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by batbomb 13y ago
Try working customer service face-to-face sometime. I did it in a grocery store for over a year, handling everything from 1 hour photo processing to $15k out of country Western Union transfers to people unhappy with their bill to people ret
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by batbomb 13y ago
This keeps going around. There's several ways to verify outpuf. For example, GCC has assembler output. You can easily verify assembly and, relatively easily, write an assembler from scratch, so it's actually easy at least verify o
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by batbomb 13y ago
Because there was fiber there before there was the NSA. PS: Linkbait
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by batbomb 13y ago
I wrote my own library in Java recently for something similar. It was inspired by LINQ and SQL grammar. Select statement = table1.select() .join(table2,[join condition]) .where(table1.col1.gt(10)) .groupBy(table1
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by batbomb 13y ago
Limiting syntax to use only ANSI joins also means that you end up with one and only one table as the root table (or view) to select from. I think this makes code much clearer. I tend to writ my SQL like lisp, very compositional with lots of
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by batbomb 13y ago
I guess you never took Nuclear & Particle and had to type the SEMF into a calculator :) I have my TI-89 Titanium next to me on my desk as I speak. I used it a lot in Applied Physics. I used it during thermo, I used it during optics lab,
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by batbomb 13y ago
Except for the fact that, you know, a move by a scientist would likely be a career move, and not through some misguided knee-jerk reaction. I work at a national lab. Half my coworkers, maybe more, are foreign. If we all got laid off, you co
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by batbomb 13y ago
No, it's not a new idea. It's just being newly applied. I like this use of piezoelectric devices to turn heat into sound into energy: http://www.unews.utah.edu/old/p/053007-1.html
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by batbomb 13y ago
It's a in a cylinder. On curves, the acceleration would tilt the cars sideways and acceleration would be, from the viewpoint of a rider, down towards the floor, like gravity (like when a plane banks). Unlike a banking plane, you would
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by batbomb 13y ago
It's wayyyyyyy too high in orbit to get up there, past the moon. Not even remotely worth it. They are doing the same thing with the Webb.
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by batbomb 13y ago
Blur is a low-pass filter, filtering out higher frequencies in the image. It's the exact same steps as you use with compression. The difference is that you're not using additional transforms and their coefficients to mitigate arti
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by batbomb 13y ago
The problem in SF is there is no middle class or family housing being built. All these fancy new buildings going up are high margin 4k/mo rent and some percentage of section 8. There's nothing going up even in the range of 1800-28
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by batbomb 13y ago
If we want to compare potatoes to potatoes, SF has over 5 times the GDP in half the population of Idaho.
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by batbomb 13y ago
If that is the case then Menlo Park also has a de-facto ban because they don't even allow you to park on most public ways over night.
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by batbomb 13y ago
Unsubsidized Stafford loans are, AFAIK, always available no matter what your parents make. They will cover half to most of in-state tuition (~3-5k) at many in-state colleges, but not much more. It wouldn't cover even half the tuition
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by batbomb 13y ago
The cool thing is you can just [A-Z]+ most of these for your regex.
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by batbomb 13y ago
I'm surprised he's not railing against LabView and Origin too.
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by batbomb 13y ago
Far Travelers is an awesome book about satellites that you can read for free. Much more information than you'd care to know about, it's amazing. "Another significant improvement included the addition of extra "brain powe
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by batbomb 13y ago
Sterilize some drones and send them on in.
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by batbomb 13y ago
Life west of divis, southwest of Glen Park, South of Bernal and Dog Patch. Honestly, the inner/outer richmond has better restaurants than SoMa.
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by batbomb 13y ago
1. Bose products in the 80s were ugly too. 2. Not all electronics were ugly in the 80s. Bang & Olufsen and Quad would completely blew Bose away as far as style.
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by batbomb 13y ago
I still use my TI-89.
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by batbomb 13y ago
There weren't many foreclosures. San Francisco represented less than 1% of foreclosures in California despite being 20% of the population, and outcomes for foreclosures didn't end up in the homes being sold as much as it did in th
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by batbomb 13y ago
On the proton therapy: As a particle physicist whose best friend just finished (photon) radiation therapy for brain cancer, I know a good chunk about this. First off, not all proton therapy is the same. It's heavily dependent on the li
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by batbomb 13y ago
I don't think you understand... he sat side by side with Steve for a very long time. He was a fixture at electrical audio. I used to frequent PRF/Electrical Audio forums all the time and read a bunch of posts he had about being an
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by batbomb 13y ago
He was an intern at electrical audio studios in Chicago for Steve Albini
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by batbomb 13y ago
I've dealt with recursive queries many many times. For legacy production systems I stick to Oracle's CONNECT BY statement and half joins to keep performance okay. Most of the tables I deal with typically have 80 million rows with
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by batbomb 13y ago
If you are a scientist, especially one who deals with statistics, and you don't utter the word "uncertainty" on a daily basis then you don't deserve to be a scientist. Using that as a criticism, especially given the word
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by batbomb 13y ago
Using this with archival grade DVD-Rs would make big science much cheaper, accessible, and reproducible. Imagine the LHC fitting all their data into a briefcase, and just sending it to whoever asked for it. Of course, the real problem would
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by batbomb 13y ago
Your back of the envelope is off by a factor of 1000.

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