mmagin

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by mmagin 9y ago
The thing that annoys me is that both good passive solar design and utilizing the lessons of "vernacular architecture" are both crippled by trying to make houses that have roughly the same appearance that people are familiar with.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I suspect the safety advantage of 120V over 240V is probably mitigated with widely used GFCI/RCD devices. Also if the 240 was done split-phase style as in the USA, then touching a single conductor is no worse than what we have already
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by mmagin 9y ago
And they're too small to have a useful area for writing on.
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by mmagin 9y ago
And exFAT is various sorts of patent encumbered, as I understand it.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15143804
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by mmagin 9y ago
It's really sad that the ios/android model COULD be more secure than the traditional desktop software model, but at the same time it has normalized all sorts of creepy snooping behavior on the part of apps.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Are those the same generation of intel processors? That it's a "core i5" of <x> GHz doesn't really say much.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I cannot stand having big things in my pockets, so I have a Gerber Shard on my keychain (as a bonus, airport security seems to be okay with it) and I also carry a Opinel No. 6 Carbon (because it's easy to get really sharp, unlike stain
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by mmagin 9y ago
Like most philosophical questions, there's no one easy answer. Furthermore, there are plenty of sub-zombie-apocalypse situations for which you might again get back to something resembling normal life. Consider for example any of the g
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by mmagin 9y ago
Via http://uk.businessinsider.com/young-blood-plasma-transfusion... "He adds that because patients are paying it wouldn't be fair to give anyone a placebo."
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by mmagin 9y ago
See also this page of tools: https://reproducible-builds.org/tools/ disorderfs is nice for ferreting out readdir()-ordering effects.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I found it's quite telling that I only started getting women drivers with Uber or Lyft when I'd been a user for a while. Presumably women drivers are trying to avoid the inevitable creepy customers.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I wonder if there's a way to use civil legal proceedings to punish these exploit-trading firms. Maybe class action lawsuit representing victims of these exploits.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Some suggestions: 1. mosh instead of ssh 2. run editor locally and edit files remotely (either using the editors built-in support for that or something like sshfs)
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by mmagin 9y ago
And don't even think about a bluetooth keyboard!
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by mmagin 9y ago
Having hosted my own email for about 18 years, I don't really think relying on free services from Google is any better than when we used to change ISPs (or when we graduated from college) and had to get a new email address. I'm no
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by mmagin 9y ago
Me too. In my first job out of college I worked for Sun (2002-2005). After we were moved to consolidate real estate, most of us were forced into hot desking. On one hand we were in a building which was built during their all-employees-are
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by mmagin 9y ago
The other day, for testing purposes, I managed to make a minimal docker container with the smallest 'exit 0' binary I could make without any serious trickery, just gcc -static -s -Os, and was kind of embarrassed that it took 840 k
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by mmagin 9y ago
I'm 6'2", and I can cope with the legroom issue (though it makes using a laptop pretty much impossible). But I have a problem with the 18" and smaller widths, and not due to abdominal or hip fat. My shoulders are just t
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by mmagin 9y ago
Of course, still, finding the good stuff, rather than whatever has been SEO'd in the google listings is difficult in some subjects.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I have discovered that the inventory numbers at Home Depot are disappointingly bad however.
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by mmagin 9y ago
This is a big problem in the USA, but much of Europe is far stricter about food labeling.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I imagine after the Bitkeeper fiasco, Linus and others are disinclined to become dependent on a proprietary service.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Yeah, I have noticed it appears in some of the PC enthusiast materials, I wonder why it has not received more widespread industrial acceptance. Obviously it is very abrasive, but I think tiny synthetic diamonds aren't that expensive.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I'm not disciplined enough for "Knolling", but I can certainly say that such a practice forces you to put away things you cannot fit on your work surface, so you'd avoid the desk/workbench overflowing with materials
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by mmagin 9y ago
Always amuses me how there's heat sink compounds sold to the PC enthusiast market and they're completely different brands than you'd see stocked by a traditional electronics supplier. I recently had to resupply myself with he
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by mmagin 9y ago
I was of the impression that a lot of the fertilizer runoff in the Gulf of Mexico was actually from lawn irrigation.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I think the idea was more along the lines of "Remember blog posts?"
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by mmagin 9y ago
Given that we will all get cancer if we live long enough (unless some significant new technology emerges), possibly it's more useful to learn to think philosophically of the state of healthy as being a sort of Schroedinger's box i
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by mmagin 9y ago
"In how many other industries can a woman post pole dancing pictures of herself and still have a job?" So, I'm not at all convinced that this is because of anything inherently virtuous about people in this industry. Rather,

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