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by pavement 9y ago
Hasn't there been increased electromagnetic activity on the surface of the sun throughout the week? http://www.solarham.net/older.htm Is the interference causing unexpected surges in old, unshielded equipment and infra
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by pavement 9y ago
This practice has nothing to do with Java, at all. It is not an approach that was invented by Java, for Java, and it is not in any way unique to Java. Most web technologies support rendering a view based on a set of values residing in a dat
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by pavement 9y ago
It's the first paragraph of the article.
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by pavement 9y ago
Software developers are not physicists. Software developers aren't even mathematicians, although many are enamoured with related concepts. To grasp the difference between the hard academic sciences and software development community, c
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by pavement 9y ago
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14160558
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by pavement 9y ago
Neuralink co-founder Flip Sabes doesn’t get it. It's not so much that I'm worried about me getting ahold of one of these things. I'm really just worried about other people having them. Rotten people. Terrible people
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by pavement 9y ago
That does not preclude an evolutionary pathway from indirectly forming around incidental hazards. Consider a disease that kills everything incapable of resisting it. The survivors are incidentally immune to the disease, regardless of the re
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by pavement 9y ago
...it would take a very special magnetar to unleash such monstrous FRBs in quick succession. “A neutron star bursting at this rate for thousands of years would quickly run out of fuel,” he said. His best guess is that the r
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by pavement 10y ago
Large multinational corporations are standing in the way of progress in a way not seen since the gilded age. Hmmm, I understand the sentiment, but geeze, how I cannot agree with that statement. Yes, operating within confines o
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by pavement 10y ago
Well gee, you sure told me. I disagree, despite your citations.
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by pavement 10y ago
No. Not automatically. Animals don't have rights. Not dolphins, not elephants, not chimpanzees, not bonobos, not octopus. Not even eusocial animals like ants or bees, which clearly form stratified societies, and live within complex str
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by pavement 10y ago
Well fancy that! I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing that out!
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by pavement 10y ago
LED bulbs cause problems. In outdoor lighting they are too bright, and over-illuminate at night, but people use them anyway. They just turn them on, walk away, and blast their surroundings with obnoxious, eye-gouging light bulbs. Especially
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by pavement 10y ago
The pentatonic scale. [0] Once you tune your ear into it, it's absolutely everywhere. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale
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by pavement 10y ago
What you've described is basically a heat map data collection script, or part of one. The script will capture the (x,y) coordinates and cache a running log of where events occurred. It's proxying the events and then forwarding the
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by pavement 10y ago
Right, but they do still permit the capacity to read accessible history, which is open to scraping and archiving. They can't completely kill the concept of doing that, realistically. They can't stop someone from creating an archiv
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by pavement 10y ago
From the sound of things, the contact lens creates an artificial protective cap, providing an environment for single-celled animals, via capillary action, and they acquire a stable environment, and either feed off the cornea, or produce har
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by pavement 10y ago
True ‘felt’ smiles were first discovered by repeatedly electrocuting a middle-aged man. Everything about that statement is just beyond ridiculous.
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by pavement 10y ago
forbid creating an off platform archive I'm not sure that's a substantively enforceable idea. Just try and stop me?
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by pavement 10y ago
But, did she have Administrator permissions?
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by pavement 10y ago
UAC is merely a prompt that desensitizes users to more prompts. Whenever UAC shows up, for most people, the default reflex is just make the annoying prompt go away. Yes it to death. Users simply should not log in as Administrators for day-t
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by pavement 10y ago
...for famine.
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by pavement 10y ago
Growing up, the audio tone for that signal was etched into my brain over the course of numerous Saturday mornings, when I woke up early enough to hear the tests. This was before cable was normal. Sometimes it felt like the dial-tone-like no
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by pavement 10y ago
For the first case, I think you want a view in normal lighting conditions, and not the low-light view of the scene. What expectations of a well-lit scene would look like in regular balanced full color (cloudless summer noon daylight or simi
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by pavement 10y ago
> I want to see her feet, specifically > her toes. If she really hasn't ever > worn shoes then her toes will show it. http://www.drgangemi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/barefo
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by pavement 10y ago
I'm not sure we understand each other. If there comes a moment when no single individual knows how to perform essential tasks, because automated sytems have been doing such tasks for us, and then those systems stop working, we'll
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by pavement 10y ago
Funny, because whenever I get asked questions like that, I just start nesting for loops to an arbitrary depth, until that trolls my way out of the interview. Then I wrap the outer-most closure in an exception that swallows the error, and bi
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by pavement 10y ago
Not that I'm one to disagree, because day jobs are fucking bullshit, but... I worry that as advanced technology continues to unfurl evermore convenience into our lives, how spoiled will we become?
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by pavement 10y ago
Also, to consider the pocket knife restriction, versus the axe, the axe is an inventoried community possession, while the pocket knife is an irregularity, and inconsistent across cabin populations. Some are big, some are small, some are ine
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by pavement 10y ago
Most of the people I know of, who would travel there, are not interested in anything beyond the bragging rights of doing things few other people have done. Emphasis on the bragging. It's a trip a person takes to be cooler than the peop

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