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Anyone ever added an additional ROM chip to their motherboard that would be enabled/disabled via a jumper, switch or twisted wires? Asking for many friends that I haven't met yet. …

the general issue is that the feature rich web browser contains libraries wrapped around basically every leaf and stem of windows, mac and *nix desktop interface family forests. (i…

;) Maybe given Bezos' character, the endowment and the fleet upgrade is actually, well aside from being more cost effective for a lot of reasons .. also .. his best vehicle for sco…

those people are abusing disqus across practically every site that uses it which ive visited in recent memory. wish they could get a handle on it, its a pretty useful plugin except…

recently I started working on a module for nginx and have developed a full-blown crush on the module loader and its relationship with core functionality. haven't seen anything else…

ah- i meant i don't like those guys ' who rebuilt downtown Seattle in their own image.. (it's silly, I know, but I hate to write corp names as proper nouns once they start to abuse…

On my part, I prefer Linode now simply because I won't support a company as openly monopolistic as .. those guys .. if I can avoid it. Also, maybe a little superficial loyalty. Lin…

as a student who didn't understand why I was getting it right more often when I wasn't showing my work, the assignment of credit based on this frustrated my education immensely. fi…

In the US we ban marketing tobacco and alcohol to minors, if that is largely okay with everyone, we should consider extending it to ban marketing -anything- to minors. When I hear …

if a citizen speaks about censorship in a society that censors speech, can anyone confirm that they make a sound?

assuming the cure isn't open-source/ otherwise impossible to patent and is basically garage-fab easy. ~84K for a course of hep C meds? insulin costing ~6k per patient per year? i s…

Without waxing too poetic about it, its like .. are you deliberately not hitting the nail on the head? ;) > Perhaps there's a relationship between the perceived need for a scientif…

Agreed, but, perhaps, as a management strategy, it may help some teams transition. Since after all, for folks with careers in manual provisioning, devops truly is a new frame of mi…

Based on all the positivity in these comments, it does seem like the UK has at least a more laid back, sort of entry-level culture making hiring decisions than the US does at the m…

this story has my attention because .. idk .. something about privilege. In my imagination this smells like an old train-hopper moving into his chosen retirement community.. not sa…

rather than restricting the software from commercialization by license it explicitly commercializes everything on behalf of the user .. I'm partially being snarky. By offering opt-…

sort of been on my mind lately because like you say, should be easy ;) snapshot of current thinking: -some open pit data mining/management protocol exists and scrapes data out of y…

I don't like the author's attitude but I find the article at least tangential to something worth considering. Flawed communications as a social issue are larger in scope than techn…

I bumped into a guy I had just met on freenode, playing WoW Classic. He was using the same handle and starting the same conversations.. really I probably could have guessed who it …

... been dragging this acronym as a definition around since the 90's, of course its probably way older. A hippie is a, "highly intelligent person, pursuing infinite enlightenment."…

When considering to open my mouth a little about free speech and China, I think of all the human-rights negative consumerism I partake of with or without much guilt. Stomach-shudde…

..im suddenly seeing inspiration to hook up a modem to a 12" turntable output and see what kind of compression ..

Any research biologist I know would balk at the idea that anyone outside of people that have had access to 5g in a bio lab for 10 years could even have a credible starting point fr…

.. also feeling silly .. I had imagined the fork to be so giant it would at least require some sort of militarily actuated forklift if not a small crane .. and more prongs, way mor…