Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 3y ago
You could just give people a pin code. System could be set up so common spelling variations don't matter. Jon Smith 03/04/1973 Pin 349 Same as Jonathan Smith 03/04/1973 Pin 349 Same as Johnny Smith 03/04/
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
unions would be better if C had first class types. C would be safer if it had memory safe casts. C would be safer if we forced compilers to implement Walter Brights suggestion about array arguments. C would be better if it had stdslice.h Pr
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> first service is set at 18000 miles that's likely 2+ years of ownership! An American commuter will hit that in a year easy.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I see pictures of highway construction in developing counties and think gads they're doing stuff we realized was a bad idea 50 years ago. One thing I've really noticed about the US is suburb layouts are designs to shield people fr
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
When I think of the implications of solar panels I think possession is 9 tenths of the law. Defaulting on loans used to buy solar panels means you still have the panels and the energy they produce. If you can't afford to import oil and
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> Most Americans experience first hand how horrible health care here is. The little people and not so little people experience how horrible it is. All the big people get the platinum plated VIP treatment. And it's a great source of
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
My dad who worked on wind tunnels just flat said you can either integrate the pressure over the surface of the wing or the momentum change as the air passes over to derive the amount of lift. Both give exactly the same results and are conve
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Sometimes I write printf like this printf( "count=%i" "failed=%i" "busy=%i" "reqs=%i" "rsp=%i", count, failed, busy,
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think the Penguin in Bloom County uses that word a lot.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
MFC made me run away and do embedded hardware and firmware full time. Because I would have had to go all in. And that would drive me insane.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
You shouldn't analyze an owner occupied house as the same type of investment that a real estate investor does. The biggest reason is the source of funds you're using is your rent money. You can't invest your rent money in sto
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
The top three things I learned in control theory class were 1. PID's work adequately for more situations than anything else. 2. If a PID doesn't work you should redesign your hardware. 3. Phase noise will totally mess with you.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Imagine when your HD is just local cache for their cloud services. Oh yes you have a terabyte drive but you can't actually use more than 50 GB of it for storage without paying them. You know this is what they are up to.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Reminds me, recently removed a folder and explorer showed it still being there and you could click on it and see the files. I'm suspicious that they're trying to move to 'one drive' for the whole file system and so need
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
They changed things to hide 'less common' actions when you right click. To disable that you need to hand edit a registry key.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think it's interesting that C still exists despite great efforts to kill it. First it was C++, then it was Java, now it's rust. Perhaps it would be easier to fire WG14 for incompetence[1], add a few things to the language, and u
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Having dealt with standards and regulations in the US the problem isn't so much the regulations as the people enforcing them are adversarial. And they don't care about the costs they are imposing. I've also heard trades in th
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Please don't make silly comments like this.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
The last two hundred years saw the amount of energy available increase 50X. The US is into free markets because historically it's interests were anti-mercantilist.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I can't help but think this is brought to us by the 'drilling for stuff in the ground industry'
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I might make an argument that we decided to sidestep fights over class equity for things like sexual and racial equity. That suits the powers that be better. Because now the lower classes are arguing about status instead of their share of t
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
If you asked for my reflexive feeling about using a Broadcom chip in a new design the answer is you're asking to be in a abusive relationship with a supplier.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Having proved the contribution of these second and third order terms are between plus 10 and 20% over the range of interest we will multiply by a constant 1.15
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
My usual thought when people complain about useless eaters is useless to who? Sure they don't think my 85 year old dad is important. But if I have to chose between between them and my dad, dad wins. Another observation is prosocial &#x
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
The lack of memory safe casts drives me a bit batty. You would think casting something as signed or unsigned wouldn't promote to a int / unsigned int. Ditto for const and unconst.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Lot of EV's are basically lux cars. And those always have a sharp drop in price. When I look at the non lux Chevy Bolt the used price doesn't seem that much off the tax and incentive adjusted price of a new one.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I essentially do not use int short, long, long long at all. Frankly I think those were a terrible mistake and people should avoid using them.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
When I think of Hunters Point I think of Gommer Pyle pouring a bucket of expired radium paint into a hole dug in the base commanders flower garden.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
The metabolic pathways to process fructose and glucose are different. I think they can be bad for you in entirely different ways.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Worth noting GDP is per year. Where the project cost is over the 30 year life[1] of the project. Through the magic of finance 35% becomes 1.17%. [1] One feels that 30 life for something where components can be constantly replaced as they we

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