porphyrogene

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by porphyrogene 8y ago
The publication is NPR so that it is US news goes somewhat without saying. However, this is something that Americans need to understand is exceptional for a nation of its resources.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
This may be a good place to start. https://nodejs.org/api/repl.html Generally you have a client run their own Javascript that speaks to your backend but does not run on your hardware nor within your virtual ecosystem.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
Dr. Acula would like a word with you.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
This may be the same issue as is seen in crop pesticides. The practitioners don’t trust the science and try to play it safe by adding more than is advised.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
That could mean a lot of things. Are you saying that they look dead, fused with another cat, drastically younger, attacked by an interdimensional monster, cloned or are the evil alternate reality version of themselves?
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
My complaint from the beginning was that you stifled conversation by detaching this thread and because every comment is flagged and downvoted automatically you have allowed those who are afraid of this type of discussion to sabotage any sub
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
Your handling of this comment section was irresponsible. If you cannot handle this responsibility you should ban submissions and comments dealing with any and all social issues and allow only technical discussion. You have allowed a hateful
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
The moderators have a long-standing bias towards the political right. A black man with a PhD in Mathematics is not allowed to speak out about systemic racism on Hacker News.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
This is an attempt to squash meaningful discussion. The right-wing bias of HN moderators is readily apparent, as usual.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
This is an interesting and innovative approach. It is essentially a grey hat operation carried out by the government to raise individual awareness about cybersecurity. Considering that the article mentions a "constitutional right to pr
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
A down-sampled image has less noise than an image in its native resolution. You can experiment on your own monitors if you don't believe the theory, just remember to use font smoothing for non-native resolutions. You can also ask about
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
By that logic Apple's Retina displays would be worse than non-Retina displays. Down-sampling decreases eye strain and makes the image smoother. It is only an issue when dealing with fine lines that our eyes watch very closely, such as
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
I'm using an LG 4k and while I have no idea what model yours is I had an interesting revelation that made the coexistence of my monitor with my MBP more palatable. I turned off the "Buzzer" setting (it's more of a beep)
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
Some of this seems a little obvious to me but I may have been spoiled by Grid By Example[1] being my tutor. This article does not get into grid areas which, if used, should be the entities that are named rather than columns and rows. Whenev
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
You may need "font smoothing" enabled.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
Former butcher turned coder here. If this concerns you just find a meat counter that grinds their meats in-house. It is an incredibly easy thing to do and it is very economical as whole sealed sub-primals keep for much longer than ground be
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
Thanks, that's something to go on. It's interesting that the referenced radio hosts estimate that over twice as much mass is lost by hydrogen escaping the atmosphere.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
You could pause MySpace audio the same way you can skip a YouTube intro. That didn't both me back then, of course you stop noticing things when you get used to them.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
I wonder how much extraterrestrial material is added to the Earth every year and how that affects the geological cycle. They said that the "glass foam" on the samples is unexplained, could it have been formed by their interaction
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
It loads right away on Firefox! Unfortunately it also immediately loads a full-page ad that obscures all of the page's content to beg for money before I have even had a full second to look at the page.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
> vaping is (from what we know so far) legitimately a far, far healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes > given what we know right now You are making assumptions and drawing conclusions based on what you don't know. That'
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
In web development we often talk about the metrics that tell us that most users will not wait more than two seconds for a page to load and that auto-play content reduces return traffic. Why do these YouTube channels still have ten-seconds-l
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
This reaching for controversy is absurd.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
That is true, at least in my experience. At least modern phones are smart enough to know how to shut up.
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
In the US, house phones and cable are for being advertised to, cell phones and streaming are for contact and content respectively. That has been the case for at least a decade. I can receive calls from numbers that are not in my contacts bu
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
> the web is normally a haven for darkness - Kara Swisher, in the sub-headline of a recent gossip column published in the NYT opinion section on Jeff Bezos’s dicorce drama Technological illiteracy and fear-mongering should be opposed at
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
If something is open source and protected under copyright does that make it “clopen source”?
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
I would classify Pokemon Go as a fad that was just big enough to get the media’s attention, something more like fidget spinners or Furbies. 4chan was a long-running part of the internet that would never have been mentioned on the evening ne
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by porphyrogene 8y ago
They are pretty transparent about that fact. There are obvious factors that contribute to a restaurant being visited by Michelin judges, not the least of which is its location relative to other restaurants that are visited. There is also th

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