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by pp19dd 12y ago
Always awesome to see an outlier, and one removed from our busy lives. I can't help but romanticize living far from others (though, in a cabin- for some good eyecandy, see the 'cabin porn' tumblr.) But, having read this a se
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Consider going with a specialized managed hosting service for minecraft; they're fairly affordable and tend to scale in price based on amount of RAM the machine has. For reference, example of hosting companies are beastnode, creeperho
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by pp19dd 12y ago
Sorry, my language is harsh because I was addressing the nature of this writeup, which I labeled as "pure speculation." I work in the news industry, so I both experience and see this side of the news industry, and I don't li
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by pp19dd 12y ago
All pure speculation. They haven't even excavated yet, only outlined the walls. They write so much in 3 different places, including literally admitting hype in the write-up: "There has been speculation that the tomb could contain
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by pp19dd 12y ago
In the coming years, I hope there will be a major realignment of what we know as "work hours" and everything that goes with it in the US. The federal government is surprisingly progressive in regards to telecommuting (teleworking
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For the mc geeks, two node.js projects: nmp and mineflayer. (1) NMP: node minecraft protocol (2) mineflayer: minecraft bot API The first project is what mineflayer uses to communicate with minecraft servers, and it's usually behind whe
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by pp19dd 12y ago
No, I certainly can't imagine doing that. However, a person doesn't typically cook 12 hours a day. Instead, they cook in bursts, so it makes sense to put a bank of batteries in or near the stove (firewalled of course), and trickle
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Big appliances are already big, justifying putting an inverter on them if they can't be converted to DC. An inverter of appropriate size and power, of course, rather than a single mega one. My argument is that this contest is a bandaid
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No, I get it. Tri-phase is name of the game in the old transmission model. But that model is long overdue for a rebuild. Remember the 2003 blackout? Managing and synchronizing grids is more than a full time job, and this contest seems to p
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The simplest solution (just give me the $1mil now) is to cut out the middle man. I mean, there is a needless conversion here from DC to A/C, and then back to DC. Not that many devices need A/C these days - maybe just your alarm cl
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Well, it's all fun and games with various APIs and remotely-hosted solutions, until those solutions start breaking and changing. For example, for awhile the news world loved making apps (simple infographics, interactives, etc) that us
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by pp19dd 12y ago
Did a morning thing where I opened up a bunch of HN links in different tabs. Halfway through, my browser started seizing up, operating system becoming unresponsive. Spent 15 minutes diagnosing, checking about:memory and then realized - wai
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WOW. I had no idea. From 1997: "Borland International and Microsoft have settled a Borland-launched lawsuit that started on May 7, 1997, in Santa Clara County, CA. In the suit Borland alleged that Microsoft had hired 34 Borland employe
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by pp19dd 13y ago
Agreed, there is a serious tone here that people should take in understanding how NK conducts itself. My interest here was just the data and a sincere explanation that there was no hacking involved or needed. Purpose of this wasn't to
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North Korean Central News Agency server logs protected by client-side JavaScript(pp19dd.com)
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Though in our defense, there are also plenty of times when the numbers are wrong and journalists are right. After performing a basic checksum, we contacted the UN to get a clarification on their firearm-homicides report discrepancy (their A
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by pp19dd 13y ago
Pardon my skepticism, but an automated tool that replaces vetting, critical thinking and analysis may not be as helpful as it leads to believe. I've punched in three stories that I specifically know came from a PR, and the tool wasn't able
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by pp19dd 15y ago
It's a fairly rational argument to have a preference/affinity for programming languages based on communities surrounding them. He stated his preferences, and that's perfectly fine. You might have been too quick in passing that judgement. U
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In defense of sloppily composed news websites: they're not run like normal sites. Despite the obvious benefit of optimizing and cleaning up the site markup, it's quite normal and it's even encouraged to sacrifice optimization -- so that som
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To widen this templating-aspect perspective to yet another extreme, here's more fuel for the fire. http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/19-promising-php-template-e... List of nineteen promising PHP template engines. Nineteen. And this isn't e
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by pp19dd 15y ago
Noble and geeky effort, but I'm skeptical whether I'll use it (disclaimer: I did try smarty implementations before and had similar experiences.) Think the dissenters' consensus is that this goes against grain of what's been organic WP devel
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When people use 'beta' as a scrutiny shield, I fully agree with you that it deserves a storm of invectives. My take is that some projects truly deserve a 'beta' label, suggesting there will be meaningful updates to it. Our common distaste f
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Labels alpha, beta indicate some pattern of design thought and course correction toward finished product. As long as there is a thought-through follow-up, I think beta is fair to use. But, if the product is more like being freeformed, 'bet