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by breischl 11y ago
>>The GP said it needs to see and feel options on a vehicle. I don't. Maybe not, though a lot of people do and you probably should. The ergonomics of a car are more important, and much more complex, than for many other items. Som
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by breischl 11y ago
Last I checked, Fidelity truncates to 10 characters, but silently converts them all to digits. They map them all to their equivalents on a typical phone keypad... so it's not even using all the digits. Talk about awful security... Edit
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by breischl 11y ago
Or even just temporary problems with your ISP or local internet. Somebody took out a local connection with a backhoe? There go your TV/movies, Xbox One, VOIP phone, security cameras (if you've got the GP's system), etc.
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by breischl 11y ago
>>standards-compliant condom Wait, there's a standard for that? What is it, ISO-69? Did they also standardize the different sizes and textures? Regardless, I bet it was an interesting working group.
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It's not like the prosecution would've been secret if only Krebs had kept his mouth shut. The indictment and eventual verdict are public, and probably Google-able. It will show up in criminal records searches, just like it would f
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That is not at all what he's saying, as he explains in the second paragraph... >>The shootings that disturb us so -- school shootings and the like -- do not disturb because there are four or more people killed, but because those
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by breischl 11y ago
I stand corrected. Very interesting, thanks!
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I was thinking of the exact same thing. But I'm not sure it really applies, at least in the specific case of polio. Historically most people didn't have it, so we can't really be "missing" it. If we were talking abo
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by breischl 11y ago
Trackpoints are fantastic once you're used to them. Particularly for reading long documents - they had a "scroll mode" button that would let you use the trackpoint to scroll through a document one-handed without moving from t
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>>"30 page document" Not quite, it's a "30-chapter text" according to the article. I'd imagine those chapters are quite a bit longer than one page each.
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I noticed that it will keep the location services/GPS running even if the app is backgrounded, at least on Android. If you kill the app that helps.
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>> It installs a third party as a middleman... paying rent to Google... I'm not sure that it is rent in the economic sense. They're providing one place to sign up and pay, and then distributing the money in a reasonably fair
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by breischl 11y ago
>>I see no practical way to enforce that the source code that has been published is actually the same as that running on the car. I was going to say that you could dump the code from a random vehicle and compare the hashes. But I supp
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That's true, but then there followed a long time (18 months?) in which VW denied any wrongdoing, and nobody could really prove them wrong. If the source code were available, the investigators could have quickly gone from "this loo
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by breischl 11y ago
Hm. I think you're saying he's putting a faux-rebuke onto a happy article. Whereas I still think he's putting a happy veneer on what is ultimately a rebuke. I'm not sure how to tell which is the case, or if it even actua
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Many consider the "1% Rule" as the minimum bar. You're probably right that there are a lot rentals around that level, but those are the marginal rentals that I mentioned would likely become for-sale housing. Also, since you d
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>>People like sprawled-out, low-density development. Some people like those things. Other people actively dislike and avoid those things. Certainly there are enough of the latter that the Bay Area could be much more dense than it is
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by breischl 11y ago
>>Isn't this article just taking a roundabout way of commenting that landowners in highly productive areas are choking growth and more productivity by siphoning too much money off of the non-landowners for use of the land? Ehhhh.
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by breischl 11y ago
You're assuming that the tax is so onerous as to make rental housing unprofitable. Not just less profitable, but a flat-out cash drain. That's a pretty big assumption. If you assume that it just captures a fraction of the profit
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by breischl 11y ago
Having re-read it, I still can't see it as a "celebration." I would say he's acknowledging a bad habit that he can't kick. It's an admission of continuing weakness in the face of cheap pleasure, like a good cri
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by breischl 11y ago
Aha, a CV honeypot! You could harvest the names of all the recruiters that take an interest, then publish a blacklist for legitimate job seekers so they would know who not to talk to. :)
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I don't see anywhere that it says that. It observes that people do that, and that they take pleasure in their prejudices, but nowhere does he approve of that. Rather he talks at length about how it causes people, including himself,
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tl;dr: Don't judge a book by its cover, its marketing, or its author.
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Man, you are not joking. I still get the occasional ping from someone looking for me to work on TIBCO. I did a tiny bit of work on that in ~2001. It was on my resume for about a year. I'm still getting pinged for it 13 years later. Iro
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One possible exception to that is if you're a contractor (1099) instead of a "real" W-2 employee. In some states that means you're basically in a contract negotiation. I found out the hard way that Colorado law doesn&#x2
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Oh my gawd, a 2% match? Doesn't that violate some UN human rights convention?! </s> It's reasonable to compare their comp package to their competitors, especially if you're considering working there. But calling th
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by breischl 11y ago
Actually you can AOT compile C# down to machine code. I haven't tried it, but they've been pushing it pretty heavily for a while now. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx
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by breischl 11y ago
Async is fantastic if you do a lot of I/O and you have to scale. For instance if you have a web service that makes a lot of network calls. In our particular case, and oversimplifying, the app is a smart router. Take a request, farm out
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For one, because AirBnB has multiple competitors. HomeAway is the closest thing, but traditional BnBs and hotels are playing in largely the same space. For two, they're not actually setting the prices, the property owners are doing tha
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I can't even parse that sentence.

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