JoelBennett

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by JoelBennett 10y ago
Who says they are for military use? You could totally use them for surveillance on home turf.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
Knowing Subaru, it would likely be a head gasket issue. They will continue to run with bad head gaskets for a while, but it's a pain to keep topping up the oil and coolant.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
So if synthetic diamonds are coming down in price, what other uses are there for them? They seem to be quite good at conducting heat. Could we use them in other areas where we are currently using other less expensive but less efficient al
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
Funny you mention this. When I was at university, a lab-mate of mine was working on automatic article summarizing. Essentially, you could point his thing at a long article, and it would try to pick out the important bits and generate quest
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
If I had to guess: patents.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
I like it! Like others have said, doing something for the sake of learning (or even just for the heck of it) isn't a lost endeavor. I've been toying around with the idea of doing something similar, but .Net based, mostly for my
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
I wouldn't mind knowing this as well!
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
I'm not saying I'm a paint drip person, but for me it has been either what I'm interested in or what the current job requires. I never expected that I'd learn so much about growing corn, but that's what a current w
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
That's awesome. I hadn't read that before, but it makes perfect sense to me. Now just to find out where the intersection of my skills are. Right now, I'm not entirely sure what that would be.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
Rather timely, given their recent buyout.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
Regulations on larger trucks still aren't nearly as strict as they are for smaller (pickup) trucks. I'd be surprised if many of the big trucks are running DPF or urea injection. Although maybe that's just because I see more
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
I find it entertaining that they consider Ghostery and ad-blocker. I don't mind ads, but I do mind things that track me.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
Despite the calls of "it's not fair!", I can see what he is getting at. From the end-user perspective, it doesn't matter what the underlying technology is: if it provides a faster (and more secure) experience, it's
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
Any idea if it was a malicious attempt? It kind of sounds like it was.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
But are the costs in-line with what they should be? I'd think that suburban neighborhoods would require even more infrastructure (more pipes, more roads, more power poles), yet they don't seem to suffer the same high tax rates.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
So why are the taxes so high? I can understand that having a higher population density would require potentially more resources, but I wouldn't think that would be a linear relationship. For example, an apartment building with 15 peop
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
I suppose in a sense, it's easier to enforce policies through a library than it is to tell a dev "do this" or "don't do that'". I'm not a front-end developer either (so my JavaScript experience is a b
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
I'd go more with mistake. Properly measuring things can be hard.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
Would bricks or roads created from melted sand be stable enough? This is something I've thought about as well. There are parts of the world that have lots of sunlight and lots of sand. Imagine being able to 3D print roads and buildi
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
It's an interesting idea for a place like Australia - use solar power to desalinate water, and pump it inland. You could create an oasis in the middle of nowhere, sort of like Las Vegas.
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by JoelBennett 10y ago
I'd think an easier way to tame the existing stock market would lock all trades in for 90 days. It'd basically eliminate all this short term thinking.