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by skeltoac 4y ago
Wonderful work! While I was reading, the HN points went up 500% and my battery fell by 50%.
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by skeltoac 4y ago
Useful electricity was not born suddenly into a world that had never heard of electricity. People had been playing with electrical toys and scientific equipment for generations before advances made industrial electricity possible. Electrici
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by skeltoac 4y ago
The article mentions several rational hypotheses but it misses the opportunity to suggest that maybe someone just needs the light to search for a misplaced piece of jewelry.
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by skeltoac 4y ago
Logged in to say something about how the question is based on a false dichotomy, but now I think it better just to say nothing.
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by skeltoac 5y ago
Contributor here! (Only one PR but still!) At Automattic we use GoTTY to allow customers to run subcommands of the WordPress CLI on their web container in their browser. Having them connect via SSH would have been much harder due to things
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by skeltoac 9y ago
Are there still machines selling cans of beer? That was one of the highlights of my visit to Tokyo. My host advised me that I must either stand at the machine and drink it or put it away while I walked. No drinking and walking. I was 14.
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by skeltoac 10y ago
My memory of L. Ron Hubbard's recorded lectures has faded but I recall him saying these words many years before they entered the NA canon. Too bad the transcripts are as well guarded as they are. It might appear in similar form in Dian
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by skeltoac 10y ago
Code from year one may still be the same code but when it gets moved or reformatted its cohort is updated. If a bad change is reverted, will the cohort for those lines of code also be reverted? The effect of understated longevity is not so
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by skeltoac 10y ago
I want to know who or what will decide what to put in the preview. Will content creators have any control over this? If previews are strictly algorithmic, will there be recourse in case a certain preview misrepresents or spoils the content?
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by skeltoac 10y ago
I'm just going to watch that gif all day now. Thanks.
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by skeltoac 10y ago
Nauru is the 2nd roundest (0.923) and the 10th most rectangular (0.917). http://pappubahry.com/misc/rectangles/
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by skeltoac 10y ago
> it is offset in part for many goods by the fact that increased money chasing the goods in one segment of the population is mirrored by reduced money chasing goods in another segment of the population YCBI does not have this feature.
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by skeltoac 10y ago
That work is not done because it does not create enough economic value to provide a living. People can't afford to do low-paying work. BI makes low-paying work affordable, so more people will do it, which will benefit all.
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by skeltoac 11y ago
We've been working on this for quite a while and several parts of the solution deal with rewriting embedded URLs using HTTP. If you have any examples of breakage, let us know.
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by skeltoac 11y ago
They don't like to be reminded that they are organisms. They prefer to be addressed as social constructs only.
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Transparency Report Update and a Closer Look at Turkey(transparency.automattic.com)
1 points by skeltoac 11y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 11y ago
So how should a person go about choosing a mate?
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by skeltoac 11y ago
Pull request failed ingratiation testing.
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Agree and commit, disagree and commit [video](ecorner.stanford.edu)
1 points by skeltoac 11y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 12y ago
Searched my github repo for "YYYY", found two. OH NO! Wait, everything's working. Huh? Oh, Joda Time. Sweet.
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by skeltoac 12y ago
You won't get anywhere by pinning the blame on the medium. Freedom of association allows birds of a feather to flock together and make sport of the other side. People seek social groups that make them feel good and avoid ones that make
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Weather From(weatherfrom.com)
1 points by skeltoac 12y ago|0 comments
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CVE-2014-1776: Use-after-free vulnerability in VGX.DLL in IE 6-11(web.nvd.nist.gov)
4 points by skeltoac 12y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 13y ago
Shunning is a healthy, grassroots, social expression of disapproval. It is right and fair that people should express their opinions via economic choices. It is not enough to vote only once every few years. You must tolerate grassroots actio
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by skeltoac 13y ago
How long were you involved with Linux before you knew everything in that list?
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by skeltoac 13y ago
A color space is good for transforming colors along lines orthogonal to its axes. In RGB, you can't easily find another shade of a given hue. In HSV, this common task is trivial.
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by skeltoac 13y ago
Balance (288) with one bad match: ^(<(<(<(..) >) >) >) $
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by skeltoac 13y ago
He blundered or he caved. We only have evidence of past blunders so that is the best guess.
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by skeltoac 13y ago
324 dials FBI.
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by skeltoac 13y ago
Lots of 324BTC transactions. 324 is how you dial FBI.

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