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In America, pernicious, thin-skinned, militant P.C. is widespread. Seinfeld no longer plays American colleges because of it and Bill Mahar opines often as well. In too many "retail…

Sad loss, one of the good ones.

This has been known for over a decade. http://seeingyellow.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography Anything printed on most (but not all) color printer can be trac…

This is not news and has no place on HN. Religion is a fantastical illusion of foolish beliefs. The sooner civilization rids itself fanatical, magical thinking, the sooner there wi…

Wealth brings power, power brings entitlement. Data: Stanford prison and the rigged Monopoly / pretzels experiments. Qualitatively: - Dbag taking up the entire level ramp in the pa…

Investments in companies mostly make money evaporate as a standard practice . Large-scale investors gravitate towards big risk/big reward ventures which require significant capital…

Budget and Auxiliaries alum here. B&A is a boring-sounding organization which is the primary income sheet profit-center, which rakes in slightly more than tuition; SMC is balance s…

People whom get outside and actually examined "suspicious behavior" may be shocked to find normal, harmless people and that it was their own hobgoblins of their minds criminalizing…

Wow, this is incredibly stupid: conflating http and https with minor errors. It should show half a lock icon and half of a page icon, diagonally-split to indicate mixed/unsecured c…

Read the article: looks like a light-curing printer, which prints 2 dimensions at a time instead of 1.

What kind of NT drivers (USB, Storage, what)? What kind of Linux kernel modules? I've worked on storage drivers for Linux (2.6), Mac (10.6+ - 10.8) and Windows. What like Nt vs Zw?…

The two current biggest issues with thermoplastic 3D printers are: - electricity usage: heating a baseplate, feed head and mechanical effort of moving a massive apparatus bazillion…

It's the same principle, I tried it. KeyCue lets you perform the action by interacting with the semi-transparent HUD and has themes to make adjustments. 20 € is crazy high for mode…

A designer failed if help is needed. usually holds for relatively-straightforward apps and real-world designs. The issue where clear, succinct documentation is needed is complicate…

Or hold Command (⌘) if they have a Mac and KeyCue. (It uses the accessibility information for the visually-impaired to construct an exhaustive list of every possible key-binding in…

Visa to China sounds like a winner: Never had to do that myself, but it seems arcane, shady magic that some friends from Hong Kong know how to perform whenever we needed to go. The…

Crows went into my mechanics shop, got up on a toolbox and stole a recently opened bag of in-shell sunflower seeds, without being seen, and had a sunflower seed-opening party in th…

Move? Sister-in-law and husband homeschooled their kids on a crop produce ranch they rented in north/central California. And there's always the Appalachia's. ;)

Both CAFE and Smog Check-style programs are gamed terribly, across multiple manufacturers... but VW gets the blame, which it rightly deserves. Testing of emissions needs to happen …

Oh god. Reminds me of simulated processor pipeline stages (VHDL, etc.), which tend of have a huge amount of state. I'm no Fortran expert. Were there no composite types (i.e., struc…

I am. The point is to show Fortran 90 evolved a lot, which is indeed, a good thing. Remember, F66 was influenced by Speedcoding which was, in turn, influenced by assembly, because …

Dude! You did already all that hard work; make some $$, gain more freedom, while it's hot. If the cost of making another example (parts, time, skill) can be made sufficiently below…