Kadin

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by Kadin 8y ago
Having a list of stopwords is different from discarding half the query. Yes, most search engines have ignored commonly-used words since at least the late 90s. But Google only started doing its idiotic "Missing: [key word from your sea
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by Kadin 8y ago
I have a Pi-hole and use uBlock; when I turn off uBlock and use the Pi-hole alone, a ton of ads still seem to come through. This is with the default blocklists (StevenBlack, MalwareDomains, sysctl.org, zeustracker.abuse.ch; about 8 total).
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by Kadin 8y ago
> buildings were taking in 100% outside air to heat/cool This hasn't been true since fireplaces stopped being used for heating. Even very basic furnaces, such as the coal-fired one my grandparents had in the 1940s, recirculate
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by Kadin 8y ago
Most residential forced-air systems don't bring in air from outside (intentionally at least). They recirculate the air in the building through the heating/cooling unit (typically a combination updraft furnace with AC evaporator s
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by Kadin 8y ago
It seems like a valid and useful way to slow the rate of propagation of fake news. Much of the current problem is that fake news spreads faster than moderators can make a decision on it, or journalists can fact-check it. If you can keep it
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by Kadin 8y ago
That would be the case if they were investing the "rent" from extractive industry (oil) in productive industries above-ground. Or even just putting it into the market so that somebody else puts it to productive use. If you do th
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by Kadin 8y ago
I think part of the blame is also on aggregators like Google News; I've noticed that GN mixes opinion/editorial content in with real news articles, especially on the sidebar (e.g. "Spotlight" section). It also seems like
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by Kadin 8y ago
I'd go with "homage to", not "parody of". Think George Romero movies: they're "zombie movies" by genre, but they also are self-aware and frequently invert or riff on tropes of the genre itself.
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by Kadin 8y ago
I don't think this is a "social graph play". I think it's about them realizing that the small amount of revenue they get from individual subscriptions is worth less than the free advertising/marketing they get by m
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by Kadin 8y ago
Yup. At least at the business tier you can. Push to gh-pages and it deploys to the site, but site visitors never see the ingredients that go into the sausage.
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by Kadin 8y ago
Except that doesn't put GitHub on par with GitLab. So they are basically kneecapping one product (GitHub) in order to not compete with another product (Azure), leaving them with two halfassed products, neither of which are as good as
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by Kadin 8y ago
Gasoline is largely fungible because it's required by law to be. What can be called gasoline, what additives can (and are required to be) put into it, how much energy it has per liter, etc., are all regulated. There was a time where g
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by Kadin 8y ago
As others have said, it can be done cheaply. The electricity costs more than the hardware at least for most people's setups that I've seen. (Exception is people using stuff like RPi boards from solar panels; that's almost a
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by Kadin 8y ago
That's probably not a terribly stupid idea; transporting energy as gas in a pipeline might be significantly more efficient than electricity through wires. The oil and gas are going to be extracted as long as the global market prices ma
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by Kadin 8y ago
Yes, agreed. In built-up areas it's not like roads move very often. I wonder if someone couldn't do "deltas" of satellite imagery to produce some sort of heatmap of how quickly various areas are changing. That would gi
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by Kadin 8y ago
When OSM got started, the idea was to use GPS track data almost exclusively, or at least for the finer resolution stuff. The satellite imagery available freely at the time wasn't that good anyway. But cleaning a bunch of GPS tracks ca
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by Kadin 8y ago
So does anyone know why delivery drivers do that? Is there some sort of perverse incentive to leaving a delivery note versus actually delivering the package? I can kinda get the incentive (saving time) on signature-required packages, since
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by Kadin 8y ago
They say in the article that the police department was able to double the number of bait packages due to a grant from an external organization. It would be pretty trivial to donate money to a charity or "Friends of" organization
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by Kadin 8y ago
The whole "Mickey Mouse is why we have the DMCA" thing is overstated to the point where I'm tempted to call it an urban legend. There were a lot of forces aligned in the 90s to extend copyright. Disney was one of them, but
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by Kadin 8y ago
> Will FB be chock full of juniors with an ever depleting number of seniors? Doubtless some of those junior devs will be willing to stick around. In for a penny, in for a pound — very few people want to suddenly take a pay cut; your lif
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by Kadin 8y ago
Except there are companies at the other end of the spectrum that don't seem to care. Apple was almost legendary for its long hours (not sure if that has changed post-Jobs), and perhaps as a more extreme example, the games companies ar
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by Kadin 8y ago
Wow. 2GB of uncompressed data per tape is really impressive. That's more than most of the data-backup tape systems at the time. I'm surprised/disappointed it never caught on in the US; I would have loved a backup system like
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by Kadin 8y ago
Interesting; I'd not heard of NICAM, but there were several other audio formats that used video tape as a storage mechanism. The Sony PCM-F1 recorder was probably the most common, and could be attached to either a VHS or a Betamax reco
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by Kadin 8y ago
Out of curiosity, where were you able to find the big 4" thick filters in the 20x20 size? I wasn't able to find anything other than the usual 0.75 thick furnace dust filters in 20x20 for a box fan.
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by Kadin 8y ago
Did you put the filter on the intake or outflow side of the fan? I have built one of these (20x20 furnace filter on a box fan) and always put the filter on the intake side of the fan. However it seems like people are placing the filters on
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by Kadin 8y ago
> The correct approach to variable heat is an adjustable exit air valve. I always wondered why the radiators in some buildings had two apparent temperature controls, one at the bottom of one side (generally a big gate valve) and another
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by Kadin 8y ago
Up until the advent of inexpensive heat pumps, using electricity for space heating wasn't very practical. There were some electrically-heated (using resistance-coils baseboards) in the 50s and 60s, I guess when they thought electricit
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by Kadin 8y ago
Article seems a bit unclear. Are they blocking third-parties from selling used Apple products? There are a ton of independent people (including just random individuals) selling used machines. It keeps referring to refurbished machines
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by Kadin 8y ago
To each their own, but I'm not paid to work 24 hours per day, and doing so would undoubtedly affect my outside-of-work relationships and interests. My experience is that there is not a linear relationship between effort invested and ou
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by Kadin 8y ago
The mental gymnastics are due to the legal environment in the US and in particular on laws in many states that could send physicians who prescribe a drug for the purpose of ending a patient's life to jail. But there are lots of drugs t

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