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rsl7

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duckduckgo. Colorado & Brooklyn, USA.

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rsl7··on Crazy Eddie Fraud
In this particular case,

"Crazy Eddie was from Day One planned to be a criminal enterprise. We committed our crimes simply because we could," said Antar, whose cousin Eddie Antar founded the chain.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/17/investing/fraud-wall-street-...

I guess you hire people you trust..

rsl7··on The True Size of Countries
That's a blast from the past.
rsl7··on Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
I've had a similar experience. the new keyboard is much better. Except I keep palming the new huge trackpad.
rsl7··on Who Lives with Their Parents?
People become risk averse.
rsl7··on Neural Net Trained on Mugshots Predicts Criminals
I wonder if it is the same before and after one becomes a criminal. Being a criminal does not mean they don't regret or feel guilt. Perhaps that is what is detected.
rsl7··on Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
Term limits mean just as people really figure out how it works and how to get things done, they're gone.
rsl7··on Turning off syntax highlighting
Sure, also let's chuck scrollback in our terminals. What's done is in the past, people.
rsl7··on Jobs that no longer exist
Butner, a button maker
rsl7··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
But it still doesn't help people to actually know what to do.
rsl7··on An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software
Its focus is still on being a file browser though, right? Last time I used it was even less about spatial features than the Finder, and more about cramming every possible gizmo into a single-window browser.
rsl7··on Robots Can’t Dance – Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated (2015)
Fine, let's say the singularity could happen. How do you know what form it will take and thus how to prepare for it? We don't have any evidence or examples of artificial human intelligence or something beyond us. Everything we humans build falls apart, there is nothing remotely resembling self-perpetuation of any sort. Where is the evidence that tech can do this? This singularity talk sounds, at best, like imagining flying ships in the 14th century. It might happen. But we have a long, long way to go and we have no idea how it will work.
rsl7··on The top Google result for 'blockchain' is a scam ad
What can't you find?
rsl7··on The Mystery of the Phantom Page Turner
Howard Hughes probably used one..
rsl7··on What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears
Should that be up to Walmart?
rsl7··on Is France's AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap?
OS X 10.11 brought the iOS-inspired letter selection, which makes discoverability a bit better, I guess. but as someone who never needs to type those I can't tell if its efficient or not. to type æ you do a long press on a, and either mouse over or push the number beneath the letter. That seems 100x more complicated than typing a normal key, but at least there is no guessing.
rsl7··on Silicon Valley Is Not Driving Jobs Growth
so many assumptions there.
rsl7··on I'm done with iCloud Photo Library
I stored my photos in year/month directories for years after abandoning iPhoto waaaay back when. Finally settled on Aperture a few years ago.. so I returned to the Finder.

But I swear, with el Capitan, folders with more than about 500 photos will now beachball for minutes at a time waiting for a click. WTF. this ship is sinking.

rsl7··on The Soap Opera Effect and how to make it go away
Art isn't about the technology. That you can't take it seriously says nothing about the artists. Only that you don't understand it.
rsl7··on Why Startups Occasionally Act Like Sociopaths
maybe using the language of social reformers when in fact there is a profit motive just sounds disingenuous
rsl7··on Rogue Wave acquires Zend
Yes, haha! Tools.h++
rsl7··on Evernote is in deep trouble
because there are plenty of note taking / writing apps that use dropbox directly?
rsl7··on iOS 9 space-saving “app slicing” disabled for now, will return in future update
so apparently you had enough space to do the OS upgrade? good to know. But still, apps will be much smaller with app thinning.
rsl7··on For San Francisco Cab Drivers, Once-Treasured Medallions Now a Burden
If the medallion is the only way you can be a taxi, then enforce it. If Lyft and Uber are legitimate, then lose the medallion and pay this guy back his $250K.
rsl7··on iOS 9 space-saving “app slicing” disabled for now, will return in future update
Too bad. This was going to make the 16G iPhone actually viable.
rsl7··on Why I’m not enabling Bitcode
Sometimes there is a secret master plan behind these actions, sometimes they're doing what makes the most sense. I can see how bitcode might make a lot of sense from a centralized distribution standpoint, and it may work for certain types of apps. But you still may prefer to test and experiment with the actual code that will be distributed to your customers. Seems like a reasonable requirement. Apple ought to have an extraordinarily good and transparent reason to require centralized compilation in the future.
rsl7··on Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
Used that on a Sequent Symmetry at Purdue in the early 90s
rsl7··on Camera Restricta: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
a location based ViewMaster would be more interesting
rsl7··on The Internet of Way Too Many Things
I thought I'd done my research when I built a dedicated movie theater in my basement, around 2004 or 2005. I hung a decent projector from the ceiling and wired DVI through the walls and ceiling. What I should have done was put an accessible conduit so it was replaceable. because.. only a few years later the projector was destroyed in a lightning storm, which also took out a fridge, toaster, a bunch of GFI outlets, router, etc.; and by that time, decent 1080p projectors were affordable ... and were all HDMI.

so

- conduit for those cool hidden in-wall wires like HDMI for your wall-mounted TV, etc.

- whole house surge protector

Your PoE idea is pretty good, ethernet has been around and will be for a while, and wireless will never really cut it all the time.

rsl7··on How RED Cameras Changed the Game
Are you suggesting that all the filmmakers using a Red are doing so because of their silly hardware obsession?
rsl7··on Old graph paper
I have a lot of this stuff from my dad, from the early 60s. Mostly various types of log paper, and polar.
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