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by nfoz 12y ago
...and I get the eery feeling sometimes that it's running Windows 95.
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by nfoz 12y ago
You'll never heard about it in North America, but the most gorgeous laptop right now IMO is the Panasonic CF-MX3: http://panasonic.jp/pc/products/mx3s/ It's tragically expensive to import, though.
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by nfoz 12y ago
The Android ecosystem is suffering the same problem.
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by nfoz 12y ago
That's exactly what I want though. "Folder display preferences" are a thing that pertain to exactly one instance of one operating system. If I want to share "folder displays" to a different computer (which seems r
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by nfoz 12y ago
It's just nonsense that this metadata would be dropped as files scattered across the filesystem, rather than simply held in a single location on the host machine. They're a fragment of the OS, not of each directory.
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by nfoz 12y ago
Kids these days still play MUDs. They're called MMOs. WoW is just a skin on top of a MUD; but said MUD skins are nothing new either.
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by nfoz 12y ago
> For 99$ this is something that doesn't even require you to be some hedge fund brat to use. Not sure what the current cab prices are these days, but i remember paying about i think 80$ for a cab from JFK to central Manhattan. You c
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by nfoz 12y ago
A few things stick out: 1. Form factor - it's a big square. That sounds dumb but there are specific reasons why it's fantastic. Unlike an oblong rectangle, it fits very well in a pocket; doesn't wobble around. Holding it f
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by nfoz 12y ago
There is a lot of nonsense in this piece, and a lot of nonsense out of Blackberry. But the one thing you can't criticize them for is "lack of innovation over the past few years". I have a Blackberry Passport and it is very i
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by nfoz 12y ago
> The government at all levels has simply taken too many of our rights or flat out circumvented the law with weasel speak and it needs to be reigned in. Agree.. and same goes for our corporations.
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by nfoz 12y ago
I wasn't suggesting to ban any of those things, so I don't see how that's relevant aside from careless strawmanning. If a large majority of a society wants to ban something, it can, and often that's a reasonable thing t
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by nfoz 12y ago
If we have a society don't like ads (perhaps a subcategory: intrusive ads, offensive ads, loud/bright/aggressive ads, extremely large ads that clutter our cityscape), we could simply ban those categories with law. Honestly I
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by nfoz 12y ago
What someone clicks on websites is extremely sensitive private information. Extremely private sensitive matters of peoples' lives is directly observable in the things they click on websites.
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by nfoz 12y ago
Server-side log-analysis solutions are not possible to block. I assume that piwik is running client-side javascript? Then it's in the interest of the client to block it; it's not a server-side solution anymore. Of course with se
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by nfoz 12y ago
I think the parent comment is referring to the idea that the web server, by necessity, is aware of a client connection. Webserver logs reveal a lot of information.
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by nfoz 12y ago
Google's spying hurts your users. To manage your webserver, use your server logs. If you really think you need more information than those convey, you could get some self-hosted javascript to assist with that. You need nothing else.
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by nfoz 12y ago
According to http://urbit.org/ , Urbit is unlaunched and doesn't especially appreciate tons of attention quite yet.
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by nfoz 12y ago
> I'd just like to see more of the scenarios like we had at BCC back in the day. Some local rich millionaire type (a real estate tycoon) setup an endowment to provide free tuition at BCC for any graduate of any Brunswick County high
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by nfoz 12y ago
Why?
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by nfoz 12y ago
I appreciate what you're saying but you could have re-phrased without the negative sarcasm.
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by nfoz 12y ago
Economic competition implies massive waste of effort. Not sharing work and ideas is one of them; others include the psychological/sociological effects of competition and pressure, and also all the resources poured into advertising (wh
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by nfoz 12y ago
> a giant background image why would you do this
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by nfoz 12y ago
Meeting the needs of humanity might be considered a point for science, differen than "exploration". It seems that the debate is whether we meet the needs of humans right now suffering on this planet, or if we meet the needs of th
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by nfoz 12y ago
This category of thing would be nice for situations like servers that rarely and occasionally need to use HTTP to trusted-source websites to lookup some things or download some packages, but doesn't need to do any of the fancy garbage
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by nfoz 12y ago
My Gmail inbox spam (for an account I barely use) is much worse than my private-server email inbox which is my primary email. shrug
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by nfoz 12y ago
In the year 2014, obnoxious popups are described as "beautiful" and "awesome".
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by nfoz 12y ago
> The pope once said evolution can still be a fact without changing the belief system of the catholic church. Off-topic, but was this a good example of a "non-smooth unprincipled adaptation"? I was taught evolution by Catholic
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by nfoz 12y ago
I believe I should not lie. But sometimes I lie. I find this hard. It is a personal struggle, something I meditate on and genuinely try to improve myself. When others lie, I want to say that lying is wrong and simultaneously acknowledge
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by nfoz 12y ago
One thing of interest when we compare driving in NYC to elsewhere: in NYC you are not allowed to turn right on a red light. Same goes for Montreal. This definitely changes the car-pedestrian dynamic, but I have no idea how it might factor
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by nfoz 12y ago
The web used to provide text, and allow the user-agent to render it as appropriate for that display/user. Now the web is a (bad) application platform, where the content designers demand full control of interactivity. As a user you are

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