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   by zyxley 11y ago

   That second one would make for an amazing canvas print.
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   by zyxley 11y ago

   "I did it in this specific area, so anybody who can't in the entire country is just lazy" seems to be what you're implying here, and that's an incredibly unhelpful position when dealing with tuition that in many pla
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   by zyxley 11y ago

   iCloud data store syncing is OK, but file syncing is unreliably slow. Unlike Dropbox, it doesn't have the "two computers synced before I even turned around from one to the other" experience.
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   by zyxley 11y ago

   People stick with Dropbox for a simple reason: they do the syncing thing faster and more painlessly than anyone else out there. If Apple ever gets their act together and makes iCloud actually fast and reliable a syncing service, Dropbox mig
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   by zyxley 11y ago

   > Why was this upfuckage so spectacular? Because it had power wired to ground. This would be incredibly absurd in ANY variety of powered cable. This is not merely "noncompliant with spec", it's "actively dangerous bec
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   User interface for the Enterprise(github.com)

   4 points by zyxley 11y ago|1 comments
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   by zyxley 11y ago

   If you're talking about encabulators, it's hard to go wrong with the Rockwell retro-encabulator line. I know newer retro-proto-turbo-encabulators have flashier features, but newer isn't always better when you're dealing
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   by zyxley 11y ago

   And if the person who wants to refer to something was offline at the time...?
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   by zyxley 11y ago

   And if the person who wants to refer to something was offline at the time...?
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    But where's the LCARS interface?
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    > during a five-year probe of the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation methods "Harsh interrogation methods", the latest euphemism for "torture except it doesn't count as torture when a Western nation does it".
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    Why do people open restaurants when the overwhelming majority of new restaurants go bankrupt in short order?
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    I've done this for a variety of subjects, and I rather like it... but it depends on having a very good tablet and a very good stylus (e.g. iPad Pro, Surface Pro, or so on). For me there were two key points: it makes it very easy to dro
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    So... what about banks with no actual physical branches?
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    Take a look at planograms for retail displays.
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    The issues you're talking about aren't ones I've seen anyone else complain about (and don't happen for me), so I'm wondering if there's something specific to your configuration that's affecting it.
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    > "I know it may seem ironic but fish and native staple foods do cost more than turkey tails," she says. > James Sumner, president of the U.S. Poultry and Egg Exporting Council, says his organization didn't realize they
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    > The amalgamation is a single C code file, named "sqlite3.c", that contains all C code for the core SQLite library and the FTS3, FTS5, RTREE, DBSTAT, JSON1, and RBU extensions. This file contains about 184K lines of code (113K
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    Now I'm wondering how long until we start seeing frameworks use Unicode like 𐅭 or 𒌔.
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    > It'd almost certainly require consent or a warrant to get the data (in the US). The problem is that, as many court rulings have affirmed, in the US it's not "your" data anymore when it gets to the company's ser
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    The way macros and dot operators work in Nim is super neato. Lots of interesting possibilities for DSLs and the like.
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    Airlines taking away free snacks for customers feels like companies taking away free snacks for employees: it doesn't really matter much by itself for anyone involved, but it's an obvious signal that the management involved can&#x
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    Rosebud was his sled.
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    Snapchat is the first app that makes me feel like an old man shaking my fist at the young hooligans on the lawn. The abtruse interface leaves me tremendously baffled.
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    "Like Google except for math problems"
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    > whats going to happen when 5 cars see only one spot, and they all try and go for that same spot? What happens when 5 human drivers see only one spot, and they all try and go for that same spot?
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    I'd rather see a focus on smarter and faster braking then on solving contrived moral dilemmas.
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    Calling it a clone of Prison Architect is pretty weird. There's very little shared except for the graphics style. Even the basic "click to place walls" construction system is broadly different, given that in Prison Architect
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    I still don't understand why so many people get absurdly, irrationally angry about something that's pretty much the equivalent of duct taping an old cell phone to your hat. Even on "technophile" web hangouts, I saw all k
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    by zyxley 11y ago

    FYI, on iPhone this shows up at maybe 2/3rds width of the screen with the rest as white space.