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by blendo 11y ago
The car referenced (a Xindayang D2) weighs 640 kg (1477 lbs). _That's_ the way to make a $20k electric car. Wish it were good, though. But to an F-150, it's a bug on the windshield. For safety, maybe we could limit urban traffi
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by blendo 11y ago
I think this ruling marks the recognition that the information processing performed by the devices we carry has, in a legal sense, "merged" with the thoughts we carry in our heads, and are now worthy of the same fifth amendment pr
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by blendo 11y ago
Desegregating Newark schools also means packing kids onto a bus each morning for a long bus ride. Then a long bus ride home. And if a parent needs to be there, it's no longer a walk to the neighborhood school, but more likely a trip o
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by blendo 11y ago
I'm 58. I started with Fortran in the 80's, C/C++/Perl/SQL in the 90's, Java/SQL in the 00's, and Python/JavaScript/a bit of Scala/SQL more recently. I'd credit my interest and per
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by blendo 12y ago
The capability for power distribution is really interesting: 2 A at 5 V, 5 A at 12 V, and 5 A at 20 V. Assuming some sort of "intelligent" power distribution center, you could plug your monitor into one port, your cpu/memory&
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by blendo 12y ago
This is EXACTLY what I want for my intranet sites. It lets me protect my users from the wireshark in the next cubicle.
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by blendo 12y ago
I'm not sure the disclosure (of a related DNA sequence) was careless. In fact, having millions of correlated DNA sequences might prove quite profitable someday. Although I'm a bit surprised that to remove DNA info, you need to cl
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by blendo 12y ago
Web apps could be better, for some X, <script src="/myapp.X" type="text/X"> where X != "javascript". But only Google, MS, Apple, and Firefox working together can make this happen.
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by blendo 12y ago
I used to work on finance spreadsheets that used VBA to perform ftp, connect to https servers to download and parse xml docs, perform file renaming, etc. Horrid, but functional. If MS shipped Excel with C# as a VBA co-equal, the reliabili
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by blendo 13y ago
The biggest part of the story, somewhat hidden, is that only after expert intervention can a charge for $1,400 be reduced to $112. But he was shocked when the pharmacy said he would have to pay $1,400 out of pocket for a 90-day s
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by blendo 13y ago
Is it the existing system the "bad" kind of Java (J2EE 1.4/EJB 1/xml hell/Abstract Factory madness) or the nicer and more modern RESTy/Dependency Injected/JEE6 (or Spring) variant? And I recall that one of
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by blendo 13y ago
I've been programming for over 30 years, and began work in finance in 1995. As you note, the money is very good. But I found that it became soul-deadening. Last year I quit my job, took five months off, then started work as a programm