Crito

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by Crito 12y ago
It depends on the suburb. I could see myself living in someplace like Manayunk without car, but I suppose that is sort of pushing the meaning of "suburb". Some of the towns along the Main Line seem fairly livable without a car
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by Crito 12y ago
> "a neighborhood where everyone seems actively discouraged from knowing anything about their neighbors." I like the city for exactly the opposite reason. In my experience, it is difficult to both ignore others and be ignore
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by Crito 12y ago
Seems fine with me; if the distillation is done well, then ethanol is ethanol. The important part of vodka is what water they are adding to that ethanol. It's not "just water" in that case, though it may very well be tap wat
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by Crito 12y ago
Yeah, my first thought would have been "Dumbasses should change the lights during the day, not the night" . "Terrorists must be terrorizing us by breaking our lightbulbs" would have never occurred to me; it is far
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by Crito 12y ago
"it's binary claims that "ffmpeg is deprecated", which is a complete lie." I hadn't been keeping up with ffmpeg development or the debian packaging scene, so that message caught me completely by surprise and
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by Crito 12y ago
> "He just decided one day shortly after getting the position he didn't want it?" You need to re-read dragonwriter's comment, because that is not the reason that dragonwriter is suggesting at all .
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by Crito 12y ago
On my chromebook pixel, there is a super/windows key (labeled as a "search" key) where the capslock normally is on a US keyboard. Since I use super as the prefix key for all of my window manager shortcuts, I use xcape ( http
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by Crito 12y ago
That only applies to a point. I've been high enough that I had trouble walking (fun with poorly calibrated edibles...); driving would have been impossible. Luckily 'couch-lock' tends to limit how much mischief people get up
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by Crito 12y ago
> "edit: There's actually one difference that I've noticed between my pot smoking and non pot smoking friends - the smokers tend to be small business owners, contractors and freelancers more often than the non-smokers, wh
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Its not until your late 20's and really 30's that you start to find out about and see people you've known in the past that were intelligent, productive people who's lives have been completely destroyed due to
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by Crito 12y ago
Knowingly, and presumably without the consent of the receiving party. I haven't read those laws, but I can only assume that it is not illegal to have and STD and have sex with somebody if they are fully informed and accept the risk.
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by Crito 12y ago
The more common remap is probably capslock->ctrl, for both vim and emacs users, I but I definitely prefer capslock->escape. During normal operation, my left pinky rides the gap between a and escape(aka capslock). Pressing either req
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by Crito 12y ago
Real Vim Defenders™ tell you to use EasyMotion for the majority of your advanced movement needs. In order of precedence: Standard vim movement -> EasyMotion -> Search.
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by Crito 12y ago
I'm not sure if that is valid justification enough to avoid abolishing the death penalty, but I think it does touch on a concern I have with the "life imprisonment is cheaper anyway" argument. The reason generally cited for
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by Crito 12y ago
If the idea were a painless "clean looking" death, then a tank of nitrogen, a rubber tube, and a mask are all that you would need. Painless, cheap, effective, and could be administered by anybody so you don't need a nurse to
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by Crito 12y ago
Yeah, I haven't even so much as bothered to look at the wifi chipsets in computers that I purchase since like... 2007? Since then I just assume that it works, and so far it always has. The only trouble I have is with this corporate T4
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by Crito 12y ago
Hmm, now I'm imagining something like Reason ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Reason ). A backpack sized battery, but needs a water-submersed heatsink.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "It is of course more methodologically difficult to study the behavior of our fellow human beings than to study clouds or volcanoes or insects," I have always despised this semi-excuse. It should not excuse, or even expla
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by Crito 12y ago
I wouldn't say that. SSTO's are pretty trivial in KSP (even rocket SSTO's with only classical chemical engines, none of the RAPIER/SABRE stuff). 8 Rockomax 48-7S (little orange engine, stuck on with 8 small cube struts
950.
by Crito 12y ago
I wonder if that was "We believe they are capable of 100 missions, because we require 100 missions" or "We believe they are capable of 100 missions, because that is what our test data actually suggests" . See: Feynman
951.
by Crito 12y ago
> PS: It was also horribly compromised based on Airforce requirements yet never flew a single Airforce mission. The shuttles flew a few DoD missions, including I believe at least one for the Air Force (a DSCS satellite during STS-51-J
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by Crito 12y ago
Heh, that would certainly put a positive twist on their spinning problem too. ;)
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by Crito 12y ago
On the topic of KSP: Some guy on /r/spacex modded KSP to hell for realism then recorded a video demonstration of how the boost-back will/could work: http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1z6vy
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by Crito 12y ago
Yup. The Soyuz landing capsule uses solid fuel retro-rockets at the very last second to slow down, but even then it is apparently a rather unpleasant bump.
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by Crito 12y ago
It all factors in. SpaceX has performed grasshopper tests on windy days that would be a problem for a parachute landing. There is also the issue that parachutes sufficient to slow down the stage to a soft land-landing would be far too hea
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by Crito 12y ago
The video is pretty cool, but make sure to read the rest of the page. Most exciting of all is this last note: "We will attempt our next water landing on flight 13 of Falcon 9, but with a low probability of success. Flights 14 and 15
957.
by Crito 12y ago
With a thief that might be reasonable, but I think that'd be a bit overboard with somebody that was just going through your trash. I definitely wouldn't confront a thief with no gun though.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "The last couple of recent wars (think Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc) were fought mostly with "big tech" (airplanes, bombs, tanks, etc) which is pretty deadly to low level mosquitoes like civilians and foot soldiers.&qu
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by Crito 12y ago
At least drones tend to have cameras, and their operators cannot excuse their own actions by claiming that their lives were at risk. Drones have the potential to be more audit-able.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "I mean, who can you believe if you can't believe him?" Well since we have a recording, I think that believing our own ears is a reasonable option. I think that most of us have misspoken in the past without realizing i

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