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by mjgoins 9y ago
Same with firefox on debian. I sure hope this article is good after I put so much work into enabling it.
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Loudness (2007)(chicagomasteringservice.com)
144 points by mjgoins 9y ago|82 comments
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by mjgoins 9y ago
Her punishment was illegal under the 8th amendment, and her "crime" was protected whistleblowing.
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by mjgoins 10y ago
When I went to the first semester of engineering school at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, there was a class called Engineering Professional Development 160: Introduction to Engineering. One of the early class sessions was a lecture
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by mjgoins 10y ago
I think they misspelled Ang Cui's name in this article.
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by mjgoins 10y ago
If Mark Zuckerberg were held responsible for snippets of casual conversations had amongst peers behind closed doors and as a very young adult...best case scenario he'd be flipping burgers, worst case he'd be behind bars.
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by mjgoins 10y ago
Yeah common Scandinavian name, same as Thor, essentially.
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by mjgoins 10y ago
A better title: Your Brain is Not an IBM-Compatible PC with 64k of RAM
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by mjgoins 10y ago
Uh yeah, the US had tests. They were there to prevent black people from voting.
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by mjgoins 11y ago
If you like Sleep's Dopesmoker, the next logical step is Conference of the Birds, by OM.
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by mjgoins 11y ago
You can see how long someone has been away from their irc session with: /whois username
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by mjgoins 11y ago
The scare quotes are not in the article title.
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by mjgoins 11y ago
Unless they cared about preserving the state of the moon for future scientists without leaving human corpses lying around.
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by mjgoins 11y ago
Is it just me or does it seem like the video was altered to make the motion smoother? Maybe it's just a very jittery robot.
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by mjgoins 11y ago
This isn't a justification, but I've had to use the virtual floppy drive as recently as this year, to install drivers on proprietary OSes under virtualization.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
I've never so strongly wanted to simultaneously up-vote and down-vote a comment.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
They explicitly forbid "selling" the data, so it's not open source in any usual sense of the phrase.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
It's worth pointing out that no one ever finishes (ascends) a game of Nethack without looking at the spoilers, so they're really not spoilers, they're more like the instruction manual. It is definitely more fun to try playing
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by mjgoins 12y ago
This joke was almost perfect, but the wording hides the punchline.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
Or maybe didn't read any Poe.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
In the deeply twisted world of lawyers, anyone not wearing business clothes isn't a real person.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
Or maybe it suggests that the technology is only useful if it can be used for the illegal gathering of evidence.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
Nice argument from italics.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
They should obviously be obliged to make it possible. It's sad that Apple isn't treated as harshly as Microsoft by the internet community and regulators. Both deserve to be criticized for the same unethical practices. Android phon
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by mjgoins 12y ago
"as it is jeopardising his livelihood" -- So if a monkey hadn't taken a selfie, he'd be starving and homeless.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
I wish you had made a stronger distinction between freedom and zero-price.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
Copyright-based businesses in the US are going to love your philosophical take on censorship.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
Spotify is not the one reasonable way of paying for music. Purchasing drm-free downloads, physical CDs, cassettes, and vinyl are the reasonable ways.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
That's a different rationale, though. This trademark is being thrown out specifically because it is considered defamatory.
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by mjgoins 12y ago
There is zero discussion of accountability for the cops in any of these situations. If they are so easily tricked, they need to either scale back the militarized force they are allowing to be abused, or become more skeptical about these t

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