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by mikevm 13y ago
Don't you think that there are legitimate reasons for governments to keep certain things secret?
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by mikevm 13y ago
The one thing to know about cheap consumer cloud backup solutions like CrashPlan and Backblaze is that they only have one copy of your data. So if their RAID array where your data is stored dies and cannot be rebuilt, it's all gone. Yo
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by mikevm 13y ago
This might be anecdotal but external WD (MyLife) drives are usually from the Green series and I had 2 different ones fail on me after about 1 year of use. Same happened to 2 friends of mine. I blamed it on the constant head parking (it went
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by mikevm 13y ago
It appears that the new study is as flawed as Jaeggi's previous one: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/10/... (comment by this guy: http://www.uncg.edu/~mjkane&#x2F
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by mikevm 13y ago
> Stallman has also said that cell phones spy on users. That is increasingly apparent, with cell phone records available for the taking and fake cells to do individual stings. I used to work for a phone company. They had a very simple to
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by mikevm 13y ago
I know that this course has nothing to do with technology, but it is so good that I really want more people to experience it. The parallel course in the Hebrew University has become the most popular course in the whole University (the Hebre
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A Brief History of Humankind(coursera.org)
1 points by mikevm 13y ago|1 comments
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by mikevm 13y ago
I always like sticking to the very best, so SuperMemo was the choice for me. I remember spending a couple of weeks just reading the whole website ( http://www.supermemo.com/ ) because it contained so much interesting informat
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by mikevm 13y ago
Ay dios mio, this is going to rock! Heck, as someone who doesn't own a console, this might finally get me to play games on my TV.
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by mikevm 13y ago
It's probably the luma range. I remember having this "washed out" color in KMPlayer and wondered why VLC's picture was darker.
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by mikevm 13y ago
VLC is a great piece of software, but it's always missing some last pieces of polish that stop it from replacing my default video player (I only keep VLC in those rare cases when I have some unplayable video). Two issues that are very
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by mikevm 13y ago
I'm rather skeptical about their in-home streaming option. In a world where games are buying LCDs to minimize input lag, what kind of a performance are they expecting from streaming a game over LAN? I'm interested in knowing how t
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by mikevm 13y ago
IntelliJ has such an ugly font rendering system on Windows that it makes it very hard for me to dump Eclipse. This prolly has to do with Eclipse's native font rendering.
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by mikevm 13y ago
No, I'm saying that textbook reading on the iPad 2 is a good experience to me, aside from the rare textbook that has very narrow margins (meaning that the text is pretty small), and two-column papers. Btw, do you have a good way to rea
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by mikevm 13y ago
Given the current high-end game engines that seem to support all the popular platforms out of the box (Windows, Mac, consoles), how difficult is it really to ship a game with Linux support?
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by mikevm 13y ago
Also MS Office, Adobe Photoshop and a bunch of other Windows-only or Mac-only tools.
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by mikevm 13y ago
What performance increases in graphics processing are they talking about? I'm with you thought, I do hope all of their work will be landed in mainline kernel so everyone could enjoy the benefits, and we could play games (through Steam
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by mikevm 13y ago
I don't think it'd be particularly efficient. I need to be able to write proofs (which include lots of math symbols) and draw diagrams very quickly. I've seen people do it with digitizers, but the results ends up being rather
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by mikevm 13y ago
I'm a student also, but I've been using the iPad for this. I don't take any notes on the iPad itself because the courses I need to take notes on are mathematical, so I simply write on paper and then when I come back home I sc
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by mikevm 13y ago
I fell for this scam a couple of years ago. I was hastily signing up for LinkedIn, and figured that the page was asking me for my LinkedIn credentials again. Lo and behold, it mined all my Gmail data. It was partially my fault, because I us
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by mikevm 13y ago
It's actually from this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLMJpHihykI
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by mikevm 13y ago
> either join the ecosystem and gain the advantages, or don't. Yar - har - fiddle-dee-dee....
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by mikevm 13y ago
It makes a difference because people assume that it's been a constant improvement ever since hunter-gatherer times, and it probably wasn't. I'm saying that the quality of life for most people probably went downhill ever since
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by mikevm 13y ago
People collaborate on open source projects all the time without uttering a damn word.
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by mikevm 13y ago
Makes one appreciate languages like Pascal which differentiate between the equality operator '=' and the assignment operator ':='. I wonder why the decision was made in C to use '=' and '=='? I'm
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Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks (2003)(securityfocus.com)
85 points by mikevm 13y ago|52 comments
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by mikevm 13y ago
Nothing. I was just pointing out the fact that the low life expectancy doesn't necessarily mean that people were less healthy. In fact, they might've been even healthier than we are (more active, a varied diet, etc...).
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by mikevm 13y ago
If you still need a catch-all codec (and splitter), use the ffmpeg-based LAV filters ( http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191 ).
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by mikevm 13y ago
> Medicine, sanitation, pooping indoors, and not dying at 20 is very appealing. IIRC, the low life expectancy of hunter-gatherers is mostly due to the high infant/child mortality. You can see similar life expectancy graphs in severa
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by mikevm 13y ago
> How do you get tested/evaluated? You need to look for a decent psychiatrist. By the way, there is no magic fix for anxiety. The non-medication route might use CBT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavi

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