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by yew 14y ago
This being my primary problem with the current upheaval in Linux system organization. Its instigators have mostly made it clear that they consider everything not Linux (or possibly preferably not their favorite flavor thereof) to be obsol
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by yew 14y ago
I wouldn't say 'much.' The issue was about as controversial then as it is now. The controversy surrounding the 'Statute of Anne' around that time (being a little loose with 'around') is particularly informative. Regardless, American 'intell
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by yew 14y ago
Eh. Wikipedia comparison matrices don't actually explain anything, and blog posts are only equally useful if they form part of a community-curated collection of similar posts (or are written by people with really high credibility). It i
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by yew 14y ago
> Do you have to resort to personal attacks? Really? You are hardly in a position to talk. Anyway, the only 'personal attack' that I see is calling you a jerk - which seems to be rather an entirely accurate characterization. > If yo
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by yew 14y ago
Think of it as a matter of communication. Everyone (or at least almost everyone) is lobbying for 'good stuff,' so it's not a particularly useful statement to make all by itself. > Further, I would think that even when objectiveness is
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by yew 14y ago
The statement that something is good, without further qualification, does tend to imply that it is universally held to be good. Albeit the two aren't necessarily synonymous. They tend to be taken as such in everyday conversation.
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by yew 14y ago
It's Horn. Google seems averse to accent retraining - which is maybe not entirely a bad thing.
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by yew 14y ago
I'm hoping for something like the stock browser's quick controls myself. I find them much easier to use quickly, and even a little bit of extra screen space is nice to have on a phone.
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by yew 14y ago
The Humble Bundles are the only reliable source of high-quality Linux-compatible games that I'm aware of, so I expect them to continue to get a fair bit of attention. Though I voted this submission up because of its informational value. I s
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by yew 14y ago
It's completely reasonable to warn them. It's not reasonable to post yet another warning in a thread consisting entirely of warnings and no answers . It's possible that they don't know what they are doing. It's also possible that you d
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by yew 14y ago
Do you want full separation of the head at the neck? You might be able to manage that with a knife, but a specialized bone saw is more likely to get the job done. I believe most modern medical procedures use powered saws, specifically becau
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by yew 14y ago
Not at Google, but: I chose xmonad when I was making the switch because it seemed to be the most stable of the tiling window managers at the time. I've stuck with it mostly out of inertia; I don't actually know much Haskell. I avoided aweso
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by yew 14y ago
Ah, it might be as much a matter of my interpretation skills. But anyway, it's still true that the real danger is radiation. I would be interested in finding out whether they intend to shield part of the station or just schedule visits arou
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by yew 14y ago
I suspect (a fair proportion of) the initial crop of tourists are already aware. The risk isn't really that high, though. It'll only become a real concern once things start to scale up. Then we'll have to clean up orbital space. The real pr
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by yew 14y ago
I think the real problem is that many doctors also lack the capacity to translate statistical data into a rational evaluation of risk. Consider the infamous 'mammogram statistics problem' as an example. So what do you do then, when nobody
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by yew 14y ago
I can't speak for this estimate in particular, but Verne usually did his (quite extensive) calculations in metric units. Many older translations of his work swapped in imperial or US customary units without adjusting the values for the 'ben
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by yew 14y ago
I think it is primarily a legal concern. Legally, caching public content is not always an acceptable (or at least clear-cut) practice. I concur in thinking that's a little silly, but enough people disagree for it to be an issue that Google
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by yew 14y ago
It is actually cheaper to launch a DDoS attack then to talk to the webmaster, if you already control enough zombies and value your personal time highly enough. The attack might have been launched for the fun of it, too. Why not, when you wo
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by yew 14y ago
That rule is usually correct, but has some exceptions. Though 'between me' sounds better to my ear than 'between I'. Regardless, 'me' is always correct as the object of a prepositional phrase because it's an object pronoun. 'I' is a subject
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by yew 14y ago
Are you sure 'between my friends and me' is actually incorrect? It is a prepositional phrase, unless I'm mistaken. I admit to having little familiarity with the relevant grammar. (Boy is this off topic!)
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by yew 15y ago
Speaking of file conflicts: I'm picturing an alternate universe in which 'the database' stands in for 'the filesystem'. Data is laid out in a manner logical for its origins. Most programs use the library-provided implementation, of course,
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by yew 15y ago
We already have something akin to that - Python (PEP 8 specifically). People still find things to argue about though, presumably because they enjoy it. On the upside, it happens less often!
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by yew 15y ago
I consider loss of specificity (which is what is happening in the latter case) to be devolution, and do not find descriptivism a convincing (or even meaningful) argument against that position. Other arguments might prove more successful, of
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by yew 15y ago
If the issue were just what we thought there would be no problem. The real issue is the impression created in the majority of people (which might include us, of course). If the video creates high anticipations that are not met then Glas
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by yew 15y ago
I wear photochromic prescription lenses and have horrible vision without them. I'm certainly not going to take them off, and you have no way of knowing that they are not sunglasses just by looking at them. That might explain my lack of aver
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by yew 15y ago
You've not heard of lifelogging? It was mentioned up/down thread. It's hardly common at the moment but the privacy concerns are older than Google as a company.
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by yew 15y ago
High-technology civilizations rely on a more-or-less constant stream of innovations (or solutions to hard problems) in order to maintain a reasonable equilibrium in all sorts of areas (economy, environment, society). That reliance increases
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by yew 15y ago
Ease of innovation does not necessarily correlate with value (in a long-term/social sense) of innovation. As you point out that can be worked around by taking profits from easy innovations and using them to fund hard-but-valuable ones, bu
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by yew 15y ago
No macros or compilers per se. There are map editors that allow you to make copies of existing groups of blocks, like replicating seven-segment displays. There are not really any repositories of existing designs, so the logic was probably a
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by yew 15y ago
Think more that as I am not inside your head, I do not have the slightest clue as to what your one-word post is intended to communicate.

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