die_sekte

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die_sekte··on The Widescreen Laptop Conspiracy

There was an IBM display with ~3800x2560 22" a few years ago. Sadly, it was discontinued some years after being introduced. IIRC 2008 or 2009 some manufacturer wanted to make them again, with a roughly 10k$ price.

Edit: That was the IBM T220/T221. In 2007, Toshiba announced a revival, but didn't end up producing them.

die_sekte··on Mother-effing hsl()

Apparently no support in IE8.

Which means that I will probably use it anyway, just because it's that nice to deal with mentally.

die_sekte··on Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010

You obviously need Roger, the cokefiend. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2065416)

die_sekte··on Windows-NT vs. CP/M

A HP ProLiant DL980 G7 can cost more than twice that. 64 cores, 2 TB memory, ...

die_sekte··on The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention

It's apparently a semi-autonomous project of his.

die_sekte··on Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

Animal Liberation Front

die_sekte··on Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks

Well, it does if you control the machine you're using. Or am I missing something?

die_sekte··on Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks

Extensive proxying? MITM? There's no reason they wouldn't put their own root certificate onto the machines. For most work on Wall Street one probably doesn't even need to be connected to the internet.

die_sekte··on What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.

Sounds like an extreme case of the Dunning-Kruger effect in combination with our good friend, the Impostor Syndrome.

I'd say that you should seek external validation, i.e. make something and have it ripped apart on HN.

die_sekte··on What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.

Someone calling you weekly and saying idiotic things?

I wonder if anybody would pay for that, and, at the same time, whether that would be a sign of narcissism.

die_sekte··on Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

That's the neat thing about leaderless resistance.

Although Anonymous is special, because typical leaderless resistance can only exist with very strict rules (see: ALF).

die_sekte··on This is experimental. However, it could start a revolution in information access

Also that war in the Balkans.

die_sekte··on This is experimental. However, it could start a revolution in information access

I wasn't even born yet.

die_sekte··on Wikijerks

Patriotism/Nationalism is a disease.

die_sekte··on Wikijerks

That's the interesting thing about facism: nearly everybody is in favor of it as long as it furthers their causes. Democracy really doesn't work any better than other forms of government, it just tends to keep the lunatics at bay, and even that doesn't always work (see Bush Jr., Hitler, ...).

die_sekte··on Wikijerks

You just called for the murder of an innocent. What exactly is wrong with you?

Obligatory snark: Oh, look! An abused kissing the ass of his abuser!

die_sekte··on What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?

AFAIK Stylous.com uses vertexdb, a graph database.

die_sekte··on Ask HN: what are the best non-cash employment benefits you've heard of?

Best I've heard of so far: Working without a fixed schedule. I can't concentrate for a full 8 hours; however, I can work at odd hours and still get things done.

die_sekte··on I just need a programmer

Facebook probably counts somewhat. The Winklevii needed "just a programmer". Too bad the programmer didn't want to be "just a programmer".

die_sekte··on How to Breathe Water...and Not Die?

HPNS is a problem beyond 500 feet when using conventional gas mixtures (Nitrox, Heliox, ...); however, there have been simulated dives to 3500 feet on Hydrox (Hydrogen/Oxygen), which seems to prevent HPNS (I can't seem to find anything more specific about the cognitive abilities at 3500 feet). Hydrox isn't used often.

die_sekte··on How to Breathe Water...and Not Die?

How to breathe water which isn't actually water ... and not die

I imagine this will be an extremely unpleasant experience. Humans don't like having any kind of fluid in their lungs. Safer deep diving is exciting.

die_sekte··on Inside the Fortified, Nuke-Proof Bunker that's Now Hosting Wikileaks

Utterly insane. Neat. Holy shit. I don't know what to think.

die_sekte··on Thoughts on what the X-37B was doing in space?

I'm not sure whether this could carry someone. The spacecraft doesn't have to carry just the body, but also oxygen, heating systems, waste disposal, food, …

Maybe you could fit someone inside, but that might just be the hardest mission ever flown.

die_sekte··on After A Four Year Run, Firefox Is No Longer The Top Browser On TechCrunch

This is actually the reason why I use Chrome. Just seems more efficient and logical.

die_sekte··on Xkcd strip used as a exam question

Ideal dating pool seems to be around age 32.

I don't know how to optimize a function with an integral in R yet (unsurprising, just installed it 20 minutes ago), therefore I can't give a better answer. Now I want to learn R.

die_sekte··on HN Office Hours

You also might not want to have stacktraces on a public web site.

die_sekte··on BSD For Linux Users: Intro

EC2 has no support for BSD, if my cursory search was right, and Tarsnap runs partially on an EC2 instance.

die_sekte··on Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a while to load)

Should be a relatively good fit, with both languages having prototypal oo. I wonder how he would implement the metaprogramming parts of Io.

die_sekte··on Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a while to load)

Lets add an Io interpreter to the mix!

(For those who don't know: Io is very powerful, but also very slow.)

die_sekte··on U.S. warns Ottawa of WikiLeak release

Bhutan seems (mostly) pretty nice.

Yeah, there's not a lot of them.

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