VBprogrammer

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2101.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I would be completely unsurprised to find that other than having the data in some poorly secured database it isn't used for anything useful.
2102.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
> If you get private insurance you pay extra to cover inner London hospitals unless you live there. That's kind of the opposite of what I was saying anyway. It's fair enough if you are making a decision to go to a more expensiv
2103.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I know other comments are pointing out reasons this is not true but honestly it feels that way to me too. All of my Christmas presents this year were bought on Amazon and delivered direct to my family who live 400 miles away within a day of
2104.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Have you lived in the UK? I personally haven't encountered anyone who has had that issue. Most people primarily use the NHS and private health insurance is provided only occasionally as an employee benefit (often by American companies)
2105.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
In the UK which hospital you would go to is nearly 100% based on ease of getting there and the facilities they have on hand. The idea of driving past a hospital to get to another which is more friendly to my insurance plan completely blows
2106.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
> Sometimes comments are useful to split stuff up So often when I see this I wish people would have used another function. Its hard to argue that a function which requires splitting things up using comments is "doing one thing"
2107.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
// Have the window rendering in the highest allowed state. I'd argue that comments like these are fluff. It says basically the same as what the code does but doesn't say why it does that. In general I find commen
2108.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I think the implication is clearly that there existed a government survalence dragnet and that the source was well placed enough to have unfettered access to it. However, it strikes me that there are a number of other possibilities: perhaps
2109.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
People will also completely disregard the positive changes which have taken place over the same time frame though. Aircraft engines are substantially quieter (and less polluting) than they were 50 years ago. Aircraft have better performance
2110.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Frankly as a developer it's a pain in the arse. But probably a necessary one.
2111.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
When you think about things like that then it makes you reconsider whether the GDPR is right and necessary.
2112.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I wonder if he's related to Trump.
2113.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Another fun one I discovered that on Virgin trains (UK train company) first class get free WiFi. By sitting in the nearest standard class carriage I could manually associate with the access point in first class. Some hotels have weird setup
2114.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Over time it seems to be decending more and more into the meta-entrepernal shyster hole. Learn how I made 1 million dollars with this 1 easy trick - buy my book to learn more.
2115.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
It's a very good point and I'm glad the parent raised it. But wouldn't you find it distressing if teenagers were regularly found with a teaspoon full of plastic in their stomachs?
2116.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
In an amusing twist of fate the horse would probably not exist had it not been for a long line of humans deciding which horses bred with which other horses to produce the breeds we know today.
2117.
Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested '6kg of plastic'(bbc.co.uk)
227 points by VBprogrammer 8y ago|148 comments
2118.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Try not to get outraged by your own misquote. I clearly said "one presumes", as in without evidence. If there was a case where a horse was infatuated with the person doing the deed and the person was doing it for the sole purpose
2119.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I think the difference is that in the horse example one presumes the horse does not enjoy it and the aim is to breed the horse. In the dolphin example the dolphin appeared to have a romantic attachment to the lady researcher and thus enjoye
2120.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
> Although it may simply turn out that the MAX is a much more delicate plane to fly, something along the lines of DC-10 vs MD-11. Ha, yes that it possible. Out of interest, where are you from and what do you do? If you find yourself in L
2121.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I was recently working on an API where we decided to use protobuf. I remember the first time I saw the message as encoded by protobuf; it really made me aware of how wasteful JSON can be. I know that usually that all comes out in the gzippi
2122.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
> If you're at a low altitude and managing other problems will you have enough time to even recognize the problem and then wind the cranks and recover before you hit the ground? My suspicion is that it would probably have required a
2123.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
The elevators still have some authority, you don't have to wind it from end to end to regain control. Also, the full range of mechanical motion is only available via the trim wheel, the electronic trim doesn't drive it to either e
2124.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
> In the previous generation of 737's, there were exactly two things outside the wheel that could control the stabilizers It doesn't take anything away from what you've said really but there is at least one other system wh
2125.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
> I also think that we should just ban palm oil in general. I'm not sure that it has any applications worth the damage to rainforests. That would be totally misguided. > While only 5 percent of the world's vegetable oil farm
2126.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I'm almost certain that the solution in this case will be training. Almost exactly as you've said in another comment. The correct response to an commanded stabiliser movement is to set the stab trim switch to cutoff. Pilots will p
2127.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
Is there a potential for this to go wrong? I know deforistation is the problem, but isn't it just as likely that these producers will start producing oils from other sources. Potentially annuals like corn.
2128.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
My motorcycle has 70hp. I can tell you that on the average ride I rarely use half of that. I don't think that'd be any different if my bike had 170hp. Realistically on the road you can't use that kind of power unless you are
2129.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
The Honda NC700 is about as close as you'll come. Its basically half of the Honda fits engine in a motorcycle. The problem is that motorcycles are rearly sold on practicalities alone. Also, there is a bit of a diminishing returns elem
2130.
by VBprogrammer 8y ago
I think mostly the problem you've got there is that people looking for most of those things would go out and buy a BMW 1200GS. Ok, it's not a cruiser but it's just about as comfortable to sit on. All the luggage options and w

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