hillbillyjack

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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
Though I suspect I'm not as strict as the parent comment this is why I avoid alcohol. Father's side extremely alcoholic including several deaths (both liver failure/pancreatic, and alcohol related deaths). I've never had
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
I like the way apps work in android better than iOS they seem to have more freedom to work (things like Tasker being able to work with multiple apps, and Google Play Music able to run in the background and sync without me having to open the
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
There is a little of both in his statements. The one about the computer not turning on is a common occurrence these days where people let their computer sleep and just move/click the mouse for it to turn on but can't cold boot the
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
Well the current age for independence is 24 so it may have been the same when you went.
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
The bicycle is an inverted pendulum (and is unstable when still) but similar to an inverted pendulum when it is stabilized through rocking back and forth the bicycle achieves this stability in motion.
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
Have you ever had an intrusion on your blog network because you updated to quickly? Just curious whether or not your fear is from a previous experience. Will you upgrade to new releases day 1 when WordPress implements auto-updating on the s
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
Vim's modes are quite powerful and easy to get used to. To some extent it is probably people not learning their new editor completely and another part is sometimes the vim-way is just easier/quicker. Being able to escape insert mo
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
It is ridiculous to think that your number is private and even moreso to think that someone can steal money with just your cellphone number. Of course you could be phished or tricked by SMS but to expect your number to be private is to expe
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
It was down when they changed to a new datacenter[1]. I think github is just a much bigger target right now is why it goes down more often. [1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/07/02/scheduled-downtime-bitb...
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
I'm not the parent commenter but I've used matlab extensively and found Numpy clunky in comparison. All I ever did in matlab involved matrices (usually differential equations with matrix coefficients and other things of that natur
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
It doesn't exactly work like gmail does. You can set many alternative login passwords in fastmail and the google auth is one of those. So with the google auth you use your google auth fastmail password and append your google auth login
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
One really nice thing about firefox is no more He's Dead Jim pages. Chrome (even stable) seems to crash tabs all the time, while in the past 6 months firefox nightly hasn't crashed more than a once or twice. Another annoying thing
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
I doubt he is, it has been hard to get FreeBSD working on any laptop that isn't specifically supported by someone. You can see many non-working things here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ from no sound to can&
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
Without living in the US it is hard for you to come up with a valid argument against prioritizing automobile infrastructure. Population density alone makes it an issue outside of large cities like New York, because of that you'll also
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by hillbillyjack 13y ago
Their (Mint's) modifications are much harder to disable as well. If privacy is a real concern use another distro like debian or arch or ... etc. but don't use Mint which has had questionable browser modifications for a long time.