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elinchrome··on Étoilé on Gnustep
Looks really nice!
elinchrome··on An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience
Maybe it doesn't really matter.
elinchrome··on Cutting your salary by 40%
This.
elinchrome··on Gopher-OS: A Proof of Concept OS Written in Go
Even worse is when Justin Timberlake did that song "Cry Me A River", when there was already an excellent song by the same name. It just obscures the existing song, and does the world a disservice.
elinchrome··on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
If I have a software RAID that I created under MINT using `mdadm`. will the partition work the same after installing Ubuntu 16.04 or will I have to re-synch the volumes?
elinchrome··on Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors
Except that the team get sponsored by a manufacturer, and it's not picked by the riders.
elinchrome··on Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes
How does the environmental impact per passenger compare to a modern passenger jet?

Do you actually think most anyone can afford $5000 round trip to London?

elinchrome··on UBlock vs. ABP: efficiency compared
I use adguard vpn to add an extra layer of ad blocking on my phone. Also I block ads at the router at home.
elinchrome··on I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think
It's like on the pilot of Futurama. As Fry leaves the cryogenics he woke up in, the door automatically whooshes open. He stands under it and looks up, only to have it slam down into his face.

On the DVD commentary, one of the writers explained that the future will be like Star Trek, but nothing will work. It's turning out to be true.

elinchrome··on 90s Cursor Effects
Those were faster in the late 90s. How is it so slow?
elinchrome··on Viewer.js – JavaScript image viewer
Yeah. "Looking at pictures of hot chicks" is total bro culture, and unprofessional.
elinchrome··on The disintegration of the parent-child bond
Funny how every new generation is so much worse than the one that came before.
elinchrome··on Dear “Dear GitHub”
No response articles, please.
elinchrome··on An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks
So are the botnets that still exist mainly running on the legacy XP boxes?

It says here that it's roughly 10% of machines. It's safe to assume at least half are infected. But aren't they mostly third world?

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

elinchrome··on An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks
How do botnets still exist? Wasn't that a problem that should have gone away with Windows XP?
elinchrome··on Do Data Have Politics?
If this was about the Star Trek character, it would be called "Does Data Have Politics?" Answer (Betteridge's Law): no.
elinchrome··on Perl 6.0 released
I'm not talking about cassettes, I'm talking about the reel to reels that they used to use to record masters.
elinchrome··on Perl 6.0 released
No, it's cassettes too. Reel to reel has "better sound" than vinyl for some people. I'm sure there's some metric or science to back up the argument.

And other enjoy the nostalgia of cassettes and eight tracks. You can hardly walk down my block without seeing someone listening to a 30 year old walkman. That's probably more of a style thing.

elinchrome··on I Was Internet-Famous
That one is heartbreaking http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/10-years-later-the-star-w...
elinchrome··on American parenting is killing the American marriage (2014)
> Babies on the other hand are easily replaced.

Someone has never had a baby.

elinchrome··on Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
For me it's "fat man in a little coat." Sad to think that he's been gone eighteen years now.
elinchrome··on Stop forcing arbitrary password rules
Maybe it's because spaces are unicode characters and they are worried that their password system isn't unicode compatible.
elinchrome··on USB/IP Project
Comedic genius!
elinchrome··on The Twelve-Factor App
Is this best practices, manifesto, or both?
elinchrome··on Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
It's shown to increase excitement and therefore engagement.
elinchrome··on Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
Cem Kaner said that all the pedantry about whether or not something is a bug is irrelevant. He says a bug is anything a user perceives as wrong.

I used to worry about calling things not-really-bugs, but when I adopted his viewpoint it gave me a better perspective on what's important in software.

elinchrome··on Famous Climate Scientist Issues Sea Level Warning
Cities full of millions of people being forced to move counts as a dent to me.
elinchrome··on Famous Climate Scientist Issues Sea Level Warning
The response to wind power never ceases to amaze me either.
elinchrome··on Atom 1.0
"...now you have two problems"

Seems off base to me too.

elinchrome··on Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
Reddit has become a real cesspool over the past few years. You'll always find misogyny front and center and you don't have to dig to find racism.
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