NamTaf

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901.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Sure, but the marginal utility of a given flight is far higher than the marginal utility of a second computer. Moreover, I may be paying for my computer but my company may be paying for my flights.
902.
by NamTaf 11y ago
In which dystopia does it cost you $1000's to fly locally, as many would do? I can cross my goddamn continent for $600 return and that's over 4000km away. Going interstate costs $200 return on a good day.
903.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Short answer: it's regional. Long answer: Depending on the region, if the quoted string itself is a complete sentence, the fullstop belongs as part of the quote. Example: "My mother," he said, "is not going to accept you
904.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Non-software engineers are really strange: Mech engineers marry registered nurses Elec engineers marry teachers Civil engineers marry teachers Chemical engineers marry secretaries Mining engineers marry teachers Nuclear engineers marry teac
905.
by NamTaf 11y ago
We were farming efreets for daemon bone armour, in that particular case.
906.
by NamTaf 11y ago
You're looking back with rose-coloured glasses. I did the same thing with ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc. for chat. I did the same thing with Ultima Online and Counterstrike for gaming. I mean shit, there was a few weekends where my best mate
907.
by NamTaf 11y ago
I subscribed to their iPad magazine publication for the last several years in an effort to support them. That weighs in at USD$25/year off memory (NB: non-US subscribers get screwed for print delivery), which I felt was fair given I mi
908.
by NamTaf 11y ago
I have noticed corner situations of the iOS UX degrade over the time I started with a 3GS to now. This degridation was most obvious when they moved to the new flat design theme. Here's some examples: 1a) The title bar colour changing f
909.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Wow I screwed up big time. I meant to say it was a million million and I have no idea why I said otehrwise. I'm going to blame tiredness. Thanks for the correction.
910.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Why aren't stadiums shared multi-use endeavours? Here, square stadiums are used by rugby (union and league) in the winter and soccer in the summer. Oval stadiums are used by AFL in the winter and cricket in the summer. In between, they
911.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Though it's almost unheard of now, a british billion = 1000 * a british million. In that context it does hold, being 2 british billionths of a metre thick. That said, here we all bascially use the American 'billion' because i
912.
by NamTaf 11y ago
There was a derailment in Australia called the Waterfall derailment [1]. It occurred because the driver had a heart attack and was responsible for 7 deaths (a miracle it was so low, honestly). The root cause was the failure of the dead-man&
913.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Driving a train, with multiple connected bodies together, is a fair whack different to driving a car. You have to forecast your decisions a lot more lest you introduce some nasty dynamics that can absolutely cause derailment (i.e.: excessiv
914.
by NamTaf 11y ago
I recently used this amazing little utility: http://slydiman.me/eng/mmedia/recover_mp4.htm It helped me recover some GoPro footage that went corrupt. You feed it a known good video from the same camera/same s
915.
by NamTaf 11y ago
If, for some perverted reason, I end up in a CEO role at some point (highly unlikely), I hope I can still spare some time very occasionally to get my hands dirty because it'll always be fun tackling ground-level problems. Don't le
916.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Yeh I wasn't laying blame on the *nix side of things either. No OS should be able to do this because the OS shouldn't have that level of control over the system it's sittting upon. Firmware absolutely shouldn't fail to a
917.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Lesson learned: if you want to semi-permanently take a system offline, hope they have a bad EFI implementation and rm -rf /sys. The fact that a malicious actor can compromise your hardware via software like that is incredible. That&#x2
918.
by NamTaf 11y ago
How do you gel the 'move fast and break things' ethos with an internship / mentorship role? The former requires existing domain knowledge to hit the ground running and achieve large things quickly, whereas the latter requires
919.
by NamTaf 11y ago
This is how it works in Australia, or at least in my state as far as I can tell: http://www.qirc.qld.gov.au/qirc/agreement_award/awards_onlin...
920.
by NamTaf 11y ago
A cursory search doesn't reveal a where-to-be-born [1] or human development [2] index for the lower half or quartile of a given nation's population. It would indeed be an interesting thing to view. I suspect that there's som
921.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Fair call on the gimbaling at the end, in that instance it does impart a moment around the CoM and will invoke a torque, though that's really only at the end once much of the vertical velocity is cancelled. As a result it does represen
922.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Both forces go through the centre of mass, as the engine doesn't stay firing vertically downwards when the rocket rotates. Your finger on the other hand tries to continue pushing upwards as the yardstick rotates about your finger, whci
923.
by NamTaf 11y ago
A rocket isn't an inverted pendulum. This is a common mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy
924.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Yes it does. That chemical reaction is the popping sound you hear (like popping candy).
925.
by NamTaf 11y ago
2 reasons: 1) As you say, salt water is bad. Do never go in salt water if you want metallic, electronic things to keep working. 2) The rocket can't withstand much, if any, load in longitudinal bending mode. It'll buckle like a toi
926.
by NamTaf 11y ago
To elaborate, the rocket can take only about 1 atmosphere of pressure in the radial direction, but much more force in the longitudinal direction. It's designed to withstand the stresses of going in a straight line, but as soon as it be
927.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Of course it is; the GP is pretty biased. they could just as simply give their kid the same book on an iMac. Equally, their kid could play the equally crappy flash games on a Windows PC, and pick up some nice malware along the way because f
928.
by NamTaf 11y ago
I understand the intent, my point is that there's very few situations where you are not transmitting information if you have any connectivity whatsoever, so the law appears overly ambiguous and far-reaching. It should be more specifi
929.
by NamTaf 11y ago
I agree that US migration processes are a bureaucratic nightmare also. I don't think it's an exaggeration when I phrase the term as 'overly unnecessary bureaucratic process that causes people incredible frustration'. Not
930.
by NamTaf 11y ago
Most other first-world nations would disagree with you.

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