CoffeeDregs

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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
I've sort of switched: mobile is FF; desktop is Chrome. The thing that still gets me with both is that memory usage is -insane- and I cannot figure out why it is so high. After a few days of usage I'll close all but one tab and
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Interestingly, you're probably awake for more than 3 seconds but experience propofol-amnesia. At least, I did: I spoke with my surgeon in post-op (and said embarrassing things) and he shared with me some other embarrassing things I&#x
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
While I've never been detained, I've been around police enough to know that they generally know the likely suspects immediately after many crimes (turning in a statement after an SF Mission smash-grab; talking with a friend about
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
That doesn't mean they won't go bankrupt... The brand and IP are assets but the liabilities can easily exceed them. Perhaps you mean that Tesla won't disappear ...
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
That is certainly the hope . What is the plan ?
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
> Arguably, the purpose of a search engine is to help > people find sources that they don't already know about. I certainly don't want that... I want a search engine to show me a set of results likely to be m
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by CoffeeDregs 8y ago
A related question: I'm a NodeJS, Python and Java user/developer; can anyone explain why this problem appears more frequently in the npm ecosystem than in Maven, PyPi, etc? Is it the Github-ization of package creation and mainte
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by CoffeeDregs 8y ago
I've got to say that I've found Google's swirling messaging around serverless-as-a-service to be frustrating. Originally, it was App Engine, which was great: upload a bit of Java/Python and off you went. Then that sudde
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by CoffeeDregs 8y ago
What's old is new again: I loved following Leopard Logic ( https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/leopard-logic ) back in the early 2000s. They had a rapidly reconfigurable FPGA coprocessor bolted to a MIPS or ARM
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by CoffeeDregs 8y ago
I did the exact same thing...
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by CoffeeDregs 8y ago
This article lacks any nuance. College will always be worth it if you have some combination of ambition, capability and intelligence necessary to couple to an industry (or industries) of interest. College was never worth it if you lacked
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by CoffeeDregs 8y ago
Interesting that Soylent did not get mentioned since they once seemed to be the poster child for this movement. Are they still a player?
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by CoffeeDregs 8y ago
Great question. We were not responsible for the difference. The "Statement of Benefits" is a very confusing US healthcare tradition in which you're told how much you should have paid before being told what you owe. In ou
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by CoffeeDregs 8y ago
This is great. Article in The Atlantic back in 2009: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame... My mother-in-law died of brain cancer over the course of about five days. We received
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
I haven't really noticed much of a difference in performance but memory usage is much lower.
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Switched to FF Nightly from Chrome about 6 months ago because Chrome's memory usage was awful. Firefox has been much better, especially since I modified the following in about:config: browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers =&g
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
From the article: Conventional wisdom suggests that cracks begin deep in the roadbed and gradually migrate upward, eventually breaking out on the asphalt surface. Not so, claims Halim. The cracks have already been created by the rollers, re
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
I was literally wondering about this question the other day. It's 2018; we can make CPUs with 12nm features but we can't make a long lasting asphalt? Fascinating: Nichols said the AMIR “has great potential” to extend t
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
> Most 'displaced' truckers should be able to find work unloading automated long-hauls into smaller short-hauls and driving them during a lengthy transition period. If a million truckers lose their long-haul trucking jobs, how
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
I've heard (and seen) that in JP, people wear masks to protect other people from sickness. That said, I don't think I've seen an example of a debilitatingly sick person wearing a mask; only their caregivers wear masks. A se
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
AFAICT, with current blockchain technology, in order to process PayPal level volumes, every single participant in the network would need to process PayPay level volumes... 1,000 transactions per second is not a problem for a single payment
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
I saw that, too, and was fairly concerned. A smoothly running, quality focused engineering organization doesn't leave a status page un-updated for 3+ weeks... Also, "reports of service unavailability"? I would expect monito
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Another good, very mature framework is Repast ( https://repast.github.io/index.html ), though it is Java with all the goods-and-bads that come with that.
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
While I disagree with a lot of what Pai is doing, this doesn't seem bad and actually seems to reflect reality: > On Thursday the FCC will vote on Pai’s proposal to eliminate > the 42-year-old ban on cross-ownership of
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
I installed an add-on in Firefox called "Disable HTML5 Autoplay". Works great.
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
This single line puts the whole article into the realm of pure science fiction: no technology capable of working such an ill-defined task like "programming AI systems" exists, I'll admit that they'
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Agreed. I switched to Nightly and it's completely stable and completely noticeably faster.
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Project Fi's support has been nothing short of spectacular... I've had two slow activations (coming from StraightTalk) and they've spent 10-20 minutes on the phone with me until the problem was resolved.
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
"It’s a future where first responders using image-recognition applications can analyze streetlight camera images and quickly solve missing or abducted person reports." Erp. That's also known as "a massive surveillance n
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/dl302#ec2eb82

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