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961.
by scrumper 11y ago
Knowing that group (meaning vintage gear heads rather than hip hop producers) there's doubtless endless online discussions about which particular brand of floppy gives the crunchiest sound. Can't beat the warmth of the MF2-HD.
962.
by scrumper 11y ago
So does that mean if I buy a European car in the USA (a USA car, not a special import) the airbags will go off with more force?
963.
by scrumper 11y ago
Or perhaps, 'Since his death he's become a living legend.'
964.
by scrumper 11y ago
Yogi Bear was named after this guy?! Oh that makes so much more sense than who I thought it was all my life (the TV inventor, Logi Beard).
965.
by scrumper 11y ago
I don't really know the guy since I grew up in England, but from what I've read today I think he must've been some sort of subversive genius. All the quotes I've seen attributed to him suggest a perspective on the world
966.
by scrumper 11y ago
That was a very different car - a heavy, 7 passenger SUV (X5) vs the comparatively modest VW sedans. What's going on there? Was it held to a different standard? Does its bigger engine not have to work as hard? Edit: I read the relevant
967.
by scrumper 11y ago
Nah, I was 12. That's old enough to learn about failure in a fairly direct way. It was a good lesson and I'm glad my teacher stuck to it/ Sure, if I'd put up a good fight and lost because he was better, perhaps I'd
968.
by scrumper 11y ago
I can't figure it out but I'm positive that 12 year old me would have lost from this position. Fools mate in an inter-school tournament, the only player on my team to lose his game and thus the only one who didn't get ice cre
969.
by scrumper 11y ago
Extremely very not easy. And also small, Flash-based, ugly to look at, and frustrating. But it's certainly addictive.
970.
by scrumper 11y ago
He hasn't been charged; police attended and arrested then pretty swiftly released him. Teachers & school deserve opprobrium; not sure the police do in this instance.
971.
by scrumper 11y ago
You're contradicting yourself there. When you were young, it was fine. This chap does basically the exact same thing, and he's arrested.
972.
by scrumper 11y ago
Yes that would have been a fairly miserable trip. Concorde was pretty noisy, cramped and, near the end of the flight as the fuel (which was also a coolant) got used up, really quite hot. I did once fly on her from London to New York and it
973.
by scrumper 11y ago
A flight attendant dumped an entire screwdriver on my 2 day old macbook pro at the start of an 8 hour flight. Entirely accidental, but a pretty rare mistake for BA cabin crew to make. We got towels on it immediately and aside from a few sti
974.
by scrumper 11y ago
Hijacking this: how does the ordinary solo user go about finding malware if AV is so bad at it? As a Mac user, I know there are rootkits and other nasties out there but I have no idea how to go about detection.
975.
by scrumper 11y ago
But you care a bit about that path if you're up close to cell towers or power lines, surely? You at least care that your path doesn't cross a minimum distance threshold from the object.
976.
by scrumper 11y ago
This is a nice read. I think that the enormous foundation of frameworks, toolkits, and open source libraries that exist today provide a huge lever for the talented individual - Acorn is an incredibly accomplished app and I had no idea a sin
977.
by scrumper 11y ago
Article doesn't say "and it's called fraud". Maybe it's been edited since you quoted.
978.
by scrumper 11y ago
Hmm, so probably the same order of difficulty as aerial refueling given the low speed differential. Doesn't look any less scary though.
979.
by scrumper 11y ago
Yeah I thought that C-shaped piece was something to do with it; it appeared to fit around the back end of the fuselage somehow. The plane is pointing up, I imagine it's still powered up to keep tension on that hook. Really something. D
980.
by scrumper 11y ago
I'd love to learn more about that trapeze system; it looks absolutely terrifying, not least the climb out of the cockpit and up into the ship. Can't find much about it with a quick search.
981.
by scrumper 11y ago
> but this tech is still very far from a conscious piece of tissue in a dish. I suspect that will help its adoption. Not so many ethical or para-ethical issues for the press to get upset about. It's just meat.
982.
by scrumper 11y ago
Is that the animated movie about dreams from ~10yrs or so back?
983.
by scrumper 11y ago
My fingers hurt. I doubt it's exclusively to do with time as fraction of life. I suspect it's more to do with novelty: when you're young, much of what you see is new so you take it in and mull it over with some awareness. As
984.
by scrumper 11y ago
Known a bit more prosaically as Trigger's Broom in the UK. And applies to humans, too, with our continually regenerating cells.
985.
by scrumper 11y ago
Well maybe they are... If it can do all that without learning DD-WRT, then I'll buy it. I understand all those things and want most of them enabled at home, I just don't have the time or motivation to learn the configuration files
986.
by scrumper 11y ago
For sure. But I thought he seemed pretty struck by the power of the art Pixar was making, talking about tearing up in the cinema. He made a few other comments about meaningfulness too - like not wanting to be eating stuff from Slice while c
987.
by scrumper 11y ago
The writer seems mature and should go far. If he wants advice from someone in finance, I'd steer him towards Pixar. The math might be harder and the prestige may be greater at the hedge fund, but making beautiful things is inherently s
988.
by scrumper 11y ago
I had a bigger, older cousin when I was a kid. He was awesome. He showed me his Playboys and taught me how to shoot. On a serious note, I'm looking forward to the discovery of a smaller cousin. That seems to me to be more promising for
989.
by scrumper 11y ago
Reflects my experience with iTunes Match. It was awful; I persevered for a year and never made it work properly. Dupes, missing songs, volatile metadata, unsynchronized syncing, the works. I removed it and little hangovers still persist, li
990.
by scrumper 11y ago
I don't agree. They breached their own covenant, which doesn't afford them the benefit of the doubt you might assign to 'knowledgeable researchers doing serious work': "We won't do anything life threatening.&qu

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