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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Coming soon to Netflix: The Wrath of Tardigrade.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
There isn’t a database of every US citizen’s fingerprints.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Call me cynical but this just sounds like a hook for their new service, Google Séance.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
It’s economic pain for coal miners.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Sort of an inverse James Bond story. In this case, a reclusive billionaire was helping the spies.
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Was it the transition that made things worse, or was it something intrinsic to the new addressing scheme? If the latter, can you elaborate on why it was worse?
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
In Lisp notation that would be (In List Rust) or maybe (In Rust List).
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by billsmithaustin 7y ago
Hopefully Uber won't have to maintain their forked Go compiler for too long.
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Something I just learned: there is an awk debugger! From the above page: “Beginning with version 4.0 in 2011, gawk provides an awk-level debugger: dgawk, which is modeled after GDB. This is a full debugger, with breakpoints, watchpoints, s
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JPEG Compression and the Golden Hour(medium.com)
2 points by billsmithaustin 8y ago|0 comments
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Sorry if it came across as pure snark; my real point was that there’s a huge difference between a single study on mice that doesn’t seem to have been reproduced yet and a drug that is proven to rapidly repair age-related memory loss and imp
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Great. I’ll buy some for my old, senile mouse. Maybe.
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Yes I will. In the mean time the most recent photo is always here: http://imgur.com/a/BqbwqRG
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Nothing wrong with pointing out the Raspberry Pi’s tradeoffs. Of course someone could write an article about the tradeoffs of any single board computer. For most of them, the list would start with “More powerful but no community to supp
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
I wonder how many other times an engineer advised NASA to delay a flight.
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
But only with a modified MySQL server.
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
That only scales to a point. Other side-effects of a larger population, like increased traffic, are harder to address than just building more houses.
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US Naval Observatory website root cert is for pharmaceutical company?(aa.usno.navy.mil)
3 points by billsmithaustin 8y ago|2 comments
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“Lime recently indicated their latest scooters have an average lifespan of 4 months.” I wonder what happens to the scooter after that. Landfill? Recycle?
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Is is possible that a similarly light-weight process would have been used if the correction had been submitted in a typewritten letter or over email?
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Part of the market will be bike enthusiasts with disposable income who are attracted to the novelty of a wooden frame. The frames are beautiful. Time will tell whether that market is big enough to support a business. On a related note, I
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Indeed uses an LSM tree based key value store for its data about job postings: https://engineering.indeedblog.com/blog/2013/10/serving-over...
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
It means that in English, too.
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
From the article: “K12 education spending in the US has increased by 2-3X per student per year since 1960.” That can’t possibly be correct.
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Quitting my job at an enterprise software company. I worked for a series of companies that wrote software that they didn't actually use (or at least their operations didn't depend on using it). Not eating their own dog food mean
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Of course they could, but as the article mentioned toward the end, the school district no longer has the political capital to pursue rearranging school schedules. The superintendent lost his job over this. I imagine votes were angry with
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
If I were considering running for President in 2020, and I owned a large media company, I might publish articles like this, too. That aside, you can't tie all of life expectancy to health care. For example, diet, life style, genetics,
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
If there isn’t a steampunk novel featuring this technology, there should be.
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
I’m sorry your experience with the federal government was so bad. The article was more focused on government at the local and state level.
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by billsmithaustin 8y ago
This really belongs in XKCD.

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