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by athenot 8y ago
Given the noise level in the city, a bell would only cover a few blocks. Also, this solves a different problem: having accurate clocks. Unless you want to station an attentant under each clock to reset it when the bell rings. The assumption
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by athenot 8y ago
Very good article. However, one point stands out: > Despite everything that had happened with my mom and sister, I had made one of the most common mistakes; all of my social media accounts were public. I've taken the opposite stan
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by athenot 8y ago
One of the aspects of Waffle House that's always impressed me is their commitment to be open no matter what happens. This has prompted the informal Waffle House Index: the informal metric used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
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by athenot 8y ago
I'm on a sceptic system so I'm highly incentivized to not flush anything problematic… it will be mine to deal with. But I am still amazed at all the work the water reclamation plants do, to somehow deal with all that is thrown at
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by athenot 8y ago
I know that car analogies for software is an over-done metaphor but while reading this article I'm thinking of heavy processes for software deployment that are hard to change and in my mind I'm screaming "this is what agile l
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by athenot 8y ago
Just tried this in Perl6; looks like string comparisons Do The Right Thing™. > "\x65\x301".contains("\xe9") True
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by athenot 8y ago
Not sure that is the case as your playlists are accessible from AppleScript. Here's their titles, you can further iterate and get the info about the tracks in the playlists. tell application "iTunes" repeat with p
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by athenot 8y ago
Part of the condition for a donation to be tax-deductible is that you claim you didn't get anything in return for your donation. Donating for improvement that affects others is one thing, but donating for a quid pro quo might affect
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by athenot 8y ago
The article is about how motive attribution asymmetry leads to contempt, first for the "other political side" then eventually to individuals within that other side. But I think it could go further and question why things get polar
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by athenot 8y ago
I was initially taken aback by Moscow's gates for the subway but in restrospect they make sense and fit that model. They are (were?) gates that default to open, and stay open if you insert the token/pass. Otherwise they slam shut
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by athenot 8y ago
> I am so confused if by merely giving someone a cheque they are able to “pull” money from just two numbers, and can do it for any amount & any number of times. That is exactly how checks work. It's optimized for happy-path, wit
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by athenot 8y ago
> Money doesn't do much good when the food and water are poisoned, the air is toxic to breathe, and vast portions of the continents are under water. Unfortunately, those who stand the most to profit are also those who can mitigate t
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by athenot 8y ago
I would love this. But it seems what pegs everyone to the same schedule is uniform school hours for K-12.
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by athenot 8y ago
That would be great but convincing School Boards of that would be a non-trivial task.
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by athenot 8y ago
> Cruise control won't hit the brakes if you are going downhill and exceed your set speed. On an EV it will. Well, it uses the regenerative braking but I could clearly see the flow of regenerative energy going back to the battery wh
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by athenot 8y ago
I think of this as a variant of Postel's law (for TCP/IP): Be conservative in what you do, Be liberal in what you accept from others. Most major belief systems have the same concept of defining "winning at being
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by athenot 8y ago
Terminal.app on the mac appears to handle cjk characters as expected (both lines output are the same length): $ printf "1234\n谢谢\n" 1234 谢谢
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by athenot 8y ago
Not sure. The hypermarket I grew up going to had 80 (eighty) checkout lanes and sold everything you'd find at a Walmart Supercenter, but with way more selection. As for the food sections in a typical grocery store in the US (Kroger, Pu
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by athenot 8y ago
There have been some outstanding wines produced in California. I know they exist but I haven't tasted them since they are way outside of my price range. But for $15 / €12, you can buy excellent wines in France. In the US at that p
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by athenot 8y ago
> I see very little "power" in bullying all of the other developers on my team into following my opinions. The author actually addresses that. It's just the style of the article takes you on a journey in his mind before ge
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by athenot 8y ago
There's also S/MIME for sending emails, which is supported by many email clients. Of course this assumes you are fine with the chain of trust that ends with Certificate Authorites, but this is no different that HTTPS.
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by athenot 8y ago
Altavista was my favorite search engine before Google. Being able to put in a query (which could have logical expressions) instead of a directory of links was awesome!
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by athenot 8y ago
The downside with this is the "regulatory moat". If this hypothetical regulation becomes hard to meet, then only a few companies are able to comply with it and it inadvertently reinforces their position. What I would like to see i
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by athenot 8y ago
As a fun aside, you can do this on localhost by defining additional addresses tied to the loopback interface: 127.0.0.2 127.0.0.3 etc. I once had to test a piece of software that identified its connections by the source IP,
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by athenot 8y ago
Two problems with that: 1. Many older patients don't use cell phones and are still on landlines. 2. Current processes would have to change. Currently healthcare companies first have to ask if the person picking up the phone matches nam
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by athenot 8y ago
I'm reminded of this entry in the wikiwiki: "Just" is a dangerous word. http://wiki.c2.com/?JustIsaDangerousWord
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by athenot 8y ago
This is true. But there is an important corollary: never buy a used luxury car that's in it's third phase of life (>120k mikes). Both the amount and the cost of repairs are significantly higher. But it's a sucker's de
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by athenot 8y ago
We try to solve things with pills, and certainly that is a very useful delivery mechanism for active medications. But there are a lot of fermented foods out there that have become unfamiliar in the Standard American Diet. The current scienc
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by athenot 8y ago
> My guess: it's mostly driven by strategic objectives (i.e. downloads, revenues) and the Engineers may care, but that 'user experience' is not a primary concern. Bingo. Everyone is focused on one part of that platform and
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by athenot 8y ago
That's the point the GP is trying to make: those services rely on property taxes, not income tax. So more people in the same area means either lower revenue per capita for the local government, or much higher taxes for the existing res

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