Agathos

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   by Agathos 10y ago

   When I saw "at least since March 2016," I wondered if it was a typo.
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   by Agathos 10y ago

   McDonald's doesn't promise you tuna and doesn't give you tuna. A sushi restaurant promises you tuna and still doesn't give you tuna. You don't see anything wrong with that?
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   by Agathos 10y ago

   Serious accidents require both emergency treatment and follow-up treatment. Here's a scary example of getting one and not the other: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4954303/ns/health-health_care/t/wo.
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   by Agathos 10y ago

   But try to only have the kinds of emergencies that require no follow-up care.
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   by Agathos 10y ago

   The year of Linux on the desktop was around 2010. The trouble is, I'm still waiting for the year of Linux on the laptop.
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   by Agathos 10y ago

   So if I say, "Darth Vader was Luke's father," do you have to remind me that Star Wars isn't real?
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   by Agathos 10y ago

   My first thought was Pinky and the Brain. And somebody else just posted the necessary Douglas Adams quote. Come to think of it, our culture seems to dwell on the fear that our lab rats are smarter than we are...
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   by Agathos 10y ago

   Y.T.’s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta [her boss] does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she
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   by Agathos 10y ago

   To me, "skyscrapers in space" feels like an attempt to capture the majesty of World War I and II battleships. Which is to say, not much better justified than the aerodynamic spaceship. I don't see why a hard-SF spaceship real
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    by Agathos 10y ago

    You can't beat Earth for easy access to liquid water. But you can easily beat the Moon. Mars beats the hell out of the Moon on that score.
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    by Agathos 10y ago

    And endless arguments about what caliber and kind of round has the best stopping power come up every day on gun forums. It's their vim vs. emacs.
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    by Agathos 10y ago

    I read somewhere (Wikipedia, I suppose) that Wreck-It Ralph was in development hell for decades. Long enough for its target audience to grow up into nostalgic 30-somethings.
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    by Agathos 10y ago

    Hey, it's the BeOS guy!
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    I want my tea water and I want it now! Seriously, mine boils in almost no time. Needs a lot of power to do that.
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    I'm mostly thinking of the battle of Agincourt, which has long been celebrated in the English-speaking world as the victory of the common man over the elite, heavily armored knight, all thanks to the longbow.
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    It's nice to see the conventional wisdom confirmed for once, but... isn't this the conventional wisdom?
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    "Performance" sounds like sloppy thinking too. What kind of performance are we talking about? Latency, throughput, false positive rate, false negative rate, click through rate, conversion to sales rate? There are a lot of axes on
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    Yeah, to my ears it sounds like someone is anxious that he won't be taken seriously if he uses a one-syllable word.
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    Short version sounds like: Python is a legacy language. We're not porting our legacy code and we're not starting new projects in Python. I wonder: 1. Would this have changed if there was a Python 2.8 with some new features (but st
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    >Would they? Yes. >Wouldn't they blame their bulb first? No. >It's like complaining to your PC manufacturer that a program you downloaded doesn't work. Yes, and people do that all the time. >Most people would blam
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    I hardly think Apple was first. What about Nintendo and the NES lockout chip?
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    Hasn't software been eating software development ever since the first compiler was written?
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    And sometimes the requirements are clear, specific, and wrong.
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    And how does a columnist get away with writing that sentence without mentioning IBM?
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    I remember reading years ago about studies that said exactly that, not just about oranges but about vegetables in general. Freezing is a great way to preserve all sorts of compounds including vitamin C.
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    True about household soaps and cleaners, but rwj has a point with, "stop dosing livestock with antibiotics as a prophylactic."
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    Here's an old animation of the construction of a platform over those rail yards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAc5hkCEYFU
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    Can you still be convicted on evidence coming from an imported, computer-controlled device, if a treaty prevents your examining it? http://www.cnet.com/news/police-blotter-defendant-wins-breat...
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    So if I catch you in an error, I can not only call you on that but now I can imply that your are developmentally stunted as well? Sounds like fun! Let me try: The Post argues that because the Democrats support gun control and protest polic
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    by Agathos 11y ago

    I rigged my standing desk so it behaves differently under testing... no, I'm sorry, I have no idea how this is related to the VW diesel scandal.