Merad

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by Merad 9y ago
I work at a Fortune 500 (non-tech) company, and your first two paragraphs are very familiar. I’m not sure why people often act like the government has a monopoly on lazy and incompetent people.
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by Merad 9y ago
Bad government in the US is a self fulfilling prophecy and has been for close to half a century.
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by Merad 9y ago
Were you doing serialization or something like that that recursively accessed all of the properties in the model? If so, and if lazy loading was turned on (the unfortunate default) then the serializer would indeed keep exploring the object
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by Merad 9y ago
LINQ itself doesn't have anything directly to do with SQL. It's a mechanism for composing expression trees that are compiled into your application. At runtime a LINQ query provider can walk the expression tree and translate it int
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by Merad 9y ago
> When you make an HTTP request, you're accessing a piece of private property. The owner of that property has every right to decide not to let you do so. So why don't they do that? If they're responding to a bot's
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by Merad 9y ago
D&D was already in the middle of a popularity surge when Stranger Things came out last year. Fifth edition (5e) came out in 2014 and somehow managed to make the gameplay more streamlined (and appealing to new players) while also being p
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by Merad 9y ago
Even that 12% figure only works out to about $17 per ticket. If you offered passengers that discount (clearly communicating that it meant flying totally on autopilot), I'd be absolutely shocked if even 10-20% took the offer. Of cours
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by Merad 9y ago
Pilots just aren’t that expensive, to be honest. Assuming your flight crew is costing $400 per hour combined (on the high side according to some googling) and you have a 6 hour flight with 300 passengers, eliminating the crew only drops pri
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by Merad 9y ago
The main reason we don't have them is that people don't want them. Autopilots date back to 1912 (yep, you read that right) and the first flight off an aircraft controlled 100% by autopilot happened in 1947. US Navy carriers and
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by Merad 9y ago
Very, thanks to git-tfs [1]. My company is in the midst of a move from on premise TFS/TFVC to cloud based VSTS/git. We've run into some projects that managed to somehow mangle their branch history so to the point that we gav
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by Merad 9y ago
I don't know if I would hold your breath. 10 years ago I think most people hadn't even heard of git (it was ~2 years old) and Google Code was the hot new thing, and GitHub was a year or so away from creation. At the time most pe
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by Merad 9y ago
The UX isn't as nice, but you can set up multiple profiles in Firefox. There are/were some extensions to make profile switching easier but I doubt they are compatible with 57.
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by Merad 9y ago
Nope, I discovered that it was being done in user.js. No clue how that happened...
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by Merad 9y ago
I have never (to my knowledge) done anything to change the user agent. I dug around in about:config and discovered that general.useragent.override somehow got set. Edit: Something is resetting that override every time the browser starts.
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by Merad 9y ago
So, dumb question (maybe), but how do you get tree style tabs to install? I'm running FF 57 but that page says it's incompatible because I'm running FF 51. I checked and the user agent string being sent is: Mozilla/5.0
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by Merad 9y ago
You're not really looking at an apples to apples comparison. The last generation of piston engine airliners (the only ones really comparable to the jets that replaced them) used massive turbocharged radial engines that were notoriousl
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by Merad 9y ago
Unless the situation has changed in the last few years, most libraries only offer precompiled windows binaries for MSVC. Using something else means that you’re likely on your own as far as figuring out how to compile libraries that you need
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by Merad 9y ago
A bit of both, IMO. RAII is a design pattern, not a language feature. However, it’s a pattern made possible by the semantics of destructors and object lifetimes in C++. The creator of C++ (Stroustrup) developed RAII within the first few ye
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by Merad 9y ago
I don't know about that. CGI effects are everywhere in modern film and TV, but I rarely hear people talking about them except in the case of action scenes or "obviously CGI" (fantasy/fictional) creatures. Take a look
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by Merad 9y ago
Ammo cooking off in a fire sounds dramatic but isn't particularly dangerous [0], unless of course a loaded gun is burning. In the OP's position it would be really low on my list of priorities. [0]: https://www.youtube.
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by Merad 9y ago
"Bad government" has become a self fulfilling prophecy in the US, and this is just one of the consequences.
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by Merad 9y ago
I suppose that depends on your POV. There are a variety of currently legal accessories that one can buy to make a semi-automatic rifle fire more rapidly. Primarily these are trigger cranks, bump fire stocks, and binary triggers. You can m
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by Merad 9y ago
Maybe you just didn't realize it, because it isn't very common to see someone's full name? It was very much the norm until the 80s-90s, and even today I think the majority of women still go that route. I just spent a couple
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by Merad 9y ago
Yeah, but often (usually?) the woman's maiden name replaces her middle name. E.g. Jane Elizabeth Doe -> Jane Doe Smith. I'm pretty sure my mom's maiden name is printed on her driver's license, paper checks, etc.
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by Merad 9y ago
A checking account and paper checks are almost mandatory in the US. If you need to make a large payment to an individual or small business, say a landlord or someone doing work on your home, it's still usually the preferred payment me
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by Merad 9y ago
Buying powder online isn't particularly difficult. It's classified as a hazardous material when shipping, so you have to pay a flat $25 (IIRC) per shipment. There's no shortage of online stores that will sell it to you all da
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by Merad 9y ago
Yes. In a past life I did phone and email support for two wildly different industries (cellular and banking). I helped train new hires during the first couple of weeks that they answered calls, and several times people broke down in tears d
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by Merad 9y ago
> I'll just say this - I think even that small town would be more tolerant of liberals than I felt when I worked in San Francisco, and I'm not even really that conservative (just economically). As a liberal atheist who has spen
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by Merad 9y ago
> I'm talking about the set of courses that are 1) offered by the CS department and that 2) every student must take. As I said, that was a dozen courses at my school.
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by Merad 9y ago
> The core requirements for a cs major at a typical university (read: not CMU,MIT,Stanford,Berkeley) and especially at a non flagship is basically 4 or 5 courses, which you can for sure cram into 6 months if that's all you're s

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