VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   It seems improbable that dealers / manufacturers can't do simple compound interest calculations too. If they are offering loans at below market rates they are basically giving you a discount on the cost. If they are willing to do
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   The alternative isn't to buy a brand new car for the same amount of money. The alternative is to actually buy a car you can afford. You are still losing maybe 50% in the first year in depreciation. If you are paying it over 7 years the
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   If you have kids or intend to have them in the future this is a life lesson they need to have drilled into them. I bought the cheapest house within commuting distance of where I work (in London) and am still trying to figure out how the hel
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   I guess concentrating solar collectors might be a useful application?
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   > helped me grow up in a sense that I wouldn't have it I didn't go through it. I can certainly relate to this point. My little one has just started nursery and my partner gone back to work. As her companies flexible working is
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   Something I picked up from another developer is to use timedelta for these type of parameters. It avoids hoping that you get the right granularity for everyone. retry_window_after_first_call=timedelta(minutes=3.5) retry_window_after
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   If I had just one wish about this legislation it would be that a standards body was created to limit the number of form factors that can be used for batteries. Being able to buy a car and know that you'll be able to change the battery
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   Hydrogen can also be used in internal combustion engines with most of the benefits of reduced emissions (NOx not withstanding) with minimal modification. If there was a source, distribution and storage infrastructure for hydrogen we could s
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   An interesting aside. The London bus that I get from Waterloo to my office is electrical. And yet on a cold January morning it smells worse of diesel fumes than the other buses as it has diesel heaters providing heat. I guess it's a si
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    You tend to run into the problem that forging large notes has a much greater return on investment. People get nervous about accepting them. In the UK this definitely kicks in around the £50 mark.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I think you might be putting the cart before the horse so to speak. The culture of python doesn't value these things so the only mechanism is high effort garbage.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Unless the libraries you are using are fubar then you normally have to explicitly tell it to ignore certificate chain errors i.e. requests.get(..., verify=False)
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Michal Zalewski is one of those people who, by one method or another, seems to be able to do 100x what most people manage to do with their life. I still go back and read his introduction to CNC machining / building robots every year or
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I might be putting too much faith in myth busters here but didn't they do a spot about how actually the kitchen was the dirtiest room in the house?
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Having a single woman on the board to remind you that having tampons in the woman's bathroom is probably more important than making sure the developers have the exact kind of mechanical switch keyboard and the right variety of arabica
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Those are completely orthogonal. If I want to know what my chances of survival are having had some horrific treatment I ask my doctor. If I want an opinion on whether the pain of the treatment justifies the upside then I'd be better as
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I expect my doctor to treat me based on established medical fact. I don't really care about their opinion.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but that opinion carries less weight if they haven't lived the experience. I don't think that is unfair or controversial. What you are in essence arguing for is free marketism. Unfortunate
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    As a white-cis-straight-male I think my opinion on the matter carries little weight. However, the downsides seem pretty minor compared to the opportunities it might open up for the members of those groups. That said, if I was to put myself
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I guess I'm the same in a lot of ways. I can end up in a spiral of self destructive procrastination. I do identify with some of the other symptoms and experiences but not all of them. In truth I think that a binary classification is to
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I think that might be the British in us. I feel like Americans are much more open to diagnosis of mental conditions like anxiety and depression. Perhaps because they are constantly bombarded with advertising for medications for them and oth
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I prefer magic roundabouts to the strange concoction which I've only ever seen in the Staines / Heathrow area; A roundabout with one road continuing straight through the roundabout. In order to run right you need to be left most l
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Microwave ovens have similarly obtuse interfaces. To the point that I've been known to go out of my way to buy one with an old fashioned mechanical timer to avoid the whole shit show.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Older aircraft had the ability to spray deicing fluid on the windshield. After that bleed air from the engines was used but now it's mostly electrically heated.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Yes, is very similar to a glass water landing in float planes. For a number of reasons the glideslope is unreliable below minimums anyway. The legality doesn't matter much if you are doing it in an emergency (say unforcast fog shutting
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I've heard from a couple of sources that it is possible to land in zero visibility by manually following the localiser to the ground. Only from light piston types though. Doing it in a commercial airliner full of passengers would absol
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    That's one reason I hate complexity in tests. Your tests have to be dumb enough that you are 99% sure the code under test is at fault.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I feel like this is an obligatory reference: https://www.fastcompany.com/3035734/ikea-is-a-nonprofit-and-...
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    That doesn't ring true to me at all. Almost all of the people I've seen do some kind of charity extreme sport event would definitely have done it without the charity part if that was an option.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    The idea that airplanes fly themselves is spectacularly overstated in the public consciousness. The reality is closer to multidimensional cruise control than the pilots are just there for decoration.