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by rdancer 11y ago
The browser layout engine should break on the spaces (Chrome does). They are just normal spaces, the combining character should have no effect. You have a bug somewhere. Also, I cannot edit nor delete it now, so tough luck! "
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by rdancer 11y ago
Thank you for correcting me!
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by rdancer 11y ago
What does that mean in plain English?
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by rdancer 11y ago
It's the other way round. The money for this kind of tech mostly comes from the defence sector. I'm cool with that, but let's not kid ourselves: the reasons these things exist is that they are weapons.
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by rdancer 11y ago
He got in trouble for hacking in his own country. Something the author of this project wisely avoids.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Paywalls are a nuisance. Failures of peer review, lack of reproducibility, and political bias are some of the real problems. Scientists and the institutions that support them must work towards solving these problems. Nobody is going to do t
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by rdancer 11y ago
Get off this guy's lawn, you guys!
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by rdancer 11y ago
s/lost people|missing persons/tenorists/g Welcome the suicide drones.
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by rdancer 11y ago
> Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution The cheaper solution is to let their customers suffer the outage. Android-based STBs are not the
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by rdancer 11y ago
I speculate that after a week-end of nightmare, he was just happy to have implemented a solution that offloaded those trillions of requests onto GitHub, has put it behind him, and was not quite eager to make it his problem again.
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by rdancer 11y ago
The point of setting magic numbers in that manner is the continuous employment of people tasked with explaining how discovering that this was how it worked all along was "unexpected" and "surprising".
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by rdancer 11y ago
The value of oil has not changed during the last nine months. If the buyers had been breaking even at $100/barrel, at $30/barrel, they're getting $70 worth of merchandise for free. Imagine the shoe were on the other hand, and
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by rdancer 11y ago
Thanks!
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by rdancer 11y ago
"[...] 403 Forbidden HTTP status code. This should have been it, right?" 410 Gone would probably have been more fitting.
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by rdancer 11y ago
I always assumed that this is how sensitive compartmented information worked? And that old yarn about lying to Congress — well... http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com/
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by rdancer 11y ago
Source?
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by rdancer 11y ago
I don't get this. My mental image is all the toddlers of Beijing queuing at the banks, with a wad of banknotes in one hand and a pacifier in the other, unsure which one to give to the teller.
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by rdancer 11y ago
That's behind some weird interstitial, so here's a cached version: http://archive.is/xoix6
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by rdancer 11y ago
There's a no way of knowing the answer to your question, but ultimately, it shouldn't really matter. There are people who say that Snowden leaks are a CIA operation against the NSA, born out of patriotism. There are others who say
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by rdancer 11y ago
The panic he describes reminds me of my learning to drive. I'd been an avid cyclist, and the sensation of the car moving under its own power, independently of me, was shocking.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Final report: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=35915547&po...
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by rdancer 11y ago
Regardless of what their README says, the current trunk has tons of bugs fixed. The release version does not work for me at all, but the trunk does.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Misleading title. This is Vim-like interface for Chrome , not the editor itself! I've played with it for a few minutes, and it has normal , insert , and command mode, an ability to set custom key bindings, and looks like loads mor
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by rdancer 11y ago
For the rest of your life? What crazy drug did you get yourself into?
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by rdancer 11y ago
If fat were deposited and not burnt under starvation, body would be unable to perform work (law of energy conservation), and organs would fail. Ultimately, starving people would be dying fat. But we know this is not the case. Starving popul
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by rdancer 11y ago
Would continuous glucose monitoring devices used by diabetics be suitable?
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by rdancer 11y ago
> "declining investor confidence" Also known as "thank you for all that money you gave us for a laughably small share in our company".
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by rdancer 11y ago
These average predictors have always bugged me. While it may not be possible to accurately predict the exact cause of my death, the risks for a wealthy retired couple living a healthy lifestyle in a cottage in the rural Switzerland is going
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by rdancer 11y ago
Their filter is magical, and it can filter wavelengths better than a display element can not emit them. It has by no means been made obsolete by the iOS 9.3 update. Buy now for a chance to win a high fidelity USB cable made by Monster I
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by rdancer 11y ago
Not storage: volatility.

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