nicklaf

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by nicklaf 11y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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That's not the point. Installing Flash player is, of course, very easy to do; it's just that doing so comes only at the cost of slightly decreased security and stability. Of course, Adobe could have avoided these issues, had they
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Ah. That's a lot more forgivable, so, my mistake. You certainly are correct that alternatives for Flash video exist too. Youtube is a great exemplar of this, but sadly, even their competitors (such as Vimeo or Dailymotion) seem to bo
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That's an oddly ironic suggestion, seeing that Apple's decision not to include Flash support in the original iPhone was probably our best hope for killing the damn thing. I don't see any excuse for lazy web designers using Fl
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I should not have to install Adobe Flash player just to view images.
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My thoughts exactly. I can't stand Android (or smartphones in general). There is something fundamentally wrong with asking the user to install the JRE on a separate machine just to get a login shell on the phone. I was very sad the da
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I've read that the show took a hit in quality when Groening took some of the shows better writers over to Futurama. It probably wasn't the first bad episode, but I remember really disliking the one that starts off with Bart gettin
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That's not the greatest analogy. Obviously I don't suspect somebody standing in line and who doesn't fit the profile of a terrorist, just because they joke about doing something for which they have no obvious motive. In th
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Very strange indeed.
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He was a linebacker in college.
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Agreed. It's the kind of thing where you can't ever completely write it off as a joke. Even if only for the sake of the person who made the joke: if anything terrible and mysterious were to happen to Tetrick, having previously
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Sorry, I should be more precise. I don't think the pill itself is an "awful idea". What is a bad idea (IMO) is relying on a pill specifically because you don't want to exercise, which has been shown to work, and has to
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I certainly agree with the author's concluding sentence: "Forget the smart drugs and supplements; put on your shorts and go exercise." When he set up the opposing viewpoint earlier in the article, it made me cringe: "I
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People indeed want fairness. This is a little bit obvious, though. Furthermore, to say that people aren't generally "FOR equality" is a straw man. It is imperative that those who might claim to be against the idea of "
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Thinking about your comment made me realize that the lackluster performance often seen in WebGL pages has very little to do with overhead in WebGL itself, and a lot to do with the application developer's failure to optimize for perform
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WebGL is like the dancing bear; even if it doesn't dance very well, there is nevertheless endless fascination when it dances at all.
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Thanks for the reading recommendation--that book looks fantastic.
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Well, there have been similar submissions every few weeks, and there was a pretty long discussion about it 7 weeks ago [1], so it'd probably be a dupe. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139679
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and compilers is something you can go to jail for if they see you trying to run it without credentials. I'm a little skeptical this will happen with software, but it is well underway in the case of hardware[1]. [1] https:/&#x2F
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That xkcd is spot on. Alan Kay has said that "point of view is worth 80 IQ points". I don't see how observing internal brain structure is going to reflect the benefit from points of view held, even in the slightest. There co
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The exception applies to this article too: http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oli... Strangely enough, on the same general topic. Perhaps it's taboo to point out the obvious when the to
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I do often see PSA's from, say, the Ad Council, on billboards. I don't really think these should go away, even perhaps if it means living with the obnoxiousness of commercial billboards.
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The relevant passage in the source for this claim[1]: Funding crime labs through court-assessed fees creates another channel for bias to enter crime lab analyses. In jurisdictions with this practice the crime lab receives a sum of money fo
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"It's not well known, but crime labs are paid per conviction" Seriously: what?
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I apologize, but I was incorrect. The governor has stated that she does NOT have the authority to commute Glossip's death sentence.
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PG writes that Glossip's best hope might be for the Supreme Court (I presume he is referring to the U.S. Supreme Court) to intervene. My first thought in response to that was, "What about a presidential pardon?" Then I reali
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It hasn't been without significant abuse to the original vision of TCP/IP that the internet has grown to its present size. For example, where we needed IPv6, we got NAT. That said, there's no doubt that TCP/IP has been
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Thanks for the fantastic work. Your project represents something that I'd love to use, and would love to help succeed. I have some coursework to attend to, but I'd love to get involved at some point.
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I view the favorable performance characteristics of IPFS at scale (over the current centralized client-server architecture of the present web) more as a general symptom of the pathology resulting from the incomplete, ill-planned architectur
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This isn't really a valid criticism of IPFS, unless you can point to a competing initiative which implements 'subresource integrity'. Alan Kay said that each object on a webpage should have its own URI way back in 1997, and

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