phil_s_stein

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by phil_s_stein 7y ago
What does "async support for plugins" mean when hands are on the keyboard? Linters/etc that run without a need for :w?
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by phil_s_stein 7y ago
This has not been my experience for years. The tech has matured greatly.
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by phil_s_stein 8y ago
Why does the "author" love "quotes" so much? Makes me "discount" the "article" when every other phrase is "quoted".
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by phil_s_stein 8y ago
No one seems to allow that anymore and that's a big problem.
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
For the yesgraph link I had to disable ad-blocking and uBlock Origin and still only got a static image with a Twitter advertisement pasted over the image. The graphistry link is similarly useless just showing a few sentences on a few pages
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
I still don't know what a Cayley Graph is.
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
This reminds me of a quote by Renier Knizia, the boardgame designer, about playing boardgames: "When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning".
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
There would not be a problem with a "White History Museum" if there was enough of an historical presence of white people in that place to support it. I don't know enough about the history of African countries to know if there
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
You don't see a White People Museum because, in the US and Europe anyway, that is the default: they are all white people museums unless otherwise stated.
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
Not really no. You increase the chance that you'll kill yourself and someone else. Ride in the lanes and with traffic. Everyone is safer when everyone can anticipate what's going to happen. This is especially true in the chaos of
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
Some bike lanes in NYC have two lanes as well. I don't believe 1st Ave does though. edit: I misunderstood. Yes, if the bike lane is contraflow of course use it that way. Everyone expects bikes from the "wrong way" in that sit
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
Biking against traffic (even in a bike lane) is a bad idea. It forces someone into traffic, either the guy going the wrong way or a bicyclist going the correct way. It surprises pedestrians jaywalking and it surprises cars pulling out of pa
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by phil_s_stein 10y ago
It minimizes left-hand turns across oncoming traffic that has a green light. i.e. it minimizes human judgement. If everyone stops at red lights (and people are very good at that), then there are fewer or no places where traffic crosses path
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by phil_s_stein 11y ago
Linked In spammed me once when they reached some sort of milestone. The email had no remove-me-from-this-list link or way to tell Linked In that I didn't want to receive emails. I found the CEO's email address and forwarded it to
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by phil_s_stein 11y ago
No it cannot[1]. [1] See Betteridge's Law.
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by phil_s_stein 11y ago
The NYT title, "Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools", is more accurate than the HN title. China has not "compromised" TOR and VPNs, they've circumvented them. They remain intact and working as desig
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by phil_s_stein 11y ago
Is there a place where we can actually read the article? That site is very broken in my browser. I cannot scroll past the first few lines - the articles don't scroll independently. Edit: seems to be fixed now.
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by phil_s_stein 13y ago
Hello and welcome to AI research in 1960!
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by phil_s_stein 13y ago
I suspect this idea has occurred to the people working on this and it is not as easy as you assume - that there are problems in execution (so to speak) of this shortcut. Once the lab-in-a-test-tube thing is solved, it is a much cleaner and
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by phil_s_stein 14y ago
I have two BAHAs (bone-assisted hearing aids). Up until a few months ago, I had only one and yes - stereo hearing was not great, but hearing well in mono was better than not hearing well in stereo. I now have one on each side and do have so
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by phil_s_stein 14y ago
I've had hearing aids for 20+ years. I occasionally try the tele-coil in locations that have them. I am always disappointed; the quality is just not there. It sounds (haha) like the OP didn't have a very good audiologist, one that did not g