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by jjjeffrey 12y ago
That's a great point. I play Nethack now and then, and I like how I can play it for an evening and then walk away, satisfied that I'll never beat it.
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by jjjeffrey 12y ago
I've been thinking recently about what makes a good video game experience for me, and it's slightly relevant. I can place the games I've highly enjoyed into two basic categories: -Short and sweet, having one or more of 1. int
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by jjjeffrey 12y ago
This is great! Some other things about ssh that everyone knew but me (until I found out): -scp supports bash completion for files on the server if you use a key pair. -Keychain ( http://www.funtoo.org/Keychain ) makes having
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
> "[LinkedIn] does not sanction the creation or use of fake LinkedIn profiles or the exploitation of its platform for the purposes alleged in this report." If I understand things correctly, it's not claimed that GHCQ made
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
At the bottom there are two lines that taken together really confuse me: <grsecurity> If you're running Linux 3.4 or newer and enabled CONFIG_X86_X32 , you need to disable it or update immediately; upstream vuln CVE-20
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Say I change security.tls.version.max to 3, which changes it's status from 'default' to 'user set'. In the future, if the default for security.tls.version.max is changed to, say, 4, would the fact that my setting ha
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
After reading this, it reminded me of Cauchy's integral formula. From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s_integral_formula ): "In mathematics, Cauchy's integral formula, named after August
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Welp, that made sense.
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
I thought the whole article was pretty interesting, but I responded to that part exactly the way you did. One of the big things I retained from my stats classes is the idea that, once you deviate from a pre-specified analysis technique, the
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Did anyone else find Inception to be basically straightforward (though interesting and enjoyable) with an insignificant binary question at the end? There certainly may be more depth than I'm seeing, but there wasn't anything that
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
After reading this article I realized I have a completely unrelated nerve wracking situation in my life that could benefit by having a "superior" work for me rather than the other way around.
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
I lived with a Russian family a few years ago for a month in one of the ten largest cities in Russia. As an American, I found many aspects of their society to be rather hostile, but I found at least one region to be a beautiful area of the
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Does anyone know of any free software that allows you to manage and visualize tasks in the manner advocated in the article?
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
I was once in a situation where I was forced to bum smokes for several days while essentially living at an international airport (forced as in it was the only way I could smoke during that time). It was pretty scary, especially at first, bu
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
You address an important topic, but I think the problem at hand comes from a more fundamental dysfunction within the system. Once a president is elected into office, he/she is in charge for a minimum of four years, almost guaranteed. W
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
What's so sketchy about them?
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
That was a powerful story, and it's well written too. I think it would make a great article for Vice or something like that, but obviously it's nice to read posts like this on HN.
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Princess Mononoke a film for children? I'd say it's a touch too bloody for most parents to deem it appropriate for their children.
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Does anyone know what it means to simulate brain activity? Is the brain being emulated in any meaningful way? Or is it just modeling the physical behavior of neurons?
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Idea: Perhaps election voting should be separated into different dates for different groups. I've certainly been guilty of knowing more about the president I was voting for than for congress persons (and even worse, state and local ele
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
> "Well, I didn't vote for the PATRIOT Act the last time it was up," she said today, at her weekly press briefing. "I don't want anybody to misunderstand a vote against the Amash resolution yesterday." Er,
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
I really don't like trying to judge this case with analogies to non-electronic gambling. It's not a terrible way to start thinking about the issue, but taken too far it allows someone to come up with almost arbitrary conclusions. Rather, I
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Seriously, there's nothing wrong with seeing a psychologist and/or psychiatrist. There are many possible scenarios, including that something other than ADD is causing your symptoms, or even that there's nothing "wrong" with you. I think the
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by jjjeffrey 13y ago
Taking a look at things from society's perspective, society decided that individuals should privately own for-profit businesses because, for a large subset of society's needs, that is the most efficient way to produce these needs. In that s
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by jjjeffrey 14y ago
If a spacecraft were to travel orthogonal to the plane on which planets orbit the sun, would it experience the heliosheath as it exits the solar system? For that matter, have there been any spacecraft launched that didn't travel on the orbi
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by jjjeffrey 14y ago
I've had a T61p for 4 or 5 years. 1920x1280 screen. A Core 2 Duo that doesn't feel dated. I dread the day that something happens and I need to get a new laptop. I think other fans will know what I mean when I say this one is perfect.
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by jjjeffrey 14y ago
I'm going to try using this next time I find a web site that I can't read because the background and foreground mix together.
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by jjjeffrey 14y ago
I hate using a microwave when other people are sleeping. Loud beeps on every button press. Beeps at 30 second intervals saying it done (as if something terrible will happen if you don't rescue your food!). Even opening and closing the door
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by jjjeffrey 14y ago
This article is exceptionally difficult to read because of the low contrast between text and background color and because Firefox won't allow me to highlight the text for some reason.
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by jjjeffrey 14y ago
Somehow I can't imagine lab-produced gold being worth less than naturally occurring gold for jewelry, etc. I imagine the only potential difference would be the distribution of isotopes. But I suppose it could still happen if large players w

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