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by devrandomguy 9y ago
And use all of the masts as an ELF antenna array. That will give those racks something to think about: subsurface phased-array radar for submarine spotting, earthquake and atmospheric study, etc.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
And not one of those villains ever thought to trap the button. Pull to disarm, push to receive flashbang.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Could the title be updated to indicate whether we are talking about smoking, or other means of ingestion? Smoke inhalation was already known to be bad, regardless of what the smoke was made from.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Perhaps it was not government sponsored, but rather an attack by one or more local extremists, of some sort.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
A $10 PCB is so much simpler than poison. Easier to acquire, safer (for the attacker) to store and deliver, harder to recognize as a weapon (think wifi router case). And perhaps most importantly, you can include a remote kill switch in cas
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
> nobody at the company could come up with a way to bypass the use of that form Yeah, that's a big red flag. Sounds like the system is programming the people.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Inspect -> delete <head>, delete #main-nav. There, now I can read it.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The former, because it is both risque and clever. The latter is just rude and unrelated, and will be forgotten with the rest of the mental trash.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
It is the one minority that we all inevitably become. "Respect your elders" has all kinds of reason behind it.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What are you more likely to remember a week from now: Meatpistol or Metapistol? Reminds me of the resistor color code mnemonic, something I memorized for life the first time I heard it.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Yes, this is similar to how I would like to handle issues: just an issues directory full of yaml-markdown files. That way, issues are a part of the same history as the code. They can be specific to a branch, they can diverge as different so
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
> The days of pure/basic research are dead, especially with funding from the public sector drying up. I have been wondering, could pure research work well with a crowd-funding model? In addition to applying for a grant, the PI would
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
One of the authors, Thomas Piketty, wrote Capital in the 21st Century, a fascinating book about the mechanics that drive wealth concentration. He explores the limits of wealth concentration, as a positive feedback loop that inevitably desta
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Can you fake a reasonably indistinguishable 404 response for content that exists, but should not be publicly discoverable? In the validation function docs [1], there is an example of HTTP errors being thrown, I'm just not sure if there
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Perhaps our civilization is not yet ready for direct contact with the Culture. Hopefully, someone and her drone are working on the problem.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
With all due respect, I am concerned that people are over-sexualizing things, as a form of moral panic. My solution is to dispassionately discuss the problem, so that it can be de-escalated. Kudos to the mod team for their handling of the l
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Right now, I do not feel safe discussing this subject. That is why I am asking how to safely discuss it.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What if my grievance is with the people / culture at work?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
As a white man, I have concerns that my ethnic / gender group is being persecuted. How should I raise these issues for discussion, in a professional environment?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
You know why I don't complement women's outfits in public? Because I am terrified to do so!
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I used to have conversations like that with a female roommate, and since then, have developed some interesting ideas about human-born artwork. It sounds to me like the phenomenon you are describing is a form of dysfunctionality that is not
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Commenting on someone's bathing suit is not inherently sexual, because we do it in non-sexual contexts; for example, I complemented my nephiew's new swim trunks earlier this summer. A particular complement might be sexual, but we
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
How is it sexual?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Well, this is an issue that I would never have dared to tackle, myself, mainly because I do not have the political skill to do it safely. So, I offer a thank-you and a salute to the less inhibited guy who rose up and drew the first bullet.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Oh yes, we're living the dream already. But the poor natives of the various environments, just can't convince us universalists to follow their customs, share in their libraries, unpack our stuff into the designated locations. I me
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Well, I can downvote comments in different threads, but not in any threads that I am participating in. The down arrow is simply absent from those comments.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Ah, my bad. In that case, the performance concern might not apply, but the cultural concerns probably still do, to a lesser degree.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I have recently discovered that on HN, you can either downvote or reply, but not both. As a dev who has used both React and a couple of native desktop UI libs, I get a fair bit of pushback on the whole Electron / app-in-browser idea. T
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
But filters block light, reducing the effectiveness of the telescope. Also, you need to set them up before the photos are taken. I am suggesting a way to process existing grayscale photos, where the operator may have decided that filters we
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Fusion, of course. It actually is right around the corner now, this time.

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