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by shasheene 9y ago
> A couple summers ago at the pool I heard a teenage girl exclaim “poned!” after besting her friend at something they were playing. It took me a moment to realize she’d just said “pwned” since I’d never heard it said out loud before and
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by shasheene 9y ago
> and that's because the closed source Mali GPU drivers only work on a fixed kernel version: 4.4. There's an easy fix: add a fourth ChromeOS software channel (currently there's stable, beta and dev) that ships an image wit
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by shasheene 9y ago
SD cards are optimized for sequential IO (reading/writing photos, video, music). For an OS root partition, random IO is much more important for general use. If the root partition is mounted from an external USB drive with higher random
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by shasheene 9y ago
Wearable health monitors are really the future. It's a marketer's dream: arrhythmia causes young healthy people sometimes suddenly drop dead without any prior symptoms. It happened to Sheryl Sandberg's husband. Sudden cardiac
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by shasheene 9y ago
There's a decades-long meme that Apple purposefully slows down older hardware to push people to buy completely new hardware. Interesting that this effect may be a byproduct of automatic scaling the CPU frequency based on remaining batt
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by shasheene 9y ago
Anyone know the price to low-earth orbit using New Glenn? (perhaps can be inferred from Eutelsat or OneWeb's financial disclosures to regulators?) With Jeff Bezos selling $1 billion worth of Amazon shares a year to fund Blue Origin, wi
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by shasheene 9y ago
Why weren't a series of speed bumps suitable?
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by shasheene 9y ago
That's a reasonable estimate. While the journalist used 'household', I don't think there was a reason to. Looks like there was a lot of news articles published between 2010-2015 with the $1 trillion figure being cited (h
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by shasheene 9y ago
"The [Portuguese] Health Ministry spends less than $10 per citizen per year on its successful drug policy. Meanwhile, the U.S. has spent some $10,000 per household (more than $1 trillion) over the decades on a failed drug policy that r
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by shasheene 9y ago
Does that matter though? Is there any legal restriction on them re-using the name? Seems like a huge missed opportunity
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by shasheene 9y ago
I've been using the Samsung Chromebook Plus (ARM chip) laptop/tablet hybrid the past 4 months and it's one of the best devices I've ever owned. Very cheap and has high build quality (great screen and aluminium body). Th
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by shasheene 9y ago
Search for an official Google Chrome extension (such as Chrome Remote Desktop). You'll see a 'By Google' logo ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/by_go... ) as well as an &#x
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Mistaken Maps(1843magazine.com)
3 points by shasheene 9y ago|0 comments
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by shasheene 9y ago
Just a note that the lock you found may have not been abandoned. Many bike posts in my university's undercover bike shed often had several locks without a bike in sight. It turned out many people leaving bike locks on posts they often
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by shasheene 9y ago
For software intended for regular users, POSIX via WSL isn't a replacement to the Windows API. In addition to the feature needing to be manually installed, developer-mode must be enabled. WSL leaving beta does not appear to change that
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by shasheene 9y ago
Last I played with it, the latency on webrecorder was uncomfortably high for always-on recording of personal web usage (the pages only display once fully rendered). I wish webpages would render as normal and get asynchronously archived once
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by shasheene 9y ago
Full transcript here: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/6b043z/tom_mueller_... His comments regarding competitors are pretty obvious, and have been given by SpaceX executives in the past 5-7 years
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by shasheene 9y ago
I'd like to subscribe to The Economist, but a 12-month digital-only subscription costs US$285 from Australia, nearly double the US figure, which I can't yet justify as a relatively casual reader. The leaky paywall (and convenient
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by shasheene 10y ago
And remember even a booster with a 10-launch lifetime can do a reusable-priced expendable launch on the final flight before "retirement" :)
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by shasheene 10y ago
I believe Homebrew on macOS uses it for formulae (Ruby scripts to actually download and build the application)
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by shasheene 10y ago
Wow, that's surprising. Was that position you're describing doing software development? Where were you based?
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by shasheene 10y ago
> Gitlab IMHO has the worst UX of all git based products out there Remember that git-based products include Gerrit (a UX which I hear hate about, but frankly, I like a lot)
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by shasheene 10y ago
> There's actually no reason why it couldn't have fit on a Dual-layer disc. Our only guess as to why it'd be a double disc game is that maybe it was cheaper, and since it is installing itself, there's no need to disc-
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by shasheene 10y ago
There are multiple goals on the featured Patreon page. The arrows on the goals box allow scrolling > $8,000/month -- You paid one month's liability insurance! > $30,000/month -- DNA Lounge is in the black! > $50,000&
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by shasheene 10y ago
From https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2016/12/19.html (copy and paste link into address bar): > I know that with this level of transparency and vulnerability I'm setting myself up for a bu
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by shasheene 10y ago
An absolute classic. One of the most underrated games for the Gameboy Advance! :)
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by shasheene 10y ago
Marcan mentions FreeBSD is not a particularly secure OS. My understanding is the BSDs have a reputation for being more secure than Linux. Is this not the case?
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by shasheene 10y ago
I've had the same incredibly intense deja-vu from walking through a certain building the first time at my university in South Australia, realizing soon after I had played a custom map/level of that same building years earlier in t
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by shasheene 10y ago
The Economist recently did a good article on the financing of Elon Musk's companies that flew under the radar of Hacker News that probably warranted further discussion [1] [2]. (Though the author of that piece completely misses the rel
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Can Elon Musk’s business empire survive and thrive?(economist.com)
3 points by shasheene 10y ago|0 comments

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