tired_man

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by tired_man 9y ago
What a load of fluff. I'm glad wired hasn't endangered it's preeminent position as the tech equivalent of the National Enquirer.
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by tired_man 10y ago
Mick Resnick's "Feelies" is based around future society where this has happened.
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by tired_man 10y ago
Cruise missiles that aren't supersonic aren't of much use. As long as they're in the air, they're targets. The author painted a very gloomy picture for the carrier. But it isn't all one-sided. In a wartime situation
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by tired_man 10y ago
Author apparently doesn't know that carrier task groups typically travel with their own attack sub. If there is a possibility of hostile submarines, someone will be more than willing to stuff mk48 up their tail.
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by tired_man 10y ago
But that was half the fun of doing learning to hack on a C64. Adding coder tools typed in from MLX code from Compute! or Compute!'s Gazette and learning assembly by taking apart programs in Monitor was a deep learning experience for ma
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by tired_man 10y ago
For most things, my C720 Chromebook runs Ubuntu and handle any tasks I need. Don't equate price with utility ;-)
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by tired_man 10y ago
TIFF. It might have been handy in certain instances, but IMHO, it was never been a big deal except in the page-layout world. And even then, having an eps was better. I missed that cluster of madness for firefox, I guess. Had I known that Mo
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by tired_man 10y ago
> > Mozilla was driven into the ground by better competition > I thought it was Microsoft's anti-competitive strategy? (bundling IE, changing the API's to break netscape, etc.) I thought it was Mozilla's utter lack o
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by tired_man 10y ago
That is their prerogative, though, and I don't begrudge them the opportunity to try. But short of setting up in-store cell systems that cut out those of the individual carriers, I don't see how they'll manage it. I never use
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by tired_man 10y ago
The more you know. Like most sheep, they're marching to slaughter and don't care. I have friends who have plain, old dumb cells that can't even text. But they are reaching retirement age and it doesn't matter for them. P
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by tired_man 10y ago
Turn off location services. I don't think many people actually need to walk around with GPS active.
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by tired_man 10y ago
All the more reason to use a custom ROM. Unless Google Play Services can somehow turn on GPS without it registering as a battery usage item, I doubt they are successful in tracking me.
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by tired_man 10y ago
I happy she was able to check out on her own terms rather than being forced into a miserable existence.
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by tired_man 10y ago
You're right! This is a welcome addition.
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by tired_man 10y ago
Dear FBI, Perhaps using some real investigative techniques rather than fishing expeditions would engender some trust towards the FBI. Oh, and about those malware apps you push into people's computers? You might want to knock that shit
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by tired_man 10y ago
This is a tired, old line those opposed to marijuana legalization trot out whenever the polls concerning legalization show an uptick. The fact is, that people who tend to be lazy will stay lazy and those who are motivated stay motivated. A
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by tired_man 10y ago
I thought having the poor taste to plunk one down into a neighborhood where it was a sore thumb was enough. I'm happy to see there are other aesthetic reasons, too.
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by tired_man 10y ago
It's a cool idea, but I think it's very unrealistic to label this vehicle as a bus. It is more along the lines of a streetcar, especially since it will only be traveling along fixed paths and isn't able to turn down a side st
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by tired_man 10y ago
The Prince - Machiavelli
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by tired_man 10y ago
I remember Fido. I briefly operated a dial-up BBS in the early 90's. Fido was a great way to have globe spanning discussions with other having similar interests. There are some FidoNet archives floating around as torrents or as website
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by tired_man 10y ago
I'd add a drain in a bottom corner to allow drainage as it melts. I think the temp in the dry ice container would remain lower if there were enough thermal mass, too. Have you ever played with dry ice? I just read of someone using it t
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by tired_man 10y ago
It would be interesting to see this repeated, but allowing the melted water to drain. I think that this might be why the wet ice seemed to keep cooling for so long.
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by tired_man 10y ago
What? Do you mean using AGILE techniques? I think I'd rather they take the time to actually come up with the right answer first. I don't think submitting a JIRA is very effective after you're dead from something they thought
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by tired_man 10y ago
Pinnacle Group - https://www.pinnacle1.com/Home They've been straight with me and got me my current gig.
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by tired_man 10y ago
The Air Force wants the cash to help make up for the abysmal F-35 program. The USMC and Navy should have control of ground attack resources. Let the Air Force play with their missiles and laser death rays.
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by tired_man 10y ago
If the Air Force is so bent on getting rid of these wonderfully useful, tough machines, then perhaps they should entirely leave the ground support role to the US Marine Corps and the US Navy, both of which have a long history of providing g
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by tired_man 11y ago
That's the traditional method of developing. Requirements doc -> Functional Spec doc -> Technical Spec doc -> User Docs. Or, What you need -> How you'd like to do it -> How you will do it -> How it works You&#x27
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by tired_man 11y ago
Perhaps not, but I'm willing to help support their efforts, I just don't want any more dusty hardware on the shelf than I have. I think that adding a couple GB to the package or a second slot would boost demand and drive down unit
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by tired_man 11y ago
I love the idea of mini-pcs, but the specs are always dismal. To me is teems like a single-purpose machine deisgned for web-surfing. People do more than surf and so I see less utility in this that I do in a ChromeBook. Maybe with 4GB with r
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by tired_man 11y ago
It's the marketing buzzword flavor for this period. Remember when everything was robust? Or resilient? I don't know what people think they're doing as they write this stuff. If technical documentation was written like, just i

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