mirkules

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by mirkules 8y ago
Frankly, I find the notion that people are too busy to fight for causes they believe in laughable. Either make the effort to effect change or accept that you are part of the problem. Face the truth. I don't understand how someone can b
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by mirkules 8y ago
And yet not a single valid reason is given. "Because it's the old way of doing things" is completely inadequate as a technical reason to not use a technology.
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by mirkules 8y ago
I can see this being useful for things like chat windows, especially if you're using an external mouse.
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by mirkules 8y ago
Delivery and flexibility are the greatest pros. But while the delivery mechanism is great, the UI has to be delivered and interpreted every time, through an unknown engine that theoretically follows a spec. This results in a) slower executi
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by mirkules 8y ago
To expand on your point, somewhere along the line, the web went from a content delivery mechanism to a full GUI + content delivery mehanism. The allure and advantages to developing a full GUI on the web are many, including portability and a
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by mirkules 8y ago
Thank you for your thorough review. The last Android device I used was a Samsung S3 which was very glitchy. Your review matches my experience and confirms my suspicions (based on that experience) that Android phones will never be as polishe
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by mirkules 8y ago
This is the review I'd really like to see. I'm not interested in "first impressions" or "1 month in". I'm interested what happens after a year, two or even three years. I have an iPhone 6S+, and it works a
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by mirkules 9y ago
An app could look in the "favorites" list to get the same info, which probably is available.
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by mirkules 9y ago
Firstly, Finnish climate is a lot different than Southern California with an average temperature of 65F. If the government or society never acted on the problem in Finland it would be a humanitarian crisis with people freezing to death. It
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by mirkules 9y ago
This really is a regional problem. I live around the area, near the beautiful Santa Ana trail which connects two counties to the ocean. A few months ago, I rode down the 40-mile stretch for the first time in a long time, and I was absolutel
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by mirkules 9y ago
Thank you! I feel like I'm watching this trainwreck in slow motion by myself, as we used to inch - but now barrell - towards regulating the internet into oblivion. This is ironic, of course, because the internet is meant to be decentra
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by mirkules 9y ago
It could be. I first heard my version on a podcast (of course, I forgot which one), but looking around it is attributed to a Stanford professor David Eagleman: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/336070-there-are-three-dea
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by mirkules 9y ago
It is said that a person dies three deaths: First, when their body stops functioning. Second, when their body is buried (or cremated). And the third and final death is when their name is uttered for the very last time in human history. I am
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by mirkules 9y ago
According to the company's documentation it is basically (hah!) a pH 11-12.5 solution of sodium hydroxide, aka lye: http://phurwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MSDS-Cleaner... You can call this
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by mirkules 9y ago
The irony of it all - by electing a republican* president, the democrats have a victory which would not have been possible if a democrat president took office. I wonder if this effect has a name and whether it can be applied to computer sec
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by mirkules 9y ago
In the early 2000s, I used to work a relatively large music company (Album Network, later acquired by Clear Channel) whole sole purpose in life was to make music charts of what's popular, and publish a monthly magazine/charts of t
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by mirkules 9y ago
> search engines like Google have been optimising more and more for the former content, making it harder to find the latter To emphasize this point, just the other day my 4-year-old asked me "how do seeds inside tomatoes grow?"
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by mirkules 9y ago
My Bosch dishwasher has pretty cool mechanical buttons. My wife says it looks like a cassette deck from the '80s. I love the buttons. Too bad the dishwasher is unreliable.
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by mirkules 9y ago
The A-plug never made sense to me since they introduced the USB-C-only MBP. Regulation-skirting was one aspect I haven't considered though. Still, it's kind of sad you can't buy an iPhone and plug it into your new MBP
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by mirkules 9y ago
That's a pretty large file, especially for early 2000s standards. I'm guessing DivX?
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by mirkules 9y ago
For me the killer feature of AIM was P2P file transfer. Is there even a service today that does this? It was so easy to just click "send a file" and it worked fairly reliably. Dropbox comes close, but, of course, it is not a direc
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by mirkules 9y ago
Your anecdotal experience is opposite of mine: at my place, we still use 4-5 year old computers, and frequently upgrade hard drives, memory, video cards even when needed. We have a few rooms dedicated to spare parts, and when we can't
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by mirkules 9y ago
On the one hand I understand your argument. IMO it's a strange time to live in. You own the car, but not the ability to use it to its full capacity. On top of that, from my understanding, the software is owned by Tesla, so you couldn&#
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by mirkules 9y ago
I propose we call Javascript a "quantum mechanical programming language" because the value of a variable can never be determined if it is compared to another by observing it directly. I can just hear it now: "It helps to thin
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by mirkules 9y ago
I'm going to take an unpopular opinion here, but with the increases in minimum wage in California to $15/hr by 2020 - driven by increased cost of living - these jobs will be paying slightly more than minimum wage. No doubt, the an
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by mirkules 9y ago
It "fixes" it by (sort-of) hiding the styling from the parent CSS. Shadow DOM is kind of like OOP in that regard: it encapsulates a bunch of data (styles, other objects) and makes it seem like one object.. er, sorry, I mean compon
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by mirkules 9y ago
The first time I tried a packet (GU gel) in a practice run, I nearly puked. It tastes like liquefied bubble gum and the taste stuck with me for the next 30 minutes. Which ones work well for you?
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by mirkules 9y ago
I believe the original assertion is that there is a non-obvious connection between a newsworthy article and a piece of legislation, and that the article is planted to sway public/congress opinion a certain way. As I said, this kind of
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by mirkules 9y ago
If you did that in my previous company, you would get a visit from IT and a good tongue-lashing from your manager within 15 minutes of doing that. As a 20-something, it seemed like an overreaction. As a 30-something, it seems perfectly reas
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by mirkules 9y ago
Trying to look around, it's actually pretty difficult to support or disprove this retroactively. For one, NYT's archive is kind of behind a paywall. My searches only net me some NYT blog entries usually not related to anything of

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