snogglethorpe

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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
As long as they consistently include the "vendor +" part of the name, then fine... But do they? [This was a huge annoyance with NextStep-derived projects like gnustep... Because they started from a proprietary system developed in
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Very bright LED lights can get hot, but e.g. the LED bulb in the table-lamp next to me right now (a "40W equivalent" bulb) is still quite cool to the touch, even though it's been turned on all night (fell asleep without turni
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
This really isn't true. I know it sounds trite, but if you love somebody, you'll find a way to make it work, and it won't seem a chore. That isn't to say long-distance relationships aren't challenging, but small i
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
> I think a macro implies something that can be executed That isn't true... Traditionally a macro just refers to a substitution, maybe (but not necessarily) with parameter replacement, rescanning, etc. I'd say that lisp-styl
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
China's position on this particular incident is just a reflexive defense of the concept of "no interference in other countries' affairs, regardless of how bad they look" something which China strongly advocates for its o
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Also, from what I hear (I'm not allowed to use it yet), Inbox doesn't let you use labels like labels (multiple labels per message etc), but tries to enforce a "folder-like" view... [A horrible mistake if it's true..
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
> Yeah, they're not sensitive to magnetic fields. But they do drift with temperature Also, gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILwgQhjC_Q
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
... and the mention of downvoting was a small part of an otherwise excellent comment anyway!
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
"A bit" ... >< Seriously, who is this guy?
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
The thing is though, in many cases, these correlations are not based on long personal experience, they're "imported" from other sources (parents, friends, media, etc)... and that process is crazily lossy...
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Why the oddly complicated procedure...?
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Maybe Scandinavian government policies are less sexist, but people I've known who've worked in Sweden have told me that Swedish society still seems to be fairly sexist (despite Sweden's progressive reputation)...
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
The anti-systemd-brigade only seems to be a small minority of Debian devs (though they're very loud, and very persistent), so I'm not sure it would have much effect on the project as a whole. If a fork would reduce the time spent
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Yeah, from what I remember the last time this paper showed up on HN, they didn't really claim "huh" was a universal word, just there was some vaguely similar equivalent in many languages. That seems like a much weaker (and
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
I totally love the model-M (I've used it a great deal), and the model-M is inarguably a great keyboard, but calling it "greatest keyboard ever made" seems just silly hyperbole (OK, I know, I know... it's the verge what d
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
> the Tokaido shinkansen is only profitable in terms of OpEx [...] The CapEx cost, which the government essentially wrote off when they privatized JR [...] That doesn't seem to actually be true. To quote Alon Levy (from http:&#x
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Yeah, from what I've read on the subject, it seems that it's pretty well understood now that the Soviet Union was as much (or more) the intended "audience" for the A-bombs as Japan.... Pretty scary stuff considering that
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
> G+ is a ghost town. G+ is very much not a ghost town....
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
I think there's a huge continuum of "planning". It's true that even cities which have mostly evolved organically also have probably had various bits of planning applied to them here and there, and there's a big dif
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
... and in this case systemd is popular not because users decided to use it, but because distributions decided to use it, which means that systemd is going to have a stronger support network and more developer attention than a system wh
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Being electromechanical though, flip-disk displays apparently have significant maintenance costs, as display elements fail quite frequently. Eink would probably be much better on that front, which would be very beneficial for applications
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
The thing is that many of the advantages of a phone call (and in-person talking) over email etc are due to the very low-latency and the ability to quickly react to nuances and adjust what you're saying to reflect them. A voice messag
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
They most certainly do carry over to Japanese...
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
The compositions in Chinese characters very often are quite meaningful...
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
> Aside from the probably-negligible battery use, what use case is it breaking aside from pet-peeve? I just hate the look of the PW's backlight. The color is a sort of sickly blue, and I actually hate the evenness of it, it loses
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Can you turn off the frontlight on the Voyager? [It was a slight annoyance of the PW that you could never entirely turn off the light, just turn the brightness way down.] Or, even better, is there a physical button to turn off the light
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Yeah, and it sounds like they were under political pressure to choose just one winner, so even the choice they made was a bit of a push for them. If they had chosen just one winner, I presume that, given the inherently risk-averse nature
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
Indeed. There are also (at least around here) vast quantities of poster-sized dynamic advertising displays in pedestrian walking areas that are used "statically" (only update maybe ever minute or so). Right now they use giant lcd
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
I'd guess that the obvious disparity between the two was an intentional move by NASA. SpaceX is the cool, fast-moving, forward-thinking—but potentially more risky—alternative. Boeing is the boring, slow-moving, business-as-usual, mili
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by snogglethorpe 12y ago
From what I've read, though, most of the lag/slowness issues with eink are due to bottlenecks in the supporting electronics, which have relatively narrow channels to the display, and not a lot of processing power. Apparently the

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