snogglethorpe

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by snogglethorpe 7y ago
Using a reasonable OS (Linux etc), 4GB is absolutely fine for browsing and basic tasks, and indeed is often fine for development and other more-than-basic tasks as well, depending on how exactly you work (Emacs/Vim instead of an IDE, f
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by snogglethorpe 9y ago
This particular "viewpoint" is widely known, period, because there's no shortage of douchebros that freely advocate it, and more to the point, there's nothing to be gained from "suppressing" it. Rather, more
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by snogglethorpe 9y ago
That, presumably, is one reason supply is restricted ("fixed"), along with other restrictive laws, like height or density limits, forced parking minimums, etc. Another contributor is poor transportation infrastructure, which lim
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by snogglethorpe 9y ago
I tend to use Google Keep ( https://keep.google.com/ ) for this sort of thing, which is similarly pretty lightweight and doesn't impose much structure on anything, but is also permanently backed up and synced between all
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
The notable thing about "Irish" bars, I think, is that there are so many of them in non-Irish places, compared to other types of "nation-branded drinking establishment."
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
Not being sarcastic, I just didn't watch the video. I was wondering if it was basically the same thing with nice animations...
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
Is this just the contents of the video in text form? In any case, thanks! I don't need to watch the video now, as you've very clearly explained it in only four lines of text!
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
Mild snarkiness aside, is the quote really inaccurate? "Getting used to" [something] has a pejorative sense, but it also just means "becoming familiar with," and really understanding something is, in a way, simply being
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
The education correlation is also supported actual voting results, by seeing how voting results correlated with education levels in each voting region. So it doesn't seem to be just an artifact of polling behavior.
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
I suspect another reason that politicians are so eager to stomp on H1B workers is because they're an easy target: most people don't care, and the H1B workers themselves can't vote, so pandering to anti-foreigner hysteria is
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
I'm sure there are some tech workers who support Trump, but education seems to be one of the best predictors for who voted against Trump, and tech workers are probably on average better educated than the general populace...
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
Also, AFAIA, the addictiveness of alcohol varies a lot amongst the population, whereas pretty much everybody who smokes is addicted. This means that using alcohol like you mention, as an occasional social lubricant, is a very viable strateg
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
The most obvious difference is that alcohol isn't directly harmful to other people, whereas smoking is... This attribute basically makes it very difficult for people to adopt a "well it's their choice, I'll let them di
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
Why should it matter how they use the land? If they want to use it purely to irritate Zuckerberg, that's their business.
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
> The trouble with @Wikileaks obsessively and indiscriminately tweeting anti-Hillary leaks It also reduces peoples' trust in Wikileaks and the veracity of the information they release. Wikileaks' reputation as a (mostly) &quo
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
Yeah, for a very, very, very small subset of words, the very first and most immediate things babies care about, this theory makes some sense. For everything else, not so much.
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
Seriously, that wording is bizarre, like they started with "often," and then later made a "use more convincing language" pass without really paying much attention... [Nose in Mandarin: bí or bízi...]
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by snogglethorpe 10y ago
I think most people would agree that it's not the money that's the issue, it's that you need to somehow register with apple to compile and develop and app (presuming that's what this means). Also what does this imply abo
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Huh? I'm not referring to setjmp at all... (why would you think I'm referring to setjmp?) The PNG format has lots of variations and optional bits that would be quite annoying if you needed to handle them all yourself. I'm r
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
libpng is actually very easy to use directly. Some other image libraries are hard because they force you to write many code-paths to handle various different cases, but libpng provides many different helpers that make it pretty simple.
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
I don't think there are any real tricks, cooking is all about practice. Just buy some recipe books or download whatever recipes tickle your fancy (I think Indian and Chinese are delicious, often simple, cheap, and healthy), choose stu
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
With one of these things going, one wonders how long your dog would continue to have hearing at 60Khz...
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Of course, sometimes the decision is easy because you're bumping up against complexity limits to such a degree that you just can't fit any geographical reality on a map and still have something even remotely readable: http:&#x2
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
> a lot of The Hobbit's issues were in the writing rather than direction, sure, a better director may have made it "less bad" but overall given the same script you'll get a similarly flawed set of films. I don'
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
I dream about what might have resulted if studio politics hadn't driven Guillermo del Toro away from directing the Hobbit... Whether or not it would have worked, who knows, but it almost certainly would have been something far, far, be
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
In the end, it seems kind of irrelevant. Whether ad-blocking is "OK" or "not OK" certainly accounts for a lot of the arguing, but it probably won't play a huge part in determining whether people use ad-blockers or
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
I used to do research at the local branch of some official government research library, and they were very strict about enforcing such limits; they kept track of who copied what, how much, and when. They did not lend, and if the limit wa
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
Yup. "Safety in numbers" is definitely an important factor. In the end, it's far more important (in terms of safety, as well as for other social goals that cycling promotes) to get people on bikes than it is to micromanage t
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
This is indeed one of the main reasons that modern cycling advocates generally consider helmet laws a bad thing. Helmet laws make the general public less likely to cycle, and as many would then drive instead, thus have an overall negative e
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by snogglethorpe 11y ago
The main thing is that it's not just a medical issue, so citing medical studies isn't sufficient. Even if wearing a helmet decreases your injuries 100% of the time (and there are a few counterexamples to that), if a helmet law ca

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