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The Fallacy of Choice(bytbox.net)
1 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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by srl 14y ago
do-release-upgrade is how I did it - but it really just does apt-get underneath.
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Technology-Minded(bytbox.net)
1 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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by srl 14y ago
The last successful ubuntu upgrade I did was 10.04 (9.10 on my laptop), I think. 10.04 - 11.10 all broke (on multiple computers, in different ways) eventually requiring a liveboot and significant skill. (I'm now running arch, with significa
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That's Not Groupthink(bytbox.net)
3 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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Notify HN: CISPA et al Debates and Hearings on C-SPAN
2 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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The Car Analogy(reddit.com)
5 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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The Long Past of C(esr.ibiblio.org)
11 points by srl 14y ago|1 comments
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Giflib: everything old is new again(esr.ibiblio.org)
13 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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Corruption Hurts the Corrupt, Too (Re: Megaupload)(bytbox.net)
1 points by srl 14y ago|0 comments
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by srl 14y ago
I don't usually upvote jokes on HN, but when I do, I provide some actual content in the same post. OT (obviously): This is an example of a facet of humor I find rather difficult to explain. Most comedians pull this trick once or twice per s
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by srl 15y ago
Which are then spritzed with ammonia. As said above, that's really the big issue here - people cannot stand the thought of "contaminants" in food they generally think of as relatively un-processed and healthy. And I sympathize (although I d
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by srl 15y ago
I have a friend (in college) whose desktop computer is similar: a few circuit boards (motherboard+video, I think) stuck in a bucket of oil, with a radiator+pump, monitor, keyboard, and mouse attached. Apparently, it's effective, although it
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Two Stories of Simplicity (2007)(prog21.dadgum.com)
1 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
French Revolution is probably a bad example if he's going for "couple hundred years". Y'know, because there were three, in sixty years.
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by srl 15y ago
TPP is the "Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership". It does a lot of stuff outside of IP law (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Econom... ). Two things. First of all, TPP looks far scarier than every other la
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by srl 15y ago
I find this type of statistical trick (to handle people lying) to be extraordinarily cool, despite (or because of) how trivial it is. An especially elegant version: I remember reading an article (probably posted on here) where to figure out
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by srl 15y ago
> If theories could be "proven" in the mathematical sense then they wouldn't be falsifiable Ack! This is not what "falsifiable" means. Falsifiability is the property that states, there exists some hypothetical evidence which would be
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by srl 15y ago
This guy's dedication continues to astound me. Apparently he's still changing things - people who complain on the forum thread have noticed a few hours later that relevant fixed have been made. (Also, I wonder how much was done by rpm and h
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by srl 15y ago
Relative scala newbie here. This looks pretty nice, thanks! I think I'm not alone in learning to use new languages and libraries primarily by inhaling example code. Why not provide a couple relatively trivial programs, and then a couple non
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The Word "Hacker" (2004)(paulgraham.com)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
The down-vote was not mine, and I consider it unjustified. Thank you for pointing that out.
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Profession (Asimov)(inf.ufpr.br)
3 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
Democratic governments are "liable" in the sense that they can loose their jobs for screwing up. Or looking like they screwed up. Or getting accused of screwing up. Or because they just got unlucky.
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Go 1 Released(groups.google.com)
22 points by srl 15y ago|2 comments
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by srl 15y ago
I get this too (now that I look). Seems that you can't downvote comments that are more than a day old. Doubt it's a bug.
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by srl 15y ago
> Bonus: I just noticed I'd gotten into a debate with Paul B in that thread. Hah. I was too cocky back then... I should have been listening, not talking! OT but funny story: back when I was first getting into programming heavily (I had
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by srl 15y ago
No - thanks for the pointer. (Typo in my last comment - s/know that I know/now that I know/.)
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by srl 15y ago
More good points, from a more practical, small-scale perspective than I can give. Thank you. I find it interesting that you describe yourself as preferring to be a liminal figure, as do I (know that I know the word - which my spell-checker
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by srl 15y ago
> You won't get to that discussion without calling out the problems at hand. Exactly! And my claim is that the larger, more subtle "women just aren't good at science/technology" problem, is now more pressing than the blatant misogyny, a

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