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by pdkl95 13y ago
You may want to check the prices on some of those. The game is still quite popular, and has keep the market prices high as newer players become interested in some of the older stuff like Arabian Nights. Due to some of the current decks like
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by pdkl95 13y ago
sigh As I argued [1] several years ago when the FF+h264 drama was in full swing with Mozilla making their principled stand, and way too many people seemed to be hanging their hopes on Google granting the world a miracle with VP8/WebM
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by pdkl95 13y ago
This is yet another example of how we are /very/ rapidly plunging (like it or not) into a future where our amazing advances in technology make most of what we consider "work" obsolete and unnecessary. In a sense, we (as
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by pdkl95 13y ago
...and wouldn't it be nice, if we could actually stop this kind of problem before it became something the courts dare not touch, spoken of only with rare whispers. Those types of situations historically end up rather nasty for all in
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by pdkl95 13y ago
This very-slow-motion footage of the Saturn V taking off is one of the more impressive pieces of footage I've ever seen. The entire launch process is described in detail, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPW7ZqtW5U4
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by pdkl95 13y ago
"We need to protect speaker reputation..." ...followed immediately by list of glowing adoration that ends up dancing from point to point. While the True Believer has been been known to make posts like this, it really has more of t
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by pdkl95 13y ago
I've been thinking about "Herd immunity" a lot recently, but not with respect to /biology/. The concept that if we easily become overpowered by a threat if do not maintain an active defence against it is true in mos
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by pdkl95 13y ago
> wayland See? That's what I mean by the Not Invented Here syndrome - no concern for existing use-cases, but it's important to reinvent everything anyway. "Most desktop users" don't have an any opinion on unix&#x
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by pdkl95 13y ago
> [href] Seen it, and seen the talk[1]. > we don't really "use" X these days GTK+ and QT do not use a lot of X, as they render all their widgets with (e.g.) libcairo.so and libpango-1.0.so that only treat X as a framebu
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by pdkl95 13y ago
> the Wayland graphics server doesn't have the notion of separate "selection" and "clipboard" shared-data. I was almost warming up to the mess that is Wayland (though I still think "fixing X {server,extens
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by pdkl95 13y ago
"Reading people" doesn't require interaction. They, as you say, apply cold-reading style techniques (and other techniques, of course) to the selection of evidence and testimony available in the case. In the end, though, they
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by pdkl95 13y ago
While it's obvious that most "forensic techniques" are at best pseudoscience or folk-knowledge[1], badly needed a lesson or ten in statistics[2], "cold reading" can be a surprisingly useful and powerful technique, w
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by pdkl95 13y ago
I have tried many times over the last decade or so to retire my current window manager of choice (Enlightenment DR16). The software hasn't been maintained significantly for most of that time, and several incompatibilities and problemat
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by pdkl95 13y ago
The Streisand Effect is a concept that some people apparently do not understand until they have experienced the full force of the Effect first-hand. Edit: grammar
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by pdkl95 13y ago
While Occupy DID make some demands; they were just made by the individual groups. It would be more correct, though, to say that "demands" weren't really the point of Occupy. They changed the national dialogue, and made a LOT
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by pdkl95 13y ago
"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad." I've taught more people about the Web Of Trust and how to use GPG in the last ~1.5 months than in the last ~1.5 decades. "...and we sit watc
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by pdkl95 13y ago
> This debate isn't about online ads or even spam anymore. While privacy and the mess regarding the NSA are problems, to be sure, I'd like to suggest the real problem with facebook is trying to be the ultimate middleman in so
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by pdkl95 13y ago
Lets see if VLC has finally added sane output support... /me checks http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=av Nope. sigh [X11, SDL, FrameBuffer] These are all basically dumb framebuffers. [XVideo] Ahh, the
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by pdkl95 13y ago
Nice - it automagically translates "CSI 38:5:FG m CSI 48:5:BG m" properly. ( http://showterm.io/6ed840f381fd81a881176 ) This will be very useful! That said, I have to second the concern above that it should ask fo