CDRdude

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by CDRdude 7y ago
The authors are arguing that it should at least be sent out for review—not necessarily published.
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by CDRdude 7y ago
> I think it's reasonable to demand that the journal regularly note corrections to stuff that it's published. It's absolutely insane to demand (via a giant article on Slate, no less) that they publish every refutation of a
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by CDRdude 8y ago
It doesn’t compute the average. Consider this test case: [0,0,0,0,0,0,4]. Your snippet would return an average of 2.
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by CDRdude 8y ago
The image has more information in the metadata: >Contestants in the 2006 Google Global Code Jam stare at their computer screens at Google's New York office Friday, Oct. 27, 2006. One hundred of the best computer coders from around t
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by CDRdude 9y ago
>My source has been lost to the sands of time, but it rings true for me. I think it is mentioned in Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker.
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by CDRdude 9y ago
Perhaps dense fog, or whiteout blizzard conditions? I’m making the assumption that the server parses the data from the truck to determine what it is seeing.
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by CDRdude 9y ago
I’m under the impression that that crockpot is only used for this purpose: >She put all the bones into the crockpot that I brought home from my lab as well (which we keep for the express purpose of defleshing stuff that, well, still has
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by CDRdude 9y ago
>We're the best software engineers the world has ever seen Maybe some of you are, but people like me read HN too ;-)
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by CDRdude 9y ago
What shell does that work in? On a mac, I have that set in my .inputrc and it does not propagate to python.
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by CDRdude 9y ago
I think they should pay more. However, it is harder to track than a yearly checkbox for if they had a flu shot.
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by CDRdude 9y ago
>At this point I’m not sure there’s a need for normal users to actually turn off Wi-Fi. The only real case would be something like airplane mode which already has its own setting. I ran into a use case for turning off wifi the other day.
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by CDRdude 9y ago
Different political opinions aren't fake news. There are real people in Catalonia trying to submit ballots. In some places there are Spanish police trying to stop them.
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by CDRdude 9y ago
Wikipedia says "June 2007", which I'll approximate to 10 years. That gives us 6.8 games per second.
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by CDRdude 9y ago
I wouldn't expect them to ban it from talk pages though.
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by CDRdude 9y ago
>As civil service, he can only be fired for cause. I'm not clear on what "for cause" means for an acting director of the FBI. Wasn't the justification for firing Comey that he mishandled the Clinton email investigatio
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by CDRdude 10y ago
I think there is very little overlap between international travelers and Trump supporters.
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by CDRdude 10y ago
It certainly must be both, which makes me wonder which how many of each. I wonder if text sentiment analysis is good enough to parse all of the 2016 edits and come up with an estimate of the political persuasion of each editor.
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by CDRdude 10y ago
There are two definitions, the verb and the noun.
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by CDRdude 10y ago
Because the NSA breaks into US-based companies too.
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by CDRdude 10y ago
I'm confused; how does that work?
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by CDRdude 10y ago
>tabloid journalists are scrupulously factual and accurate, while regular journalists more or less write whatever they want without much regard to whether it is true or even coherent Do we exist in the same universe? When I visit the Nat
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by CDRdude 10y ago
For someone to be wrong, they have to have made a some statement that turned out to be incorrect. The people that disagreed with Columbus' calculations said that the earth was larger than Columbus gave it credit for. This was not an in
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by CDRdude 10y ago
The comment was pretty clearly a joke.
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by CDRdude 10y ago
I have been interested in trying psychedelics for this reason. I have some ability to visualize, but it's pretty limited. I experienced similar surprise when learning that doing things like picturing yourself on a beach was not meant t
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by CDRdude 11y ago
I don't think having a lot of tabs open is a contrived use case. I have over a hundred tabs open in Firefox, and that's been pretty standard for me for at least a year.
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by CDRdude 11y ago
Now there's a startup idea I can get behind!
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by CDRdude 11y ago
During the storm, they threw everything they could overboard to make the boat lighter. They threw away their catch, as well as the hooks and line.
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by CDRdude 11y ago
It certainly wouldn't be trivial for me, but I can't discount kefka saying it's trivial. There are lots of developers better than I am, and their trivial tasks are my extremely difficult challenges.
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by CDRdude 11y ago
There has been a good amount of U.S. aid money going to Pakistan since the war on terror. Pakistan would have the incentive to prolong the war on terror, may have reasoned that a living Bin Laden was a cash cow.
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by CDRdude 11y ago
> you'd still want to watch a video every now and then My favorite example of this is YouTube repair tutorials. If I need to get something done, these can be irreplaceable. If I had a slow connection, but my car was up on the jack

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