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by idle_processor 10y ago
> A lot of it I think is an over reaction to the way returning troops from vietnam where treated. Cultural concern for veterans coming home and being treated poorly, or being unable to readjust to civilian life, definitely predates the V
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by idle_processor 10y ago
You made a claim: "medications cannot cure [depression]." The burden of proof is with you, not with savanaly.
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by idle_processor 10y ago
"Perfect" is a stretch. It was one of the better options in its release window, though. One flaw: tough to repair (2/10 on ifixit [0]) which will be fun when the battery starts to go. Another issue: Android Marshmallow (adm
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by idle_processor 11y ago
> - Can you even Chromecast content that isn't from the internet? I have one and use it with Netflix all the time, but that's news to me. You can Chromecast local content over LAN via Videostream[0] for Google Chromecast. You c
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by idle_processor 11y ago
Liability.
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by idle_processor 11y ago
Not necessarily. The "tinfoil hat" approach is a personal-scope solution. Part of the "what do I do when I encounter it" course of action could involve a societal-scope solution. E.g., getting involved with privacy advoc
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by idle_processor 12y ago
Steve Yegge (Amazon, Google) of Stevey's Blog Rants seemed to think so. > My absolute favorite for this kind of interview preparation is Steven Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual. More than any other book it helped me underst
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by idle_processor 12y ago
Title slightly misleading. > I am not resigning from Debian, just from the systemd maintainer team. Source: tfheen@ http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/11/16/2142244/longtime-de...
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by idle_processor 12y ago
> "I once had a student who would review notes with me that he had taken on my lecture, then offer tips on how I could improve. It seems he thought he was doing me a favor, despite the fact that I had been teaching for six years by
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by idle_processor 12y ago
Can you please point me towards said open source projects?
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by idle_processor 12y ago
>The heart rate measurement doesn’t work so well (it fails two times out of three) but it also shows steady downward progress. Look into buying a 3rd party HRM (heart rate monitor). There's a fair chance that a chest strap will broa
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by idle_processor 12y ago
http://paydirtapp.com has a convenient Chrome extension that reminds you to clock in, based on a page matching filters you define. It also has uses server-side state, which can be handy across multiple devices or VMs.
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by idle_processor 12y ago
Those interested in gaming communities turning toxic should look at Starbound's subreddit[0] and community forums[1]. The climate's been growing increasingly hostile over feature delays, players unsatisfied with the product, and v
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by idle_processor 12y ago
Sadly, even if you kept all of your email on your own server, many people you communicate with are on GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.. You can't escape by leaving on your own; you'd need to spur others to mass exodus.
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by idle_processor 12y ago
Overnight is covered by leaving a client running, with logging. Offline is covered by using a BNC[0]. These solutions are years old, but perhaps less user-friendly than hipchat. There are a plethora of IRC clients to choose from one various
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by idle_processor 12y ago
First place was taken by Gennady.Korotkevich, also known as "tourist." He has a history of placing extremely highly in sport programming contests[0], is at the top of topcoder's algorithm section[1], and has had several artic
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by idle_processor 13y ago
Ergodox[0] provides split keyboard kits. There are some boom-style mounted monitor workstations vaguely in the vein of the NovelQuest Emperor[1] but I have yet to see one at a remotely sane price point. I also haven't seen the monitor
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by idle_processor 13y ago
Can you please elaborate a bit on the imposed constraints that nerf it?
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by idle_processor 13y ago
The site's organization scheme has poor discoverability. Having the categories buried inside of a list element, instead of hierarchically closer to the root, is unusual and confusing. (Yes, many blog posts have tags at the end, but man
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by idle_processor 13y ago
Suppose I take your claim that "only the NSA could break [it]" on good faith. You're missing the word "presently." That back door is there. Others not having figured out how to interact with it yet is a matter of se
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by idle_processor 13y ago
Do you not consider this[0] evidence of them sabotaging cryptography systems? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944118
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by idle_processor 13y ago
>NVidia Titan GPU : it is a relatively cheap, massively parallel GPU Relatively cheap compared to having to build clusters, perhaps, but $1000 isn't cheap for a desktop computing GPU. A mid-high tier card (GeForce GTX 770) is closer
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by idle_processor 13y ago
This is damned cool. Having something like this makes it easy and convenient to explore geometry without the inconveniences imposed by physical media. Having specific goals to work towards and target move counts is icing on the cake. Thank
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by idle_processor 14y ago
>"Reading lots of books. Lots of non-fiction books. Particularly a lot about psychology, behavioural economics, studies of happiness" Mind sharing your top picks from that crop, sivers?
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Name a couple of said valid reasons?
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by idle_processor 14y ago
For the unfamiliar (like me) here's a video of WebOS Activity Cards from Palm's 2009 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUSui3rH1a8
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Is this less work than visiting github, right clicking the search field, and making gh the keyword?
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Going out on a limb and guessing he means unquestioningly bending over—in this case, rather literally—for authority figures in the face of unreasonable demands. IMO, Philip Zombardo's studies (most famously, the Stanford prison experiment[0
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by idle_processor 14y ago
The English needs a lot of work, but it's not incomprehensible. Bigger problems: the first problem's instructions are unclear; the first example is burdened with lines so long that they have to wrap; the first example involves crufty type c
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Chrome and Firefox's URL/omni-bars will pull up partial match results for bookmarks. As such, the benefit outlined by the grandparent post is available without having to hand that information over to a third party, unless you opt into a cro

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