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by ajford 8y ago
I loved mine for a while, but the range was a problem for me. I traded it in for a Chevy Volt (2017), and don't regret it. The Leaf is fantastic, and will qualify that I had a 2011 model, so my range was ~45 miles due to degradation. S
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by ajford 8y ago
I generally upgrade when the battery can't keep up any more (or the damn thing falls apart, like my old X201). My 1st gen Thinkpad X1 was put out to pasture when the battery would only last about 2 hours and the (proprietary) ssd start
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by ajford 8y ago
AWS has the Snowball program. They ship you what is essentially a network storage device with 10G ethernet, and you upload data over your local 10G network using their protocols, then ship back and they ingest into S3/Glacier. Haven&#x
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by ajford 8y ago
I worked for a state agency that hosted a data archive and real-time collection of hydrology data. It was not considered "mission critical", and as such there was no on-call. It was pretty cool, since they practiced 8-hr work days
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by ajford 8y ago
I second using Python and a framework like Flask. If you're already comfortable in Python, you'll be able to get off the ground faster, and be productive sooner. I would leverage a JS framework on the front end, as that will defin
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by ajford 8y ago
Meh, it's a good practice project even if you don't end up using it in the long run. I strongly recommend you follow through with it. Practical real-world problems, like dot-file management and syncing, can lead you to some fun so
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by ajford 8y ago
I'd venture to say that None of those are beamer/LaTex problems. They are all exclusively at the hand of the presenter. Someone who doesn't care enough to learn how to properly give an engaging presentation, or was never give
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by ajford 8y ago
I really think the path forward for a majority of people is plug-in hybrids. Most people have daily commutes under 50mi round trip. For those people, a car with 50-80mi electric range, then a reduced fuel range is perfect. My spouse drives
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by ajford 8y ago
Sounds like it might be time to switch banks....
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by ajford 8y ago
Ummm... where are you getting this idea from? Nearly every field I've worked in, and any NSF funded facility has the requirement to publish and open source the data collected. I will admit that most telescopes operate on a rolling wind
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by ajford 8y ago
I love reading digitally, and I love my e-reader. My only peeve is that for some reason, no one makes a pocketable e-reader. I would love a smart-phone sized e-reader, maybe a 5-6in screen at most. Kobo made one for a while, but has since E
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by ajford 8y ago
What OS do you run on it? I have a (personal) T460, but I'm looking to get a new work laptop, and I'm considering trying to swing a T480. I've had great results running Ubuntu 18.04 on my T460, but last I looked, the T480 was
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by ajford 8y ago
I still miss that keyboard. I had an X201 until it was practically in pieces. The power jack (mobo side) died, and I replaced it once. Replaced the cooling fan. Ran it on a cooling pad to supplement the airflow. Finally, the spacebar and tr
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by ajford 8y ago
My one issue with the first-gen X1 is that they used an obscure SSD type (I'm betting it's a Betamax/VHS issue), which meant sourcing a replacement SSD when mine started to die was a pain. In the end, I decided that it wasn&#
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by ajford 8y ago
Look up the crazy stuff that happened with ICE/ISEE-3. NASA had disposed of the high power transmitter that was originally used for communication with it (and other satellites of that era). When it came back around, it fell to civilian
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by ajford 9y ago
Everyone except USPS then. I've been kicking around the idea myself. Something like a package box with a slide down ramp, so you can't pull anything out when delivering something new.
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by ajford 9y ago
Exactly! As for the driver calling to ask you to cancel, that should be on him. He should cancel, not the customer. That seems like a scam from his end. Trying to up his numbers, or keep from getting the ding from the cancellation.
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by ajford 9y ago
Is anyone else greatly annoyed by the FUZE/Python comparison block on the homepage (fuze.co.uk, ~halfway down the page) that compares the Fuze loop and Python? They write the "print" statement like it's damn Java. A simp
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by ajford 9y ago
I agree! I really like the back and forth between Fr. Robert and Gibson, it feels a bit more dynamic than Gibson and Leo. Leo never seems to have read as much into the topic before the podcast (and perhaps so since he is in so many netcasts
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by ajford 9y ago
I've heard decent things about the HP Spectre, but it was fairly new, either a 2016 or 2017 model. Some minor quirks with Ubuntu and older kernels, but I think they got 16.04 or 16.10 working well.
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by ajford 9y ago
Gotta say, I've used a fair number of thinkpads across the last 10 years, and I've never seen any blotching or ghosting. I will admit that the older models had fairly crappy resolutions (I mean 1366x768 and 1600x800 was crap, and
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by ajford 9y ago
I highly recommend a decently modern Lenovo Thinkpad. The T470 and T470s/p are pretty nice. I managed to get a good bargin on a T460 off Craigslist, and it runs like a dream. After some minute tweaks (mostly installing tlp), it's
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by ajford 9y ago
> They always overpromised by a few months. It's been a pattern since the start. I think this is an endemic problem with Elon Musk himself. He's always very optimistic about all his ventures (Tesla, SpaceX, SpaceX's Texas
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by ajford 9y ago
The problem with that is processing power. If the Echo could do speech to text without the cloud (such as generating that transcript you mention), then it wouldn't need the cloud in the first place. I'll give you that it could be
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by ajford 9y ago
Outside of a narrow range of people (and jobs), how often is a topographical map even relevant to daily life? I can think of two, maybe three times in my entire life I've even had a reason to look at one. It's like saying you need
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by ajford 9y ago
How well does that work when you're working on three different things in the kitchen, and they each need timing? Yes, a mechanical egg timer is still a timer, and still functional. But so were sand timers. A mechanical clock still work
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by ajford 9y ago
The first-world problem is not the "staying warm" issue, but the fact that the fancy 'IOT' thermostat requires an internet connection to set. In "third-world" areas, and even in many modern "first-world&qu
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by ajford 9y ago
As a shopping platform, Alexa is shit. Nobody wants to shop by voice. Unless maybe you're visually impaired. But I can't skim reviews or anything like that via Alexa. But, I love the Echo so much, I recently upgraded from a single
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by ajford 9y ago
I love the Nissan version of this. My Leaf has the button, which will toggle lock and unlocked state, as well as a double press (from locked) will unlock all doors. My Prius has the "pull the door handle to unlock" method, and a p
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by ajford 9y ago
Linux web dev here. Will confess that most of it is scientific applications for the science and modeling team, which runs a mix, leaning towards Mac and Linux for... reasons, so dev work on Linux is better suited. The "Business" s

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