bumblebeard

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by bumblebeard 7y ago
I left a water bottle in my bag at SJC once. The TSA agent pulled me aside after I went through the scanner and pointed to it on the X-Ray to ask me what it was. I said something like "oh, oops, looks like I forgot my water bottle in t
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by bumblebeard 8y ago
Watts measure power, Watt hours measure energy. A 200 GW power plant could output a maximum of ~1,700 TWh in a year which is about 8% of 21,000 TWh.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
It's probably not very common but it has definitely happened: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-so...
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Sex, sexual orientation, and gender are different things. By gender spectrum she means that most people's behavior is somewhere along a continuum between completely masculine and completely feminine and that virtually nobody is at one
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Hybrid graphics likely depends on a proprietary driver to work so that's probably where the problem lies. As for the RAM, you might just need to expand your swap partition so its the same size in order for hibernation to work. And real
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Yeah, there's really no excuse for the safety record at Tesla's factory. At least the workers seem to be organizing so hopefully things will improve soon. Also FYI it's takt time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
That sounds infuriating. Have you started looking for another job yet? I know I would.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Wow, that's just extra obnoxious then. I wonder why they go to the trouble of breaking their website just for people who disable JS. Ads maybe?
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
I doing some work in a school just a year ago that still taught cursive to their students. I asked why and their response was pretty much just "because that's what you do in third grade." I don't get it.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Where are you that your local library is like this? I've been to a few public libraries in my state and none of them have been like this. Most of them aren't very busy but they're always clean and usually have a decent select
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
What are some of them? I'm not too up on the latest research in this area so it would be interesting to know how you can do a cryptocurrency that doesn't depend on proof-of-work calculations.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Iowa's redistricting commission is truly non-partisan: no politicians are allowed to participate. Seems to work fairly well for them just looking at the maps and variety of results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
I dunno if they've changed it since you looked but scroll is zoom for me (Firefox 52 on Debian).
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Not OP but I do some of these things with KeePass as well. For autofill, KeeFox works well for me on Firefox - there's probably something similar for Chrome. I think KeePass will do autotype if you right-click on an entry but it's
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Yeah, it was probably a smaller amount. I would think most people's credit limit is less than the cost of a boat.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Most utilitarians turn out not to actually think that way in real-life situations so I wouldn't worry about it. Moral realism is tied to religion for a lot of people and so some non-religious folks just reject it out of hand, which I t
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Some kind of cryptographic challenge-response system might be a good solution but I don't know how to get your average computer user and customer support rep to use a system like that. All the ones I can think of are designed for compu
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
I haven't tried Brave but that sounds like a good development. I still don't really like being advertised to but if it's relevant or at least easy to ignore then I don't mind either. I guess that puts me at about a 4 on
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Meh, it's still kind of interesting though. Just because something's unpopular in general doesn't mean the specifics aren't worth looking at.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
They mention this at one point; 4 is neutral on their scale so an average of 5.23 just means that people have a mild to moderate dislike of advertising in general. I don't know anybody who likes advertising (well, one person but they
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
I like Bill Wurtz and all but I'm kind of surprised to see this on the front page of HN.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
I mostly agreed with what he was saying until he made that non-sequitur about "postmodern neo-Marxism." Universities are just giving the students what they want: a piece of paper that allows access to the job market. Most modern u
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Google was perfectly willing to self-censor in China until they were hacked by the Chinese government in 2010. That's when Google China moved to Hong Kong. https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Just because it makes your job easier doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
It might be; looks like they were both added in 38.0.5: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/38.0.5/releasenotes/
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
That's my understanding of how the law works in the US. In the UK though it sounds like you're breaking the law if you watch the stream as well.
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
It looks pretty cheap in the US actually, not much more than home cable. For example, here's what Comcast offers bars and restaurants: https://business.comcast.com/tv/restaurants
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
Are we currently able to trust hardware and closed source software implementations?
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
This is applicable regardless of who's in charge of the national security apparatus. Not that encryption does much good against the state anyway; they'll just throw you in jail until you give them what they want: https:/&#x2
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by bumblebeard 9y ago
I'd prefer if they wrote something like "0.68 mm (about half as thick as a US dime)." That way the number is still there for people who don't want to look up how thick a dime is.

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