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by ben7799 2y ago
The US has regulations on all of this but they are routinely ignored by people who can't swim but own boats. Small boat owners are required to have the life jackets on board but they can be hidden under the seats of a boat or inside a
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by ben7799 2y ago
If it's $12k and requires an operator this seems more of a band-aid than anything. Where are the operators going to come from? And for a lot of places the operator + device probably pays for 3 lifeguards or swim instructors. Noth
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by ben7799 2y ago
A PC in 1987 didn't run X11 either though. You needed something way more expensive to run X11 before 1990.
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by ben7799 2y ago
I was out of school for quite a bit by the time the PS3 came out but I remember installing linux on mine and being pretty excited to program on it. I did a little bit, but it ended up being a super PITA because I didn't want to put my
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by ben7799 2y ago
This article, Wow, It sure could have, used a proofreader & editor.
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by ben7799 2y ago
Windows binaries often seem to have excess statically linked libraries.. even though they are called DLLs which is supposed to mean dynamic. They might be loading it dynamically but they still seem to have decided to include their own pri
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by ben7799 2y ago
I went from the last Intel i9 16" MBP to an M3 Pro in the last month at work. I think it's saving me an hour a day and the fan has never come on, the the laptop has never felt warm, and the battery life is just mind blowing. I run
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by ben7799 2y ago
The article strikes me as somewhat OK but overly critical of the MIT startup and overly forgiving of the Stanford startup. Also prior to the mid 1990s it seems like the Stanford startup thing really hadn't begun yet. You look at the o
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by ben7799 2y ago
I think there is truth to what you said but you also have to be careful not to judge 1980s games by 2020s standards. All the games were user hostile back then. You could play a sierra game with hostile user input parsing and really nice gr
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by ben7799 2y ago
FTA Kings Quest 8 was completely derailed by the acquisition and the crooks basically trying to cut Roberta Williams out of the design.
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by ben7799 2y ago
Premium priced lunch food should not involve dealing with rude employees. My experience at Sweetgreen has also been sour/rude employees. Pay them more, figure out how to cut costs somewhere else since when you look at the breakdown in
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by ben7799 2y ago
I don't understand how this company somehow manages to convince people they are particularly innovative or that they deserve some kind of "tech company" reputation or valuation. It's just another faddish restaurant going
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by ben7799 2y ago
This is the answer. You're supposed to learn this if you take quality swim lessons. I was a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor and lifeguard. I taught plenty of lessons to sub-10% body fat adults who had this problem. I generally h
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by ben7799 2y ago
You just need to get familiar with the correct way to handle a current like that. It’s not to fight it. Especially with a bodyboard and fins doing the right thing does not require a ton of strength and shouldn’t be stressful.
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by ben7799 2y ago
Great point. I have an 10.x/11" iPad Air (the one that just got replaced) and I use it on the music stand frequently. I disagree it is unworkable, but I would agree it's not workable in a performance. For me it is OK for p
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by ben7799 2y ago
The Ruby aspect here is interesting. My gut feeling in my area is if you are coming to these jobs with a non-traditional background and don't have a CS degree you are better off studying Ruby or Python or something a little less tradit
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by ben7799 2y ago
Haven't used C++ in 10+ years but I remember studying an earlier version of this book in stupid depth. And this was at the end of 4 years of using 99% C++ in college. It's such a good book. If you really take the time to unders
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by ben7799 3y ago
The person who wrote that would have made your life miserable if they had architected it 5 other different ways as well.
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by ben7799 3y ago
So many of these articles are written by people with no CS background who then had a couple stints short stints programming and then overnight pivoted to being expert consultants. They don't really have experience building or maintain
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by ben7799 3y ago
Pretty sure it was in Effective Java and Design Patterns in Java 20+ years ago as well since Java is the language that gets picked on so frequently for this stuff.
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by ben7799 3y ago
I love the way people take their narrow range of experience and over generalize it to everything. Bonus points for having a blog or maybe a patreon to tell everyone how it really is. We have a million flavors of the month but in the end i
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by ben7799 3y ago
This depends on the level of hit that the sport causes, how often it happens, and the type of helmet and the design goals of that helmet. A motorcycle helmet or auto racing helmet will do a much better job at preventing a concussion than a
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by ben7799 3y ago
Isn't this train much more efficient than the alternatives though? Cars will be vastly worse and take vastly longer. Airplanes are worse. The only possible better alternative is a slower train.
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by ben7799 3y ago
If those 33 trains were operating full you'd need more than 100 flights to replace them. It sounds like a flight is 3-6x worse than the bullet trains in terms of energy/passenger/mile, with no ability to go zero emissions.
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by ben7799 3y ago
I was kind of right the exact age to see all this happen all while I was in college. Fall 95 enter freshman year and we had Indys and IBM RS6000s as the main workstations on campus. Really great setup where you could sit at any workstatio
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by ben7799 3y ago
The US and Canada have tons and tons of 500+ mile trails, heck tons of 1000+ mile trails. Like 20+
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by ben7799 3y ago
Octaves stay the same though. Other temperaments are not "weird", they just make different rules about how perfectly in tune different intervals are with each other.
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by ben7799 3y ago
I've always been taught Music theory exists to explain why we like things. Not to dictate what we like, it's like some grand unifying theory. Whenever we find something new people like Music theory has to adapt. I think it would
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by ben7799 3y ago
Doesn't really matter. You can drown in 1 meter.
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by ben7799 3y ago
Turn off your ad blocker. For some reason it didn't load till I turned it off. There are no ads on the page, but there must be something nefarious.

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