Momquist

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by Momquist 9y ago
Saying the truth is racist now? Are these cheap knock-offs Chinese or not? China remains the main source of counterfeit goods. This is a fact. > Counterfeit goods are estimated to amount to approximately 12.5 % of China’s total exports
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by Momquist 9y ago
It is possible to block web font request on a per-domain basis via an extension, even on Chrome. I have webfonts disabled by default for a while, and thought about building a whitelist of acceptable ones but have been too lazy to implement
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by Momquist 9y ago
uMatrix is definitely great for this. I consider it a request firewall at browser level. And it works very well at blocking everything (JS, CSS, image, any type of request really) by default, should you wish to do so. It also allows blockin
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by Momquist 9y ago
Since you are new to HN, you may not know this, but it is considered poor form to complain about being downvoted. And more often than not, it invites even more downvotes as a result. From the HN Guidelines (which I recommend reading): >
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by Momquist 9y ago
> as long as they propagate our values and don't crush us. There's a paradox here I think. If they propagate our values, then there's a very good chance that they will crush us. How do more "primitive" people f
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by Momquist 9y ago
First time I hear about Brian May being an astrophysicist. Very surprising (to me at least). He was awarded his PhD in 2007, for his study on the formation of zodiacal dust clouds. https://phys.org/news/2008-07-brian-gu
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Wastewater injections set off a Kansas earthquake binge(arstechnica.com)
1 points by Momquist 9y ago|0 comments
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by Momquist 9y ago
> BeautifulSoup is great, but it's counterintuitive (I always need to refer to documentation even for very basic aspects that I've used dozens of times before) and it's often slow and has some really weird xml bugs) I wo
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by Momquist 9y ago
If you have a nvidia GPU, then it may well be the fault of the latest drivers (390.25), which have been buggy, and it's especially notable under Chrome/Chromium (video/audio stuttering, problems with vsync, general slowness,
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by Momquist 9y ago
> What are kids today using to do this kind of 'make my own tinkered games' stuff -- do they go straight to Unity, or still something like QBasic? Python, with pygame, is the modern equivalent I think. It's relatively ea
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by Momquist 9y ago
> I mean why would a successful, well-adjusted "gentleman" even be in a situation where the best option for him is to live in a shared apartment with a woman considerably younger than him? Sure he gave her a reason, but well,
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by Momquist 9y ago
Gut reactions to psychopaths tend to be the opposite: they are charming, and charismatic. Theres's a very good chance that you will like them, from the first impression. That's one of the traits/signs of a psychopath. That&#x
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by Momquist 9y ago
The url can be found via the archive's API, and you can specify a timestamp. http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=http://yorktownhist... It returns a json with, notably, the closest archived page giv
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by Momquist 9y ago
That's assuming that someone recognizes which strategy was responsible for failure. Blaming the competitors, or the employees, is probably much more comforting and easier for upper management.
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by Momquist 9y ago
> But, at least for me, the industry has done a decent job of competing with piracy on convenience. It has, but the fragmentation that you mentioned is starting to seriously erode this progress. If the situation worsens on this front,
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by Momquist 9y ago
I wasn't talking about economic competitors, but opponents to Google/Apple in the political area (e.g. EFF), who may lobby for changes. Therefore my note about the democratic process. Minorities may make demands, but whether they
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by Momquist 9y ago
> Most people don't realize how bad all sorts of things in their life are. I'd say that most people are regularly bombarded by all these issues in the medias. If they still don't realize, then this is because they active
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by Momquist 9y ago
> This is why both android and ios are NOT the mobile os of the future. I too would like a more open OS for mobiles, but you have to realize that the majority of users doesn't care about this. They are unconcerned about most priva
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by Momquist 9y ago
> If you want to advocate cryonics for the masses, think about what you would do if you had to live in a world with the reanimated masses of the 18th century. Sounds like Riverworld. I think it could be quite interesting. But anyway, w
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by Momquist 9y ago
This is on Windows. From my own experience, a few months ago, on Linux mpv was still the better choice (more performant, better image quality, some more polished/reliable features like subtitles) as long as you don't mind the mini
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by Momquist 9y ago
> Which is why I personally dont even consider it. So, assuming you're a man (bear with me if you aren't): are you so open-minded and rational that you do consider female clothes in your shopping too? Do you look at women&#x2
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by Momquist 9y ago
https://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/brain-training-bo... It's based on the Brain Endurance Training (BET), by Samuele Marcora of the university of Kent, who is quoted in the OP's article (for his defin
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by Momquist 9y ago
> Why dress up / acquire certain things, in order to conform to some random pre-designated style? Why speak english and not invent your own language? Clothing and appearance is (also) communication. And to be understood, some of t
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by Momquist 9y ago
Note that progman.exe was still shipped with the OS (it disappeared for good with Vista), and you could even set it as the default shell at boot. I don't remember anyone using this setup ever though. Maybe this was too obscure and tech
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by Momquist 9y ago
> I agree with you that keeping the file metadata in a separate fork is far superior to keeping the file metadata in a three character extension Since we're talking about Win95, then the 3 characters limit doesn't apply (long
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Virtual Violence(skeptic.com)
2 points by Momquist 9y ago|0 comments
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by Momquist 9y ago
https://www.happy-or-not.com/en/smiley-terminal/
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by Momquist 9y ago
I have no answer to this question, but various people are revisiting old CRPGs in a more or less exhaustive manner. My favourite one is crpgaddict who plays a list of CRPGs in chronological order, with at least 6 hours spent on each one.
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by Momquist 9y ago
Reminds me of a recent talk at FOSDEM based on this premise. The circuit less traveled. Investigating some alternate histories of computing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlERSVSDl7Y
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by Momquist 9y ago
> Still have the old games, but I haven't had the willpower to learn how to use Wine. Maybe check PlayOnLinux? It provides a front-end to Wine and automatizes game installations via custom scripts. Basically, you select your game

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