Thrymr

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by Thrymr 11y ago
> And don't some of the same companies store all their company documents, email etc. on Google Apps? Or on Dropbox? Storing company confidential information on services not controlled by the company is explicitly forbidden at many l
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The USGS cutoff outside the US is ~magnitude 4.5. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/doc_whicheqs.php
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by Thrymr 11y ago
The mentality of someone who thinks that an 89-character line that ends with " # noqa" is better than the 81-character line without that ending because now it passes flake8 is one I'll never understand.
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by Thrymr 11y ago
pyxley uses `flask.request`, not Kenneth Reitz's `requests`.
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by Thrymr 11y ago
That loses a lot of information, though. If you want to bisect to find a particular bug, tracking it down to the merge is a good start, but I'd rather have the actual commit (from the maybe hundreds) that went into the merge. Sure, you
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by Thrymr 11y ago
"They’ve become boring clichés. Nobody really wants to read “considered harmful” essays any more, because we’ve seen them a thousand times before and didn’t really learn anything from them, since we were too busy being annoyed to reall
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Meet the startup drawing maps for Foursquare, Pinterest and (soon) Mapquest(fortune.com)
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Uber Hires Google’s Former Head of Maps to Oversee Location Technology(recode.net)
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by Thrymr 11y ago
Sure, it would be cool to have a hardware-hackable phone, but I don't see it replacing most of the niches the RPi does well: * Leave one in the basement or the garage logging data from some sensor * Give one to a kid to hack on * Play
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by Thrymr 11y ago
> Is this line of reasoning incorrect - I'm assuming it is - why? You're trying to reason about black holes with special relativity, rather than general relativity. Special relativity explicitly ignores acceleration (and equiva
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Driving Uber Mad(nytimes.com)
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by Thrymr 11y ago
Isn't this mixing two different things? The average driver "has" one accident per 165,000 miles, driverless cars haven't "caused" an accident. The current article discusses accidents not included in this Mashab
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by Thrymr 11y ago
Well, spokesmen for the companies operating the driverless cars claim that they were not at fault. As far as I can tell from the article, there is no independent confirmation of that assertion.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> use format strings instead of '%' for interpolation To be clear, %-formatting has not gone away in Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style...
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> but may only fly over a particular spot of land once per day. Even less frequent: Landsat 8 repeats every 16 days: http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/landsat-8-...
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> A bit-exact differ for, say, jpegs, probably wouldn't work all that well. Depends. For some uses (e.g. a change in one corner of the file, encoded by the same tool with the same parameters), the diff of JPEG would be fine, differe
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Except for the "free to everyone for the public good" part.
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The libraries have a license for a particular number of copies of each title that can be checked out at one time. They pay for this license, at high rates for popular books (more than hardcovers).
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> Q: If I wait until the last minute, will you have items available? > A: It's never happened yet! I don't think that says what you mean it to say.
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Of course, that's baked into the system, since most European countries are part of the visa waiver program and citizens don't require a visa to enter the US.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
It is worth stepping back once in a while and thinking about how things appear to non-technical people. The FBI was suspicious of Serge Aleynikov in part due to his use of a "subversion repository" [0]. "Git" isn't
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by Thrymr 12y ago
In my opinion, including a picture of Obama as Hitler (which has nothing to do with any Stallman/FSF statement) raises an already tenuous ad hominem attack to its Godwin extreme. That they aren't clearly labeled is disingenuous
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by Thrymr 12y ago
At least 2 of them are LaRouche, not Stallman/FSF, so I'd agree with you that they are unfair and inflammatory. The Obama/Hitler one is apparently from LaRouche organizers [1]. The global warming one obviously is as well. The
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by Thrymr 12y ago
That doesn't tell you whether you will start the station oscillating in some mode of vibration. For that you'd need a model of the stiffness and structure of the station.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> Like the Richter magnitude scale Obsolete? The Richter scale is historically important, but in modern usage has been replaced by moment magnitude [0]. As others have pointed out, in any case this subjective scale has more in common wit
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by Thrymr 12y ago
There are lots of Islamic gold & silver coins found in Viking hoards: http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/b-focus-b-v...
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Arrhenius predicted global warming in 1896: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius#Greenhouse_eff...
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> There is a lot of it Indeed, but most of it is very deep and won't be seeing any new islands soon.
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There are some other recent ones: http://www.economist.com/news/international/21641246-offshor... And Lōʻihi is still underwater, likely for thousands of years yet.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Since every country claims a 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone already, it's pretty unlikely that a new island will form that far from existing land.

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