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linuxps2··on Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates
I fly a ton for my job and I typically use a USB monitor but obviously on a plane this isn't possible (hell, there is barely enough room for me to work on just my laptop much less two screens) - virtual screens via a VR headset would be a game-changer for me. I probably wouldn't use them daily (quad monitor setup at home, usb monitor when travelling) but would definitely spend a several hundred on a headset if it means multi-monitor on a plane
linuxps2··on Dangers of CSV Injection
To me the issue isn't how we should read in CSV (as you stated, we should use a different format that is less ambiguous) but rather getting vendors to provide the data in that new format. I've found that most vendors I work with are using a cobbled together solution built on top of a mainframe and getting them to add/remove a field from CSV is a monumental task, there is no way they will move to a different format like XLSX or JSON or XML. Until there is an open, industry-wide standard, I just don't see CSV going away
linuxps2··on Tim Cook: Technology Doesn't Exist to Do AR Smart Glasses 'In a Quality Way'
It seems they are moving away from consumer-facing with the Glass and targeting industry use http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/18/514...
linuxps2··on The Corrosion of High School Debate
Not to mention the work ethic and research skills that are honed through debate and cutting cards. I am convinced that my college experience was much easier than others because I was efficient at doing research. Now that I'm in the professional world, long nights of cutting cards has changed into long hours or writing code and I'm not sure I would be able to handle my workload were it not for my debate experience
linuxps2··on The Corrosion of High School Debate
By CX I assume you mean policy and no, it's really effective. I did it for 4 years and it was rare if my partner and I didn't place and one of us nearly always won a speaker award.

Nuke War impacts? yeah, I'm running Compassion Fatigue K. On AFF you better believe I'm running a kritikal case with 'dismantling patriarchy through discussion' as my primary voting issue against the ridiculous Mead cards the neg was going to bring out.

All I'm saying is that it certainly can be effective as this is what I did and found great success both locally and in the national circuit

linuxps2··on The Corrosion of High School Debate
Not only is UDL huge, but the University of West Georgia was killing it on the debate circuit 10 years ago and they are a small, shitty university in Carrollton, GA with just enough money to fly their team where they needed.

At the high school level I get the 'elite' argument (from the TOC perspective - unless you're in NY, IL, GA, CA, or TX, you probably only have 1 TOC qualifying tournament within driving distance) but, as you stated, you don't HAVE to play that game - let the rich private schools fly their kids across the country every weekend while the poorer schools just go to local tournaments in their hand-me-down school bus driven by the coach.

linuxps2··on The Corrosion of High School Debate
See, I loved debate for all the reasons you disliked it. It was a game and seemingly everyone knew that - it was never touted as an exercise in truth-seeking. The truth one discovers in debate is through their research, not in the round itself.
linuxps2··on The Corrosion of High School Debate
As someone who ran highly kritikal affs and Ks on neg - the rules aren't set, they are up to you to define in the round. Sure, you could get a judge that is super pro-policy and hates anything critical but those were fairly few and far between. If someone is trying to spread you or put an independent voting issue on something inane, critique that entire style of debate. Merely dropping an argument isn't enough to lose you the round - unless it was a fairly big IVI.
linuxps2··on Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show
It's the DIY go-to for my parents and I'd argue most people - sure, my parents aren't subscribed to video game streamers or whatever you call people like h3h3 but if there's a channel similar to HGTV my mom is all over it
linuxps2··on It appears my Google account is slated for deletion
I don't see how the consequences make it any easier to do or harder to say - hosting your own content is not only incredibly difficult to do in a secure manner, it's damn expensive. Economies of scale will always make it easier for there to be a few large content hosts as opposed to smaller, federated hosting done on the individual level (well, until better P2P methods are adopted but even then, we're talking massive amounts of storage space)
linuxps2··on iPhone X
If you know generally what the owner looks like, I imagine you could cut down your data set significantly before using it to bruteforce a phone
linuxps2··on Mailable Live Animals
I should correct my statement, I meant to say UPS/FedEx - not sure why USPS cares about snakes but until I hear more I'm going to blame Samuel L. Jackson
linuxps2··on Mailable Live Animals
USPS/FedEx overnight is the go-to method for shipping snakes in the US. There is special packaging to maintain consistent temps. That's how I got my carpet python
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