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by mjolk 10y ago
As a non-social-media using "hacker" (HN is the closest thing to social media that I use), I think portability in laptops should be picked over ease in hardware replacement (if you're often needing to change hardware, that&#x
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by mjolk 10y ago
It's possible to have screws to access case-internal hardware without a laptop being bulky and hard to look at. I'm also hungry for a macbook pro alternative (after Apple's courageous decision to remove function keys and mags
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by mjolk 10y ago
Good luck with your startup.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Someone pushing their social network to come here and upvote.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Large sedans and station wagons are valid alternatives; SUVs are similarly or higher-priced than safer options.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Large sedans and station wagons are valid alternatives; SUVs are similarly or higher-priced.
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by mjolk 10y ago
A more extreme, but related condition is a "moose test": The dangerous Toyota Hilux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoHbn8-ROiQ The Jeep Grand Cherokee acting similarly dangerously: https://www.youtube
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by mjolk 10y ago
> That's why I usually break fast initially... Please don't do this in the snow or in wet conditions. Sharp actions are what will make other cars change direction or magnify the effects of drivers that you have caused to panic
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by mjolk 10y ago
> Their stance on ethnic identification from genetic testing was that it was nonsense. There is no way of calculating these percentages. Don't let reality get in the way of a bit of political propaganda.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Keep in mind that the Washington Post donated to the Clinton Foundation. > At what point did this become the "British gene"?... I don't think I fully understand how this works. You do get it , but are missing the point th
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'd suggest that it's still "its time", but not for daily use for most people. Hardware is cheap and fast and there are safer languages (I hear Rust is good; I'd use Java if I wasn't carpal-tunnel concerned), a
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by mjolk 10y ago
Time trade-off and ease of test-compilation/env setup and tooling on more "friendly" workstations, at least for my uses.
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by mjolk 10y ago
"All" modern compiled languages will have bit-manipulation. As long as a language can compile for your microcontroller, you're golden to use something higher level.
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by mjolk 10y ago
> As the article states, it's resurgence is bc of restricted small devices, but that's not because it's a great language. To be fair, it's an amazing language, but if you're coding to get things done with a deadl
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by mjolk 10y ago
Are you against the WW2 retaliation bombing of Japan by the US? If so, please, from your office chair, inform us on what the course of action should have been.
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by mjolk 10y ago
I don't think it's fair to categorize it as a slap in the face. If people want to offer up their cars/home (or, in my experience of using AirBNB, their non-residence rental properties) to take part in a nascent/risky em
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'm building a startup and I wish I could accomplish everything I need in 70 hours a week -- it would give me so much more time to work on the other parts of the startup that I currently don't have time to build out.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Cute.
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by mjolk 10y ago
>The printer's buyer was Gersh Zavodnik, a 54-year-old Indianapolis man known to many in the legal community as a frequent lawsuit filer who also represents himself in court. The Indiana Supreme Court said the "prolific, abusiv
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by mjolk 10y ago
If I can offer some unsolicited advice, here's your "head's up" from someone from Maine that recently passed on moving back: - Maine jobs are low-paying and few-and-far-between. Not an issue if you're positive you
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by mjolk 10y ago
It's not even about that, it's about authors importing drama into the tech community with self-indulgent rants about problems that didn't even happen or were intentionally misconstrued.
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by mjolk 10y ago
edit: If I'm wrong, correct me with facts/logic/cogent arguments. Jumping to "burn the witch" whenever gender is involved _is the core of the problem_ -- differential treatment over gender identity. > https:&#x2
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by mjolk 10y ago
I later thought about how I was making a logical fallacy in connecting the linked blog's assertions of "it's not about speed. speed matters for init on servers", apologies. The doublespeak quip was because the blog you
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by mjolk 10y ago
And yet, on that link, point #3 tries to sell fast boot-up times for servers. It's about the level of marketing-doublespeak I'd expect from a RedHat-backed initiative. I'm aware of their propaganda.
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by mjolk 10y ago
I just realized that I used a truism in a way that could be read as scolding -- not my intention and I apologize for my communication if I offended. Starting up is a subset of rebooting, which is fine to spend time optimizing for, even thou
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by mjolk 10y ago
Sorry, probably not the most fitting analogy. And I think I might have attached my reply to the wrong parent comment. What I was trying to express was that if tmux had changed itself to accommodate systemd, this would have negatively affec
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by mjolk 10y ago
> I am not sure how the uptime argument is relevant here. Init-time amortized over uptime. 5 seconds to boot is a big deal for a box that comes up, lives for 60 seconds, then dies. Not so much for a box that comes up in 5 seconds and s
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by mjolk 10y ago
Users should be free to reboot as often as they want. Parallelized init sequences have benefits, but I suspect this exaggerated '80 second' boot time, and the related '20 second' ideal, stems from either a misconfigurati
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by mjolk 10y ago
I believe you misread me. I'm glad nicm refused to add to the Rube Goldberg machine.
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by mjolk 10y ago
It's a "perceived" issue because not everyone has written his/her init scripts in a way that cause a boot time of over a minute. Or have uptimes in the magnitude of years, or if using Linux as a desktop OS, aren't

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