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by mmagin 13y ago
For me, what's horrible about Cygwin is that a lot of things that perform just fine on a normal Unix are horribly slow. Just try running an Autoconf "configure" script sometime. I'm told this is because emulating fork(
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by mmagin 13y ago
Is this like Freenet, but less general-purpose?
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by mmagin 13y ago
Sorry, I should have said: "Historically it's been very difficult to make detailed firewall configuration user-friendly. As a result, we've lived with the simplistic compromise of 'allow outgoing connections, don't
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by mmagin 13y ago
Incorrect. That article is comparing the estimated exposure from a broken CFL with the exposure from eating Albacore[1] tuna. The actual mercury content in the CFL is obviously much greater. [1] And not all canned tuna is Albacore. The s
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by mmagin 13y ago
Good luck making that easy for the end-user to configure.
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by mmagin 13y ago
Ah, so google thinks a given "FirstName LastName" is unique?
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by mmagin 13y ago
(I am not a lawyer.) As I understand it, the real benefit of an LLC for what would otherwise be a sole-proprietorship or partnership is if you do work where there's significant liabilities you need protection from. e.g. you make produ
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by mmagin 13y ago
The bothersome thing about these secret treaty negotiations is that they are something of an end-run around the democratic process in effected countries. In many cases, having signed on to some agreement relating to an organization like th
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by mmagin 13y ago
Now that's an efficient use of CPUs!
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by mmagin 13y ago
When I first got access to the Internet (and Usenet) in the early 90s, it was generally advised that one should not post anything on Usenet that you wouldn't want to appear the next day on the front page of a major newspaper.
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by mmagin 13y ago
And yet, they still cannot invest in foreign stocks.
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by mmagin 13y ago
I would be very skeptical of statins. An actual MD who disagrees with you: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/statins/statins-everyone-...
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by mmagin 13y ago
Actually, if you want to interpret robots.txt that way, it raises the problem of "how long can I consider a robots.txt valid for?"
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by mmagin 13y ago
Does Lockitron work for someone who happens to not have mobile phone service where the rental is? As convenient as it is, it seems like short-duration travelers to a country don't always bother with having a working mobile phone where
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by mmagin 13y ago
It seems to be pretty clear there's a link between cortisol levels and atherosclerosis too. (Also, I am not a doctor.)
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by mmagin 13y ago
That's Oracle now. Sun weren't such dicks.
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by mmagin 13y ago
My experience is that a lot of bulky but cheap items cost more than in local stores. They're rolling shipping costs into the product cost.
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by mmagin 13y ago
I am not convinced that that much of that $80/month actually goes to the production of these TV shows he watches. If it did, I think cable would have less ads, and I would also think that I wouldn't be paying $65/month to Co
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by mmagin 13y ago
I'm concerned that the singularitians (sp?) have perhaps let their knowledge of computing and economics go to their head, thinking that they understand philosophy and psychology just as well. But on the technical side, there's no
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by mmagin 13y ago
So, we're the new Neanderthals? While I'm somewhat convinced that human-equivalent or greater machine intelligence will likely happen within the next hundred years (or less), good luck convincing a majority of humans of that.
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by mmagin 13y ago
I wish people would stop being impressed by "bigger and bigger numbers" over time for anything denominated in money that is undergoing inflation.
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by mmagin 13y ago
I see loads of those outside at night in warm weather here. Maybe there's some kind of reverse-aliexpress I can use to sell them? :)
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by mmagin 13y ago
It's kind of alarming how in recent years, "Finance" pulled ahead of "Tech & VC", according to the second graph. But there's one line on the graph that's missing from the legend. Sloppy.
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by mmagin 13y ago
In my experience Outlook Web Access is so good by comparison that once my former employer upgraded to a recent version, I never used the desktop version of Outlook ever again. For one thing, OWA never had this ridiculous problem of corrupt
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by mmagin 13y ago
I'd like to suggest to everyone trying this that: 1. holding such a thin object against a belt sander may be difficult. 2. if you lose your grip, it might fly across the room at dangerous speed.
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by mmagin 13y ago
The simple truth is that corporate users tend to be very cautious about upgrading (and who can blame your average IT department for its conservatism) and many individual users only upgrade when they buy a new PC. In my feeling, by analogy,
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by mmagin 13y ago
That post is from 2007, are they STILL stuck with this?
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by mmagin 13y ago
At an individual level: How many programmers who are good enough to get a job that pays well in the private sector want to take a job (either in the government or for its contractor) with all that bureaucratic overhead?
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by mmagin 13y ago
One could argue the real problem here is C's weak typing and lack of a proper boolean type.
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by mmagin 13y ago
You especially don't need butter if you cook it in something tasty like lard or duck fat :)

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