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by tszyn 5y ago
Apparently, "Copy To" no longer works on Windows 7 and higher. The button is greyed out for all user profiles except the "Default" profile. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e4c
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Never rename your Windows user account(blog.szynalski.com)
34 points by tszyn 5y ago|6 comments
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by tszyn 7y ago
Already in 2015, Emily Taylor warned [1] that ICANN could become the Internet's FIFA -- a small organization with great power that doesn't answer to any government. Here we are. A private company run by former ICANN people will be
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by tszyn 7y ago
Sign a letter to Internet Society here: https://savedotorg.org/ Write to news outlets. If this blows up in the mainstream media, public pressure may be too high for them to go ahead with this deal.
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by tszyn 7y ago
For my small wiki, refusing all submissions with external links eliminated virtually all spam. Yes, it's drastic, but in my case external links were not essential. I still use ReCaptcha to cut down on spam account signups.
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by tszyn 8y ago
I guess so, but when you use energy instead of pressure, and a linear scale rather than logarithmic, it makes the results look more impressive.
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by tszyn 8y ago
Agreed – looks like a fantastic product! Seconding the question about MySQL support. I use MySQL for everything. I don't want to add extra gigs of RAM to my VPS just to run an instance of PostgreSQL for Commento. Postgres is much slowe
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by tszyn 8y ago
There's economic research that shows it's more efficient to regulate (in some sense, "blame") the lenders, because borrowers are often desperate. When you're desperate, you have reduced capacity to objectively judge
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by tszyn 9y ago
In your experience, can a tick attach to you if you just brush against it while moving fast (running or cycling)? They're rather slow-moving, so I thought they can't latch onto you that quickly.
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by tszyn 9y ago
My mom's pension is $400 / month (Eastern Europe). She browses the Internet on an old hand-me-down Thinkpad. I suppose she should just get off the Internet if she cannot afford to buy website subscriptions. Anything to make the on
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by tszyn 9y ago
Nice, simple, intuitive proofs. Very cool.
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by tszyn 10y ago
The US had had ballistic missiles (Redstone) in European airbases since 1958 -- Kennedy simply continued the existing policy of the US. Kennedy's poor judgment, arguably, consisted in aggressively defending the "rule" that it
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by tszyn 10y ago
They also fixed the 6-key block (the one with Home, End, etc.). The older version had a nonstandard layout. On the minus side, it has a non-detachable numpad, so you'll have to reach further to use your mouse.
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by tszyn 10y ago
FWIW, I've done in-home trials of several chairs. Many dealers of high-end chairs will let you do that (at least here in Poland). Sometimes I've had to leave a deposit. I'm amazed how often a chair that feels great in the sto
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by tszyn 10y ago
I agree that sticking it out can sometimes help. The Embody is very punishing if you slouch (the hard sacral part will just dig into your spine), so the first step would be to make an effort to maintain correct posture. But if you're s
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by tszyn 10y ago
I agree. The Embody is a great chair if you have pretty good posture. It is pretty rigid in the center (all the flexibility is on the sides), so that it forces your back into the 'proper' shape like a plastic mold. The problem is,
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X-ray movie of the speaking vocal tract(corpus.linguistics.berkeley.edu)
3 points by tszyn 10y ago|1 comments
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Why does running this loop 9 times take 100x longer than running it 8 times?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by tszyn 11y ago|0 comments
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by tszyn 11y ago
Depends on which is preferable to you: - a smaller US economy that's 100% owned by Americans - an economy that's larger (potentially more than 2x), but is 50% owned by foreigners
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by tszyn 11y ago
That's true, in his example he makes a point of stressing that the foreign value is consumed rather than invested. But it's not clear that that's what happens in real life. For example, if China sends an excess of resources t
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by tszyn 11y ago
That's a very well-written and clearly argued piece, but you could apply the same logic to argue that it's a business should not raise capital on the stock market because it amounts to "selling the farm to feed your family&qu
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by tszyn 12y ago
You seem to assume that there are only 2 kinds of software: "fun experiments" and made-to-order business software. What about mass-market software that's not so fun to write? Who's going to pay for the development effort
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by tszyn 12y ago
Making a work of art takes a lot of discipline and, often, drudgery. There are many tasks which are not enjoyable in the least bit. There's burnout, depression, writer's block. Many (most?) great works of art got completed only be
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by tszyn 12y ago
People do want new art. Just look at the most torrented works of art -- far more people download Game of Thrones than I Love Lucy. One major reason is that societies change and today's audiences are different from audiences of 30 years
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Sublime Text 3 saves files in a weird way(blog.szynalski.com)
6 points by tszyn 12y ago|0 comments
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by tszyn 12y ago
You can use the arrow keys to go to the next page, though, which is pretty fast.
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Multi-column text layouts – a good fit for the Web?
4 points by tszyn 12y ago|3 comments
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by tszyn 12y ago
I've noticed that most examples of regulatory capture provided in the Wikipedia article involve regulatory agencies failing to enforce rules on selected companies (e.g. BP was allowed to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without doing the en
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by tszyn 12y ago
First, a pretty face, high IQ and physical strength do not translate into power the way, say, a hundred million dollars does. Sure you can hurt people if you're physically strong / attractive / smart, but not that many people
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by tszyn 12y ago
Yes, but the tax money goes to the poor, which increases their consumption. So you should end up with fewer jobs in luxury resorts and more jobs in industries which produce necessities. The problem is that luxury goods and services tend to

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