Merad

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by Merad 8y ago
Depending on the source the millennial generation is usually considered to start around 1980-82, making them currently 36-38. Speaking only for myself (age 34) I've seen and heard about many people that I grew up with getting caught u
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by Merad 8y ago
Depends on what you mean. There have been recent craft (New Horizons and the Parker Solar Probe) that were launched to a higher velocity than they Voyagers. However, the Voyagers used gravity assists from the gas giants to achieve a high fi
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by Merad 8y ago
I'm going by memory here, but IIRC the fastest level of CPU cache (L1) can be accessed in about 2 nanoseconds . Even the slowest level (L3) operates on the order of a few hundred nanoseconds. RAM is slow by comparison, and network lat
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by Merad 8y ago
> If somebody were to give me a hundred thousand dollars to invest, I am quite certain I could live comfortably for the rest of my life. I'm really curious how you forsee this working out. Even if you can live comfortably on the fe
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by Merad 8y ago
I'd actually argue that var makes it easier to read and understand code. Most of the time, an explicit type on a variable declaration is just noise, because it's a repetition of what we already know from the same line of code.
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by Merad 8y ago
I've worked at places in the past where expense reporting felt broken by design. For example, one employer didn't allow alcohol to be expensed, but they did allow $75 per day for meals, no questions asked (no receipts required)
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by Merad 8y ago
> var is Java 10, though I believe it should not be used in production code, ever Is that your opinion of var in general, or something about Java's implementation of it? If the former, I'm really curious why, as a C# dev who&#
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by Merad 8y ago
So your own enjoyment of a game is meaningless unless someone knows you're enjoying it? I suppose that's your prerogative, but it sounds like we play games for different reasons.
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by Merad 8y ago
If you're in the Raleigh area as your name suggests, I'd advise you to be there 30+ minutes before they open. Our DMVs are a nightmare right now thanks to Real ID. I had go back in September - got my number at 1:45 PM and was th
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by Merad 8y ago
Roughly 2/3s of the states in the US have “right to work” laws, which basically means that either employer or employee can terminate the job at any time for basically any reason.
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by Merad 8y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that these bacteria are detected by growing a sample, which takes a day or longer.
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by Merad 8y ago
It's utterly unrealistic for (IMO) probably 75+% of development jobs. The world runs on mountains of software that isn't sexy and that very few if any people are truly enthusiastic about.
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by Merad 8y ago
Todd is definitely right about how much has changed in their "engine" and how the layperson has little understanding of how it works under the hood. That said, there are some classic "Bethesda bugs" that have managed to
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by Merad 8y ago
I think this is an often understated point when discussing meal services. In my experience with Blue Apron and Hello Fresh there were some good and interesting meal choices (often ethnic dishes that I hadn't tried before), but probabl
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by Merad 8y ago
As the other reply said, even if the gun was just triggered for a fraction of a second it's likely that several dozen shells were fired. I'm not sure if NATO uses the same cannon rounds as the US military, but they almost certain
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by Merad 8y ago
Time isn’t a very big factor, TBH. Reloading a single cartridge involves 3-4 steps, and there three different types of equipment you can use in reloading. * A single stage press has to be reconfigured for each step, so you run a batch of c
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by Merad 8y ago
Always remember that any legit financial institution will (should) have no problem giving you a case or reference number and letting you call back in to their public customer service number.
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by Merad 8y ago
I don't think I've ever heard of a company that actually does this in practice. I suspect it ends up simply being more trouble than it's actually worth. I know at that company the list of approved device would probably end
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by Merad 8y ago
It's been done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNSN6qet1kE
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by Merad 8y ago
At a previous employer (Fortune 500, not a software co.) the IT security team would sometimes seed the parking lots with thumb drives that were "infected" with a program that would phone home to them if plugged into a PC on the co
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by Merad 8y ago
Yep. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/live-unit...
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by Merad 8y ago
According to Tesla's map there are only 12 supercharger stations in my state. That seems be a pretty typical number for most of the US outside of Southern California and a handful of other major areas. That might be enough to support
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by Merad 8y ago
I don’t see EVs taking off for average Americans until there’s an exponential increase in charging infrastructure. I live in a place where it would make great sense to have an EV (only commute 12 miles each day), but I can’t charge at home
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by Merad 8y ago
If you’re interested in the topic, I highly recommend picking up a copy of John Coster-Mullen’s book (discussed in TFA) on Amazon while you can. It’s already somewhat hard to find and not commonly carried by libraries. The author is in hi
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by Merad 8y ago
Gas stations, fast food restaurants and large chain stores (Walmart, grocery stores, etc.) are all effectively free public toilets, at least in the regions where I've lived. I imagine they legally have the right to limit access to cus
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by Merad 8y ago
> An even bigger issue I have is the huge reliance on mocking which leads to completely brittle tests and code that can withstand no change without all hell breaking lose. In the .NET world, at least, I highly recommend the AutoFixture l
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by Merad 8y ago
In Firefox you can change the setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false to prevent the absurd past-blocking behavior.
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by Merad 8y ago
If you want to see truly insane performance (not that DRACO isn't impressive), look videos of fighters like the F-22 doing max performance take offs. Lightly loaded they can be off the ground in about 250m and supersonic before the en
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by Merad 8y ago
Not in the US. The majority of the country isn't to the point of believing that climate change poses a serious threat, and among non-Democrats attitudes towards climate change are actually regressing: https://news.gallup.c
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by Merad 8y ago
You haven’t interacted with many average users, have you? When instructed to go to “yourdomain.com”, they’ll bring up google and search for yourdomain.com. If it doesn’t appear in google search results, it effectively doesn’t exist to an e

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