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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
It is neither fair nor accurate to assume that someone with a CDL necessarily lives in a rural area or is poor, especially the latter.
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
It would seem that other than being a little more automated (giving anyone access to my email however is a deal breaker in my book), this Paribus service wouldn't seem to have any real advantages over (what appears to be) a competing s
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
There isn't really a research exemption in the US. From your cited article, citing Madey v. Duke University (2002): The court did not reject the defense, but left only a "very narrow and strictly limited experimental
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
It has been held up in court, repeatedly, even against Duke University who argued in favor of an academic research exemption.
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
I wonder if this Night Shift feature has anything to do with the rumors of Apple switching to OLED displays for future phones. Reducing the amount of blue light emitted dusk to dawn would help extend the overall life of the panels.
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Speaking of books, have you by chance read Weitz's new one? https://www.apress.com/9781484211779
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
I would disagree that those are similar since they don't have the same sight picture as the Guttersnipe.
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Other than a nebulous "it works at short ranges and is snag-free", I can't point to point to anything quantitative. I think that's in part because the design is uncommon. Trench sights show up every now and then (e.g.,
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
It's interesting to me that the Guttersnipe sighting system never really took off, especially with the increase in civilian concealed carry in the US.
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Can anyone speak to the limitations for the tight spot the car will park into? Could there be a situation where the spot is tight enough that you can't get into the driver's seat?
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
I don't think we're on the same page. > Software design is much better and more advanced, because our industry allows us to choose better practices. I don't know what "much better and more advanced" is specifical
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Being "patent pending" is meaningless without further context, i.e., the application proper. "Patent pending" spans a range of meaningless crud and novel inventions that share the common trait of having not yet received
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
> Automotive engineering is antediluvian wrt process compared to software engineering. I couldn't disagree more strongly. > Our design processes are far in advance of the automotive industry. Continuous design is normal practice.
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Are you suggesting that "rolling with the punches" on a civil engineering project is happening without going through some sort of an engineering change order process?
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Because of gun-free zones, sometimes it's necessary to secure one's firearm in one's car. Regardless of where I live, I keep a toolkit, trauma kit, and emergency supplies in the trunk… just in case. I also will have region sp
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Ahh, that clears it up for me… nice example too. Thanks!
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
I thought that if one exceeded 70% utilization on a real-time system, one lost guarantees of being real-time?
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Why Obama’s Smart Gun Push Will Misfire(techcrunch.com)
8 points by OopsCriticality 11y ago|2 comments
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
They have none in my eyes. I used to email them pointing out simple factual errors in their articles (i.e., stuff that a quick Google or Wiki search would find). Never once received a response back. Almost always, there would be silent u
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
> By that I use our Nissan Leaf as an example. There is no direct mechanical linkage on any part of the car that makes it stop, go, or steer. Parking brake is electrically actuated. Brakes are run on a wire. "Gas" pedal is wire
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Your comment is kind, and appreciated. Thank you.
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Are you aware of any implementations of that lottery model in the wild?
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
> regulatory bodies do not tend to support rapid iteration of products I disagree. 21 CFR 820 is deliberately written such that it does not prescribe any one specific development process; AAMI TIR-45 for example aligns agile methodologi
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
> Your knowledge of the subject and willingness to explain it indicates to me that you're valuable to the HN community. You're too charitable. The truth is I'm unemployed at what feels to be a particularly bad time of the
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
If it's okay, I think we should set the non-vertabrates aside for the discussion since their optical systems are so different. As to the safety of UV-A, I don't think you're correct. A common element of all the comparative s
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
My frustration was more directed towards the UV-Vis-NIR part (and I read night vision as thermal IR, but who knows), but I wouldn't say that your linked article is something of substance. To quote the article, quoting the experimenter
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Honestly, if this were reddit I would have deleted the entire post when scott_s pointed out it was harsh; it was hastily written in a moment of supreme frustration. Sorry!
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
> The next step, more controversial, would be super-vision of tetrachromacity, perhaps infra-red and ultra-violet sensitivity. Night vision glasses no longer needed for enhanced soldiers. Utter poppycock. The cornea and lens in humans ar
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
> I wonder how popular this viewpoint will be here on HN - the home of lifehacking and microanalysis of bodyfunction (often without the corresponding knowledge to go with it, but prefaced with a view that 'more data will always be b
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by OopsCriticality 11y ago
I can't speak to the ultimate legality of your idea, but I would guess that one would be arrested and it would be up to your lawyer to demonstrate that you were acting within the bounds of the law (if you were). To your first question,

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