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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Shazam keeping the microphone on at all times on the Mac shouldn't be a surprise considering that it is already well known that Shazam has been keeping the microphone on at all times on the iOS platform. (sorry for the forbes link: ht
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Developers have their preferences, but I've had to do dev work on a Pentium II over frickin' telnet over a modem connection. We can make do, because we know how to. Apple knows this, so they have no reason to care. In a cafe right
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Long time tmux user. Thanks for posting the .tmux.conf link. Modified the window decorator line as sometimes you can't always tell which pane you are in: set-option -g set-titles-string '#(whoami)@#H session: #S window: #I-#W pane
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Telemetry and crash report still enabled by default. Unsure of what will happen upon update if the global settings file is altered.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Yeah, I've been on that page before. Old instructions were per project. Wasn't motivated to keep checking for changes. Thanks for letting me know. LMGTFYAAA...
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I liked VS Code when I tried it. But... It irked me when I found out you had to disable telemetry per project/file. That really should be a global setting. Obtaining telemetry data through attrition is not something that will spur my a
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I've been happily using the nitrous.io service for 2 months to play around with Meteor. It is a great service. I quickly defaulted to the shell with tmux rather than using the IDE. Hosting was only $19/month which hit the sweet sp
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
This year I retired a Pentium III co-located 1U server. RedHat -> Ubuntu 6.0 Dapper Drake -> 8.04 Hardy Heron -> 12.04 Precise Pangolin. Upgraded the memory to 512MB from 128MB and replaced the two 6GB hard drives with 80GB drives.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Given that displays favor landscape over portrait, there's a lot of free space above the numbers. My bet is that the next iteration will have the function keys and the touch bar after the alienation of developers becomes apparent to Ap
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I remember seeing it on Thinkgeek.com - $1500.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I think the oil and mixed media paintings are a great value from the samples. However, I wasn't to pleased with your monochrome samples however. Some of the samples look like they were made with an EZ-Tracer.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
That's not what I said. I said that if you don't pay for the news, then you being manipulated is the product. That's not the same thing as simply forking over money magically removing bias. The latter is a ridiculous notion a
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Perhaps you should find some news sites that don't have ads then? Something that only exists on readership support? Some stories only eventually break into 'mainstream media' (ugh, I used that phrase, I'm sorry) through
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Spurting out 'false dichotomy' and stating that I haven't provided the necessary treatise of evidence is kind of ridiculous. I hope you can see how pretentious that sounds. If a news organization only exists because the Koch
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I think your comment is very apt. If you don't pay for the news, you being manipulated is the product. You have to support people who inform for our actual benefit. I subscribe to a couple digital periodicals. My last paper subscriptio
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
There is an argument wherein you could say that those who merely sit on their wealth are causing economic stagnation. Taxing wealth becomes an incentive for the wealthy to have their money make more wealth, instead of just sitting on a moun
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I took a combinatorics class that was hellish. Over half the class dropped out, including all of the graduate students after two weeks and almost all of the honour students almost immediately. I ended up looking at our library catalog to lo
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I had a bunch of floppies in a box fail in a peculiar manner according to the Fibonacci sequence. Luckily the important stuff was clustered in the back.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I had three different TRS-80s. There seemed to be a new computer every two weeks or so in the house. My fondest memories of the TRS-80 were on the Model III and I remember being discouraged by the lack of documentation, multiple operating s
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
For those that have purchased it on Steam, I'd archive your current version. Have a feeling the quality is going to go downhill from here. Wow, just wow. The company must be run by absolute sociopaths.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Wow. Check the title. This was a discussion about public shaming cars in bike lanes. You've turned it around into, "everybody should just stop whining and obey the law" and publicly shaming cyclists. The people endangered in
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
The analogy is apt. #alllivesmatter belittles the concerns of black people and the disproportionate danger they face interacting with police. Likewise, cyclists are disproportionately at risk of serious harm while on the road. Not that comp
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
You managed to get my point. A pellet could injure someone and damage an eye. What if a bullet hit the same spot? Those are very different outcomes. Conceivably a pellet could kill someone if was a David vs Goliath one in a million shot. Re
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
> Is an SUV running a stop sign twice as bad as a compact car running a stop sign? That's such a willfully stupid response. Compare these: Bike:Compact:SUV to pelletgun:handgun:rifle Morever, did you read the first thing that I said
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Before I get all the hate I have to say of course cyclists should obey the laws. As a cyclist I can tell you it doesn't matter either way to many certifiably deranged motorists. Caveat aside, I'm constantly amazed that this argume
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Circa 2009, playing 80486-era Master of Orion II on the Nokia N800 using a DOS emulator. 400MHz ARM tablet, actually playable.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
My advice is don't mancave or cubicle if you have an option. Fight for that window seat at work. I'd rather have a window cubicle than a windowless office. Enjoy the view every couple minutes.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Now everybody can be Spider Jerusalem... Just like Google Glass users being called Glassholes, SnapChat glasses will probably be called something like SnapChads, because only white rich guys in pastel shorts and rugby shirts named Chad will
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
I really enjoyed Be back in the day and made an attempt to use it as my primary operating system. Two months later, my internet provider stopped giving me leases for it. I put it behind a router that would give the BeOS computer a lease. Wh
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Ditto. But I think we have fallen on hard times when Dell becomes the go-to.

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