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by unqueued 7y ago
> I'm looking forward to self-driving electrics. You hop in the car, it takes you to your destination, and then you hop out. At off-peak hours they drive themselves to a car farm far away from the city, and recharge. The car service
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by unqueued 7y ago
> In my experience, they will know how to share their Google Docs (which is where their spreadsheets and typed reports in all likelihood get written) with you. From what she has told me, and from what I have seen, some of them don't
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by unqueued 7y ago
> Maybe we'll get there. They'll put induction coils in the streets and electric cars will charge and get powered as they go. Unless you're going on a long trip there'd be no need to ever worry about power. I think th
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by unqueued 7y ago
I don't want that world back at all, and actually I never grew up with any of that. But, there is a very simple and direct relationship between fuel in, movement out. And most new cars can also estimate how far they can go on how much
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by unqueued 7y ago
I agree that technology will be more streamlined as it becomes more widely adopted. But people still understand that they need to put gas in their car to make their car go, and if they run out of gas, their car can not go. We don't hav
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by unqueued 7y ago
It would be nice if people actually replied to you instead of just downvoting.
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by unqueued 7y ago
> I might imply that your highschool teacher friend is instead falling out of computer literacy, and that highshool students are moving away from her form of a computer-based workflow. I suppose, in the same way that people using crayons
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by unqueued 7y ago
I have a very similar anecdote. I had a long conversation with a friend who is a high school science teacher. She told me that computer literacy has plummeted in the last ten years. She has her students go into the field and collect data in
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by unqueued 7y ago
Back in I think 2011, Pakistan threw up their hands and gave up censoring the Internet, because trolls has so inundated popular websites with banned memes. This was during a conference where the prime minister was trying to lure investors a
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by unqueued 7y ago
He seems so proud of it
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by unqueued 7y ago
I quit social media two years ago, and while I think I am generally happier and less anxious, I am also left out. When everyone else has seen someone's new baby pictures or a picture from the summit of a mountain. Sadly, I am growing a
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by unqueued 7y ago
If we just stopped enforcing the laws, the damage to our society would be incalculable. Is it worth it to prosecute petty thefts for less than $100? If not, then we are giving the green light to that kind of crime. What incentive would you
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by unqueued 7y ago
> I recently dove into ELF files so I could convert ELF binaries to DOS EXE, for a little bit of retro programming with modern compilers. Not that I couldn't have used DJGPP. That sounds pretty cool, did you make anything you could
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by unqueued 8y ago
There are some really great self contained pre-built SheepShaver OS9 appliances. I don't suggest building your own unless you need to. Columbia University offers this one: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.ht
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by unqueued 8y ago
I saw it from about 25 miles north, at the train station. The sky was the most beautiful shade of blue. https://unqueued.github.io/public-pictures/
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by unqueued 8y ago
I had a similar challenge many years ago. I worked at a computer lab and had access to about 25 Dell Optiplex 380s, and I had about 200 DVDs I wanted to rip. They were for a friend, who was compiling city council meeting videos for a county
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by unqueued 8y ago
I've posted this a bunch of times on HN, but these scripts I use let me launch a new instance of the Firefox engine with its own prefs.js and extensions from the terminal[1]. Profilemaker pairs perfectly with this. [1]: https:/&#
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by unqueued 8y ago
Like I mentioned in parent comment, my project has had a lot of success with that. I know I was able to fool the Evercookie[1]. I can even have different profiles have different browser engines if I want. They each use individual prefs.js f
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by unqueued 8y ago
My project does that.[1] Since each profile has its own profile.js and extensions. One application is that I hate triggering financial portals to re-authenticate. So all of my finance happens from my home IP, no matter where I am. And inste
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by unqueued 8y ago
I wrote something that launches a new instance of the Firefox engine for specific profiles. https://github.com/unqueued/foxbox But I never got around to polishing it and making it more accessible. The thing that really
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by unqueued 8y ago
Oh cool, I use Sublime also. I actually made a slightly customized fork of this to help out: https://github.com/unqueued/sublime-notelink Most people would probably want the more powerful extension[1] which also has wi
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by unqueued 8y ago
HTTPS is a pain compared to HTTP, and I should not be pressured to use it, especially if I am on an internal network. Lets Encrypt has made it much easier, but it is still a significant and unnecessary barrier. And as helpful as things like
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by unqueued 8y ago
Captive portals are a messy hack, and haven't really changed much in the last 15 years.
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by unqueued 9y ago
Staying on top of these undocumented pseudo-formats is a real challenge. That's why it's a good idea to not wait to archive stuff. When I wanted to analyze my Google Voice history of 9 years, all of the scripts to parse it didn&#x