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by bpchaps 8y ago
Ah! Interesting point. I'll probably eventually do that. It's not exactly a high priority in life right now, though. Thankfully I eat a lot of oranges. :)
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Holy crap. This very much matches my experiences. I'm not military, but I used to shoot air rifles competitively in high school. I was definitely overexposed to lead. I remember my fingers would literally be coated in lead, and I don
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by bpchaps 8y ago
And I take it as the sort of statement that can apply to literally anything . Chicago, Tulsa, Burbank, Dungeons and Dragons, antique mold collections, etc. It's a silly thing to say on its own.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Does it matter if they are? The statement stands.
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Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization(mchap.io)
5 points by bpchaps 8y ago|0 comments
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Does facebook offer that option?
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Hm. I used to do competitive air rifle shooting (fwiw top five in the nation at the time), and this experiment comes close to the sort of training that I would do with my coach. He would act as a spotter and after every single shot, would a
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Neat - one of my requests is listed! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/foilies-2019#seattle
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by bpchaps 8y ago
What I'm saying is - it doesn't seem to be cleverness in action - just plain ol' animal instinct.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
The coyotes know exactly* where the invisible fence begins and ends, without the benefit of ever wearing a shock collar. How do I know? Because they intentionally leave their scat on their side of the invisible fence, creating a demilitar
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Interestingly, at least in the US, a take-home prescription for ketamine is already suprisingly cheap - $38 USD for 100ml: https://www.drugs.com/price-guide/ketamine At least near me, there are "ketamine centers
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by bpchaps 8y ago
As a colorblind person... please, for the love of god design for the colorblind! :)
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by bpchaps 8y ago
You might find this interesting - http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-pre...
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Has anyone done any perf analysis between this and previous versions?
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Anyone think the same holds true for HN? :)
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Could you give an example of when a customer would need that? I'm missing something.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Is this common in web hosting? I'd be pretty livid if my web host was modifying traffic, regardless of the intent.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Sure it can. Treat it as a functional and immutable language, and you can go pretty far with it, pretty safely. You're forgetting that bash really just calls other code. So you can combine two language's stdin/out functionali
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Have you tried Apache's tika? It's pretty decent.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Thanks - fixed.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Interesting to see this on HN. I applied for a job at propublica where the application asked to replicate the research for a story from their local reporting network. I picked this article, and went as far as I could on the FOIA side of re
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Where Chicago Issues Parking Tickets and Who Pays for Them(projects.propublica.org)
14 points by bpchaps 8y ago|1 comments
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Anecdote: About a year ago, I went through TSA and asked to opt out of the body scans in place of a pat down. Another agent on the side watched the whole thing and made kissing faces my way the whole time while making gay jokes. It was extr
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Last I tried, half of those don't work.. :/
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by bpchaps 8y ago
I don't work there anymore, but I'm genuinely curious why you think that's simple. In theory, absolutely. In practice, though? Trust me - I tried to get a better on-call strategy. You're making a lot of assumptions there
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Eh, people are strange about their privacy. When I worked in adtech, I had a flip phone up until the point that my boss made me get a smartphone so that I could get hipchat. It's believable to me, because I was only inches away from ha
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by bpchaps 8y ago
First rule of burner phones: don't talk about burner phones. Just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it's not happening.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
One small problem is that it sometimes doesn't make newline separations properly. In my use case, I was extracting email addresses from web scrapes - some email addresses would come out as "blah@blah.comRandomWord"
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Well, yes, but sometimes it's not that simple. For example, when the oncall person is unavailable and you get an emergency work call and only have your personal laptop on you.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
It's pretty understandable. My last job was in ad tech, and as part of the employment agreement, we effectively signed away our privacy rights through a clause that effectively waived the privacy rights on any machine that interfaced w

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