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by mcbits 9y ago
If they're sensible, and I believe they have the ability to be, then you only have to show that many IP leads are dead ends (or rather, not the end). Tor exit nodes demonstrate that. Malware demonstrates that. Leads are fine. Follow th
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by mcbits 9y ago
Some people with schizophrenia invent their own languages and alphabets, and their speech can seem randomly generated in severe cases. Or an alchemist might have been exposed to chemicals that caused schizophrenic symptoms. I wonder if the
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by mcbits 10y ago
The distinction between crimes and torts really has no impact on the analogy...
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by mcbits 10y ago
If it's a "dealing pot" sort of infringement (e.g. against patents that shouldn't exist, but do), then it's a legitimate reason to hide their tracks. If it's a "robbing banks" level of infringement, t
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by mcbits 10y ago
The core idea of the Streisand effect is when someone's response to criticism backfires and brings much more publicity to the criticism. I guess if you truly believe the government was "just asking questions" or honestly inve
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by mcbits 10y ago
Perhaps because they already have the identities of most of the others.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Right, that's why I mentioned how long ago this was because very few employers were as Orwellian about this stuff as they are today. Calling it theft was hyperbole then and is hyperbole today.
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by mcbits 10y ago
I actually did something like this long ago (pre-2000) - emailed a set of detailed and very confidential sales spreadsheets to my personal email. It wasn't "theft" (and AFAIK nobody even noticed). It was so I could convert th
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by mcbits 10y ago
He didn't mess with the customer's garage door opener, so it's not like messing with a customer's burger. It's more like cutting the customer off from the unlimited coffee refills when they get 86'd from the re
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by mcbits 10y ago
The problem is how best to expose those and 100,000 other potential buttons to the user who has better things to do than "navigate". An obvious solution is a search box, but most sites also have terrible search functionality, so u
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by mcbits 10y ago
Forgot password, send password, change password, change contact info, check warranty status, estimate next release date, download product manual, how to replace the battery, does the license allow commercial use?, which product is better fo
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by mcbits 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Better options for mouse scrolling - DESCRIPTION: One personal pain point is mouse wheel scrolling. I want to scroll fast when I swipe the wheel fast. Usually I end up having to use the scrollbar (whic
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by mcbits 10y ago
The CEO can die and the company will continue functioning 95% as well. Or maybe 105%, or 10%, or 1,000%.
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by mcbits 10y ago
This gives the false impression that the variables are all related. If they are related, they should probably be encapsulated in some kind of structure. And once you add the comments explaining what the first three variables are and how the
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by mcbits 10y ago
The nuclear family is a myth born in the mid-20th century and spread by television, so I can't accept that premise, although the attempt and failure of most families to emulate Leave it to Beaver and Donna Reed might be a source of som
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by mcbits 10y ago
A solid 3,000-word article with enough CSS to make the page look nice will fit comfortably in 20-30KB gzipped. A Raspberry Pi could handle on the order of tens of requests per second (tens of thousands per hour). A fluffy 500-word Medium-st
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by mcbits 10y ago
I don't think changing the user agent string affects which codecs or device drivers are available on the client. If changing the user agent string "solves" the problem, then the problem is most likely with the site - especial
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by mcbits 10y ago
Bulk data processing clock speeds could still be lower, but some devices may need THz timing, for example to align and integrate data from a swarm of sensors in motion relative to each other. Imagine trillions of 1-pixel cameras that know e
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by mcbits 10y ago
64 bits only cover about 7 months at picosecond resolution, so it's possible that 64 bit timestamps will be too small sometime this century, depending on how tightly synchronized the world becomes. An extensible timestamp might not be
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by mcbits 10y ago
Because the other option besides innovation is to compete in the "drive margins to zero" space, which isn't very profitable. Patents don't drive innovation. They supposedly prevent innovation from being locked up in trad
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by mcbits 10y ago
After hopping back and forth between Windows and Linux for 6-12 months at a time for a many years, I've realized that I spend at least as much time dorking around with Windows and related software after a clean install as with desktop
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by mcbits 10y ago
If laws were codified in a machine-friendly format, automatic code analysis could alert lawmakers and the public to ambiguity, conflicts, redundancy, unused code, opportunities for optimization and verbosity.
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by mcbits 10y ago
The only remotely realistic way to capture an asteroid is to start with one that's already in a temporary, unstable orbit. If asteroid mining is ever economical, it will either be for relatively small masses of extremely valuable miner
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by mcbits 10y ago
As someone who actually uses scrollbars , I like scrollbars to be wide enough to actually use, especially when they're not against the edge of a maximized window. The pellet in your second image isn't the worst, but I'm pret
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by mcbits 10y ago
Surely it is if $2.13/hour leaves enough left over to hire a lawyer, or the employee is confident that the payout will be greater than a decade of lost opportunities as "someone who sues their employer".
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by mcbits 10y ago
It would be nice if page authors (perhaps with user permission) could disable throttling on background tabs in some cases. I made a Morse code tutor with the Web Audio API, and playback breaks as soon as you switch tabs because the timeouts
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by mcbits 10y ago
Here are a few keywords that come to mind. You can find both high-level and deeper information on any of these: Proof by induction, Boolean algebra, recurrence relations, generating functions, "counting problems" in combinatorics.
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The Assembler Developer's Kit(plantation-productions.com)
103 points by mcbits 10y ago|11 comments
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by mcbits 10y ago
I remember a progression going something like this: 1. Local folks taking turns calling a handful of BBSes. 2. BBSes synchronizing some messages with each other, even long-distance. 3. BBSes providing some limited Internet services (email,
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by mcbits 10y ago
Oddly, most of the garbage that accumulates on the streets where I live consists of empty cigarette packs/butts, coffee cups, beer and soda cans, junk food and fast food wrappers, etc. And the hospitals are full of people suffering the

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