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by shireboy 7y ago
This was part of the plot of a recent Star Trek Discovery season. Left me wondering if writers had eaten mushrooms...
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by shireboy 7y ago
Trying to understand how you “compile a book to JavaScript”. Just write code based on the examples or what? Oh well, you got a subscribe so I can finds out...
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by shireboy 7y ago
One problem with that line of thought is that law is so complex that just about anybody could easily be tripped up by an agent educated on the nuances of the law. While most agents are honest, truth-seeking individuals, clearly some harbor
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by shireboy 7y ago
I develop mostly ASP.NET + SQL apps for a living, with some Ionic mobile and other stuff thrown in. I use my MSDN Azure benefit (~$150/mo) to spin up an F4 VM instance with the latest Visual Studio Community base image. I have a disk
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by shireboy 7y ago
I’m sure it’s just because I’ve never owned one, but I have often thought horses were the first “self driving” vehicle, and could still have some features superior to automobiles. You can feed them hay, they occasional apple and sugar cube
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by shireboy 7y ago
I've been developing using Visual Studio running on an Azure VM for a while now, and am looking forward to seeing how this does. The benefits are: * Your every-day laptop can be lighter and have less "development cruft". It
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by shireboy 7y ago
I hear the research has been looking up.
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by shireboy 7y ago
funny as I'm reading this I'm installing a bunch of dev apps using chocolatey. "choco install visualstudiocode -y" and it's done. I'm kind of surprised MS doesn't have an official way to do this, but it&#
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by shireboy 7y ago
Jawas and moisture farmers!
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by shireboy 7y ago
"Despite the crime, high taxes, high cost of living, and abundance of traffic" Only that, eh? Kind of hard to argue the city is "safer" when you admit it has higher crime. You should step back and read your comment objec
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by shireboy 7y ago
Discontinued when they realized the enemy could just fly around it’s feet with a tripwire. ;) Inspiration for the AT-AT?
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by shireboy 7y ago
I sort of feel like this, but chalk it up to me getting old and curmudgeonly. You kids with your fancy three cameras and gamey movie thingy, get off my lawn. Back in my day we had a phone with a browser and email and Netflix and were happ
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by shireboy 7y ago
Article addresses the “popular client” problem and Gmail in particular. Yes, oligopoly but still possible to shift providers if any one client gets too controlling. Leading to incentive for popular client to play nicely. I don’t see it as
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by shireboy 7y ago
I totally get that argument for things that aren’t commodity. Chat and file share should be interoperable services in 2019. Like Email is and has been for ages (though not always as any GroupWise or BBS user will tell you). The vendors ca
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by shireboy 7y ago
Lesson being if you want to delegitimize an opinion, post en mass in favor of it from fake accounts.
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by shireboy 7y ago
Let's talk for a minute about why all the Apple things aren't open. There is zero about iMessage or AirDrop that should be proprietary. The only reason I know of is vendor lock-in, and that stinks for users. It would be way more
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by shireboy 7y ago
It lists a virginia creeper in my area. Which has poisonous berries and can cause skin irritation...
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by shireboy 7y ago
We were foraging for blackberries along a popular walking trail once, and an older man gave me a bit of advice I'll never forget: don't pick the lower ones- thems the ones dogs pee on.
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by shireboy 7y ago
Now, that is just smart.
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by shireboy 7y ago
Resisted upgrading since 6s here. Certainly price is a factor. I’d like to get the better camera, but just so many other things I want for my $ besides a new screen when my current one runs most of the things I care about.
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by shireboy 7y ago
I get your point and generally agree fiat is not backed by much more tangible than BTC’s math. To be fair, plenty of people trade US dollars for US political power. Lobbying, 500k speaking fees, PACs, Charity “Foundations”. You and I can’
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by shireboy 7y ago
Curious what HN thinks about Maker DAO. Dai is pegged to the dollar by a decentralized scheme where people loan/borrow an underlying asset. Seems to be floating pretty close to $1 and I wonder if it will replace USDT...
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by shireboy 7y ago
Very nice. I’ve been annoyed opendns hasn’t done similar and hoping something like this would come around.
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by shireboy 7y ago
I’ve been using opendns but iOS doesn’t let you set dns for your cell connection and for WiFi it has to be set once per network. cloudflare 1.1.1.1 was nice in that the app set up a vpn with the dns so that it works on all connections. Bu
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by shireboy 7y ago
Ignoring his terrible record and taking his argument at face value, I think he's right on some counts, but misses three important points: * "The Elite" includes not just bankers and B-list actresses. It also includes most of
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by shireboy 8y ago
It seems like it would depend on the number of projects and volume. If you imagine a paper kanban board in an office, they may be right that you don’t have one per project. Digital ones I typically think of (and use myself) as one per pro
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by shireboy 8y ago
Cringe-worthy quote. Maybe it was Kali or similar and they just didn't want to announce it?
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by shireboy 8y ago
I understand this was done by coordinating multiple telescopes to create a virtual earth size scope. Why is this not done more? It seems like cloud services would make this relatively easy to share bits technically. Are the issues mostly
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by shireboy 8y ago
This article makes some good points up until the end. It criticizes private sector waste without evaluating waste in the public sector. I see how the taxpayer impact could possibly* be a wash, and do see problems in the private sector for
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by shireboy 8y ago
I’m sorry, but “getting free money makes people happy” isn’t exactly a shocking result is it? The result that the employment level was consistent is mildly interesting, though I’d expect the numbers could be different with a longer or larg

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