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by pdx 10y ago
OK. I didn't mean to alienate. My brother-in-law, my sister, and pretty much all of our friends, are childless by choice or by circumstance, and past the point of having any. While they share our views, politically, it's not as
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by pdx 10y ago
> would you support a coup in your country if that meant potentially years of unrest and economic crisis Of course I would. Once you have children, you have a foot in the future. You look at what your counry will be like in 30 or 40 or
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by pdx 10y ago
I support Trump. I have no problem with Putin. I find your equivalence of those two men to Hitler to be naive or intentionally inflammatory. Even given this, I do not, however, intend to quit using tarsnap!
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by pdx 10y ago
> Does anyone really want to fight that? The answer is probably No. You won't be fighting the US military. Many of them will join with you. They are people, not killing machines. They are your neighbors and the sons and daughter
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by pdx 10y ago
That's a really interesting story. Let me tell you another one. Both my wife's and my son's computers updated automatically, with no button presses on their parts, even after them pressing "do not update" on all t
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by pdx 10y ago
I received none.
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by pdx 11y ago
> "elegant: builds a system in a way that is technically satisfying efficient: builds a system in a way that uses the least resources effective: builds a system in way that solves the problem" No, 'Effective' solves t
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by pdx 11y ago
Back in 2000, I worked for a forklift company, developing a transmission controller. I spent a lot of time driving the forklift around outside, with my laptop zip-tied to a platform they welded on for me next to the steering wheel. I woul
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by pdx 11y ago
They may estimate your step length, but they don't adjust your daily goal based on that step length.
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Here's Why Rackspace Is Truly the Worst Stock in the World(thestreet.com)
2 points by pdx 11y ago|0 comments
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by pdx 11y ago
I hire PCB layout contractors. If I call with a layout job, and they decline due to being busy on other jobs, I eventually quit calling them. You could say I "blackballed" them, but really I'm just logically calling those w
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by pdx 11y ago
Back in 2001 I was designing mp3 players with boost converters in them that could start switching from a battery as low as 0.9V. It was hard to find boost converters in 2001 that worked down to 0.9V. It's obviously not hard to find t
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by pdx 11y ago
SAFE Network is now going to rust. These guys are porting all their code from C to Rust and really loving the experience. They are making their libraries stand-alone so they can easily be incorporated in other open source projects as well
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Anatomy of a LOGJAM – another TLS vulnerability, and what to do about it(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
2 points by pdx 11y ago|0 comments
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by pdx 11y ago
I would love to be able to query the whole dataset at once, instead of company by company. For example, I'd like to see everything in $city, and then be able to sort that by salary or job description.
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by pdx 11y ago
He was using the wire AWG as a way to visualize the size for those of us that are familiar with human hair, but unfamiliar with visualizing things that are fractions of a mm thick. He was not saying anything about replacing the amazing ener
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Dropbox Introducing commenting, a better way to get feedback(dropbox.com)
3 points by pdx 11y ago|0 comments
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by pdx 11y ago
Just got this email from Jordi. So, now that we're inulting each other and no longer civil, you're being a flaming asshole and the reason women don't want to be in tech. Fuck off and die. - Jordi G. H. @
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by pdx 11y ago
> and male should not be the default gender Jordi, you're being a dumbass dude. Jordi is usually a mans name. Of course I assume male. Take the stupid PC bullshit down, OK? https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures
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by pdx 11y ago
Nonsense. There is pasture land that is not being used to capacity that would be used if beef prices increased. Go take a drive through rural America and Canada. You and Malthus like to extrapolate, but extrapolation is rarely a smart ide
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by pdx 11y ago
Exactly. I grew up on cattle ranches in Montana and Wyoming. The short growing season, rocky soil, and dry conditions would make any attempt at farming laughable, but the cattle did just fine. Driving them into the high mountains for sum
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by pdx 11y ago
That's why he said "channeling Stallman"
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by pdx 11y ago
I am becoming of the opinion that at this point in time, given how easy it is to make new gadgets, and how many people are doing it, it's not about engineering, it's about marketing. Take a look at this site. https://w
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by pdx 12y ago
Recently verifying its thousandth exoplanet, Kepler data confirm that the most common planet sizes are worlds just slightly larger than Earth. I found this interesting in terms of the rocket equation[1] and the fermi par
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by pdx 12y ago
When I was a waiter, at the end of the night, I tipped approximately 40% of my tips received, back to the dishwashers, cooks, bartender, and of course, my bus person. The other waiters did this too, so the cooks, might end up with more mon
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by pdx 12y ago
Let's assume we do give everybody $35K per year in the USA, to pick a country. At 320MM people in USA, we would be distributing $11T per year, if distributed to every man/woman/child. If we exclude people under 20 years of ag
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by pdx 12y ago
This makes me happy. My daughter watches a lot of youtube and it's a pain to constantly jump up to turn up the volume or turn down the volume after every video change. Especially if you go to sleep to a video and the next video in th
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by pdx 12y ago
We don't talk about water vapor. Ever. OK?
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by pdx 12y ago
If I can't have embedded pictures it's a non-starter for me. That knocks out everybody, really. Just synced text, even if it happens to be markdown text so it's a bit prettier, is not valuable to me. Evernote's ability
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Live video app taking Twitter by storm(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by pdx 12y ago|0 comments

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