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by Merad 9y ago
No. An example of a submachine gun is the ubiquitous H&K MP5 [0]. It cannot be easily purchased (legally) because it is a fully automatic weapon, meaning that it has a setting where pulling the trigger once can fire > 1 bullets, an
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by Merad 9y ago
Doesn't a 3D graphics (not game) engine like OGRE or Irrlicht fill this void? I don't know if either one supports DX12/Vulkan yet, but I imagine they will in the not too distant future.
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by Merad 9y ago
Quite often the CSR does have the power to fix the problem, but the customer is more interested in yelling at someone.
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by Merad 9y ago
What infuriates me is how much our society coddles and encourages that 5%. I used to work in customer support (call centers), and I couldn't tell you how many times I saw the following scenario play out: * Customer calls in angry abou
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by Merad 9y ago
A gentleman by the name of Bob Hoover would like a word with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9pvG_ZSnCc
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by Merad 9y ago
I suspect they're either speaking broadly, or thinking in terms of having sensors in everything, always reporting readings. Their tech doesn't seem particularly suited for interactive devices, because the protocol requires the de
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by Merad 9y ago
WiFi is far too power hungry for that, AFAIK. However the Arduino itself (rather the Atmel AVR chip that powers it) should definitely be capable of running months at a time on batteries, with proper programming.
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by Merad 9y ago
SigFox and wifi aren't really comparable at all. SigFox is ultra low power, ultra long range (up to 50km, they claim) and sends only 12 bytes of data per message.
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by Merad 10y ago
I should say "measurable in task manager" - which reports in increments of 0.1%. Realistically I would imagine that a native Win32 app (Notepad++) that's totally idle except for message loop and cursor blink requires less tha
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by Merad 10y ago
> much slimmer Yeah... I opened a 500KB log file in vim and Notepad++ and they are using 5 MB and 7 MB of RAM, respectively. They both also manage to use no measurable amount of CPU (even to blink the cursor!) unless you interact with t
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by Merad 10y ago
Honestly I don't find this a realistic option either (although better than the approach in the GP's linked article...). IME at many companies you will be in great shape if you're set up with accounts/licenses/permi
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by Merad 10y ago
> or someone with the ability to work two jobs at once for an extended period of time while you hold your tryout. This is the part that's crazy to me. If you think you can accurately judge someone based the work they perform after
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by Merad 10y ago
That has to be one of the most employee-hostile hiring strategies I've ever read.
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by Merad 10y ago
Drivers contain details about how the GPU (or whatever) hardware is structured and works internally. Some companies want to keep that info proprietary.
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by Merad 10y ago
Ever seen those articles talking about how in the last few decades increases in wealth have overwhelmingly gone to the top 1%? This is the outcome. The little people can't hope to compete.
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by Merad 10y ago
I think you have to be pretty crazy to honestly believe that cops can id a witness in anything other than extraordinary cases. How many tickets does an officer issue in the average day? 20? 30? 50+? I'd be absolutely shocked if the
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by Merad 10y ago
I used my own modem from the start with Comcast (bought specifically for their service), but after about 6 months I was having problems with the modem being disconnected multiple times per day, and sometimes unable to reconnect for hours at
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by Merad 10y ago
What do you think these guys are going to do, line up and wait to be carpet bombed? Guys who are essentially illiterate farmers have managed to keep insurgencies going against the US military for around 15 years in Iraq/Afghanistan.
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by Merad 10y ago
> can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Women should be just as passionate about the work. If you enjoy being an ass, at least have the decency to be honest about it and own it instead of pretending that it's "pass
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by Merad 10y ago
> I know a lot of great engineers in "flyover states" that more than understand that they'd have to take a decrease in standard of living to move to the Bay Area so don't even consider it. Yup. According to all the c
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by Merad 10y ago
Any decent editor should have a regex find and replace mode.
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by Merad 10y ago
Kitchen appliances are usually included. If the house/apartment has washer/dryer hookups it's usually up to the renter to buy them.
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by Merad 10y ago
Agreed. I got to go to a hands on demo of Hololens last year focusing on potential enterprise applications, and was extremely impressed. What they have right now is very much an alpha (maybe beta) product, but the list of potential applic
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by Merad 10y ago
No matter how much the job pays, it's still very hard work. 60 hours a week of manual labor is no joke. I grew up on a small farm and have a bit of experience with how difficult farm work can be. Honestly, I might even hesitate to do i
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by Merad 10y ago
I had a fun issue a few months ago with Team City at work. I was setting up a build to upload to our internal Nuget server, but the upload kept failing. I finally discovered (I don't remember how, but it took hours ) that our randomly
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by Merad 10y ago
I'll be the last to say that weight management is easy - I've fought the battle my whole life - but if you eat less calories than your body burns, you will lose weight. The hard part is doing it consistently over the long run.
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by Merad 10y ago
If you find jet engines interesting, check out AgentJayZ [0] on youtube. He runs a shop in Canada that repairs and overhauls smaller jet engines (think, Learjet size rather than 777 size). He has a mix of good videos, including a long run
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by Merad 10y ago
The article that this discusses appears to be https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-mi...
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by Merad 10y ago
RE your last paragraph, I think cost is a HUGE factor preventing more young GA pilots. What's the cost to get a PPL these days? In the range of $5000-10000? And IIRC, the total operating cost per flight hour, even for something like
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by Merad 10y ago
The real world is vastly more complex than "true or fake". The Trump tweet you mentioned is a perfect example. His tweet was not a simple statement of fact: > The media has not reported that the National Debt in my first mo

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