telephonetemp

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by telephonetemp 13y ago
>Users are well known for typing web addresses into any box available. OTOH, such users might not be aware that their Amazon searches are collected and data-mined.
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
>identify a better host where PortableApps.com can get over 50TB per month for free With those amounts of traffic for SF's larger projects I wonder how and if one could build a competing website for hosting binary FOSS today and
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
That sounds like an outline for a problem that should be happen across all service industries that are run privately/paid by insurance companies, not just healthcare. Do we hear more about it in (American) healthcare simply because it&
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
That should be n^m where n is the number of packages and m is the number of distributions (for software that's common to all distributions). And anyhow, perhaps it would easier get support this way since you could get each software p
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
> Force yourself to just sit there on the command line. That's good advice in general but instead of using the bare CLI I'd suggest that you learn about screen and tmux early on. It'll make you miss the windowing system l
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
That struck me as very questionably, too. Based on personal experience and what I know about the economic state of the three countries I find it hard to believe that Ukraine is somehow doing such better psychologically. To convey an anecd
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
>if you don't care about understanding the nature of existence, the distinction doesn't matter Okay, I think I understand your position now. (Though I'm not sure if the lack of belief in objective truth is as common as you
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
>that doesn't mean reality exists outside of my own experience. I am aware of phenomenology and I've read some Merleau-Ponty. To my taste, however, the situation where an objective/"objective" scientific truth ma
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I thought you were running a emulator cabinet with a your own launcher and/or emulator. This is a lot more DIY and no way you could mistake it for Counter-Strike.
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
>I made once a Arcade game (cabinet, code, everything). And took it to Campus Party Brazil. Sounds like an interesting project, and unusual for a DIY arcade cabinet for having custom code. Do you have a write-up about it or a public rep
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
Thanks for your insight. I'm genuinely surprised if I did come off as being against both sides. I thought my comment was obviously pro-rationalist (my reasoning being that a deliberately rational person would recognize the importance o
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
There is mathematics and physics, at least. A lot of arguing can be, and has been, had here but it's largely arguing about definitions; you cannot deny that they allow you to obtain the "truth" in the sense that that truth
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
There's a good deal of middle ground between the self-evident >We are not merely rational creatures we are also feeling creatures and a thought-terminating cliche like >Objectivity doesn't exist. The latter doesn't seem
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
If you liked Jonathan Blow's lectures make sure to check out Chris Crawford's. A number of them are on his channel on YouTube. Crawford was more or less the first game developer to combine practical work with academic study of ga
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
> I can start Firefox in Lightdm without beeing logged in. Just add an event then Evolution starts up. Let's you also happily sends Mail through the lightdm user. That's pretty darn bad. You have reported this, right?
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
What command can you use in a pipe chain to fully read the input until EOF before passing it on? I'm not a big fan of piping to the shell but such a command could be useful for network applications in general.
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
Can you give us a link?
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
Time when you can fiddle with cards and write down cryptic series of numbers without attracting undue attention is probably scarce.
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
On the other hand a substitution cipher is more resistant to user error when encrypting or decrypting since such an error only affects a single character. In secret prison communication you might not have the time to double-check your encry
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
"Interesting preservation" should read "interesting presentation".
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
The webpage is difficult to view in the Android Browser (though not Opera Mini) due to the overlay at the bottom. http://m.imgur.com/9eOKqJZ On that note, at what resolution, if any, do embedded code snippets from GitHub an
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
Intentionally or not, your comment seems to stereotype "those actually using Linux" as unable to appreciate the value of the time and effort saved by a prepackaged solution. While that certainly happens (and is more common in the
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
Interesting preservation. I also couldn't help but notice that the slides themselves were beautiful. I wonder if they were generated using a recent version of, e.g., Microsoft Office (the fonts look like those used in Modern UI) or if
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
I found your blog post insightful. Consider submitting it as a story on HN. Has any of your friends run into the problem of the expected privacy of their photos being compromised and the photos reposted elsewhere?
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
I agree with the sentiment of your post, however, I'm not sure if for the kind of user who would put a root:root shell on port 24601 the alternative in the absence of the article [2] wouldn't be putting the same shell on port 22.
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
This is a very valid point and a good reason to choose a port in the privileged range if you use an alternative port for SSH. I wonder, though, what is the worst it can do if you don't use password authentication? E.g., to offer you a
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
That's generally the solution to the problem of accessing the Web on old PCs: request the mobile version of the website. Heck, with enough trickery you can even get Opera Mini to run.
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
> An important property of corporations is that they are always resolvable to a natural person To play up the SF angle a bit, this might change when lobbyists start accepting Bitcoin.
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
Perhaps you could do consensus checking retrospectively? I.e., out of N supposedly identical servers a random one gets to make any given decision in real time but then a separate system goes back and compares all servers' results and s
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by telephonetemp 13y ago
The title of your website still says "The Price Guide for Everything". Are you going to change it?

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