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by batbomb 9y ago
Philip K Dick. Somehow there's a new Blade Runner so he must be alive still.
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JDK 9 General-Availability Release(jdk.java.net)
274 points by batbomb 9y ago|47 comments
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by batbomb 9y ago
later today probably
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by batbomb 9y ago
it's temperature * time, actually.
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by batbomb 9y ago
In what ways? These were always evolutionary over hybrids which, and you could throw a rock in any direction in the bay area and hit a prius.
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by batbomb 9y ago
Ironic considering how ancient their IT is. My friend was an advisor and they are solidly in the 2005 era as far as security and maintenance goes.
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by batbomb 9y ago
first guess: They haven't gotten UV protection right just yet.
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by batbomb 9y ago
It wouldn't work in SLC for a variety of reasons. Utah really needs some sort of excellence (lab/institute/etc...) in engineering/science/high tech research that's not just biotech, in addition to a more divers
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by batbomb 9y ago
The other way around this is containers or caching filesystems.
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by batbomb 9y ago
isn't this just korma?
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by batbomb 9y ago
Ah, but you are assuming Stanford's core business is, in fact, teaching.
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by batbomb 9y ago
square kilometer array
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by batbomb 9y ago
Most people programming in National Labs get offices, though you might need to share with one person. If you are in the bay area, think about SLAC or LBNL.
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by batbomb 9y ago
She does, but most those homes are empty 80% of the time. They have security guards that go around to the homes just to look for people who break into those homes to squat, which is an actual problem. I knew a guy living in one of the homes
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by batbomb 9y ago
more like $400/mo. Going price for a parking spot in SF (generally, across the city) is about $200/mo.
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by batbomb 9y ago
I didn't write the API, I just bitch about how it should be improved, but it really is a REST api. You post to a query resources, which creates a query-resource object for either sync or async queries. If it's an async query, you
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by batbomb 9y ago
Yes, there's super-subset of SQL-92 called ADQL which is ran, but no inserts/deletes/updates are allowed. You can upload data to the services as XML files.
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by batbomb 9y ago
If you were unanaware, most telescopes have data available online these days, provided their data is also public and not embargoed. There's REST API you basically do something like: POST /tap/sync?query=select * from object a
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by batbomb 9y ago
That's the cost of two quality CNC machines, it's definitely within the realm of access for smaller machine shops everywhere.
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by batbomb 9y ago
Not mentioned: Some software at NASA gets "human in the loop" testing. I work with GSFC, and that makes a lot of things difficult and very slow.
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by batbomb 9y ago
We have a stand up bot (geekbot). Coupled with a jira bot that posts-back ticket information if tickets are mentioned in the stand up, it makes for a good experience.
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by batbomb 9y ago
At least most things that come in a six pack taste good
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by batbomb 9y ago
Viable doesn't mean "subjectively better"
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by batbomb 9y ago
What you are talking about knowledge base construction. Google does do some of that, in fact. Apple wants to get better, they just bought lattice.io
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by batbomb 9y ago
You should try out this book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Fast-Better-ebook...
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by batbomb 9y ago
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, it's called "The Joy of Cooking"
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by batbomb 9y ago
It typically takes months and years to retrofit a coal plant for gas. That said, it's wildly more economic because you have to rebuild coal power plants every 12 years or so due to ware and tear
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by batbomb 9y ago
You can convert 100m to femtoparsecs, for example.
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by batbomb 9y ago
I've cycled through 3 nick names over 8 years for this reason. Not that I'm ashamed of what I wrote or its untraceable, but I am a bit paranoid overall and prefer privacy anyway.
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by batbomb 9y ago
I've been sickened by this before eating leftover fried rice from a Chinese restaurant. It was the first time I went there and I really liked the food, but I can't stomach going back. It's also known as "Fried Rice Syndr

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