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by stegosaurus 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards#/m... As a layman these sorts of reductions always seemed pretty strict to me. It seemed like a backdoor way of banning ICE's. We know that we need to
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Termux[0], the best Android terminal emulator (in my humble opinion), recently had mosh added to its' package repository. I currently use it and it's very nice. It makes me long for a better handheld though (my 4" Moto G scre
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I think the issue with 'white privilege' as a term is that people forget that the vast majority of people are not 'alright Jack'. It feels like an attack, like saying 'you have too much, give me some'. Warren B
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
To be honest for me it's all a bit odd. It's like, I just don't fit into socializing in $CURRENT_YEAR with ordinary people. I feel a bit like an old fuddy. WhatsApp has some weird thing whereby I need a smartphone and a telep
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I suspected that, but what's with the monstrous 8 core thing then? Couldn't you equally overclock a 4 core CPU and save hundreds of dollars? Basically, is the whole article just nonsense? :)
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I'm sure. Are Xeon systems just super expensive, though? Is 8 cores the best you can do for 4K?
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I actually wish e-mail were used more. I want my relatives, my spouse, my friends to use e-mail. I'm not quite sure how to convince them, though. It generally feels like they'd rather use Facebook or WhatsApp or whatever's in
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
4000USD is a lot of money. That seems like an odd setup. Not having ever wanted to buy a machine for that amount of cash, I'd expect to do better with multi-socket systems. Anyone care to chime in? I struggled to spend over 1K GBP with
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I'm a bit confused as to how this works in an employment scenario where the contractual terms aren't fixed. How is salary negotiated? What happens over time - do you just become discrete employees? What about internal promotion -
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I hope so. I try to live in that way, and I try to encourage those around me to live in that way (refusing imbalanced employment conditions). I think if enough people did, we could start to help each other, rather than relying on capital an
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I think you're just describing how our economy works. People love cheap clothing stores, cheap items off Amazon, quick delivery, etc. That's the impact on them. How it happens is immaterial. You can do it via magic 3d-printing dev
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
This is an attitude I see from many of my friends and I fundamentally disagree because I think so many of those 'other places' are stifling and non-inclusive. A restaurant is a place where speaking more loudly than a certain amoun
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Thank you for this comment. I think it's really hard to pin down. I don't agree that it's about people 'drifting apart', or 'finding different interests'. In some sense those are being taken as tautologies
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Could anyone who has the previous version comment on light response? I went out and bought a random webcam model from a local store for 7GBP as a proof of concept so that I could start hacking on the code. 640x480, but that doesn't mat
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
There's a very steep reward curve, though. It's not like, a 10% incentive. It's hundreds of percentage points. Very rough numbers here: Generic person might be able to earn $50K working 40 hour weeks in their most optimal car
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I think you're absolutely spot on with this. I'm going through a period of change in my personal life at the moment, and I'm definitely going to keep this in mind, so thank you. One thing I would take issue with is conflating
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Sure, I'm not making a value judgement, just stating how it is. In my opinion, it makes a lot of sense to do that anyway, at least viewed from outer space. Stepping away from 'the economy', London's public transport syst
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
That only explains half of the picture, though. The photograph in the linked article explains it quite well to me - regardless of how 'real' it is, there's a picture of a shiny gathering with the dresses and the shiny clothes
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
>> I don't mean to judge or brag It's not necessary to qualify comments like this. :) Sounds like we all need to move to Seattle. Maybe not too many of us though. :P I find myself thinking that there's an economic side
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
This sounds terrible to me! The interactions are all backwards. It would work in an idealized non-commercial world, but not in the one we inhabit. >> Choose the brands from below a) Papa Johns b) Dominos c) Pizzahut I don't know!
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand Choice bits: >> RDRAND is available in Ivy Bridge processors Theodore Ts'o: >> Relying solely on the hardware random number generator which is using an implementati
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I'm struggling to figure out OP's context (not sure why they're not just saying it) but one thing I can come up with is restraining orders. It doesn't seem too outrageous to me that the use case of 'have been in a n
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Intuitively this seems like an obvious result of the network effect. (edit: I'm not intending to belittle anyone here and I apologise if it may seem that way). Axiomatically, socially the sum of two humans is greater than the two human
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Christ, in some ways, this thread makes me want to just like, teleport some people from HN into the local park with some beers. I think we'd have a great time. No vi vs emacs, mind.
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
WRT the decline with age, I've always felt like a lot of it is 'ego based', for lack of better terms. I've found that as time goes on, people are far more concerned with doing things by the book, projecting an image, etc
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Isn't the actual issue that every discussion seems to descend into politics? Could you create a platform without that? I can't say I've noticed issues on cat photo subreddits, or /r/unixporn, or whatever else. There
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I've always found the idea of gender identity a bit odd because it seems to present this idea of discrete 'identities', negating human personality, drawing patterns where none need to exist. Talking about appearance (which co
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Thanks. I've been struggling a lot with life in general lately (depression, etc), and it's nice to have some glimpse that someone else shares the view, maybe. I think we have a real issue at the moment with people funneling their
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
If web bloat is a problem, I don't think that looking at whether <insert buzzword framework of CURRENT_YEAR> can be removed is the answer. I suggest that at the moment, we have basically two camps of website, with rough, fuzzy bo
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
>> intended to happen Not sure I can provide a source on this (it's a matter of inner workings of Government). >> inflation [...] was actually absorbed by the financial market In the UK the CPI is made up mostly of operatio

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