Enginerrrd

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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
What Linux really needs is better support from third parties. If I could get a passable version of AutoCAD civil 3D on Linux, I'd never go back to windows. I'd be thrilled to pay for it. Of course... Microsoft owns AutoCAD. Co
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
It shouldn't be that hard to believe. The reality is some people are born with biologically or structurally dysfunctional brains. Is it hard for you to believe that someone could be born with schizophrenia? What about autism? What abo
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Eh, Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, and district court judges are all lifetime appointees. Part of the theory for that is to decouple their decisions from a fear of political backlash like they might face if they had to ge
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
I can't help but notice that in the first video, the sensor switches from aimed to the right, to being aimed to the left as it tracks the object. Then, at the peak of left facing azimuth, the object coincidentally zooms off to the lef
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
No it wouldn't, but I'm thinking it would be able to transfer some kinetic energy to the earth which would be a very very bad thing.
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
I can help on this one! In short, it won't work very well. The sun is a much better object to use. Basically, gravitational lenses don't have a "focal length" per se. It's not an exact analogy to a classic glass
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
I'm almost positive it's been linked to bladder cancer.
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Sadly, this was my first experience with wasabi. I didn't know what it was, but thought since it was green, that it was avocado-based. I was on a first date with this chick. I took what I believed at the time to be a "small&quo
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Yeah I didn't pull that out of a hat. The specifics were arbitrary, but I chose that as a real example of systems that people already tried building. THAT'S why understanding Bayesian statistics and underlying distributions is s
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Yeah for a basic rule of thumb, I ask myself: How long should it take? Then I take that number and I ask myself: How long will it actually take? Then I double that number and add 30%.
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Stay the f away from USO, which was supposed to track the price of oil as an ETF, but is in fact kind of a scam.
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
I just mean that I'd guess most stereotypes have a correlation nowhere near 0.50, but it'd be wrong to use them to screen candidates even if it was 0.50 or greater. I used the word "extreme" to convey the sense that suc
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Not so! MRSA has shown increased virulence as it has become more antibiotic resistant.
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
>Sorry, but it's not a decision. Science has found repeatedly that using outward characteristics does not work as a good classification measure. Lol, what? Generically, that statement is almost certainly false more often than true
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Nicotine is itself a carcinogen. But in general, smokeless tobacco products (including vaping) are much less damaging to your health than smoking.
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
>It's really only people where you can't tell what it does/is from the outside. Thing is, that's not even true in that it doesn't fully acknowledge the problem. You often CAN tell information from people's
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Because it's part of the arms race with pathogens that has been going on for a billion years since multi-cellular life first appeared. Pathogens do lots of very clever things to hide from the immune system, so the immune system is tun
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
I'd say it does. During a modeling project I worked on back when I was in school, my team found that beyond any other social or economic factor the value of the corruption index was the best correlated to how f'd up a country was
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
I have a unique line of work that exposes me to both sides of the extremes pretty frequently, and personally I have a rather apolitical neutral outlook. From my perspective, the amount of dehumanizing rhetoric from both sides scares the sh
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
I mean, not that China deserves to be defended on anything, but on that particular issue with the west, there's a bit of history there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Basically, yes. And you can and should also put all of those IOT devices on separate VLANs which you can control and monitor via firewall rules and packet inspection.
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Exactly. As soon as you magically remove the gravitational body, you are magically removing the waves too according to GR. There is no such thing as curved spacetime without mass. (Except for the cosmological constant, but that's di
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
Gravitational lensing occurs because spacetime is curved/stretched by an amount relative to it's distance to a massive object which changes the local geometry. Since light and gravitational waves both propagate through spacetime,
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by Enginerrrd 7y ago
It doesn't have to be unmaintained. A 1911 pistol can be made to bump fire pretty easily, especially if you have it in a weird position. While it really isn't impossible, if you take kind of a Bayesian view, the likelihood that