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Re:Astrology for Mathematicians
on Saturday May 30, 2020 @01:51PM (#23363079)
years ago somebody tried to add a new astrological symbol to account for this but of course astrology followers weren't having it.
https://www.today.com/popculture/your-life-lie-zodiac-has-ch...
Re:Bash 5.0 released
on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:52PM (#18852687)
I recommend Greg's Wiki. It's the only resource I use. It covers common pitfalls and anti-patterns.
Re:Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:39PM (#18771933)
How would you point it to a data directory on your local machine?
Re:Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal
on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:59PM (#18333472)
You do have to verify fingerprints individually for each device that a user has. You also have to do it individually for each device that you have.
Re:Project Capillary: End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simpli...
on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:44PM (#17241348)
Okay I Googled "foot-cannon" but didn't find any relevant looking results. Can you explain to me what it is?
Re:Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me
on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @01:48PM (#16010164)
It doesn't make a whole ton of sense because you'd still need to know when to un-indent in order to get out of a conditional block. IDEs can't read your mind.
Re:Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds for Loot Boxes
on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:16PM (#15981310)
I suspect most people would not consider buying a $5 loot box if there was a 95% chance of only getting duplicate items, or a 0.0002% chance of getting the item they're hoping for.
Developers will probably increase the drop rates for things so that people will continue to buy their crates.
I agree it's still gambling but this is a step.
Re:India is preparing to land on moon for the first time in the countr...
on Saturday December 02, 2017 @07:31PM (#15835228)
The Moon has a fair bit of Helium-3. It sounds like that is partly what this mission is about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Extraction_from_extra...
Re:The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
on Sunday September 10, 2017 @09:42PM (#15215304)
At the very least, maybe we would have seen higher voter turnout. I know at least a handful of 'salty' people who didn't vote at all but would never have voted for Trump.
Re:No Man’s Sky One Year Later
on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:22PM (#15179236)
The games aren't really about the language--which have maybe 12 instructions at most--they're about the challenge of working with an extremely limited instruction set. They're puzzle games disguised as games about assembly languages. A game using a real instruction set might be fun for some people, but it would feel a lot different, and probably have to be a lot more challenging to make up for all of the convenient instructions. At that point you're basically just programming.
Re:Two years after Windows 10: Windows 7 is still threatening a 2020 E...
on Sunday September 03, 2017 @07:48PM (#15164631)
It's easier for a company to maintain fewer versions of software that serve the same functional purpose.
Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community
on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:06PM (#14933400)
Indoor smoking, 110F weather, and universally crappy, over-priced food.
Re:Pass: A standard Unix password manager
on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:25PM (#14822723)
But then you have to remember the counter setting for that website. So it's almost the same problem; I could just add a 1 to the end of my master password for that website.
Re:Pass: A standard Unix password manager
on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:16PM (#14822655)
This is pretty brilliant. My biggest concern is that if my password for a site gets compromised, it gets a lot more complicated. Presumably I'd have to memorize a separate master password for retrieving the new password for that site.
Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applications on AWS
on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:25AM (#14604572)
Could you elaborate on what you did mean by 'diminished role of the state', and what you imagined?
Re:Over time, leaders lose mental capacities
on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:16PM (#14588579)
It would seem some leaders are born this way.
I wonder how easily it can be passed to offspring (via nature or nurture).
Re:Man to pay $300k in damages for hacking employer
on Sunday May 14, 2017 @03:54PM (#14337259)
Assuming this is the correct website, it appears to still be defaced:
Re:“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in...
on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:50AM (#14309132)
Google officially dropped the "Don't be Evil" motto a while back and picked up Alphabet's "Do the Right Thing" motto, which seems a lot more subjective.
Re:Stopping the False Epidemic of Adult ADHD
on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:37PM (#14277939)
What if I think the DSM-IV is junk, too?
Re:Ultra-low-energy consumption ultrasonic clothes dryer
on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:33PM (#14162436)
Must every appliance become "disposable"?
Re:For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, until I found her
on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:43PM (#14025763)
Then maybe they should make the other things illegal instead of inconveniencing citizens who just want to take a shorter route home.
Re:For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, until I found her
on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:42PM (#14025746)
Ah yes, how dare people walk around after 10pm.
Re:Kirby is a file-based CMS
on Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:19PM (#13681754)
Can Grav be used to generate a static site hosted elsewhere?
Re:Comcast will treat Rokus like CableCARDs, not set-top boxes
on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:54PM (#13554569)
> ... there were 99.44 million cable plus households, which includes wired cable, telco and satellite subscribers, ...
I have a cable subscription that I never use. It's not HD so it doesn't even compete with my digital antenna. Why do I have a cable subscription that I don't use? Comcast continuously provides promotional packages with cable that are cheaper than regular internet-only packages. I think practices like this artificially inflate that number, quite a bit.
Re:Thoughts on the Systemd Root Exploit
on Sunday January 29, 2017 @12:36PM (#13515343)
because presumably they'd be missing init scripts...
Re:DHS will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders
on Sunday January 29, 2017 @03:05AM (#13512939)
no it's not code. They are literally saying that.
Re:Thoughts on the Systemd Root Exploit
on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:09PM (#13476668)
configuring freshly installed packages must be a pain
Re:The World's Least-Popular Four-Digit PIN: 8068
on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:59AM (#13063817)
offline password managers are pretty good.
Re:Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from p...
on Saturday November 19, 2016 @06:09PM (#12996259)
You already said "everything that can happen". I feel like that rules out things that are provably impossible.