snerbles

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by snerbles 11y ago
I currently run Debian Jessie on an XPS 13 - GNOME 3 handles high DPI with minimal configuration. I'm sure KDE could manage as well, but I did not have a magnifying glass available to navigate the miniscule menus. I've run into m
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by snerbles 11y ago
That already deployed hardware is now slow with the latest shiny firmware...time to buy more hardware like a good little consumer.
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by snerbles 11y ago
I know why it angers me - it's effectively executive action, taken long after the deadline given to the FAA by Congress. Furthermore, the FAA appears to have completely ignored industry and hobbyist input with this absurdly low regist
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by snerbles 11y ago
Conventional ICBMs are being considered under the Prompt Global Strike project [1]. From the summary: > Conventional prompt global strike (CPGS) weapons would allow the United States to strike targets anywhere on Earth in as little as
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by snerbles 11y ago
The Lazy Newb Pack is a start, it has artwork that makes the game much more accessible.
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by snerbles 11y ago
Eight years ago, at 22.
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by snerbles 11y ago
There are enough players and fans that "got time for that", testing releases for stability so you don't have to. A pity you've chosen to miss out, as the depth of simulation in DF truly is astounding.
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by snerbles 11y ago
How is your breakfast meaningless? Did it contain meat, or genetically modified organisms? Was it grown with water in a drought-stricken area, or from a subsidized or non-unionized farm? Have you considered its carbon footprint? Someone,
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by snerbles 11y ago
...then wireless networking really will cause cancer.
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by snerbles 11y ago
Groupon wrote the Greenscreen[1] app for Chromecast for precisely this application. [1] https://github.com/groupon/greenscreen
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by snerbles 11y ago
It's a visceral reaction, I wouldn't be surprised if it were related to the psychology behind the uncanny valley.
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by snerbles 11y ago
So much on r/all these days is fluff, breaking stories don't appear as quickly as they used to - in spite of admins repeatedly stating that they're "looking into it".
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by snerbles 11y ago
That laser is going to require accurate tracking to heat a target to the point of damage. Additionally, reflected laser light of that intensity is not usually safe to look at without protection.
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by snerbles 11y ago
The abuses of the late 19th century's Gilded Age were more directly experienced by the average first-world worker, and today's breads & circuses are more pervasive by orders of magnitude. To really mobilize the general public,
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by snerbles 11y ago
You'd ideally need a Stingray to develop against, and they're only sold to government customers.
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by snerbles 11y ago
It goes against the current narrative.
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by snerbles 11y ago
It's less a matter of convenience than reliability. Inserting electronics into the cycle of operations adds additional points of failure, and purely mechanical devices are not vulnerable to firmware bugs or electromagnetic interferenc
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by snerbles 11y ago
Roddenberry meddling less was another factor in the improvement of TNG.
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by snerbles 11y ago
For the original series movies... The Motion Picture (#1) is basically an elongated TOS episode. Doesn't really influence any of the other films. Some enjoy it, some find it dull. The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and The Voyag
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by snerbles 11y ago
The Original Series (TOS) has a level of camp that people either love or hate. The original films (1-6) don't rely too much on the series, though I do recommend watching the TOS episode "Space Seed" before The Wrath of Khan.
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by snerbles 11y ago
If there were a way to transmit the altered user agreement back to the other party, the ramifications could be amusing.
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by snerbles 11y ago
RONJA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA ) is one such homebrew free-space optical (FSO) link.
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by snerbles 11y ago
I wasn't bullied precisely because I knocked the wind out of a spike-haired punk that started slapping me in the hall. School staff didn't intervene until he fled and I gave chase - that was an important lesson in self-control. W
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by snerbles 11y ago
At that thickness I would assume that the RAM is soldered to the motherboard.