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by satori99 8y ago
Sometimes it seems like everyone in my city (Sydney) has a coffee addiction. It is possible to get a great coffee nearly anywhere at anytime of day. Places that used to sell drip-filtered (or worse) coffee have either disappeared or lifted
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by satori99 8y ago
As an Australian, I expected to find great coffee in Europe. Instead, I found there is nowhere better than Sydney or Melbourne for truly awesome coffee.
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I know of someone who put a garden slug in his mouth as a drunken party dare. He contracted meningitis and encephalitis and damn near died. It was years before he was even reasonably healthy again.
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One would think so. It is, after all, an operating system created by the largest advertising company that has ever existed, and they are not giving it away for altruistic reasons.
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A sailing vessel with a single sail still has two foils for generating lift. The other 'wing' is the boats keel. It is net force from both that propels a sailing boat forward.
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by satori99 8y ago
It's not a test of the technology. This has been tried many times before. Perhaps most famously by the Cousteau Society, with their expedition ship 'Alcyone' built in the mid 80's. It used two, and they called them Turbo
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by satori99 9y ago
> One of my favorite elements of The Laundry Files series, is the old spook who only uses a Memex machine because of van Eck phreaking. There is a scene in Neal Stephensons novel Cryptonomicon (1999), where the protagonist accesses his l
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by satori99 9y ago
This is essentially what three.js does with WebGL content. Using JSON; https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/JSON-Geometry-format...
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by satori99 9y ago
My rule of thumb is whether or not you get your name attached to some physical phenomena. ie: Newtonian Physics, Hawking Radiation, etc.
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by satori99 9y ago
Well, two-way communication, sure. But his words and ideas will continue to be communicated for a very long time. He is one of the very rare human beings whose names will never be forgotten.
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Iain M Banks' Culture novel, Surface Detail, also deals with the idea of eternal digital heavens and hells. Many of them are run by corporations. Some civilizations even send young sinners on day trips to hell to keep them on the &#x27
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by satori99 9y ago
I recently read that the digital scanning of shredded Stasi documents ran into some technical trouble; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/stasi-files-ea...
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by satori99 9y ago
> There's a reason it's illegal It's not illegal where I live, and hasn't been for a very long time. Sex workers pay income tax, and can call the police if they have any trouble with clients. It is just another servic
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by satori99 9y ago
Doing nothing at all was the way I approached high-school homework, and it worked well enough for me.
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by satori99 9y ago
Blender does the same thing. Every executed command get added to the info log as regular python snippets that can be copy/pasted into a script or the python console if/when you need to automate something that you have just done vi
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by satori99 9y ago
I can't wait for the day that lightweight sun-glass frames can block real-world ads in real-time. Perhaps replacing them with classical art or even white rectangles. That sounds great.
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by satori99 9y ago
Not a great analogy. We all know that HTML is an opt-in language, in that user-agents are designed to render the tags that they support and ignore the ones they don't. My user -agents do not support ads at all.
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by satori99 9y ago
I think this is because WSL uses NTFS Alternate data streams to store linux file attributes, and they don't survive when a file is copied to a non-NTFS file system.
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by satori99 9y ago
Yeah, but my name is not satori99 and HN doesn't care :)
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It is? I have no social media accounts at all and never have. I thought the very idea of facebook was creepy when it launched and I've not changed my mind since. Who will I be flagged by?
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ABC news Australia recently sent a reporter there; http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-27/the-dome-runit-island-...
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I guess the profitable part comes from the fact that 4000 out of 18,000 people in the town work for the mine. If they closed the mine, the town would die anyway.
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by satori99 9y ago
Same. I find it so irritating to be bugged when halfway through reading an article, so I close the tab and never engage with their site again.
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...as Roko's basilisk. (Apologies if you hadn't heard of it before now)
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by satori99 9y ago
Yeah, I agree with that. Which is why I mentioned performance sensitive stuff like WebGL. Personally I use the functional methods whenever I can, but the original quote I re-posted indicates that the author thinks that for-loops should alwa
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by satori99 9y ago
There are plenty of online benchmarks that show this. jsperf is down for me atm, so i can't provide a link. Some of the popular JS frameworks actually re-implement an array.forEach function as an internal for-loop to mitigate this. I a
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by satori99 9y ago
> The for loop is now completely extinct in my codebase. If you do happen to stumble across one, point it out so I can kill it. For loops in JS are significantly faster than .forEach() or .map() When performance matters (WebAudio, WebG
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He might have had a twin brother :P But an even simpler explanation is that Jesus himself was invented too.
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I still use the phrase "On The Gripping Hand..." for ternary expressions in English. Thanks Jerry.
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> Moreover, Sailfish OS can be enhanced with full Android application compatibility – but only if you choose so. On the bottom of the homepage.

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