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by zyxley 10y ago
I don't really see the relevance of the article. It complains a lot about students being oversensitive to bad things, but it has barely anything to do with actual trigger warnings. Trigger warnings aren't about bending to the ever
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by zyxley 10y ago
In practice, it basically means "club room where people who don't like the club aren't allowed in".
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by zyxley 10y ago
The "so called" part of the announcement feels like it's meant to be particularly patronizing. "You rassafrassin youngsters, with your so-called rap music and trigger warnings!"
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Sorry, but you cannot get a proper education with trigger warnings and safe spaces. How so?
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by zyxley 10y ago
Different air density can have a huge impact, given the effects of drag.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> But how do you leave a toaster on when nobody's home? Start toast, go and grab the mail, get distracted by a neighbor, forget about the toast, go over to look at their new riding lawnmower. > And it's possible for a toaste
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by zyxley 10y ago
Motorized blinds should have a simple and incredibly useful killer feature for literally anyone living in a city: the blinds automatically close when you go to bed, and automatically open a little while before your alarm clock goes off. T
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by zyxley 10y ago
That's not a problem with the basic stateless-switch-with-LED concept; it's a problem with somebody putting together 20 buttons and expecting that to be usable in the dark. It would be no more usable if it was 20 unlit toggle swit
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by zyxley 10y ago
I could see cases where connected toasters could be useful. It'd be a marginal amount of added value, but it would be there. The problem is that in the current context, almost any IOT device has an additional negative value attached to
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by zyxley 10y ago
There's a device for that: http://resetplug.com
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by zyxley 10y ago
When the lights are turned completely off, the LEDs on the switch turn off, too.
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by zyxley 10y ago
The saddest part of that switch thing is that there are plenty of "stateless" switches around that still indicate light status: http://www.atticmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tour-our-... T
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by zyxley 10y ago
This feels... at best kinda silly. Is there anything actually gained here compared to, say, even just using ES6 + Babel?
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by zyxley 10y ago
Well, food is easy enough - canned food doesn't take up much space and is easy to keep stocked, assuming you regularly rotate through it so that it doesn't expire. The harder part is water, as just a few days worth of drinking wat
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Even small subs which used to be the place to go for deeper discussion have largely devolved into image boards targeting the lowest common denominator. There's some black humor here in how the actual imageboards (4chan, etc) are
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by zyxley 10y ago
So what do you do when Grandma accidentally deletes this JSON file and every app on her computer breaks?
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by zyxley 10y ago
Every configuration toggle is something somebody can break by clicking it wrong. For most people, things like this are a source of background worry, not a useful benefit.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> What I am saying is that in English, after learning 26 letters, you can read any combination of them. But those combinations are usually learned via oral tradition and rote rather than actually having anything to do with the letters th
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by zyxley 10y ago
Both of these are doomed in the mainstream until you can "just join" instead of having to pick from a list of servers you know nothing about anyway.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Exactly. The US military has plans for everything, up to and including dealing with a literal zombie apocalypse [1]. [1]: http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/13/exclusive-the-pentagon-h...
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Still, how can a first visit to a site require a getItem call before displaying anything at all? Something like "the index.html page is empty, and gets populated from other templates by (insert Javascript framework here)". Th
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by zyxley 10y ago
> People who raise these issues now probably and unintentionally end up generating hatred amongst individuals who might otherwise be perfectly fine with each other. For events only 50 years ago, it's more likely that the hatred is a
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by zyxley 10y ago
I was just thinking that. If you really want an isometric look but need more complicated rendering than layered tiles, it seems like it would be much easier to do 3d rendering but lock the 'camera' into an orthographic projection
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by zyxley 10y ago
> On stock (and jailbroken) Kindles you can send PDFs or MOBIs to username@kindle.com and have them auto-downloaded to your Kindle. That's no good for me because I tend to do a lot of random edits of my epub collection to fix editin
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by zyxley 10y ago
What I'd really like to see, personally, is Dropbox syncing over wifi with an arbitrary library of ebooks.
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by zyxley 10y ago
coldtea's point is that "difficult" when you can walk away from it and never have to work another day in your life, and "difficult" when getting it wrong means that your life and your childrens' lives are ruine
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by zyxley 10y ago
To me, it sounded from the description like the place was built in the brutalist style and then (as seems to be inevitable for brutalist architecture) degenerated from "imposing" to "dank and oppressive" with lack of pro
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by zyxley 10y ago
I have to wonder what it would be like if, instead of reinventing the page load process using Javascript frameworks, the web had gone in the direction of increasingly refined frameset functionality.
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by zyxley 10y ago
People collectively sabotage themselves all the time. It's called the tragedy of the commons.
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by zyxley 10y ago
The article seems to make the fundamental error of assuming that there is any middle ground between "unbreakable crypto" and "effectively no crypto at all". If crypto can be broken, it will be broken, whether that&#x

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