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by mchahn 11y ago
> there's the practical aspect of this being adjustable on the fly by users in the old Lisp machine tradition. Is there the possibility that the OS code will be so mutable that it is impossible to predict if an application will run
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by mchahn 11y ago
What about blackwater being paid to kill people on a regular basis in Iraq? Is that a gray area?
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by mchahn 11y ago
They should have an exception handler for cpus melting.
724.
by mchahn 11y ago
Server-sent-events are an often overlooked alternative to polling and websockets. They work on all browsers and I'm having good luck using them.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> If someone wants to share content and exercise their freedom of expression, they can still publish that material directly on their own system, That is not a practical solution and an unfair burden. Most people do not have that option
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Uber drivers pay their own business expenses, vehicle and gas So they should be considered to be contractors because they have to pay their own expenses? But they wouldn't be paying their own expenses if Uber classified them as e
727.
by mchahn 11y ago
> the more you become involved with it, the more you start to secretly hate it I think he is projecting his feelings to everyone else. I've been married to computer technology for 50 years and I have never secretly hated it, just a
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by mchahn 11y ago
10 points for who can name the movie that has the quote... "Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora
729.
by mchahn 11y ago
I just learned about the SJW yesterday (yes I'm out of touch on the web). They must be going absolutely nuts over this decision. (I am not expressing an opinion on anything).
730.
by mchahn 11y ago
I'm going to get downvoted, but ... I can't believe that a technically savvy group like HN readers would even entertain the ridiculous idea of levitation or flying saucers. There is nothing mysterious about magnetic forces. They
731.
by mchahn 11y ago
I am a hardware engineer with a lot of software experience to go with it. I have had no work since the "crash" in 2008 when I was 58. Since then no company even returns a "no thanks" letter. However I must admit there
732.
by mchahn 11y ago
> The vector drawing hadware is analog and uses a single 8-bit DAC Even in that day and age isn't a 256x256 grid a little bit coarse? I know it draws smooth vectors between those points, so it isn't a jaggy problem. But ther
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by mchahn 11y ago
> escape sequences aren’t yet supported Does this mean you can't even include a quote character in a string? If so this is kind of useless so far.
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by mchahn 11y ago
One would think that using fuel to touch-down slowly is wasting fuel since they could use some kind of capture scheme with a parachute instead. I've read many times that the weight of the fuel is a big problem in spacecraft.
735.
by mchahn 11y ago
Survival to cycling is very different than ruggedness. The power supply to my 2015 pixel (60 watts, btw) goes over type-C, I accidentally stood up with it plugged in, and the wires were pulled out of the connector. I didn't feel much
736.
by mchahn 11y ago
The new Google Pixel has a type-C on both sides. It is heaven. I can pick the pixel up with my eyes closed and always get it in (please, no jokes). And on my lap the cord can drape out either side. These features may seem like small ones
737.
by mchahn 11y ago
The generic name in america is cotton swabs. Cotton buds are the generic name in the U.K.
738.
by mchahn 11y ago
I remember a Q-tip ad where at the end a comedian said "Don't put anything in your ear except your elbow".
739.
by mchahn 11y ago
My daughter and her husband put hydrogen peroxide in the ears and claim that it makes a big difference. I was skeptical, to say the least, but after reading all this I think I might have been wrong. It might do something.
740.
by mchahn 11y ago
Who is Brendan? Am I supposed to know him? There is no one named Brendan shown at the Brave Software page. And, I don't understand the logic behind paying Brave instead of the original ad providers. He is still showing ads and takin
741.
by mchahn 11y ago
Garages cost a whole lot less per square foot than a living room. We put everything we can in our garage to have a bit of space in the house.
742.
by mchahn 11y ago
> I thought the GPL says you have to provide the source code if your customer wants it. There is nothing about what the customer wants. You have to either publish the source or provide a link, like a URL, to it.
743.
by mchahn 11y ago
> you should own and control your repository Doesn't every distributed system let you keep your own repo under your control? I have all my projects on github but if github disappeared tomorrow I'd just push my repos to a diffe
744.
by mchahn 11y ago
Fiddler works on all platforms. It is my proxy cap tool of choice.
745.
by mchahn 11y ago
> If you compare Google Maps voice to Stephen Hawking, Has anyone else wondered why Stephen hasn't upgraded his voice? Maybe it is his signature of sorts.
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by mchahn 11y ago
In the late sixties I was programming at a bank and even then there was a voice response account-balance phone number. The machine was quite large, about the size of two refrigerators. It had twelve different loops of tape that spun arou
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by mchahn 11y ago
I'm not sure what country you are talking about. Inflammable means the same in every english-speaking country.
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by mchahn 11y ago
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by mchahn 11y ago
One time an Atom user posted a question on the Atom editor forum. He said he loved Atom and wanted to donate. It was a bit complex to explain that they would be contributing to a large corporation, GitHub. I thought this was symbolic of
750.
by mchahn 11y ago
Mozilla has a hard rule that they can't use closed-software for anything. I bitched about their 20-year-old-technology mailing lists and they said they had no choice. They couldn't use google-groups, et. al., because they were c

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