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by mchahn 11y ago
> He represents not only a rejection of the existing Reaganite establishment, but also a rejection of Reaganite foreign policy This assumes he knows what a "Reaganite establishment" is. I get the feeling he is more of a bull in
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by mchahn 11y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but does anyone else hate the fact that the official Node docs are not in alphabetical order? It drives me crazy. It might be ok if there was a logical order, like open, write, read, close, but there is no such order.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I hope the person who bought this knew that it wouldn't make free phone calls any more.
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by mchahn 11y ago
In the late 60's I wanted to call my girlfriend for free across the country using tones. I looked up the phone company spec's in the college library. After figuring out the tones needed I went into the EE lab and made a tape rec
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have often wondered if a total rewrite of an app every few years would take less effort that putting in the work in the beginning to make it upgradeable. This design to make it upgradeable often fails anyway, especially when the team cha
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by mchahn 11y ago
> I'm in favour of this arrangement, since I think it's the only way to get updates to work reliably, Then how is it Google can update my chromebook while I keep running ubuntu with 100% of linux features? I've done this
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by mchahn 11y ago
The article doesn't say if their possessions were destroyed. They can't be replaced with insurance money. Edit: I meant their personal possessions that aren't replaceable like home movies and paper photos.
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by mchahn 11y ago
A server, a client, and a user walk into a bar ...
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by mchahn 11y ago
The golden gate bridge and many others were built by working in dry "bubbles". An inverted dome on the sea floor was filled with air so the workers could work on the seafloor pretty much the same as on the ground outside. I don&#
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by mchahn 11y ago
> (handwaving!) it could make for some fantastic compression methods. You could have indexes of hashes and store any chunks of anything in a big flat address space. You wouldn't even need to know what you have. Just a massive amou
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by mchahn 11y ago
Quite an advertisement here. I love how many languages are the most popular. This says Java is. Many say Javascript is. Obviously C and C++ can claim this. Who cares?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Some who can should flag this.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> But how would space be doled out to advocates of alternative theories, who are just as certain about the rightness of their ideas as any scientist, if that guideline became more flexible? It can't. If you crack open the door to p
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by mchahn 11y ago
The sky is falling! The technology that banks use has nothing to do with whether their business models succeed. It is strange that it takes computer experts to realize that computers don't matter much. I had friends that were freaked
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by mchahn 11y ago
Wow, they got George Harrison and Muhammad Ali for their PR? That must have cost a fortune.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Ah, another one just like the CPAP (apnea machine) that fits in your nose. You can fool anyone some of the time and you can fool some people all the time.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> systems being emulated often didn't even have square pixels. Neither NTSC or PAL have square pixels. Square pixels never existed until computers.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I don't understand why people here are granting some acceptance points because he wrote it under a pen name. How does that make him a better person?
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by mchahn 11y ago
How do torrent sites make money? I know some take "donations", charges for upload points that are virtually impossible to gain otherwise. But I've seen many that have no donation mechanism at all including some that have ve
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by mchahn 11y ago
> It seems the activists lacked either the knowledge of SCADA systems or the intent to do any harm. So it's a kid, not a state.
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by mchahn 11y ago
This is sick, and not the good slang version of sick.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I wish Gould were still alive to defend his theories.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> "He said, 'The Challenger's going to blow up. Everyone's going to die,' " Serna recalls. "And he was beating his fist on the dashboard. He was frantic." That is a bit over the top but if true, th
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have home SW that accesses TVDB.COM to get fan art, descriptions, etc., for tv shows. Lately I have been getting 403s for requests. They won't say but I assume they are getting takedowns for their metadata.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I'll find the reference if requested, but I read a fascinating article recently how most people's ideas about neanderthals are wrong. There were not cave-men, they were very similar to us. Same intelligence, tool-using, social beh
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by mchahn 11y ago
I, being a geek, find nutrition software to be the best solution. I didn't say I was dieting, I'm just recording and observing everything I eat. I have no goal or threshold. Surprisingly, just watching your nutrition causes you
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by mchahn 11y ago
This thread is so long that I may be repeating what has already said, but ... I converted to Linux from Windows about a year ago. An unexpected but great benefit is that I have been able to pull PCs 5 to 10 years old out of my garage and no
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by mchahn 11y ago
Anything at all would be better than the current chip-on-card with my visa credit card. Many terminal with the chip slot will sit there for a while and then say "swipe card". When it does work it seems to take forever. Luckily I
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This was 40 years ago. Paper hadn't been invented yet to write contracts on.
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by mchahn 11y ago
This may be a big advance there have always been high-performance options for computing, storage, and communications at these temperatures. I assume they haven't been commercialized because of the cooling costs.

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