
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by larkeith 9y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding the physics, it would be quite literally impossible, not a matter of learning - any attemp to steer results in the angle of the bike moving in the opposite direction an amount directly proportional to the ch
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by larkeith 9y ago
Or even better, an aerocycle - human-powered flight is almost impossible on Earth, but in 1/6 g you could do some very fun stuff. IIRC, Arthur C Clarke mentioned races of that sort of vehicle in one of his works, so credit to him.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Can't speak for parent, but my T430s lasts for three or four hours, despite longterm heavy battery use. Beware of Lenovo's rootkits if looking to buy from them, however.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Parent likely meant as compared to text-only transcripts.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16853361 [16 comments, 6 minutes older].
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by larkeith 9y ago
Oops, this is much better - I've no idea how I got .in, thanks for catching that!
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by larkeith 9y ago
Could someone please update the url to the non-AMP link: https://www.businessinsider.in/For-the-first-time-ever-Micro...
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by larkeith 9y ago
A better approach would be to not put private data in the public domain.
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by larkeith 9y ago
The last time I tried to use Microsoft's support, the only way I was able to contact them was via a webchat, which at first dumped me into a long and infuriating "dialogue" with their support AI - it was the chatroom equivale
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by larkeith 9y ago
Argument ad hominem: The author's character and actions bear no relevance to his arguments' validity.
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by larkeith 9y ago
It's transmitting a trivially-decoded schedule of what processes you have running when, without your consent - in what universe is this not spyware?
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by larkeith 9y ago
I thought the Librem 5 will be running a mobile version of PureOS?
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by larkeith 9y ago
I'm unfamiliar with kernel development cycles, but there might be some amount of maintenance needed each patch to ensure changes work for the various supported architectures, in which case leaving them in without updating them would re
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by larkeith 9y ago
In my experience, Oracle's been doing a wonderful job at spreading their current reputation beyond the smaller developers community.
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French judges clear the Tarnac Nine, rule “anarchist terror cell” is fiction(theguardian.com)
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by larkeith 9y ago
As someone fairly disassociated from the US armed forces, I wonder how much impact the confirmation that all WMD-related rationale for the Iraq war was fabricated had on troop morale and faith in stated goals.
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by larkeith 9y ago
I'd be surprised if Amazon cancelled your account unless the issue with counterfeits happened with alarming frequency, as maintaining a good relationship (and low processing rates) with banks is far more important to them than providin

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