shiggerino

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by shiggerino 12y ago
Any reasonable grid company should not only not prohibit this, but welcome it and pay for energy people feed back into it. I can call mine any day and have a bi-directional meter put in so I can charge for it, should I ever choose to instal
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by shiggerino 12y ago
That's true. But it does help a lot that there's a merchant ship equipped with these things as well as a fast rescue boat if you're ever in distress. Furthermore, writing free software for the big ships will also help the lit
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by shiggerino 12y ago
I'm going to have to agree with Hickey on that one. But then again, imagine the horror of dedicating years of your life to a language that turns out to be complete garbage. I also think you need to take into consideration that the Norv
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by shiggerino 12y ago
I use the M-x calc in Emacs for this reason.
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by shiggerino 12y ago
I'm guessing if they don't get enough hits by matching email addresses and address books they go one level deeper in the graph. That would explain some of mine.
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by shiggerino 12y ago
Yes, that is true, 16 is also for urgency and safety messages, but ideally channel 70 should supersede 16 as the routine calling channel. Of course, for that to happen the equipment has to be made actually user friendly. It would be trivial
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by shiggerino 12y ago
DSC (digital selective calling), which that radio uses to transmit distress signals with coordinates, is an excellent but sadly under-used technology. Everyone should be equipped with it and be familiar with all the menus and options on the
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by shiggerino 12y ago
Another thing to note about mammalian diving reflex is that the nasal cavity is especially susceptible to triggering it. Which is why it's important to hold ones nose when jumping in the water to abandon ship, regardless of how silly i
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by shiggerino 12y ago
What on earth is skunk-like cannabis? Do they have cannabis that resemble other musteloids?
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by shiggerino 12y ago
Interesting that they would chose to implement BBN-LISP in Perl, given that the ability to easily run legacy Lisp programs was one of the design goals of Common Lisp.
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by shiggerino 12y ago
While you can certainly bribe, coerce or trick an upstream maintainer to accept a malicious patch, there's still a whole network of downstream maintainers that all want to have their say, and there's usually ample time for the com
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by shiggerino 12y ago
I'm not sure what the US government is complaining about. If the baseband has direct memory access, they should be able to grab any cryptographic key off the phones without Apple or the user ever noticing, that is unless Apple has been
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by shiggerino 12y ago
>things went tragically wrong and the rat became the first causality of the Congolese Space Program. Maybe they launched it on causal Friday? http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3558
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by shiggerino 12y ago
LinkedIn creeps me the hell out with their connection suggestions, that are way too accurate for for anyone to make through honest means, especially given that I've intentionally been very restrictive with what I've added to my pr
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by shiggerino 12y ago
Why don't we just give up teaching children literacy already? It's clearly too much trouble to have actual content, let's make the whole society one big touch screen swiping exercise.
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by shiggerino 12y ago
That's pretty funny, presumably Apple hasn't endorsed that lumbering piece of garbage, and the homophobes are inadvertently helping Apple protect their brand identity.