Tloewald

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by Tloewald 11y ago
Jquery works quite well on SVG too. It's all Dom nodes.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Assistant professors are in a similar position -- student evals influence tenure decisions. It's a fundamental problem of poorly designed incentives.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
How do you figure 120mph? It's ~1kg and I would guess has a higher surface area relative to mass than a person whose terminal velocity is about 120mph. In any event, it takes a person 8s to get close to terminal velocity — that's
724.
by Tloewald 11y ago
I'm asking why, if the lights will cycle in such a way that pedestrians COULD cross, why they should not automatically allow pedestrians to cross. It's infuriating to miss a cycle as a pedestrian, and whom does it benefit? I'
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by Tloewald 11y ago
This seems kind of implausibly cheap for what it's offering.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Terminal velocity for these things will not be terribly high.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> You can still (barely) buy model rockets. I see them selling in Target all over the place. When I was a kid you had to find a pretty specialized store.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Clinton and Bush.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
What completely infuriates me is pedestrian crossings that don't automatically allow pedestrians to cross when the lights are in a state that would allow it.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
My takeaway — pause slightly before responding to a green light. (Something I usually do already as it happens.)
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I just turned 50. I'm a web front end guy having started my career in a multimedia startup. I have as deep or deeper experience in all the latest hip technologies as anyone I work with, as well as broad and deep experience most of them
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You'd prefer they didn't honor robots.txt at all?
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Well let's start with fallacy #1 -- marathon times are normally distributed. http://m.runnersworld.com/sports-psychology/round-number-tim... Aside from the significant asymmetry of the distribution (of course) the
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by Tloewald 12y ago
> I'm fine with increasing passenger miles as long as passenger-CO2 and passenger-congestion go down Yes but the idea that people will opt for a minibus over an individual taxi when the cost is trivial is optimistic. The marginal co
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Absolutely — let's hope so. (Of course, there are plenty of public transport systems that could run automated but don't owing to regulations or unionization -- a relative of mine used to work as a driver on BART, which essentially
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I hope this is true, but I suspect self-driving cars will cause an upward inflexion.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Well ; produces 8307 chars on its own (without eval checked) -- which seems kind of inefficient (for such a common character in idiomatic javascript). Looking that their encoder, ';' actually has a specific encoding (which itself
738.
by Tloewald 12y ago
It's easy and fun to dismiss Macdonalds, but their "slime" burgers are made from beef (no pink slime even). I doubt that cheap hotdogs are made from better ingredients. "I doubt that will only result in a 5% cost increas
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Yes but your "free" time is valuable in a different way. I cheerfully cook for myself and my family on occasion, but having to do it all the time (for a family which has different conflicting dietary issues) is not much fun. (We d
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Given it's a "shipping" product, that seems unlikely.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Good grief, I didn't plan to defend Macdonald's, but this sounds delusional to me. If you're trying to get food cheaply, unless your labor is pretty much free and you're incredibly efficient I very much doubt this is tru
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Preparing food at home is not actually cheaper than Macdonalds -- I defy you to create a double cheeseburger for $1. (The beef alone would cost over $1 at Walmart -- roughly $6/lb. Macdonald's gets its beef a lot cheaper.) The foo
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by Tloewald 12y ago
It would seem phys.org is tacitly stating its opinion on the subject with the article title.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
> These people should be focused on how they can increase their long term earning potential instead of helping to further squeeze out the middle class. "These people" -- what, people with awful jobs? "further squeeze out t
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Every time I visit, say, Macdonalds, I try to figure out how much it would cost to pay everyone in the logistic chain decently. E.g. let's suppose we agree to give 5% extra to Macdonalds at the register to distribute to its employees i
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Exactly — not a big deal, but worth fixing I think.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I was using chrome on the Mac and easily got aberrations. I can see issues with morphing to/from svg in mobile safari but it's actually barely noticeable even when torturing the heck out of it. So really it's very good — just
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by Tloewald 12y ago
By using position: fixed they bork themselves if the user scrolls during an animation. (Easily verified by scrolling while watching the demo.) This seems fixable (no pun intended) by not using position: fixed unless the start and end elemen
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by Tloewald 12y ago
You're jumping to conclusions. It's possible the details are accurate (or at least come from the horse's mouth). You don't know what the reporters got from interviews or when. He may well have been interviewed earlier, o
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I suspect (3) is pretty much impossible, and being — say — 2.5 involves being a gifted entertainer and either having tenure or dumbing down your grading to avoid ticking off students just for giving out fair grades.

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