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by smellf 11y ago
Page appears down, here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CSMUmBf...
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by smellf 11y ago
I think what's he's getting at is that the people who are claiming there is no bubble are not credible, because they want nobody to think there is a bubble.
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by smellf 11y ago
Well, that quote is definitely awkward. But a "singularity" can mean a singular event, like (the moment before?) the Big Bang. The piece as a whole was really well-researched, and convinced me that Harper Lee is being abused, or
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by smellf 11y ago
You replied to the parent instead of the top-level poster.
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by smellf 11y ago
Whoa, that link is gold :)
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by smellf 11y ago
There _were_ alligators in the river. He almost certainly imagined the gator next to him in the water, but swimming in it was still very dangerous. Gator has only one meaning. The protective cloud of pee is just a joke. It's funny b
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by smellf 11y ago
Yep. The reason why Jeopardy works so well is because the contestants are all trivia gods, so they all know the answer most of the time. The audience thinks that the difficulty is in the trivia, because that's more challenging for us
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by smellf 11y ago
Hallucinations are certainly not by definition destructive. If you play Guitar Hero for a few hours and then look at something stationary, it will look like it's moving. If I haven't gotten enough sleep for several days running,
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by smellf 11y ago
Thanks for the technical link. You gotta love Wired, paraphrasing down to get gems like: “The first TCP packet will be the ‘inserted’ one while the other is from the real server, but will be ignored by the [browser]”. Oh my browser deals w
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by smellf 11y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! My volume of spam robocalls and SMS has gone through the roof this year, and I knew there had to be some app that did like a collaborative blacklist for these numbers. This TrueCaller appears to do the trick.
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by smellf 12y ago
> A wireless IOT thermometer that uses AA batteries, that's just stupid. It's even stupider than that - AAA batteries! While I 100% agree with you, it's easy to see how the team that did that thermometer got to that insane
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by smellf 12y ago
Yeah I can understand romanticizing the parts of this guy's experience with computers, but it wasn't all gravy. Did you read the part where he marveled at his new "daisy wheel" printer only having broken down once in a
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by smellf 12y ago
Ahhh, I suppose it depends on where you are in the US. In ultra-affluent places like some DC suburbs, the prices are closer to those Canadian ones you mentioned. At the absolute bottom fast food chains (McDonalds and Taco Bell) you can get
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by smellf 12y ago
> That removes me from the market. Same. And what kind of developer edition laptop doesn't have a full keyboard, i.e. a numpad? It drives me nuts.
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by smellf 12y ago
The Momondo UI is nicer, but Google Flights has the "price in the calendar" feature.
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by smellf 12y ago
I had an ancient hardcard[0] that was obsolete when I got it in the 90s, but it was the first HDD I owned so it made me very happy. Unfortunately, to get it to spin up, you had to shake the thing vigorously for about 10 minutes, which wasn
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by smellf 12y ago
They probably use torrents because they're easy and free. There's nothing shady about it, the distro just has ~1 maintainer and there's too much demand for #! for regular hosting to be viable. In the real world, using Bittor
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by smellf 12y ago
The news was announced about 12 hours ago, so it's still early times, but I imagine someone will step up or some other project will fill the gap. I wonder if it would be possible to get a package into Debian's repos that essential
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by smellf 12y ago
> enough to put off novice users Or even experienced users who don't want to spend all their time configuring the minutae of desktop software.
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by smellf 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9009691
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by smellf 12y ago
> You don't need a special, weird distro to run openbox I'm aware of this. > it takes some configuration to be useable Therein lies the problem. Even Crunchbang's default config is not exactly what I want, but I can go
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by smellf 12y ago
Yes, and I've gone that route before - install Debian, install openbox, install your panel and networkmanager and all the other little desktop utilities and get them configured and working together as you wanted and skinned to look ok
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by smellf 12y ago
People keep on suggesting Mint and Xubuntu, but I don't feel like LXDE or XFCE are really effective replacements for openbox. A quick distrowatch search led me to wattOS[0] - anyone have experience with it? The blog has no updates sin
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by smellf 12y ago
It looks like the Lollipop Smart Lock can unlock your phone when it's in proximity to your PC, whereas nearlock will unlock your PC when it's in proximity to your phone.
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by smellf 12y ago
You ought to retrain yourself, using the off hand modifier key is the correct way to type anyway. Even if you don't type "correctly", it still doesn't seem like a big deal. I can't imagine anything easier than Meta
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by smellf 12y ago
I am also a "library of mp3 luddites", and to me it sounds as though the Echo can do any Bluetooth audio, like a modern head unit. So you might say, "Computer, play Bluetooth audio", or "Computer, skip this track,&
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by smellf 12y ago
In the initial materials I read about Ara, they indicated there would be a very minimal, secondary CPU, memory and battery in the frame itself. So, when you want to hot-swap the CPU, it falls back on/suspends to that tiny system tempo
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by smellf 12y ago
Absolutely. I had the first Droid X, and when I got it, folks were always asking "does it even fit in your pocket?" These days that 4" screen wouldn't stand out at all. It's the same way now with my Note 3. We g
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by smellf 12y ago
> you'll see components disconnect from one another and the thing crash, a lot Isn't the whole point of project Ara that you can disconnect components and the phone doesn't crash? > you'll lose performance as data
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by smellf 12y ago
Awesome, when I saw the OP I was thinking, "I wonder if someone has done this with Flask yet?" :) Thanks!

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