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by Merad 9y ago
It's a combination of things. Many (most?) of the people want to be there and are passionate about what they're doing. Financially it's still a great job by normal standards and once you have tenure (I think they may call i
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by Merad 9y ago
I'm not surprised at all. Even though every rational person knows they're capable of making mistakes, acknowledging that you can easily make a major, major mistake - the kind that kills your child or your company - is a scary thi
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by Merad 9y ago
It's only the top few models. It's using some kind of image analysis to recognize landmarks and help it navigate. The video would have to be processed onboard, because wifi isn't require for the Roomba to work. I'll ha
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by Merad 9y ago
All current Roomba models [1] have wifi and app support. The app requires an account because it's the type where even when you're at home on the same network as the Roomba, the app doesn't actually talk directly to the Roomb
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by Merad 9y ago
I have a top-end Roomba 980 like the GP is referring to. They don't use random exploration. When you start a cleaning cycle, it begins working in a back and forth cleaning pattern of parallel lines. When it runs out of room to perfo
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by Merad 9y ago
Basically, events like TFA where someone gets shafted even with insurance are fairly rare. The system is bad, but many (most?) people aren't exposed to just how bad it really is. The elderly, who require the most healthcare, have Med
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by Merad 9y ago
I can't remember the last time I visited a restaurant where the server didn't ask how the check(s) should be handled.
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by Merad 9y ago
> At most schools, if you want to major in computer stuff, you major in some sort of computer science major. That was definitely true in the 90s, but I don't think it's been the case for years now. Most schools have degrees lik
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by Merad 9y ago
I'd say it's already all but at an end. The Witcher 3 is probably the most intensive game I currently own. On my CPU (i7-4790k, 4 core/8 thread) standing still in a crowded city environment shows about 50% load across all 8
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by Merad 9y ago
> If it in any other industry people would be arrested. Hotels and cruise ships (at the least) do exactly the same thing. They're all essentially gambling, and they win most of the time, so people don't really get angry enough
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by Merad 9y ago
Great, now what happens when I reconfigure my router to use 192.168.0.x IPs? Or 10.0.0.x? Or any of the millions of other possible options?
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by Merad 9y ago
The questions he was asked were pretty darn reasonable, IMO. If he's unwilling or unable to answer those questions I have no problem at all with him being prohibited from selling a product that his customers would literally be trustin
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by Merad 9y ago
According to Wikipedia, 84 Lumber has about 250 store. I would hazard a guess that there is one manager and perhaps three assistant managers per store - about 1000 "well paying" jobs. I'd also bet that only a very small port
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by Merad 9y ago
Unless you are eating $20-30 lunches every day, the difference really isn't that great. It really boils down to: spend money to save time, or spend time to save money? A typical week of lunches for me is one meal out with coworkers (~
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by Merad 9y ago
Universities usually have a dining hall that's open 7 days a week. Students that live on campus will eat there for the majority of their meals because dorms usually don't have much in the way of food storage or prep areas beyond
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by Merad 9y ago
Part of the preflight that pilots have to do is calculate how much runway is needed for takeoff given the planes loading and current conditions. If the plane doesn't include data for the current temp, they can't run their calcula
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by Merad 9y ago
It has little to do with the government. I dare say the vast major of US small and even some medium businesses are like this. I still have to write a rent check to my rental company every month, because otherwise I'd have to shell ou
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by Merad 9y ago
Ahhh Star Citizen. The first crowdfunding campaign I ever backed, and I backed it to the tune of $120-150 (I don't even remember). I figured it was a gamble, but their demos were and continue to be extremely impressive, and what&#x27
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by Merad 9y ago
The question here is, what good is a collection of all validators? If you want to perform validation, you're starting with an item (to validate) and you know its type, so it shouldn't be a problem to get the correct IValidator&lt
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by Merad 9y ago
Question for those who know more than I do about this. According to [0] the sun will be about 97% obscured at my house. Is it worth traveling for that last 3%? 0: http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclips
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by Merad 9y ago
The real question is, does it matter? I've been programming for nearly 15 years and I'm really struggling to think of a time that my productivity has been limited by the speed with which I can interact with the computer. I'
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by Merad 9y ago
I'm willing to bet that this is some kind of money laundering operation, a way to pull funds from stolen credit cards, or perhaps a way for "tech support" type scammers to get payment from their victims. Perhaps all of they
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by Merad 9y ago
The goal of the current US missile defense system is to be able to counter 10s of incoming warheads by firing 200+ interceptors. The last I heard, only about 25 interceptors had been deployed. Bear in mind, however, that everyone with mod
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by Merad 9y ago
I recall reading something (I honestly don't recall where, so it's possible it was fiction) that discussed how Ohio class SSBNs are so quiet that theoretically, at least, they can be tracked by following the void that they leave i
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by Merad 9y ago
At 1000 feet, the drop of a rifle bullet is pretty trivial (a few yards) compared with the size of an airship. Considering how slow they move, I don't think a moderately competent rifleman would have much trouble hitting them.
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by Merad 9y ago
In Firefox you block them by going to about:config and changing dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false.
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by Merad 9y ago
Surprised no comments that I've seen have mentioned the Great Recession. There were many, many stories in 2009 such as [0] about retirees forced to return to work due to decimated 401k's and investments, or people on the verge of
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by Merad 9y ago
I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but no, we can't talk. We literally cannot have an adult conversation about this topic. Not, at least, in the US. The ACA (Obamacare) tried to add a provision allowing Medicare to
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by Merad 9y ago
> I've never so reckless refactored code as much as I do in Haskell, I just wait for the compiler to tell me what I missed and go back and fix it up. I'd never do that in C, C++, Java, etc; it'd be suicide. That's pre
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by Merad 9y ago
Interesting. Well, I don't know what the movie portrays, but there are two ways that I know of to legally order a gun and have it delivered to your door (though I doubt either is exciting enough for a movie). * You can get a Curio &am

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