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by billsmithaustin 5y ago
It’s important if you lose a significant number of potential API users along the way.
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by billsmithaustin 5y ago
The Texas Legislature, which meets every two years, is wrapping up a session right now. To get a sense for how the Legislature has prioritized addressing the grid failure relative to other issues, and what they propose to change, see this
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by billsmithaustin 5y ago
I remember around 1980 seeing a “computer programmer wanted” sidewalk sign in front of a strip mall. I wonder if they found anyone that way.
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by billsmithaustin 5y ago
Rather than debate what “open data” really means, maybe there need to be more specific terms for the Op’s different aspects of openness.
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by billsmithaustin 5y ago
The Worshipful Company of Woolmen is an awesome name for an organization. And their Shop page features waistcoat buttons!
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
Most quirky VT100 feature: smooth scroll.
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
This is a good source for up to date information: https://bikecando.com/forum.aspx .
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
I rode the trail from Pittsburgh to DC two years ago. The little towns on the trail were all welcoming. The scenery was fantastic. I look forward to doing more multi-day rail trail rides in the future.
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
From the article: “In the three months following testing positive for COVID-19, 1 in 5 survivors were recorded as having a first time diagnosis of anxiety, depression or insomnia. This was about twice as likely as for other groups of patien
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
Brother also has a handy iOS app for printing and scanning.
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System .
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
You must have a big pocket if you can fit a 4.6” x 4.4” x 1.55” box in there.
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
I don’t understand the claim about 32GB RAM. The diagram shows slots for four RPi compute modules, each of which has 1GB RAM.
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
“Moonwalking with Einstein”, a book by Joshua Foer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_with_Einstein ), is all about memorization techniques and memorization competitions. It’s a great read. He found that while
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
How about a tool that spams a Twitter user on behalf of every follower?
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
An example: if you want to carry saddlebags (panniers) attached to a rack over the rear wheel, it helps to have a bike with long chain stays so that your heels do not bump into your saddlebags when you pedal.
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by billsmithaustin 6y ago
> Blender would sometimes respond with offensive language, and at other times it would make up facts altogether. Sounds like it should run for political office.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
So it's true: when he's not killing people, the original Terminator processes New Jersey unemployment insurance applications.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
That was my reaction too. Is there a different market where the ratio of bad ideas to good ideas is better than in education?
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Reducing cgroup CPU throttling on Linux machines with many cores(engineering.indeedblog.com)
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
How crows end up running all the tobacco companies: https://www.crowdedcities.com/
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
I've had tinnitus for as long as I remember. Haven't tried this, but I've read some people have luck treating it with biofeedback.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
How big of a risk is overfitting for these kinds of models? I think common practice is to hold back some of the data for testing.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
My experience is that the production operations engine is hard to get right because your target environment can drift from the desired configurations for reasons that you did not anticipate.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
I think it would be more precise to say they are influenced by consumer demand. Consumers consume from landfills, dairy farms, and natural gas facilities, but they do not control them. It is true that as a consumer, I can try to regulate
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Sounds like an opportunity for the gig economy.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Reminds me of how long songs used to be trimmed to fit on a 45rpm record.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Sounds like a datacenter couched in 19th century terms.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Whether Kubernetes will really drive up your server utilization levels depends on how effective your Operations staff were at bin-packing and whether your a Kubernetes cluster uses cpu quotas. There are inefficiencies in how the Linux sche
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Setting a precedent that a smart phone is not a computer seems like a bad idea. Surely there are other laws that smart phone owners (and makers) would want to apply to both smart phones and more traditional computers.

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