plushpuffin

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by plushpuffin 8y ago
I downloaded an app that automates the process of disabling voicemail entirely. I don't need it. Anyone whose call I miss can just send me a text or email. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.telt
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
I didn't have any programming books when I was 12, so I learned entirely by reading the source code of other people's stacks. For a little while I thought all variables had to be named box1, box2, etc, because one of the stacks I
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
I'm sorry, but this is a flawed analogy. When you leave the room for the duration of the commercial, you are essentially skipping/ignoring/blocking it. This is the same as hiding an ad on a webpage in that you are taking step
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
It doesn't seem that difficult in the US. You just mail a check to a PO Box. https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
Good luck confining it to the fridge. Given the horrific security of all our devices, it wouldn't be very difficult for such an AI to leap from the fridge to a nearby internet-connected device and then order itself a few hardware upgra
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
Because large corporations sometimes substitute their internal numbers with a more public number when dialing out so that if you call back you connect to the appropriate incoming call center. And also because this caller ID system is super
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
The Earth doesn't have a few billion years. Multicellular life on Earth will end in about 800 million years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
This is the 90s all over again! Something very like this once existed for Java games. It was called Castanet. IIRC, the website ClassicGames.com (later acquired by Yahoo) used this before broadband really took off. http://mindpro
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
While I share your disgust for IE and its successor Edge, you are incorrect about one thing. The Chrome install base on Windows is not entirely due to user choice. Chrome is/was bundled and selected for installation by default with man
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
Came here to post this, and upvoted you instead. Everything I've read about it indicated that Copland never worked and was an unstable POS that was impossible to develop for. At one of the Apple developer conferences, people booed and
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
Frederik Pohl wrote a novel about just such a creature. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_the_End_of_Time
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
Good article on the worst apple: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-...
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
There is already a non-targeted precedent for this. How I Met Your Mother inserted new ads into reruns a few years ago. https://ew.com/article/2011/07/07/how-i-met-your-mother-reru...
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
The advantage of micro USB over mini is that the cheap cable's connector will wear out instead of the port on the expensive device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_%28Physical%29 > The Micro connector is also
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by plushpuffin 8y ago
There was an article in The Atlantic recently that remarked upon this. The Atlantic: Alexa Is a Revelation for the Blind. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/what-al... Then I stop mysel
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
The only copy I had on my PC was corrupt, but I managed to find a floppy disk from 1997 and a USB floppy drive that worked. I booted into a Linux VM, passed the USB floppy through to the VM, used dd to create a disk image, added it to my Ba
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
No, that was actually me. I think I called it Vumpir Slay. It was a 3D wumpus with something like a 20x20x20 cube and a map editor. I might still have it somewhere.
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
Batteries have seen incremental yearly improvements of a few percent in capacity, recharge time, cost, weight, and number of recharges, which looks impressive over several years. GP is talking about the articles that come out every month or
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
Not only that, but they added a clause to their contract with Yahoo that let them get out of it while still forcing Yahoo to pay if Yahoo was purchased by another company. When Verizon bought Yahoo, Mozilla switched their default search eng
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
Found a source: https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-marsupials-cant-f...
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
As one example on a physical rather than a chemical level, I read that marsupials are stuck for this reason. They need claws to climb into their mother's pouch after birth, so there are certain ecological niches closed off to them. You
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you just described a kidnapper, not a robber.
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
From the article: > We’ve always wanted our customers to be able to use their iPhones as long as possible. We’re proud that Apple products are known for their durability, and for holding their value longer than our competitors’ devices.
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
I have a Nexus 6P and its battery is going bad. It just shuts down when it reaches 20-30%. Kind of annoying because I never know quite how much battery life I actually have remaining.
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
That makes sense for debts, but how do you handle people who immediately blow their monthly UBI payment and don't have anything left over for food or rent? At least with food stamps, you kind of have to use it on food.
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
How does UBI take into account mental incompetence, addictions, poor decision-making, bad luck, and bad investments, and where do you draw the line? Don't a lot of welfare payments have strings attached, with regard to what you can spe
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by plushpuffin 9y ago
The part that made me put that book down was when he listed a bunch of encryption schemes and one of them was ZIP.
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by plushpuffin 10y ago
Don't focus on the typo. Focus on the sentence, which contradicts itself halfway through. Apparently, the new Macbooks are interesting, except that they're not at all interesting. > The new MacBook Pros, released in late 2016,
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by plushpuffin 10y ago
There was a good article about this in the April 2004 issue of Scientific American (paywalled, unfortunately; the name of the article is "Evolution Encoded"). It's about how similar gene sequences result in similar proteins,
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by plushpuffin 10y ago
I've read a few guides that say you can use a race condition to kill the process and rename its directory before it automatically restarts itself.

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