tangental

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by tangental 4y ago
I visted this page hoping to see the PowerPC 970 top of the list, but all it gets is a "Dishonorable Mention". After going through three PowerMac G5s, all of which had their processors die within 4 years, I still bear a grudge.
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by tangental 4y ago
"Think of the children" is used to pre-emptively attack any opposition to what is being proposed, i.e. "you are against this? you don't care about children?". It is despised by privacy advocates and I wouldn't
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The Covid-19 hospital where no medics have been infected(youtube.com)
2 points by tangental 7y ago|0 comments
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by tangental 7y ago
A collaborative guide to COVID-19 care https://covid-at-home.info/
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by tangental 7y ago
I don't know about the US but in Europe many police stations are situated beside a bridge. There is a reason for that.
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Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics(theguardian.com)
61 points by tangental 7y ago|15 comments
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by tangental 7y ago
In Italy the average age of patients who have died is 81
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Ask HN: Online games to play with isolated loved ones
1 points by tangental 7y ago|4 comments
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The ethics of walking in cricket: from Socrates to Nietzsche(theguardian.com)
2 points by tangental 7y ago|0 comments
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by tangental 7y ago
I think the reference was to languages in general. In James Joyce's Ulysses there are four or five chapters which all tell basically the same story, but written in wildly different styles - one like an ancient legend, another a &#x2
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by tangental 7y ago
> while (<>) { ($h{$_}++ == 1) && push (@outputarray, $_); }; We use Perl::Critic [0] to deal with issues like that. It has enabled us to develop a very consistent style, and helps new devs adopt to it quite quickly. [0] h
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by tangental 7y ago
Interesting perspective there. Worth noting that Larry Wall trained as a linguist and "often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale" [0] > On a good day th
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by tangental 7y ago
> Remember 'who shot JR?' All was revealed by Father Ted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq4_c-_r0K4
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by tangental 7y ago
I always get a good laugh when I'm reading an article on the Guardian about protecting my privacy and look up to see uMatrix reporting 182 trackers blocked.
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by tangental 7y ago
As someone who (happily) pays for music and needs it in a high quality format, I really like Bandcamp. After buying say 10 tracks I notice on my credit card statement 3 or 4 transactions, one for each of the labels the tracks belong to, so
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by tangental 8y ago
There is another critical thinker I recently came across - Adam Greenfield - much better then Morozov IMO. Have a look at his latest book: Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x2F
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by tangental 8y ago
"Julius-Christian Schreiner’s Silent Agents series, shot in London, Paris, Innsbruck and Hamburg, depicts examples of ‘hostile architecture’: subtle interventions in urban spaces designed to hinder people’s use of them." I found t
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Hostile architecture: an uncomfortable urban art – in pictures(theguardian.com)
2 points by tangental 8y ago|1 comments
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Pop, passion and enemas: how online forums created a new musical culture(theguardian.com)
2 points by tangental 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Examples of short and ethical privacy policies
4 points by tangental 9y ago|1 comments
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by tangental 9y ago
Yes I use it regularly. It has more or less the same features as the commercial software. Where it falls down is with the quality of the audio effects which are nowhere near as good as the ones you find on Serato or Traktor, but they'r
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by tangental 9y ago
Not for producing as such but there's also Mixxx DJ software where you can write your own controls and effects in Javascript.
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by tangental 9y ago
Check maps and know where all the water bodies are in the area, and all the routes to get to them.
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by tangental 11y ago
"This is more like phishing, asking us to sign up to something that looks helpful, but is actually a data breach."
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Frankie Boyle on the snooper's charter(theguardian.com)
4 points by tangental 11y ago|1 comments
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My work at GCHQ and the surveillance myths that need busting(theguardian.com)
13 points by tangental 11y ago|5 comments
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Bangalore's lake of toxic foam – in pictures(theguardian.com)
2 points by tangental 11y ago|1 comments
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by tangental 13y ago
Theresa May is not too happy http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/20/theresa-ma...
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Yahoo European operations move to Dublin to escape UK snooping(uk.help.yahoo.com)
1 points by tangental 13y ago|1 comments