Daniel_Newby

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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
Indeed. It's not widely known, but oxygen is still rather poisonous to humans. If you breath pure oxygen for over about half a day, your lungs start taking damage. There's a reason that oxygen and perchlorate are used as rocket oxidizers.
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
One way is to buy long-dated call options on a broad range of issues: indices, index funds, precious metal funds, commodity funds, etc. For instance, the SPY index fund currently trades at $80. Suppose you want inflation protection for it g
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is not especially conducive to life. It took a lot of evolution to develop tolerance to it. Perchlorate should be similar.
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
Newegg does that with the menus and sidebar and it pisses me off. I find the text uncomfortably small, but when I fix it their Javascript jams it back to a small size. With high-res screens and/or people with vision trouble, setting a parti
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
It could. You'd want to choose the expansion size judiciously, with less size for closely-packed links. Making the background light up during hovering would really help disambiguate click targets.
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
" the only way to make the comment link targets bigger ... would be to add whitespace around them" ORLY? a.big-click-zone { position: relative; left: -1em; padding: 1em; margin-right: -2em; }
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
"I've never seen -- but often wished for -- a fluid-width layout that automatically scales its text so that the average line in the main content has 8-12 words on it." That's easy to do with a fixed width in units of ems: min-width: 1
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
"commit" usually (always?) means to take the changes you made and enter them into the version control system. Git is a distributed system, where every user gets their own repository, so "commit" alters the repository on the local machine .
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
The main magnet in MRI scanners produces a steady field. TMS machines use a rapidly changing magnetic field that induces significant electric currents in the brain, so they can potentially cause problems.
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
"I'd rather see them coded in C, or better, optimized C, or better, pure asm written by someone who knows what they're doing." In most markets, the greatest source of economic value is high-level optimization of the whole system. If the God
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
"So why not write reversed_string = orig_string.reverse()" reverse() does an in-place reversal of the original list and does not return the result.
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
I does not have to be. This site just doesn't much traffic from interior decorator startups.
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
Unfortunately, the panic was in large part caused by secrecy, as people realized that many "money good" assets had actually been losing value for over a year, and that the government had been colluding to try to keep anyone from ever fi
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
It is hard to make inline unit tests when the inputs and outputs are really complicated, like the request/reply data structures in a web framework.
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
The semantic argument is what you get when graphic designers and web monkeys try to articulate separation of concerns. The only way they know to partition a system is at the CSS-HTML boundary, because that's what they were spoon fed. This m
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
What I mean by wiping out is that the company ceases to exist, its stock is deregistered, and a successor company is created by the bankruptcy receiver. Stockholders in most financial companies have not experienced this, because the governm
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
The article says why: to make it more easily skinnable by simply referencing a different style file. Skinning tables takes more work.
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by Daniel_Newby 18y ago
"All we know is that lots of companies made poor investments in the past. Letting them fail doesn't change that past, ..." Those poor investments will wipe out equity owners (and bond holders in many cases) when they are honestly documented