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Comment · 9 years ago
Certainly don't pay to go to movies and watch ugly people
Comment · 9 years ago
What's so wrong with enjoying the company of women with better genetics than most?
Comment · 9 years ago
I've been considering cancelling my preorder. As late as they'll be (assuming they do deliver) and my estimated place in line, the other manufacturers will have competitive offerings
Comment · 9 years ago
I wish we'd get rid of timezones all together - is there really much point aside from tradition?
Comment · 9 years ago
MS already makes royalty on every significant Android device made
Comment · 9 years ago
Do you not recall the number of foreign Hilary supporters pushing on social media and chat rooms?
Comment · 9 years ago
ISO 9660 is not at all a general purpose filesystem. Although fairly trivial to reason about and implement, little and big endian systems required entirely separate structures written to disc or files would not be accessible.

Myth 2 was a popular testing media in those days due to Apple and PC endian differences. As I recall Bungie did some clever crafting on the structures to share some of the media between platforms while keeping binaries separated. Even had a fun picture of soulblighter in Finder through icon trickery.

-wrote commercial CD mastering and storage software many many moons ago

Comment · 9 years ago
Easier to mine relative to the price... More juice for the squeeze
Comment · 9 years ago
You are all missing my point (or I did not make it clear) - the resources are there for you to burn in achieving your goals. You will never be able to deliver a product in competitive fashion compared to groups that are more willing to burn resources (with "reason") - the market simply doesn't pay for high efficiency on the desktop or in the browser
Comment · 9 years ago
Youtube the "hastily made Cleveland tourism video"
Comment · 9 years ago
Although it's great for campfire stories I don't really see a problem. Resources are there to be used - the lesson from StarCraft is you don't horde resources to victory. I think most believe this as how many of us are writing unikernel OSs purposed built for our hand tuned assembly backends
Comment · 9 years ago
On the body aches - standing desk that can lower to sitting height. I change back and forth throughout the day. Also keep a bokken (wooden sword) to swing and walk for periodic breaks - wife calls it my "thinking stick".

Regarding getting out of the fog - drinking is the only thing I've found to be reliable, but seldom do so during the week

Comment · 9 years ago
Non-white and grew up with a very religious background - even lived in a religious commune-like environment for a few years. The current environment in the bay reminds me of those days in many ways - the incredible pressure to visibly signal virtue through study, fasting, public displays of humility, etc. It's easy to trick yourself in thinking you actually believe and this is the only way, but it quickly fades once you're out of the environment
Comment · 9 years ago
Bees make hexagons. I've seen tons of horizontal and odd shaped burr comb that is still hexagonal - which if they were truly making circles would remain circles as there is no vertical load.
Comment · 9 years ago
Mites have been the largest issue and will likely take decades for the genetics to select out for an uneasy balance. In the mean time, the commercial guys can't keep doing business as usual and have to cleanup their act - they had a nice free ride for a while

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