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qnaal··on Germany's Wi-Fi Shortage Set to Ease as Merkel Backs New Bill
Thank you for publicly complaining about a completely-obvious-from-context idiom so sassily
qnaal··on The Interim Operating System
'built in' meaning screwed onto a piece of plastic?

wow such hacker

qnaal··on Foldscope: Origami-Based Paper Microscope
optical heathkits WHEN
qnaal··on The Interim Operating System
why do you have more pictures of your weird keyboard than screenshots from the device?

who photographs lcds honestly

qnaal··on Magic PNG Thumbnails
as seen on 4chan
qnaal··on “Stop reverse engineering our code”
makes for good examples that everyone can learn from
qnaal··on Exploit to get root on OS X 10.10 fits in a tweet
or vipe http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
qnaal··on In Defense of the Floppy Disk [video]
disappointed she didn't include results for that download icon that looks like an inbox

also I do think a nicely simplified telegraph key could be an excellent 'send' or 'communication' icon

qnaal··on In Defense of the Floppy Disk [video]
I wonder which of the dozens of scripts on that page looks up and inserts the youtube embed from godknowswhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoHbGVJItMQ

qnaal··on Operators of Coin.mx arrested by the FBI
one time I forged an eyeglasses prescription

now that my soul is under new management, I no longer feel remorse for anything I do

qnaal··on E. L. Doctorow, the Art of Fiction No. 94 (1986)
where does he get these sevens?
qnaal··on We don’t trust drinking fountains anymore, and that’s bad for our health
"hobo bidets" we call them
qnaal··on Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
imo flappy bird was pretty much the pinnacle of what action games are possible on a touch screen
qnaal··on Bird’s-Eye-View of Largest Floating Structure Ever Built
is 'oil company background music' a meme yet?
qnaal··on Toast
title should be changed to 'toast (not postgres)'
qnaal··on The Max Headroom TV Hack
now I'm really curious
qnaal··on No one expects command execution
> 40 year old movie

spanish inquisition was flying circus, not holy grail

but my theory is that the vcr, and now the internet, has a lot to do with it, just like you'd expect references to books to increase with the printing press and general increase of literacy

qnaal··on The Mystery of the Deterministic Super Shotgun
> 'high level' means less than 'low level'

dammit

but ofcourse, the different levels of understanding are vitally important when working on code- in my experience heinlein's original definition is still preserved behind the scenes, but for practical use it seems to be used to describe the process of approaching that level of grok, with the superlative 'fully grok' I think generally being used to describe something like 'a fully ample level of understanding', which is still rarely reached for complex systems

qnaal··on The Mystery of the Deterministic Super Shotgun
In a field like programming, where the need to understand various arbitrary things at a high level is so common and important, 'grok' seems like an ideal addition to the vocabulary.
qnaal··on New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies
reminds me of the snl sketch where the other colors of soylent individually turn out to also be made out of people
qnaal··on A 100-Year Debate About the Eardrum Comes to an End
> When the scientists genetically inhibited lower jaw development in both fetal mice and chickens, the mice formed neither eardrums nor ear canals. In contrast, the birds grew two upper jaws

> "kiill meeeee"

qnaal··on ClamXav just went commercial, no open source version
is it substantially more than a graphical frontend to clamav?

and since clamav is GPL, does that mean subscribers get rights to the source?

qnaal··on IPv4 Depletion
HP doesn't need both those Class A blocks
qnaal··on The Tragedy of Iran’s Great Salt Lake
they say it kept raining on the desert areas they were trying to film mad max 4 in..
qnaal··on Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
OPEN SOURCE THE MAGIC CHALK RECIPE AND MACHINE PLANS
qnaal··on Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says
wait- so what _is_ it driven by?

so I can min-max

qnaal··on Why numbering should start at zero (1982)
I would argue for one-based counting [a] and zero-based indexing.

Illustrated example of an array- indexes along the top (where the data can be found), and counting along the bottom (how many values have been read):

  0   1   2   3
  | A | B | C | D |
      ^   ^   ^   ^
      "1" "2" "3" "4"
[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number_%28linguistics%...
qnaal··on Why numbering should start at zero (1982)
ugly in that "it's 'ugly' to have to use a signed int when referring to a range of unsigned ints"

that's pretty ugly

qnaal··on Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob
it's called context- I'm not sure where people get the idea that acronyms should be used gramatically 1:1 like the phrase that inspired them would be
qnaal··on Why cars went from boxy in the 80s to curvy in the 90s
that video at the bottom ..

Mercedes Benz Cockroachmobile- has aero design gone too far?

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