WildUtah

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by WildUtah 11y ago
"you [sic] BMR[0] is 2-3 times higher than your all other energy expenditures" Maybe if you work sitting in an office and never go play outside or lift weights. Try lifting bricks or digging ditches or cutting wood all day and tha
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by WildUtah 11y ago
That might be a killer in EMCAS, but you can type in Vim all day without any chords except the shift key. I don't understand the reference in op as if Vim required tons of control keys like EMACS either.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
HTTP 2.0 is going to be great for you Kiwis.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
South America is the most sparsely populated continent except Australia and Antarctica. The Amazon and Patagonia regions host very little human population (thank goodness). So South America would always show up as a few big coastal cities w
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"What would John Muir have thought about BASE jumping?" I've read John Muir's books about Yosemite. I remember they way he climbed up the unstable ice cone that forms in the winter around Horsetail fall just to stick his
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Parsing LISP in assembly isn't even so hard. Without a lot of syntactic symbols, you're just finding whitespace and parens. Even syntactic sugar like ' for quote and , or @ in macros are pretty simple to parse compared to C o
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Naïveté
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"how about "half", the exact word that 'hafu' is supposed to emulate?" And in Tokyo Dialect, the 'フ' ('fu') in 'ハーフ' ('haafu') has its 'u' muted to silent or ne
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"makes sense given their cost." OP indicates that the TBMs cost US$15MM each. I'm surprised they're so cheap. Those things are 50m long and full of complicated parts. It seems like the electronics and custom steel parts
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"If liberal arts education was on equal footing as STEM, there wouldn't be the jokes" 'Liberal arts education' has become a code word for drinking to excess five nights a week and cheap casual sex with classes you c
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"Drug Cartels just will start running Darknet sites" It's not their comparative advantage. Cartels have big overhead expenses in men with guns. Mexican wages are rapidly converging on first world wages and men have to be paid
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by WildUtah 11y ago
One port to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"the UK probably wouldn't even have to join Schengen to make this a less painful process." Joining Schengen and getting UK immigration boffins to board the trains and operate efficiently have exactly the same problem: they wo
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"monolingual person he might consider a C2 (European Framework) level" I speak one foreign language at a solid C2 level, but I also scored in the 99th percentile on the GRE verbal (USA's English Language grad school entrance
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"anyone who's written a standard C library was in violation of Kernighan & Ritchie's copyright" K&R and Ken Thompson et al. were working for Bell Labs and assigned copyright to AT&T. AT&T cooperated with
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Microsoft is just the evil empire that keeps on giving. The Windows monopoly is weaker than ever, but the scam patents and the PR machine to drive out competition are still moving politics to keep Microsoft's fading monopolies powerful
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"I've fallen sideways from a stationary position several times over the last 5 years as an avid cyclist when I've had lapses in judgment or focus when declipping from my pedals." Maybe you should try being a lot more car
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Used to be Paris Review articles were more than weak summaries of Wikipedia pages...
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Page is unreadable on Mac Chrome. Content comes up and then turns into a plain title page with no additional content. Page does not scroll or respond to clicks anywhere.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Sometimes when debugging particularly stubborn issues I wish I could kick code with ^D in vi. #untrap would be useful, too.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant littl
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"maximum entrepreneurship would probably be some kind of libertarian socialism" Yes, but your libertarian socialism is neither libertarian nor socialist. Socialism is the central control and planning of the means of production whi
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"WebStorm, postgresql, gulp, apache/nginx, laravel(php-fpm)/rails" I used to run all that stuff -- or its contemporary equivalent -- on a 400MHz single core laptop with 128MB of RAM. But that would be impossibly slow tod
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Corbu was all about controlling the details of daily life by top-down commands from central authorities. His ambitions were to wipe out and knock down Paris and replace it with orderly and easily controlled towers and sight lines. Tradition
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"The "traditional free way of life" was not living in a city where you couldn't be a farmer" This is nostalgia. For most of human existence, we did not farm. We lived in small hunter gatherer bands in very small num
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"Reminds me a lot of Pyongyang" Or Brasilia. Three cities built on the communist central planning principles of the post-war American suburb reflect, each in its own way, the oppression and alienation that motorcar-oriented planni
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"it's this behavior that reinforces" It's a mild reenforcement but the root reason to fear and not cooperate with the police is the same as ever. When most police resources in the USA are focused on drug enforcement and
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"the situation regarding border crossings and the TSA is more thorny" Since the TSA is fishing on behalf of local cops' revenue raising operations more and more and the CIS has become the state's lever to repeal the Four
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"socioeconomically bling" I'm not sure what this typo should mean, but I do know it needs to become a central phrase in American culture.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Some pre-code buildings are grandfathered. Minimum parking was mostly phased in between the 1930s and 1960s. You can't build a new restaurant without parking except in a very, very small fraction of American urban areas.

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