stan_rogers

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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Just an unnecessarily pendantic note: the visible (observable) universe would be defined as anything that emitted radiation that would have reached us, and in an expanding universe that means it's considerably larger than 14-ish billio
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Translation note: "Heath Robinson" is pronounced "Rube Goldberg" in en/us.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
It's a 5-user Client Access License (CAL) package for Windows NT Server.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
That's just being silly. (Feel free to try to figure out exactly what silly has meant over the ages.)
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
"Follower" had the same connotation in English before its use in relation to social media.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Not even that, really. He predates the pendulum by just about a century (and I mean Galileo's discovery of its regularity, not Huygens' employment of it). Sure, there was verge-and-foliot in limited number in cathedrals and monast
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Bullshit. When your "minor issue" becomes something that kills people, you test the living bejesus out of it before you think of deploying. When even the slightest change in UI becomes a deadly operator error, you make damned good
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The hairstyle is named after its resemblance to the agricultural arrangement, not the other way 'round, and the name of the hairstyle only makes sense if you're aware of how fields are planted. You have to look really hard to ma
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Tiny niggle about a well-known phrase and a word that is not particularly well-known outside of the phrase anymore: the word is moot . (A moot used to be a meeting or assembly of people who would discuss and decide things, often Very Imp
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
No, both spellings are good. The sewage thing would be "septic".
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
If you need multiple GB of RAM, you're probably doing it wrong.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Computers weren't new. The idea that an ordinary person might have access to one, or even own one, even if that "ordinary person" wasn't you, was new at the time. And there was more than a little excitement about those
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Ransomware attacks rarely indicate any data leakage; all they usually do is prevent you from accessing your own data (by encrypting your drive with a key you don't have access to).
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
No, it's because most of the "blackest" finishes are extremely delicate, as they rely on a sort of micro-velvet structure to trap light as well as absorbing light. There are relatively sturdy solutions - fabrics, mostly - b
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
<br/> is an illegal/invalid tag in HTML. The space makes the slash into a simple invalid attribute of a br element, which the browser can ignore.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Babette's Feast is amazing (and you need to take the "religion" categorization with a large pinch of salt).
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Your "nobody" scenario is basically the whole beginning of the personal computing era. "Useless" machines that cost a fortune, had no available software (to within statistical error) and booted to BASIC. Without that era
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
"Seamless sync" is something I personally want to avoid. I want seams and barriers and hoops to jump through. There are reasons to have different things on different machines, and the reasons I have are pretty trivial as these
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The market hasn't been given a choice about speaking, really.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
And part of it stems from the idea that a local application working on a local machine against local data ought to be forbidden to children. If there is anything at all about the telemetry that even raises a question about COPPA under those
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
No. Just no. When I'm running a local application against local data on a local machine, there's no need for anything related to any of that to leave the machine for any reason.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
If you think that collecting anything from your users that would put you in violation of COPPA should a child decide to use a local application against local data on a local computer is appropriate in any way, you probably ought to think
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
No, user testing helps with that. It's something you do before you ship.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
No. Failed tests can only tell you that you've found a problem; passed tests can't tell you there aren't any problems present. Provably correct code can be proven correct.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Certainly vocabulary has been added to, but the whole point of the work of Pāṇini and others was to prevent the Vedas from drifting over time. That freezing of the core of the language was deliberate and artificial. (The same thing applies
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
While there is an element of truth to that, it's largely because the language was deliberately fossilized for religious reasons, while the "real" language that people actually used day to day continued to evolve around it.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Yes, Pro is different. Windows 10 Home will require an account at setup if there's any way it can get to the internet. (No wifi and nothing plugged into the ethernet port will give you the option.)
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
I believe the object was not so much to force mobile links/URLs to desktop URLs, but to style the lighter mobile page for the desktop.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
And again, this helps other people who have to edit your code how?
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Personally, I found Vista's UI to be horrible - the only saving grace was that one could use a "Classic Windows" theme to get back to something useful (as you also could in Win 7). UAC was just awful icing on the horrible cak

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