larrik

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   by larrik 10y ago

   > A 2-year-old was found unattended after his parents allegedly left home to play Pokémon Go. > How much risk was there of some harm coming to the child while the parents were gone? As a parent to young children, I would say pretty da
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   by larrik 10y ago

   For the thermostats, I had a customer at a previous job who had a bunch of placebo thermostats installed for the "office ladies" would stop fighting. It actually completely solved the problem. ("office ladies" is my tran
3. 753.▲
   by larrik 10y ago

   I feel like "GMO" would have made all the difference
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   by larrik 10y ago

   I would imagine that the NSA did discover and exploit Heartbleed years ago, yes. I've generally assumed that sort of thing was very likely, at least.
5. 755.▲
   by larrik 10y ago

   Yeah, this breaks the "move over by word" with Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right which I use a lot. Maybe I need to add them explicitly.
6. 756.▲
   by larrik 10y ago

   I think I tried something like this once before, and it broke something else. I can't remember what that was, so I'm totally trying this.
7. 757.▲
   by larrik 10y ago

   I actually did not know that.
8. 758.▲
   by larrik 10y ago

   I do use this too.
9. 759.▲
   by larrik 10y ago

   I actually think the basic windows command line that does it, as I was never in the habit of installing PS while on Windows.
10. 760.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    As a full-time Linux user, I have to say that bash is overrated. For instance, on Windows I could press the up arrow through my history 20x to find a group of commands I want to run, press Enter, then press DOWN for the following command, t
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    by larrik 10y ago

    I don't know, I think USPS is better than FedEx. Also, here in Connecticut (the place where the rich historically sent their kids to school), there are plenty of public schools that are at least as good or better than at least some nea
12. 762.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    I've never found a place in my area (Connecticut) that provides food at all (besides snacks, and even then).
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    by larrik 10y ago

    Wow, as someone who's never even seen a true electric car up close, I'm curious how you can keep it going for a full day of work. Charging it takes hours, right? Unlike gasoline which you can just pull in and be back on the road i
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    by larrik 10y ago

    iOS has the same issues, though, except you need an Apple machine, which is usually WAY more expensive than a comparable Windows machine (not sure how well needing to pay for VisualStudio closes that gap). I doubt this was a factor at all f
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    by larrik 10y ago

    I think Mongo is GREAT at one very important thing: Storing other people's data. If you need to consume other services, especially if its more than one, it's hard to beat Mongo (or other NoSQL databases). You get a lot of search p
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    by larrik 10y ago

    Plus, AMD isn't as good for Linux, if you end up putting that on the machine instead of (or alongside) OS X.
17. 767.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    This wouldn't be that bad, except for the fact that they won't properly disclose it, and I bet the "non-discounted" plans either won't exist or will be extremely expensive
18. 768.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    I hope this is true, because I'm about 3 months and ~30 pounds into my own diet and I'm not any happier. I'm not miserable like I thought I would be, but I certainly find myself less patient and less pleasant than before. I&#
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    by larrik 10y ago

    > There’s a good reason cars start falling apart after their warranty period — They have been carefully engineered to specifically have this happen, a term called “planned obsolesce”. I don't believe this, and I don't believe t
20. 770.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    Interesting, I get pestered by them constantly, and never actually considered going for it. For one thing, the common sentiment on HN seems to be 'friends don't let friends work for Amazon'. Amazon seems like a meat grinder,
21. 771.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    I'm about to the point that I may just start flagging all NYT/Forbes/WSJ articles.
22. 772.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    I meant physically plugging it in.
23. 773.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    Is there any way your hardware would support something like being the KVM for a headless server (or family member's computer that you are working on) or something?
24. 774.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    I'm guessing you don't have kids to take videos of, then :)
25. 775.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    Where do we see that tidbit?
26. 776.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    As someone working in the "Open Source" division of a Microsoft shop: yup.
27. 777.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    I know that transferring out of Zuora costs $5,000 per export.
28. 778.▲
    by larrik 10y ago

    No, not at all, as long as you aren't afraid to ask for someone's credit card again. You should also be able to transfer credit card information between services (which usually takes weeks and costs thousands, though).
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    by larrik 10y ago

    "And if you want more proof of DNA’s dark dangers then look no further than the Zika virus – this microcephalitic plague demon is almost 100% DNA" Viruses are RNA, not DNA.
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    by larrik 10y ago

    You can even do it temporarily, which is neat (year-end reports or data crunching, for instance).