Zach_the_Lizard

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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
It did and didn't. If you attended schools run by DoDDS (Department of Defense Dependents Schools) before and after transferring, there wasn't the jarring effect of "this school system teaches algebra in $GRADE but the other
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I was a military brat and moved around a bunch as a kid and was surrounded by other kids who moved around a lot. It wasn't unusual for a significant portion of your class to be different by the end of the year. This gave me an ear for
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
> Training new models? There is value in applying old techniques to new problems. Training a model to, I don't know, recognize snake species might help save snake bite victims lives. (This is an example I came up with in 5 seconds,
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
> To your latter point, the US became significantly more bellicose after the War Department became the Defense Department (merged with the Navy Department). Did we? After independence, we spent about a century engaged in war with native
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
> as cars are not company owned and inspected The worst taxi I've been in had a completely broken suspension that bottomed out on every bump and threw the car all over the road. My wife got car sick, and we were both afraid we'
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I don't always use channels in the code I write. For example, let's say I have []foo as input and I'm going to call a service on every element of the slice. You could do it with channels, but oftentimes I'll reach for cr
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I have written Go professionally for many years now and don't want to see it become something like the Python Twisted / Tornado / whatever frameworks. The go keyword nicely prevents the annoying function coloring problem, whi
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Apparently the two words are unrelated in origin. "With" originally meant something closer to "against," whereas "mid" was closer to "with" in today's English. Over time, "with" changed
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I want to say Shenmue on the Dreamcast had run-of-the-mill multi-disc for different chapters _and_ a special disc with internet options.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Having fewer or no windows in a modern hi-rise apartment is probably significantly safer than the basement of a 19th century brownstone. Heck, it's probably safer than the brownstone in general. Not every regulation is about safety. An
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
There are all kinds of different legal rights owing to differences in copyright law, contract law, court cases, the medium in question, etc. such that even if one rights holder gave out worldwide distribution rights, inevitably some local d
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
You can also use const_cast to remove the const-ness. You could then mutate the value. I believe that's undefined behavior territory (the mutation, at least in most cases), but I'm sure someone is doing it in the wild.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I think the questions that matter are clarifying questions in e.g. architecture rounds. E.g. design a document storage system Asking about requirements can help provide evidence you're aware of tradeoffs, various concepts, etc. and sep
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Sometimes that's not possible or leads to less ideal tradeoffs (at least in the short run) For example, I made a doctor's appointment recently. To do so, I called, told them my name, and a few other details that are mostly in the
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I think as this technology gets cheaper and better, another, more insidious application is using it to overwhelm support channels. Fake or false alarm 911 calls are a problem today. Imagine someone "attacking" the 911 system by sp
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
> And than a Stinger fails while being fired from, say, a F-35. And it fails catastrophically, resulting in the loss of the aircraft and, worst case the pilot. I'm guessing that Stinger missiles, just like any other machine, have a
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Some of it was. For example, the sprinkler system that came with the house was blasting my house and fence with water. Doing so causes fences to decay more quickly and can damage the foundation of the house. By digging up and moving the spr
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
My goal is not to turn my kids into mechanics, but teach them to troubleshoot and learn a few basic things. My hobbies are my own and they don't have to enjoy them. I don't want my daughter, for example, to give up and call me if
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
> Just curious about the car maintenance, do you think it is something younger people will not get to experience as much? Yes and no. Even with electric cars, stuff like brakes won't go away. Some even have drum brakes as I recall.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I haven't quit, and have no plans of quitting, but I scratch the manual labor itch by, well, manually laboring at home. I've dug hundreds of feet of trenches to move around sprinkler and water lines to account for a new patio and
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
The last two methods--disabling ignition and disabling fuel injection--can be defeated by bringing your own ECU and / or other chips so that your key unlocks everything. That could even be quick, depending on the make and model of the
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I lived in Japan for a while. My name contains sounds that just didn't work for them. No one pronounced it correctly. I was not upset, annoyed, or confused. It's just the way language acquisition works. You learn the sounds you ne
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Some of the other comments have some good ideas as to why that is--motivation to earn more, management not wanting to fire parents as readily, etc.--but I wonder if on top of all of that, parents have some other selection effects going on.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
For Afghanistan, I think the use of special forces and the like to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda terrorists would have been expedient. We got him in Pakistan even after all the trouble to invade and occupy Afghanistan. Throw
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
There is a long and storied history of the US and Russia / the Soviet Union providing, uh, "advisors" and equipment to enemies of their enemies. Soviet pilots fought in Korea and Vietnam (to a much lesser degree). There are s
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
My hypothesis is it's connected to the decline in religion, or, more specifically, the mandatory church on Sunday type of religion, no matter what flavor it took. A built in semi-mandatory third place seems pretty nifty as far as build
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
It was (is?) common in the days of steel bodied trucks to cut out and weld, bolt, or rivet things like tool boxes, extra gas tanks, etc. into the otherwise useless space. Many aftermarket options that matched body contours as well.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I hauled off storm debris in a 1960s truck and definitely got some funny looks at the wood pulp place. Modern trucks were about twice as big and I was more or less the only guy without a trailer. Who cares? I sure didn't. I needed a tr
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I strongly agree with your assessment. You can have a lot of fun and reliability with circa 1995 technology combined with modern manufacturing techniques. Much of the newer stuff is about meeting emissions and fuel mileage mandates. There&#
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Old cars had more maintenance requirements and were far less reliable, but repairs tended to be simpler. For example, you may need to tune your carburetor seasonally. Old points based distributors needed the points adjusted or replaced. Sim

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