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by mmagin 13y ago
Continuing with "b", I think there's some benefit to having both distinct shapes and distinct colors (which often gets thrown out in modern design on high resolution, high color-depth displays -- you can have any color you wa
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by mmagin 13y ago
What is all this "native" digital medium that he mentions three times in this post? While a lot of metaphors to old ways of doing things (office work, etc.) may be clumsy, the "native" interface to the computer is really
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by mmagin 13y ago
Even before streaming, the media publishing industries have been into segmenting the world into different markets for the same product: For example: books separately published in the US and the UK, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks with region codes
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by mmagin 13y ago
Hopefully it's a big advance over most of what's out there. Thermal design on the PC-assembled-from-standard-parts seems to often leave a lot to be desired. Folks like Dell or HP do a little better in their 'workstation&#x2
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by mmagin 13y ago
"the photos and videos many of you already enjoy from your favorite brands." I do? Last I checked they were people, not brands that I was following. It disappoints me that micropayments are such a dead idea. I like paying for th
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by mmagin 13y ago
Yeah, with sudo is especially bad. In the old days (20 years ago), I remember some things (ircII maybe) offered by an easy installer command line like: telnet host.domain.com 12345 | sh And then for a very long time that sort of thing fell
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by mmagin 13y ago
yawn Nothing much to see here. Do something about the labor and permitting costs of a solar install in the developed world and I'll actually be impressed.
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by mmagin 13y ago
Actually, I have family who recently retired from US government employment. They did have email, but the MS Exchange quota was ridiculously small, even though exchanging CAD drawings with contractors was very much part of their job. Also,
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by mmagin 13y ago
If you work for the government and you care about checking your work email when you're home, you're doing it wrong. :)
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by mmagin 13y ago
I think this sounds a lot like burnout and the sooner you admit it to yourself, the sooner you can think rationally about it and address your psychological needs and start feeling somewhat better. You probably need a total break from it fo
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by mmagin 13y ago
My impression, as someone who had a used Sun 3/50 in the early 90s, who later used Linux a lot, and who used various Unix workstations (IBM, Sun, Next, SGI, HP) in college: For the bulk of Unix user/developers, the big thing was t
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by mmagin 13y ago
Even back as far as when she was mayor of San Francisco, it's not clear that she was particularly liberal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein#Mayor_of_San_...
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by mmagin 13y ago
That's dumb. If you're going to install a new root certificate on all your client machines, you could just as well generate your own CA inside your organization and do the same thing without trusting some third party. (Edit: I thi
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by mmagin 13y ago
As someone with a 3 year old Mac Mini desktop because I was cheap -- External drives really clutter up a desk. Of course, now even Mac Pro customers don't get the space to add more storage internally.
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by mmagin 13y ago
Maybe I've been reading too much iFixit propaganda, but isn't this just going to cause the production of more "e-waste"? Or are we counting on third-world child labor to eventually take broken iMacs apart and fix them u
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by mmagin 13y ago
Oh, I see. They still didn't use the defacto standard FTDI header pinout however.
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by mmagin 13y ago
There are also SOT-23-6 parts in the TinyAVR series. The ATtiny4,5,9,10. Here's the 10: http://www.atmel.com/devices/ATTINY10.aspx They use something different than the conventional ISP protocol though (TPI) --
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by mmagin 13y ago
Looks like you have to ISP program that one, and not even with a standard ISP pinout.
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by mmagin 13y ago
Feels like somewhat of an overlap with the kind of trends Nassim Nicholas Talib has been writing about -- extremely non-gaussian curves for the probability of various outcomes including wealth.
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by mmagin 13y ago
I'm kind of glad I didn't have a cell phone until I was 23. That's right around the point they became really mainstream, not just for the business types or the heavy telephone users. When you could get crazy replacement pho
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by mmagin 13y ago
Although I periodically am annoyed at Apple for various things, it's frequently clear to me that they understand that certain aspects of the user experience are really important. Much of their competition treats user experience just li
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by mmagin 13y ago
How would you put this into action if you're a typical business traveler? It doesn't seem very practical.
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by mmagin 13y ago
In particular, I think there are some dangerous side effects of collecting too much data for those of certain personality types or those prone to certain mental illness (OCD, compulsive hoarding, etc.) Besides the cost of collecting more d
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by mmagin 13y ago
Anxiety is one kind of mental illness.
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by mmagin 13y ago
With regard to bulb life, the big thing to remember about both CFL and LED drop-in replacements for incandescent bulbs is that the electronics do not tolerate high temperatures well, so they're not particularly suitable for use in comp
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by mmagin 13y ago
I have no first-hand experience at it, but it seems like the best approach may be to set up and fund an organization which operates an exit node, rather than doing it in your own name. e.g. http://tor.noisebridge.net/ This
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by mmagin 13y ago
So, in essence, most scientists today are busy writing papers or pushing bits around in computer simulations rather than doing real experiments?
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by mmagin 13y ago
It's not 'dark fibre' if you're using it.
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by mmagin 13y ago
There are many people who would rather live in a tiny little shack than in a larger house with 10-20 other people.
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by mmagin 13y ago
Clearly you don't purchase electricity in California if you think having a car roam around constantly would be cheap. (Admittedly, there may be some cheaper subsidized rates for charging electric cars today, but once everyone has one,

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