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by smithzvk 13y ago
Indeed, but there are odd economics at work here. How much do you pay for something that you might not use in the next 2 years, or ever? Do you assume it will drop in price? If it isn't already installed, will I ever actually bother
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Just goes to show you, if you wait long enough, that game you never had a chance to play but have been eying for a decade will be given out for free... so now it can sit on your hard drive where you still won't have time to play it!! N
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Hmmm... not seeing the same behavior today. There have been upgrades in the meantime, of course, but I doubt that this was addressed. Must have been something off that day. It did run off and start downloading the header of every single
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Yes, to the point that it is very easy to crash Thunderbird if you blindly hook it into your GMail account.
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Two things here: 1) The cost of work-arounds is incredibly cheaper than surveying the distro space to find one that works for you. 2) It is likely the case that the benefits of using Ubuntu outweigh the cost of the work-arounds (at least th
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Actually, you can't really trust that behavior if you ever install new software, or even change the way you use the computer by say starting to use some other program that starts with a "t" very often. The Dash optimizes for
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Well, sorry, but as I see it, that is kind of the way of things. The things that coexist/compete share ideas so strongly, due to chasing each other's features, that the things they were before cease to be and they usually, eventu
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by smithzvk 13y ago
> Consider filesystems, which are also tools used to manage stored data. If I'm writing some Python thing, I don't proclaim to everyone that I'm storing my work on a ReiserFS volume, and I'm thrilled by the fact that
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I like how a 24 character password is automatically insecure, while a 16 character one is not... dumb password validation...
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by smithzvk 13y ago
> The ability to irretrievably lose massive sums of money with no recourse is a challenge for Bitcoin. Banks have insurance for just this sort of eventuality. I find it funny that you pose the problem and give the solution in such close
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I use Feedly, but I really dislike it. I, almost overnight, transitioned from reading blogs for most of my content, to using HackerNews and Reddit for most reading. I might check my Feedly account once every week or two as opposed to mult
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by smithzvk 13y ago
This really puts a damper on my excitement for the Nexus 5 (or whatever it will be called). I hear that it will be running an Adreno GPU. On the other hand, I guess it is going to be rough no matter what option you pick in the mobile worl
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Maybe this explains why us people that link our SIP to the PSTN via Googlo Talk haven't been able to do so for the last 18 hours or so? Maybe they are attempting to figure out what they can safely turn off/revert. Edit: A bit of
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Sorry, busy today and didn't see this. Velocity is a vector, but so is position, and direction, and a whole bunch of things. Anything you can express as a fixed length, ordered, group of numbers is a vector (I guess they don't e
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Interesting point, but I think you don't mean to say vector, but something more like 'velocity', 'momentum', or better yet, joysticks are meant to control a rate of change.
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by smithzvk 13y ago
The FSF is about advocating for Free Software. From their point of view (and I think this is mostly true) the conditions are in place where society doesn't actually need to use proprietary software (outside of device drivers, and they
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Usually when I see smart people talking about security, they think about what attack vector/situation you are trying to protect against. In this case, the situation you are trying to protect against is not keeping your phone locked wh
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Right, but that is the point. If you think that the NSA has some magic machine that might break one of the common encryption schemes, but you don't know which, then pick five different encryption schemes. A layered encryption scheme
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I truly don't understand why the suggestion isn't encrypt it both ways (or, more generally, many different, layered encryption schemes).
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I understand that he said this, and I think that he is being honest, but just to point out: if he was secretly planning on bailing it out at the last minute, saying that you will pick up any slack is probably not a good way to run a crowd f
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Shouldn't it be charging when you are using it as a desktop?
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Crowd funding, at its core, is a pay first system. This means that it is also in some way speculative. You cannot price your device above what people are willing to live without if the project fails spectacularly (or simply fails to deliv
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by smithzvk 13y ago
You could also encode the information in the size of a transaction sent to yourself. Then any money lost would go back to the miners as transaction fees.
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by smithzvk 13y ago
I don't actually think this will change things as much as you might think. New problems would be efficiently computable, sure, new programming paradigms will be needed, yes, but people have been producing abstractions for a very long time.
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by smithzvk 13y ago
It is pretty neat, but I have yet to actually use it to fix a bug. The bugs that I cannot just spot tend to be bugs that occurred long ago in the program execution, something that record doesn't handle well (well, it could but it takes a l
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by smithzvk 13y ago
Why do they still recommend 32 bit for everybody? I have been using 64 whenever possible. I wonder if any weird behavior can be attributed to it?
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by smithzvk 14y ago
Yes. This article gives this other little nugget. > If you have a $10 bill and I replace it with ten $1 bills, do you feel richer? If I exchange a $10 bill for ten $1 bill, I don't feel any more wealthy. However, if my $10 buys ten ti
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by smithzvk 14y ago
So, like a virtual allowance? Is the "whole early adopters win" thing only sucky because you are not an early adopter? Note that I'm not an early adopter either, but it seems a bit nonsense. Also, BTC is still pretty young, you could still
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by smithzvk 14y ago
This was what I thought was happening as well. Even without active transport (because that turkey is dead) some salt should work its way into the tissue, after all it remains salty after a thorough washing post brine.
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by smithzvk 14y ago
There will definitely be a second exodus. People such as myself are waiting to see what "wins out" over the next few months. I'm still adding feeds to my Reader account.

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