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721.
by thwarted 10y ago
If you're going to build tunnels for vehicles, you might as well put tracks in.
722.
by thwarted 10y ago
I think that if you have a verified account, you shouldn't be able to delete tweets. This would be a decent tradeoff for being recognized as a public figure, of which I think deletion of content runs afoul of.
723.
by thwarted 10y ago
There was a period where there was major demand for form widgets in the browser to have a "native look and feel" to decrease the learning curb for people coming from native apps (while meaningful at the time, is less of an issue w
724.
by thwarted 10y ago
I don't agree with basic income, because I believe like welfare people will find ways to exploit it. The whole point of UBI is to avoid means testing, so there's no reason to game it. Of course, if anything, we won't have
725.
by thwarted 10y ago
This reminds me of "What Color are your bits?" — http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
726.
by thwarted 10y ago
The existence of DRM in a format is usually the reason something doesn't get supported, usually due to licensing or patent issues on the DRM, if not because of philosophical/political/social issues around supporting DRM its
727.
by thwarted 10y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about false positives. It's not that I'm worried, it's that it's a distraction. When the margin of error is high enough, it becomes less signal and more noise, which leads to either panic
728.
by thwarted 10y ago
I'm not sure how much I can trust the results of a site that claims an email address I only use for one site has been breached on sites and services I've never been to. However it's calculating if what you enter into the for
729.
by thwarted 10y ago
It's currently pretty even, despite higher margins for AWS, and "already" is saying a lot despite how long AWS has been around. I covered this 64 days ago in [0], but here's the relevant part again. Looking at Amazon&#
730.
by thwarted 10y ago
This description is right out of Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, written in the context of opposite effect of handicapping those of extreme skill/means rather than the debilitating effect of those trying to live a "normal"
731.
by thwarted 10y ago
illegally drove in a bike lane to make a right turn at a light, cutting off another car at the light that was legally trying to proceed right Diverging off-topic, and your account is light on specifics needed for this divergence... http:
732.
by thwarted 10y ago
How's it perform on tmpfs or ramdisk?
733.
by thwarted 10y ago
And yet when it comes to browser compatibility, it's encouraged, nigh necessary, to test for capabilities rather than check version strings and assume that the version string is saying something meaningful about the environment. "
734.
by thwarted 10y ago
And there are countless examples like my anecdotal one I gave above, you just need to go into any institution or company office, look at how people work on their computers and realize that the world needs millions of small programs like mi
735.
by thwarted 10y ago
Probably the same way the State Department tells the families of journalists detained by foreign governments that they are "working on it", but that it just not worth it, financially and politically, to unleash the full power of t
736.
by thwarted 10y ago
It is possible to have a "connected UDP socket". It is one that is already set up with a remote endpoint. if you connect() a SOCK_DGRAM UDP socket to a remote host, you can use send() and recv() as well as sendto() and recvfrom()
737.
by thwarted 10y ago
That was exactly my experience when buying my first home back in 2003. There's a lot of information out there about buying a home, but very little of it is actually useful for first time home buyers, IMO. The mortgage company literal
738.
by thwarted 10y ago
From the ISC crontab(5) man page: The CRON_TZ specifies the time zone specific for the cron table. User type into the chosen table times in the time of the specified time zone. The time into log is taken from local time zone, where is the
739.
by thwarted 10y ago
I think a big function of the checkmark is reassuring people that an account belong to who it says it belongs to That is in fact the only reason Verified Accounts exist, and is the reason that non-celebrities or people otherwise lacking n
740.
by thwarted 10y ago
I think that one of the things that an account should have to trade in for being a Verified Account is the ability to delete tweets. Being a public figure and having the notoriety that is implicit in having a Verified Account, the account
741.
by thwarted 10y ago
I'm sure the downvotes are due to this thread being a rephrasing of supply-side economics (aka Reaganomics), which has (shown to be|considered to be) (unworkable|undesirable) or otherwise fallen out of favor (at the very least as a pol
742.
by thwarted 10y ago
I've rarely used the C128 mode in VICE, but according to the manual[1], x128 emulates a z80 too. It would be kind of cool to develop in linux and then "deploy" the code to x128's z80 emulator as a "production"
743.
by thwarted 10y ago
But where does Amazon's primary revenue stream actually come from? That's right, it's AWS. Looking at Amazon's Q1 2016 Financial Results [0], page 8, we see that net sales of non-AWS amounts to ~$26B, and AWS is ~$2.5B
744.
by thwarted 10y ago
Lack of patent examiner familiarity with the industry, history, and the state of the art is traditionally considered a weak point in the system as a whole. Supposedly when writing the patent claims you're supposed to do a search to ma
745.
by thwarted 10y ago
Only power users are going to bother clicking a button just to help them fill in a form, or even know that's what the button does in the first place. This is an interesting observation. I never used the "wand" function in
746.
by thwarted 10y ago
Software is by no means immune to what you list. Indeed, as Hubris is one of the Three Virtues of a Programmer, you definitely find it. Hubris isn't necessarily the wrong word in this larger context of indispensability, but I've
747.
by thwarted 10y ago
I disagree. Write a kernel driver on Linux and NT and you'll see how much more superior the NT I/O subsystem is. Can programming against the userspace interface the I/O subsystem really be compared to programming against th
748.
by thwarted 10y ago
No need for a slimy business model, the debtor can generate these documents themselves.
749.
by thwarted 10y ago
Figured it was something like this. This is great news if you're trying to get rid of bill collectors. Just make some "proof" on "company letterhead" that the debt has been cleared. It's no more scummy than h
750.
by thwarted 10y ago
any important information being passed by Excel is a travesty I think that's putting it mildly. A major issue with using Excel files for data transfer is, to put it bluntly, the lackadaisical way people treat Excel files. They are p

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