VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   > which isn't even true, Cat-IIIc ILS autopilots are basically the equivalent of the car being able to do everything outside of leaving your garage and fully automated flight from takeoff to landing included was a thing in 1947 Only
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I'm probably in the minority here but I was really expecting this to be about Canada's relationship with the good old lumberjack shirt.
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I know socialism isn't particular popular in the US but in outher countries student loans are issued by a non-profit / government supported body. Repaying the loan is conditional on earning a reasonable wage.
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   While I don't think it really refutes your point; are you aware of the minimum charge on plastic bags introduced in England? It practically overnight reduced the number of plastic bags used by 80%. https://www.gov.uk/go
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Autopilots on aircraft are remarkably dumb in comparison to even the simplest forms of self driving. They are quite capable of flying an aircraft into the side of a mountain if that is what the pilot selects.
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   by VBprogrammer 9y ago

   > In England at least the speed limit is the absolute maximum speed at which you drive. In theory this may be true but it's absolutely not in practice. It's not uncommon to see people at least 20mph over the limit on motorways
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   by VBprogrammer 9y ago

   Sorry, I didn't see this comment until now. I agree that the bank and the lawyers as a whole are trustworthy. That is not the same as each individual within those banks and lawyers office being trustworthy. And the one I particularly d
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   by VBprogrammer 9y ago

   I think what this article misses is the fact that for some people it is both fun to produce the videos (like a hobby) and that the income is nearly 100% passive. At least for my dad who has his own YouTube channel both of these things hold
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   by VBprogrammer 9y ago

   Attempts to combat identity theft / money laundering seem to be aimed specifically at making it easier for someone to get hold of someone elses' personal details. I'm currently in the process of trying to buy a house. In or
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    by VBprogrammer 9y ago

    Seems to me that this is an opportunity for someone who wants to contribute to a project but lacks the technical skills to do so.
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    by VBprogrammer 9y ago

    My favourite bug came from a university assignment on autonomous robotics. We had to build a small robot using various sensors, such as some whiskers which could be used to detect some metallic tape stuck to the floor of the arena. One of t
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    It says a lot more than your passwords are safely stored behind unsalted MD5 :)
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Well, it has it wrong, depending on what you are using it for. If you are putting in a calendar entry for the next predicted Lunar eclipse storing them in anything but UTC is wrong.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    If I understand the objection here the problem isn't that the computer has the time wrong, it's that our understanding of time is wrong. The computer still has the calendar entry at the right instant in time identified when the us
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Metallica, Death magnetic was famously poorly mastered on CD. [1] So much so that people ended up downloading the rip from the Guitar Hero version as it was far better. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Magnetic#Cr
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    As he apologised for his English (which as an aside is perfectly acceptable) I'd assume that figure isn't in dollars or pound sterling. Possibly euros but that again would seem to be enough to get someone else involved in the proj
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    That's a bit over dramatic don't you think? If you have a real issue with that then you probably should take it up with the lack of sand-boxing / fine grained permission granting in general purpose computers.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Not only that, but anything which goes wrong with it he can fix. The service schedule is defined by what he thinks is reasonable and whether it is running well.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    'As good as' is a silly phrase to use in metallurgy. Are we talking machinability, castability, tensile strength or hardness. Not to mention less obvious issues like food safety or resistance to corrosion? There are very many allo
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    We might have to agree to disagree. If TAs aren't interested in students diving deeper into the course material then I'm not sure they should be paid at all. But perhaps the less radical approach would be to pay them enough such t
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    If that is the case then the education system is thoroughly broken. It is obvious that a person who took the time to do that learned far more than they would than had they copied one of millions of Hello World examples from the internet. Th
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I still think that is a rather literal interpretation of what he is saying. Forcing companies to allow access to data seems much more realistic, though admittedly doesn't meet the condition "no safe space for [terrorists] to talk
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I don't understand why people seem to think he's talking about outlawing encryption. From what I understand he's talking about forcing companies to disclose your messages. You can still have all the encryption you want on HTT
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I think there is a hidden lesson there. Jeb spent months working on the drill press, he knew exactly what his job was, he'd probably come up with most, if not all of the downsides to his suggested improvement. Too often someone with an
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Spurred on by the success of "if A==bad then NOT A", I used this tool to patch several more bugs -- which nearly all had to do with the collision code. This reminds me so much of a developer I work with, why figure out the
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    People die. Pretty much the same as what happens when an anti-aircraft weapon is used against an ordinary aircraft.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Thanks for bringing this up. From what I understand the company I work for will not have too many issues with collection (we are legally structured as an agent and don't sell digital goods) but it does mean that paying for Google Ads w
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I know what you're getting at, but I'd be reasonably confident in speculating that there is just as much slacking off on construction projects as any other employment. Some of it maybe genuinely waiting for something to happen (cr
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I'm also red-green colourblind. I've seen a few of these simulators before. As you've noticed, the simulation doesn't modify the examples in such a way that they are indistinguishable by our perception. I've always
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    That is unbelievably far from the suggestions the OP made. In his version, you get arrested for begging, shipped back to your home town, perhaps the desolate place you left in hope of finding a job before falling on hard times, or perhaps b