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by nerflad 7y ago
Isn't a second now officially defined as a single period of atomic decay of a certain atom (I think Cessium?)? So this theoretical near-lightspeed craft could adjust it's accelerators based on an onboard atomic clock that would no
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by nerflad 7y ago
The majority of people I know don't remember or care what Chelsea Manning's leaks actually contained. Or that she exists.
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by nerflad 8y ago
I'm sorry about your friends. My dad has lost at least one, been hit no fewer than 5 times (none his fault), and gone down one other time (lowsided at Deal's Gap). Miraculously he is still alive. This post probably makes him sou
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by nerflad 8y ago
I love that New York still runs so heavily on cash. Cash is an absolute necessity for a free society. It represents every person's freedom to voluntarily exchange goods and services without (easily) being tracked, monitored or mediate
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by nerflad 8y ago
It's a nice thought but look at, for example, Donald Trump's deferment to see how it actually plays out for rich people.
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by nerflad 8y ago
The only way I could comfortably answer that question is "Irrespective of greatness or potential for it, here's a list of projects I've done/been involved in and am proud of:". The "adjusted for privilege"
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by nerflad 8y ago
Thank you
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by nerflad 8y ago
You are right. The first thing I thought about when see the headline was Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi). It will literally be impossible for people like her to work in the UK. I can see this dramatically affecting the kind of reportin
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by nerflad 8y ago
At least on FB you can unfollow the main offenders. My feed is surprisingly tolerable. Enjoyable, even. The unrelenting barrage of political content comes to me from Twitter. Twitter is designed to surface popular tweets even from those
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by nerflad 8y ago
I'm guessing Ark on Windows uses a lot of shaders that only work with D3D.
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by nerflad 8y ago
To me (not a designer), modern connotes modernism. But contemporary just means "current" or "present day". I could be totally wrong about this, but I always try to use contemporary unless I'm specifically referrin
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by nerflad 8y ago
This might be a good time to let others know: Android (at least my OnePlus) has a "Lockdown" mode in the shutdown menu that locks the screen and prevents the usage of the biometric methods. You have to use the password. This is g
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by nerflad 8y ago
Which drum company? I'm an aborted software developer and jazz drummer by trade.
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by nerflad 8y ago
This is one of those difficult problems where I have a lot of respect for game designers. What's least unsatisfying? 1. Leaving it out altogether 2. A "brush horse" button that you click and that's the end of it 3. Maki
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by nerflad 8y ago
Not all organizations have such robust communication structures, low levels of dysfunction, or git hygiene. Also, as mentioned, in a corporate environment where the software is proprietary and certain source files may sit dormant long enoug
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by nerflad 8y ago
Considering the Type-flexibility of SQLite, would it necessarily be too difficult to have an object-relational mapping that works across both DB's? I guess it depends on the application. Surely it would be a pain, but perhaps still a
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by nerflad 8y ago
Or entropy. (In this case, social entropy?)
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by nerflad 8y ago
1970 -- The Unix Epoch, of course! I imagine a lot of us here use that one.
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by nerflad 8y ago
Would there be any way for a user to see if/when the token has been reused? Doubtful but perhaps Google provides (or could provide) some kind of log similar to how Facebook lets you view Active Sign Ins and Sign In history.
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by nerflad 8y ago
> But given enough time, all of this will just be statistics. Certainly you are joking. You know you're paraphrasing Stalin right now?
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by nerflad 8y ago
My version of being Nice and Respectful tends to skew toward "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all". Which topics still have a good experience on Quora? I find the quality of the discussion,
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Salesforce Transit Center closed after 2nd steel beam cracks(archinect.com)
1 points by nerflad 8y ago|0 comments
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by nerflad 8y ago
If I recall correctly this is not the first FB vuln relating to View As. I searched and can't find it, but I seem to remember there being a bug around 2009 where you could basically take over a friends' account by viewing your pr
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by nerflad 8y ago
> It’s completely reasonable for a product to advertise for a newer version. No argument from me there. A notice on the splash screen, even a tool tip at start-up would work fine, but it was a full screen advertisement, several minutes
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by nerflad 8y ago
In the previous century when web technologies were more primitive, modal dialogs were created in new browser windows. We all remember pop-ups and what a horrid experience that was. Developers (and spammers) abused this behavior so much th
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by nerflad 8y ago
Google Drive, for example, re-encodes in place every video file you upload (!). So I wouldn't be surprised if imgur was doing something similar to combat steganography.
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by nerflad 8y ago
I can ssh into my Android phone. You'd be surprised how useful this is.
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by nerflad 8y ago
Might just be the slashdot effect, but his site is currently down.
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by nerflad 8y ago
Yet there are people who live in those places. Pointless? That statistic really puts in perspective for me how much empty space there is in the world.
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by nerflad 8y ago
There are plenty of "public intellectuals" with cults in the US, though. Jordan Peterson and Neil Tyson come to mind.

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