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by ak217 10y ago
Maybe the sampling bias is in our own little urban bubbles, where we become oblivious to the mass extinction being driven by people around us. The time to prioritize environmental issues is now. Our culture and infrastructure and code can p
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by ak217 10y ago
Your argument is poor, too. I see people starting conversations in subways all the time, and occasionally start them myself. I've never regretted it. Driving back from work in a bunch of cars, it's of course impossible, and it&#x2
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by ak217 10y ago
From what I've gathered so far, LEDE is where the vast majority of activity and development moved after OpenWRT alienated most of the participants with friction in their workflow. OpenWRT had just a shell of 3 project members left, but
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by ak217 10y ago
If you look at the pace and scope of commits on the LEDE codebase, it's dramatically increased from OpenWRT. It's far more than "a few bug fixes", they've substantially rewritten the codebase and updated its depende
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by ak217 10y ago
States and the federal government cannot meaningfully go bankrupt. The problem is described in the article. While cities and counties can technically go bankrupt, they will externalize the costs and take on debt burdens at taxpayers' e
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by ak217 10y ago
Because their employer can't go bankrupt if they happen to bargain themselves an impossible deal.
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by ak217 10y ago
I like Kenneth's work, but "I wrote a new datetime library" is a cliche now. We have datetime, dateutil, pytz, babel, arrow, pendulum, delorean, a bunch of lesser known stuff, and now this. I have yet to see the need for anyt
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by ak217 10y ago
I agree with that. Garmin has been improving their execution lately - they are aggressively targeting their competitors on both features and price, while retaining their core feature strengths. I think they have a great future, especially i
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by ak217 10y ago
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6281/aac7341.full....
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Silicon Valley faces its reckoning with Trump(latimes.com)
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by ak217 10y ago
There is a complex relationship between your diet, your gut microbiota (which pre-process your diet for you), and your immune system (which is sensitive to both gross and fine (signaling molecule) changes in the gut). The scope of this rela
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by ak217 10y ago
Cool, thanks for the citation. Didn't know that. I wonder why Microsoft isn't trying harder to make Xbox a home automation hub/Alexa competitor, or push it as a VR platform.
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[citation needed]
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by ak217 10y ago
To be fair, I've had the opposite experience with Google Play Store support for my Nexus 5. I'm on my 4th Nexus 5 chassis, the previous 3 were taken back by Google (one broken glass, one sticky power button, and one water intrusio
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by ak217 10y ago
Armin has backed off of this stance since then. And for good reason. As someone who works with Python text processing extensively, I can tell you that the Python 2.7 text model is broken and dangerous, due to the silent bytes-unicode coerci
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by ak217 10y ago
Walmart currently has a decent 6TB drive on sale for $160: https://www.walmart.com/ip/48735757 Put 3 or 4 of these in a Synology enclosure or attach directly in a uATX case. I use btrfs "raid1" which protects
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by ak217 10y ago
Ironic that instead of working on establishing a proper mobile software platform, Microsoft is spending enormous resources on escaping the Intel ecosystem just as Intel is finally getting a handle on pushing its x86 line into smartphone pow
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by ak217 10y ago
The attitude displayed in the opening of the blog post is unproductive. Chalice is deliberately minimalistic, opinionated, and tightly integrated with botocore on Python. It's also licensed under the Apache license. Zappa is a more gen
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by ak217 10y ago
Here is the original source: http://izvestia.ru/news/628766 And here is the manufacturer's spec sheet: http://www.ntc-reb.ru/pole.html
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by ak217 10y ago
Take a look at https://github.com/awslabs/chalice . IMO it's better than zappa if you are Python-centric. As you can tell from the name, it strives to be the Lambda-based equivalent of Flask. One tip regarding your
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by ak217 10y ago
I'm not aware of a publicly available tool that does this (without bringing in a big clumsy framework), but internally we just use a script that idempotently redeploys all the lambdas by calling update_function_code on them. It ingests
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by ak217 10y ago
Personally, I think the biggest issue is that the DSLR makers just haven't taken integration seriously at all. My Canon 70D - with all its incredible ergonomics and amazing optics and sensors - has a wi-fi feature and attendant smartph
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by ak217 10y ago
No, if we had our food correctly labeled, all food in your supermarket would be labeled as GMO. All of our food has been bioengineered for centuries, we were just using extremely crude methods until now. The morally indefensible position is
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by ak217 10y ago
This original editorial by Fiske, especially the "methodological terrorism" soundbite, reminds me of the NEJM data sharing editorial where they described people who use datasets that others shared as "research parasites"
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by ak217 10y ago
Thank you! This is the kind of detail I would have expected from AnandTech. It's a bit disappointing that they'll use the great teardown work provided by iFixit and Chipworks but not capitalize on it by actually analyzing the guts
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by ak217 10y ago
In my opinion Pixel is a disappointment. iPhone 7 brought two features that I really like (waterproofing and a faster CPU) but screwed it up by removing the headphone jack. So I was really looking forward to the Pixel. But it has no water r
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by ak217 10y ago
You can wait for the AnandTech iPhone 7/A10 review, but the rough consensus is that it's around 40% faster than A9, and the A9 is about as fast as the fastest Snapdragons ( http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686&#x
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by ak217 10y ago
Fundamentally, the problem with loan writers unloading the loans is that it decouples their incentives. You end up with a fundamentally unstable system, where the loan writers are incentivized to further increase the spread between what the
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The truth is that you've managed to piss off and alienate a lot of people in pursuit of... something, and when a new community platform gains critical mass, we will take the content and jump ship happily. To change this, you could try
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by ak217 10y ago
The point OP is making is that none of these statements will guarantee the order of insertion, since OrderedDict must take the variadic kwargs input as a dict, which is inherently unordered. You have to use a list of tuples.

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