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My Dad had gone through a couple of those Shuttle "Mini" computers (the motherboards were Flex-ATX, slightly bigger than Mini-ITX and obviously needed to be smaller than micro-ATX), so I thought the NUC (between Nano-ITX and Pico-ITX [1]) might appeal to him. They both died and he's currently using a standard desktop. I believe one or both of his Shuttle's died due to a PSU failure, so it's nice to have the external power brick on the NUC.

He and my Mom had previously been using a Windows Media Center desktop with a tuner card and Comcast cable, but they're using DirecTV boxes on all the TVs now so not much need for a HTPC. He said he was thinking about trying to use the NUC with Windows 8 and a touch screen somehow...Not really sure how he can accomplish that. Besides introducing him to Linux, I was thinking he could use it on his TV as just an alternate computer and wanted to show him how to use Synergy to control it with his desktop keyboard/mouse. He's currently switching his TV between the DirecTV box and his desktop as a second display.

At the very least it's a backup, and he could potentially take it on trips as a more powerful alternative to a laptop. There's just so many different options for computing these days. It's like information overload, but with hardware.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/5800/slimming-desktops-down-in... (existence of Nano-ITX and Pico-ITX pointed out in the comments)

1. I feel somewhat bad about using a free service and preventing them from getting ad revenue

2. I'm really good at ignoring advertising of all kinds. People might say it still works subliminally or it has an effect on me and I just don't notice it, but I seriously don't believe this is true. With TV I used to mute it, change the channel, or do something else on my computer (I don't watch TV anymore, but I do admit I pay attention to ads if I join somebody else that watches it). With video ads on the internet I mute the audio and do something else on my computer. I basically have never intentionally clicked a banner ad, besides maybe some Facebook ads only because they seem to have access to my Amazon search history and show me items I'm already shopping for. Facebook is certainly a different beast in terms of advertising because it involves showing businesses that friends have liked, but I wouldn't say this has a very positive effect on my opinion about that business.

That said, I used Adblock many years ago around when it first came out to block YouTube ads but switched over to my muting/ignoring method because it did affect my conscience negatively, not so much because of YouTube/Google but because of other content I browsed on the web.

My setup recently has been to have Adblock installed on Firefox (I have always primarily used Chrome) for the instances where ads on a website are causing performance/experience issues. I have had Adblock installed (disabled) on Chrome because I have a Chromebook and have occasionally enabled it in order to visit the problem website on it (it is pretty much unusable on this Atom processor without Adblock). In the past several months I have noticed some very weird bad performance issues if I leave it enabled and use YouTube (maybe some other websites), not sure if this is due to changes in Adblock or if YouTube is intentionally breaking itself when it detects Adblock usage.

P.S. I'm not sure if any of this has anything to do with my previous post being downvoted, but I felt compelled to explain my reasons for using Adblock.

P.P.S. The website I am primarily talking about that has become nearly unusable and quite unstable due to ads is tinychat.com... My reasons for being okay with blocking them for this website are complicated and I'd rather not go into detail.

To do what you are asking for you could go to an artist's profile and play the tracks on that page, and the autoplay will continue down that list. If the artist has reblogged songs from other artists/profiles it will appear on their page. You can also play through an artist's likes (which might have more tracks they appear in, and other artists to listen to who play their type of music, with more profiles/likes to play through).

In the end my favorite autoplay mode is just using the stream, which compiles all the posts/reblogs from artists I follow into a "newest" sort. If I run out of that I normally find a profile/likes playlist to listen to.

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28...

I've been attempting to write a paper on virtualization and other Cloud/datacenter machine managing software. This was one of the first papers I read in my Cloud Computing class, and I actually recently came back to it after becoming lost reading countless papers on more specific cloud research. It really clears up a lot of confusion on terminology regarding different forms of computing services and the challenges in the field. I wish I knew from the start how much more accurate the statements in this paper are compared to a lot of other content out there, and that I could have been warned about how misleading that other content would be due to authors trying to validate their own software creations.

Before I came back to it, I was playing with the thought that the cloud is really just corporatization of computing resources that only leaves the biggest players to survive because of profits, which really vibes with this paper. It really is just computing infrastructure as a utility and the idea is nothing new. There are several other papers out there that make the same points, but I appreciate this one for really nailing the practical terminology without any sort of vagueness. It's not surprising that it is such a highly referenced and popular paper.

Also crosh on my chromebook, which uses the same url just replaces nassh with crosh.

I dislike the idea of drinking water that has been circulating through pipes and filters in the city for decades, including through our toilets and showers and huge amounts of chemical waste. Of course, the methods have completely purified the water, but claims that tap water still isn't good are attributed to the sort of last mile dirty pipe system, which is solved by more filtering.

I like the idea of nature filtering the water that I drink. That's why I like the idea of water springs. I would be less interested in spring water that still just comes from municipal water supplies that similarly recycles the water, and would prefer it coming directly from a spring.

[1] http://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/how-do-thes...

http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:Tadashi_S...

"+retrotails prower I'm sure +Dirk Hohndel would like an Atari ST port but once you get past 286 there are better OS to run. For m68k you have to deal with the lack of segmentation or banking in most cases (so vfork not fork), but if you can do that then given you've usually got real DMA I would have thought 2.11BSD/RetroBSD a far far better place to start, or even ucLinux. Many of the 68K platforms are also blessed with other open but non-Unix OS's especially the Atari where basically all the underlying OS code you need is nowdays available in a free form (eg FreeMiNT/XaAes - which is even uses rpm)

Some of the key assumptions in UZI and thus in Fuzix really stop making sense if you have a 32bit system or you have good offloaded I/O. I'm not entirely sure those assumptions don't break down by 286 to be honest. However 286 protected mode is so wonderfully demented and feature filled it has to be done."

- Strengthen law enforcement through constant practice, and provide revenue to supporting companies

- Siphon money from one industry (drug trade) to help support the government and therefore support other industries that it feels are more beneficial to society

- Stigmatize unproductive habits, conditioning society to more productive/controlled behavior, incarcerating individuals who resist to make the society seem more productive overall

I'm sure there are many intentions that are well known that might overlap with what I'm suggesting, but I think the main point is that the war on drugs is not for the purpose that most people assume: to eliminate drugs from society. I think in a lot of ways it intentionally has the opposite effect. Also I think if society would have tolerated alcohol prohibition that the government would have been happy to keep that going as well for similar reasons.

That's not even what is frustrating for me. I'm pretty sure that it didn't used to work this way, but now whenever somebody likes or comments on a post it is moved to the top of "Most Recent". Just as a poster above has noted, the main reason Facebook wants you to use "Top Stories" is to increase usage, and I would guess that is exactly the reason they are doing this. When I log in I just want to see all the new posts, but now I have to scroll through a bunch that I have already seen just because more people have liked them, and I have to keep scrolling past several posts I've already seen unless I can remember how many likes/comments they had the last time I checked to make sure I've seen everything that's new. Ironically, I submitted feedback to Facebook about this last night.

2. English skill is separate from being intelligent/informed.

As a native speaker who has had very extensive English training my entire life, I still find myself in a situation similar to yours. My issue is lack of experience. There are so many people on HN that have been through it all and know about countless technical topics inside and out. I find myself just observing most of the time, besides those rare occasions where the topic happens to overlap with my experiences.

I have certainly encountered examples of horrible English that were still highly informative posts. Sure it can inhibit their communication ability, but that doesn't prevent the content from shining through. In fact, I tend to be more interested in content from non-native speakers, because it implies they are probably not from America and have points of view that are more valuable/unique for me to learn about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048085

Now I'm off to read the discussion myself

http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/iKKGon-iPhone-en.htm

I'm not understanding exactly how this works, but it seems like he's limiting the number of letters to the minimum required to get an auto-completed word.

Also interesting note, the Plover/stenographic keyboard article title states 240 wpm, and if you look at the 5 strokes/second link here there is a claim of 300 wpm. However, I'm sure it's difficult to compare wpm in Japanese versus English.

http://i.imgur.com/STilfzp.png

There are tons of social mediums out there I don't have experience with. I have a reddit account but have not done much on there, and I have a twitter but have barely used that as well so I have no clue what it's like to receive lots of communication on those platforms.

My experience is with things like email, Facebook, and chatrooms. With email you can block addresses, report it as spam, click a trash button to throw it away, make a new email and don't share it publicly. Facebook you can ignore friend requests and report people.

Chatrooms (and video game chats) always have an ignore feature, and that is where a lot of the sentiment behind my post came from. It always bugs me when people get into these long conversations with trolls to the point that they are crying and complaining for mods to ban them, when they can simply use the ignore feature. I inform them about this feature and they choose to ignore my advice and continue to complain about it. People complaining about trolls are more annoying than trolls in these cases.

Anyways, clearly I am not a social enough person to understand the problems at play here.

Say you go up to somebody in public who is minding their own business and start yelling expletives at them and threaten to murder them. Obviously that is making it impossible for them to be free to do what they are doing, and they could certainly have you arrested for that (disturbing the peace or something).

It's difficult to apply this to the Internet because that person certainly has the power to NOT READ the comments from somebody that is attempting to troll them. There are plenty of services in place to ignore these trolls, but instead people let themselves be trolled and then complain about being a victim. This is nothing new, it has been happening since the beginning, but these less experienced users just haven't learned how the Internet works.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at least you could say that this entire creation is a response to the "gamergate" scandal that has been going on?

My take from this is that it is calling out mind controlled gamer zombies for attacking and persecuting women and minorities. This is precisely what is frustrating for me because my view is that video games are harmless and even stimulating for us, and that they are just a reflection of our inner instincts, not people manipulating us. The gaming industry is just giving us what we want. Here's the relevant part of the author's "On Topicalality" writing:

"We may not believe in the uncle who works for Nintendo anymore, but he is certainly still at work."

...[Edit:[I suppose I did misinterpret this as him attacking Nintendo, he's just using it as a line from the gamer community that they have secret ties into a hierarchy? He also mentions Nintendo Power, which I grew up with, and I suppose he is blaming these secrets and hierarchy for shutting out and attacking groups of people who aren't in the know. Nintendo touched my heart growing up and I'm glad to have been able to bond with other Nintendo gamers throughout my life. I never dealt with issues of people using this uncle line and I'm just a bit offended by the author's claim that the Nintendo/industry/capitalism is corrupted with people trying to control me. They have delivered much higher quality content than many other areas of industry]]...

"Women and minority voices are under attack. The finer details of this organized harassment campaign are, by this point, both fatiguing and immensely abhorrent. I will not bother to recount them here. Suffice it to say: the contingent of players taking up the flag of "gamers" are, in many ways, the realization of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that constitute the "enemy" of this game."

And here are the links from the "Gamers Being Over" section, one of which does strongly focus on violence (not that that is the main issue even I was talking about, the main issue is feminism's argument about the negative aspects of games and the response from the gaming community):

http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/09/on-gamers-and-identity....

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_t...

THEN you find out it's all just feminist propaganda to talk about how horrible the gaming industry is.

I thought it was pretty interesting in the end but it has not convinced me there is any issue with video games. I grew up on Nintendo since I was 3 years old and would certainly consider myself a gamer. I believe it has had very positive influences on my life, and I also believe that a lot of the power I have supposedly lost is superficial anyways.

There are plenty of good influences that can be gained from video games, and it's especially disheartening that the author blames Nintendo, which is not even responsible for the violent/repetitive gaming culture. I honestly don't have much of a say in this recent argument because most of my gaming was done from 1988~2011, and from 2002 and beyond it has been majority MMO and rhythm games (I have continued to play MMOs - FF14! - when I can, but I'm currently taking a break so I can progress in the game of life)...I did play through GTA4 with a friend and would like to play GTA5 when I have free time again. I suppose that people that are choosing to play these mainstream violent games a la Call of Duty and the ones the feminists are talking about may be negatively influenced by them, but I'm more in the camp that the video games let us immerse ourselves into worlds where we can just enjoy and challenge ourselves, and take part in amazing creative stories. They are sort of virtual reality books, and books have the same spectrum of playing with our human and animal mind, appeasing to us however we are instinctively prone to being appeased. They are a good way to relax and stimulate our brains. Meh, like I say, I'm not really part of the demographic that is playing these games that feminists have such a huge problem with anyways.

http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/history-tree

I see IXMICRO and MXIC (Macronix) on there.

Growing up I was one of those bored boys. I grew up on Nintendo and started getting into the Quake series when my family got a Windows 95 PC with a Diamond graphics card (that or RIVA TNT...I know we at least had the Diamond card later on). The release of the Quake III demo was the beginning of intense gaming addictions for me that trailed into MMOs. Also ironically, my Dad got us the @Home cable internet (from the article I learned the former SGI CEO Jermoluk was involved with!) which definitely helped foster my addictions.

Another interesting tidbit, one of the main reasons I chose the university I went to was that I heard about people doing internships at Nvidia. I was lucky enough to do mine there (was/am studying computer engineering) and even more irony, I worked on a technical marketing team (benchmarking workstation graphics) with a bunch of former SGI employees! I remembered hearing a lot about their former glory but never knew nearly as much as I have found out in this article and the comments! Fascinating.

These days I have actually moved on to doing research on high performance computing, and I might be looking for a job with close ties to Intel (IMFT~), haha. If only I could just acquire more motivation. Growing up as a bored boy playing video games has ruined me xD

[1] http://www.androidcentral.com/why-nexus-devices-have-no-sd-c...