a-priori

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   by a-priori 16y ago

   They would look at the vast regions of the world that are peaceful, and think we are foolish for being so trustful of our neighbours. "Why is Washington not afraid of New York raising an army and marching on the capital?", they would say. U
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   by a-priori 16y ago

   Thanks for the interest! Just sent you an email.
3. 753.▲
   by a-priori 16y ago

   I usually try to work on something interesting. I have several unfinished projects on the go that I try to find time to work on. But, today I wrote a tool for my fiancee to help her make knitting charts. Very minimal, but it's a start. htt
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   by a-priori 16y ago

   Instead of aliasing common commands, I make heavy use of Ctrl-r at the command prompt to search the history. So if I have a complex command I want to run several times, I'll type it out in full the first time. After that, I'll hit Ctrl-r an
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   by a-priori 16y ago

   Last time I checked, paperbacks don't have cellular radios.
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   by a-priori 16y ago

   We can all agree that a four-seater Cessna and 767 are very different, but for nav/comm they all use the same instrument systems. Unlike a Cessna, a 767 has a fly-by-wire system supported by a data bus (e.g. ARINC-429) running the length
7. 757.▲
   by a-priori 16y ago

   Teenagers have sex. Who knew. The interesting part to me is that if you look at individual students in the big group, most have only 1-3 relationships. They just so happen to link up into a massive web.
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   by a-priori 16y ago

   I believe they omitted students who did not have sexual relationships.
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   by a-priori 16y ago

   Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov holds the record for longest single spaceflight with a stay of 437 days on Mir. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    Also for more severe rewriting of the history check out "git rebase -i <base commit>". You'll be shown a list of commits between the base commit and the HEAD in your editor. From here you can rearrange and delete commits, and mark t
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    Then the world would turn into a Monty Python sketch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    If you are using CGI, then those memory leaks will be short lived, limited to one request.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    I stand corrected :)
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    Select all, paste whatever happens to be in the clipboard, save to disk. That's a disastrous series of commands.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    For some reason, the effects listed for this strain, "MK Ultra", don't line up at all with the description... http://www.leaf.ly/indica/mk-ultra
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    Yes, the 30m band is allocated to amateur radio operators by the ITU, and this is enforced by the authorities in each member country (e.g. Industry Canada in Canada, or the FCC in the US). In practice, especially on bands this low, it's mos
18. 768.▲
    by a-priori 16y ago

    I am, though I haven't done any ham radio stuff for a few years now. My callsign is VE3MTM.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    I'm sure Jane Street knows their stuff when it comes to OCaml... but this is fluff. Some examples would be nice.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    Not saying it happened here, but one way this could happen is if the ad campaign alienated a large segment of the brand's existing consumer base.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    Why does it need to be a replacement? It makes more sense to me that flight data recorders should keep their current job: to record detailed flight data, and keep it safe in the event of a crash. This should be a new device that operates in
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    I honestly think she didn't feel like she was lying. Memory is just a funny thing. She may not have been, at least as far as she knew. Memory is a funny thing. Memories are malleable when they're active -- when the event has just happened
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    On-going investigations, like on-going military operations and the like, should be kept secret until they're finished. But they should be recorded and documented all the same. (And there should be limits so you can't say that a 50-year-old
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    Power by itself is useless unless the user feels powerful using the software. It is that feeling that drives the user to want to learn more. For them to get that feeling, the software has to be usable. It has to permit exploration (i.e, d
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    What I meant was that you made a very bold claim without any justification. Are programmers who code in C categorically better than programmers who don't? I doubt it.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    C world has near-zero amount of mediocre and copy/paste programmers, so coders just know what they're doing. [Citation needed]
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    He means that the hardware has changed. Micro-optimization these days mostly has to do with optimizing cache and memory I/O performance rather than reducing clock cycles as it was in the 90s.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    You're right, I take back what I said. There are everyday uses of the passive voice. Thanks for correcting me.
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    I bet if you transcribed normal, everyday speech you wouldn't find too many instances of passive voice, even by well-educated people who can understand it (i.e, not the group they're talking about). It's just not something you encounter mos
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    by a-priori 16y ago

    If your site is large, removing even one round-trip to the server can have huge impacts on both the client-side load time and the server-side load.