seabee

57 ms·

511.
by seabee 15y ago
> They generate more electricity from solar than Fukushima did. The problem is that a country requires many Fukushimas (in Germany's case, 17). If renewables cannot fill the gap left by shutting down nuclear, you'll have to import your
512.
by seabee 15y ago
> making the switch in if() be a boolean only What exactly is the alternative? If there's any problem here it's automatic coercion.
513.
by seabee 15y ago
I clearly stated that copyright cover translation from English to Russian. I don't expect such miscomprehension from HN of all places. Edit: to clarify, I see you are questioning whether I'm classing a translation as a derivative work or a
514.
by seabee 15y ago
I think your analogy is wrong. Copyrights apply to creative processes, which the translation from English to Russian would surely involve, or a hand-written port from one language/API to another. A machine translation from computer language
515.
by seabee 15y ago
This will affect you differently depending on what language you use and whether you like to align things in columns. Think of how some people format C functions, with each parameter on a new line aligned at the open paren. Personally I find
516.
by seabee 15y ago
Limiting your keyspace to 10000 combinations is insecure, there's nothing more you need to say really. The difference between the simple passcode and the complex password is the difference between a little padlock and a vault door. It shoul
517.
by seabee 15y ago
A significant problem with this argument is that the majority of LCD panels are actually used to watch film and video, and the majority of people want cheap monitors. The death of 4:3 is a natural consequence of these facts. (Now, you could
518.
by seabee 15y ago
To be more precise, there are routes from the internet but not always back to it; not that I expect anthropomorphic Stuxnet to understand, it wasn't programmed with a brain.
519.
by seabee 15y ago
No kidding, most people use actual phone books or their mobile phone equivalent. The key difference between phone numbers and URLs is that everyone recognises that phone numbers exist, or at least know they're meaningful.
520.
by seabee 15y ago
> We don't know that republishing the information is in contempt of court It's clearly not, since republishing information (in this case, a statement from an MP using parliamentary privilege) is how we knew about Trafigura and other iss
521.
by seabee 15y ago
I'm not sure why you are downvoted for that, that's exactly what happens; the press get contacted telling them who they can't talk about. The general public isn't informed (that's the point of a superinjunction) but how would they know abou
522.
by seabee 15y ago
It could be, but according to some sources very familiar with superinjunctions (Private Eye) apparently they were all BS.
523.
by seabee 15y ago
If you want to be pragmatic about it, the targets of such celebrity gossip are generally rich. The only people this excludes are the 'human interest' types - perpetrators and victims of some crime or tragedy - and the stories tabloids like
524.
by seabee 15y ago
Malware might bring money in, but that doesn't make it a business . You can't exactly corner the market or rely on word of mouth; your targets are largely random and diverse. When you have a random choice, the only rational decision is to
525.
by seabee 15y ago
As a very uneducated beer-drinker I hated Stella with a passion. (Later I discovered I just hate lagers in general.) I think your point is wrong in the general case, and that it is hated for its quality rather than its popularity. But there
526.
by seabee 15y ago
> Sometimes, you don't want to have the file pulled down and edited in a local edit and pushed back even if it is seamless. The benefits of inplace editing on remote machines is invaluable. The benefits of having your vim settings whene
527.
by seabee 15y ago
You mean like how Hotmail ran Apache? It's true that not all MS properties run IIS, but there is no indication they'd lie about it.
528.
by seabee 15y ago
It's still not an alternate to the Java, since there are more upper-case characters than the 26 your regex matches. But I'm sure there is an appropriate Unicorn character class you could use instead.
529.
by seabee 15y ago
Do you have to spend it right away? Making a bad investment for the sake of investment strikes me as foolish. It's not clear how good an investment it would be, but it should be clearer a year or two down the line
530.
by seabee 15y ago
> The US government can detect encrypted messages and find those passwords and keys pretty easily. I presume using rendition and rubber-hose cryptanalysis?
531.
by seabee 15y ago
The biggest issue I find with netbooks is vertical, not horizontal resolution. 800px high is not too shabby.
532.
by seabee 15y ago
Especially regarding IT, keeping up with technology is a rare thing; there's no reason we can't have a modern website for all government services. But impressive as this may be, in other areas I'd reserve judgement as to whether it's a good
533.
by seabee 15y ago
You can use the blue button to close it, though.
534.
by seabee 15y ago
It is possible to be an accessory to a crime. If you plan a bank robbery and give the details to somebody else to perform, you're still guilty. Hell, you're still guilty even if you never perform the crime (conspiracy to commit ...)! If you
535.
by seabee 15y ago
grep is Select-String diff is an alias for Compare-Object so if you tried it, you should have seen it do something. But unlike actual diff it operates on objects rather than files, so you need to gc (Get-Content) the files you want to compa
536.
by seabee 15y ago
He would only be hypocritical if he was data-mongering himself, or leaking other people's information. Instead it is a selfish attitude, since the consequences to the affected people don't matter as long as he isn't one of them.
537.
by seabee 15y ago
Google doesn't have to accept it for people to use it on Android.
538.
by seabee 15y ago
Apparently this is how New Zealand selected their voting method (with a qualifying question beforehand, "Do you want to change the system? Y/N"). Very reasonable. So we'll never see it here. ;)
539.
by seabee 15y ago
You are implying that there are no moderate (or 'swing') voters, which is foolish when the big parties actively reach out for these people. Instead, issues get polarised. Both parties and candidates have several different issues, so voters'
540.
by seabee 15y ago
Unless it's something they care about (and not everyone cares about voting reform!), being told "Don't worry about it, it's too hard to explain" is often met with "Oh, okay." The trick is to get people to care about it so they become curiou

More ›