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Re:Parler Databases Disclosed on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:20AM (#25727474)
I guess you dont get the irony of using 'Lynch Mob' figuratively, because Parler was de-platformed for helping organize literal Lynch Mobs
Apparently they hadn't made it as far west as Mississippi yet
"I spend 3-5 hours every single day and come up with the best freelance jobs of the day from all over the web. I painstakingly hand-craft this list every day."

This would seem to contradict the term 'passive'.

"99) I can change the world with my technology. No you can't.

99A) Corollary: Don't smoke crack."

I have become such a huge fan of doing analysis work in iPython's notebooks lately, I am curious how this will improve on it.

So far nothing works for me. The kernel keeps crashing and the package manager or login screen fail to work on my connection because I am behind a proxy. There are no options to set the proxy connection parameters, from what I can find. I would assume if they are targeting enterprise customers they should probably help with package management behind an aggressive proxy.

Re:Last in Beauty Contests May Be First on Tracks on Friday November 16, 2012 @11:47AM (#4794570)
The author keeps referring to the incident in practice before the Petit Lemans as if it was the Porsche driver's fault for the incident. Its quite apparent that the Delta Wing's line is way off on the pass if he expects the Porsche to be able to make turn 12. When you see in the video that Porsche turns in he would barely be able to have made turn 12, the Delta Wing left him no room and it looks like the Delta Wing driver was aiming for the motorcycle course not the car course which sweeps right from under the tunnel.
While the compression is obviously a problem, I am always just as worried about the fact that the mixes are for the lowest common denominator. For years most engineers I knew would mix so that the song was listenable on NS-10's (which are complete crap). Now I would assume the mix is probably tested more on a set of white earbuds.
I wanted to play with Objective-C for some numeric computing, but until Intel's c++ compiler supports it there really was no point in even getting started with it for me (sorry gcc)
Steve Albini's explanation is much more colorful and now almost 15 years old, http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Re:LaTeX for Secretaries on Monday May 23, 2011 @01:26PM (#2576715)
I find LaTex to be one of the easiest typesetting languages around. I got used to taking notes in it while sitting in class years ago, and prefer to use it for all my notes and paperwork for the most part.

My only gripe is working with someone that uses Scientific Word. Working with a SW tex file is like trying to look through an html file that was created by FrontPage in the late 90's.