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Comment · 6 years ago
Is that why the name of the country is sometimes spelled with a space, "Viet nam"?
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Are you sure it was that good with large files? I used to be a TextWrangler evangelist until I noticed it was mangling large files. You'd change one character but the saved file differed by far more than one character. Medium-sized nowadays, hundreds of MB TSV files. About 10 years ago.
Comment · 8 years ago
Will L2 congestion become a problem once JWST and a few more missions join this craft? Will we have to manage that orbit like we do with geostationary?
Comment · 8 years ago
Which Macs still have a light?
Comment · 8 years ago
You're right.

I saw this post on the bus, installed the app. Checked what it says for my transfer. I had about 8 minutes.

Google said my bus comes at 7:29. Transit app says it comes at 7:37. The bus came at 7:29. The app didn't match the posted time table either.

This is in a major tech area next to a major university. Their About screen lists dozens of local transit authorities as data sources, with the one running the bus in question as a licensed source.

App deleted.

Comment · 8 years ago
- Night Shift is disabled for external displays. That's another killer one.
Comment · 8 years ago
Because your $apt_repo_url is useless to a yum user.

The package management community needs to stop balkanizing.

How else do you propose releasing software to all Unix-like OSes without learning a half dozen package manager formats and quirks? Only other choice is a container.

Comment · 8 years ago
AT&T's cooperation with NSA has been public since 2004. It doesn't seem to have much of an effect on them.
Comment · 8 years ago
American rail is built for cargo, so there are no sections as fast as a freeway.

Also there are several sections that are particularly slow. The track through the Rockies is the original 1869 route, with original curvy single track and original tunnels. Speed there is around 20mph. Sometimes you come close to I-70, where cars are going 60-80mph. The Sierras also have slow sections. That said, those were my favorite parts of the trip.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I had your view until recently.

I got a matte screen for the first time in several years, and immediately had a reflection problem from window light. On a glossy screen the problem is a relatively small highlight, but on the matte screen it was a giant blob that took up a significant part of the screen. The glossy screen is usable, the matte is not.

Anti glare has improved significantly on glossy screens, too.

Comment · 9 years ago
How is this different than Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)? ECN has been in the kernel for many years and is half enabled by default.
Comment · 9 years ago
Why is it problematic to mark a good bot as a bot?
Comment · 9 years ago
I propose marking bots as such. Keep following useful bots. But users will at least know that a troll is automated and are able to act accordingly without wasting time and energy.

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