AngryParsley

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by AngryParsley 17y ago
That design has a couple of problems. Most of them involve preventing accidental scrolling while allowing intentional scrolling. Walking can cause accidental scrolling. Have you ever tried to hold a pan of water while walking? It sloshes fo
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
On Being the Right Size is in the same vein: "You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is br
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
From http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf "Out of all failed drives, over 56% of them have no count in any of the four strong SMART signals, namely scan errors, reallocation count, offline reallocation, and probational count."
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
I disagree about the long-term reliability of SSDs. Intel's X25-M has a 5 year warranty. They claim that writing 100GB/day for 5 years will not cause it to fail. If we compare the technologies in terms of reliability, flash has three things
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
Usually steering is powered by a hydraulic pump driven by the engine's serpentine belt. Automatic transmissions have torque converters, which are one-way (the engine can turn the wheels, but the wheels can't turn the engine). As soon as the
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
How often do you shift into neutral with an automatic transmission? A panicked driver probably wouldn't think to take unfamiliar actions. I agree that cars should have kill switches, but I forgot to mention a disadvantage of them: killing t
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
I've driven a Prius a couple of times, and I concur that they have an acceleration problem. I step on the gas pedal and the car has problems accelerating. (rim shot) OK, back on topic. There's all this talk of cars accelerating out of contr
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
>I would much rather have Gates spend his money on clean energy research or infrastructure projects. You have to look at the margins. Is the benefit of $10 billion spent on vaccine research greater than $10 billion spent on clean energy
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
I don't think you understand. When checking a firearm, the case must be locked. The TSA can't open it. If they see something suspicious on the x-ray, they call you and ask you to open it. To steal anything inside your luggage, the thief mus
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by AngryParsley 17y ago
I think the ageist position is that experience and wisdom aren't enough to counteract the brain's decline as one ages. So really this is an argument about two things: 1. The rate of cognitive decline and 2. the value of experience. The form