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by cbr 9y ago
Sorry, all five. I wrote the comment with three, then thought more data would be better and tried two more.
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by cbr 9y ago
Hmm. I just tried to reproduce this with old posts of my own and couldn't. I picked random phrases from five early 2006 blog posts that get basically no traffic and searched for them: "I had been playing the accordion Davy
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by cbr 9y ago
Sites allow search engines to index them (instead of telling them to go away with robots.txt) because the search traffic is worth it to them. Search engines don't allow people to scrape them (resorting to blocking after scrapers ignore
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by cbr 9y ago
If the alarm is as easy to trigger as pushing a single button, then issuing an update that it was a mistake should be designed for. Ideally just a couple presses, something that can be done in under a minute.
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by cbr 9y ago
I'm not a member of the church I'm atheist, but if things were going horribly wrong LDS would be high on my list of people to be around.
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by cbr 9y ago
The survey asked for numbers of older brothers, younger brothers, older sisters, and younger sisters. The main analysis on the post is for people with one sibling, and there are exactly as many people with one sibling whose sibling is olde
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by cbr 9y ago
I am bombarded with ads on Facebook for the Sense. This device allows you to monitor whole-home power consumption. ... I realized it would be extremely simple to do something similar without any wires or hassle. Sense
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by cbr 9y ago
The quote "These individual artists may be compensated, but what is going to be the long-term effect [is] buildings don’t allow public art because they don’t want to face damages" looks right to me.
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by cbr 9y ago
> Families would call all the close contacts and relatives to make sure that they knew. I think people generally still do this? When my mother died a few years ago we took turns calling her relatives and close friends. We wanted them t
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by cbr 9y ago
Generating a private key for a given public key is computationally infeasible with current approaches: right now you'd just have to brute force it. But if someone finds a vulnerability they might be able to cut that time down to where
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by cbr 9y ago
If a sha-256 exploit came out relatively suddenly, such that anyone could generate private keys for a given account key, bitcoin's value really would go to $0. I don't think this is likely, but I think maybe 1% over the next 10y
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by cbr 9y ago
this is the currently-accepted way of doing accounting Cash basis is also accepted, and generally used by very small businesses where accrual accounting is too complicated.
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by cbr 9y ago
Or just remove the thermostat from the wall, and turn the heating on by shorting the signal wires together.
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by cbr 9y ago
if a company receives a bill for something they bought in 2016, but don't technically pay it until 2017, the bill would still show up in their 2016 reports. Yes if you're using accrual basis, but not if you'
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by cbr 9y ago
I've worked with bootcamp grads who have been pretty good, and hadn't already learned how to code. I also have friends who started out as non-coders, went through bootcamps, and are now doing really well.
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by cbr 9y ago
You need to collect date of birth for COPPA compliance
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by cbr 9y ago
All public schools use only Catalan More background: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/29/554327011/f...
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by cbr 9y ago
The feedback I was getting when I explicitly invited people to send me email wasn't generally that good, plus was a lot more hassle to respond to for less benefit. People can still find my email on my contact page, but pushing people
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by cbr 9y ago
It sounds like rent control isn't making this a fair comparison? We'd want to compare going out and renting a new studio vs 1/N of an Nbr.
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by cbr 9y ago
Not everyone is a student anymore. I'm 31, married with two kids, and we have housemates. It's nice having more people around, in addition to being cheaper. (We've lived in four places since getting married, one wi
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by cbr 9y ago
what's cheaper than a studio? Splitting a several-bedroom apartment several ways. For example, where I live [1] a studio is $1,700 but one room in a 3br is $1,100. [1] http://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices
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by cbr 9y ago
hostname-based blocking can't handle when ads are served from the same domain as content you do want
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by cbr 9y ago
I deal with this in a weird way: people comment on fb/g+/hn/reddit and then I pull the comments onto my blog via a server-side script. For example, comments on my most recent post: http://www.jefftk.com/p&#x2
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by cbr 9y ago
there's no reason that a) needs to happen in a public comment and b) that you cannot provide an email for people to reach you at I blog a decent amount, and I don't like getting emails about my posts. I'd m
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by cbr 9y ago
Color comes from the initial neural network step. Since skin color is relatively predictable from facial features (ex: nose width), it should be able to do reasonably well.
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by cbr 9y ago
only to find it crashed after 20 minutes when it hits some boneheaded syntax error you made I find mypy to be pretty useful for this.
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by cbr 9y ago
big power hungry fan motor Fans don't use much power. 50W would be fine for a swamp cooler for a tent. Are you thinking of on air conditioning compressor?
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by cbr 9y ago
If you follow GDPR strictly you would need to be able to purge the data from your backups. Now most backups are considered immutable, so you aren't going to do that Encrypt with a user-specific key, and destroy tha
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by cbr 9y ago
A "hundred year storm" doesn't mean we expect one per hundred years globally, but one per hundred years locally.
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by cbr 9y ago
its sewer connection was just the house pipe inset into the city pipe That connection isn't too bad, but I'm curious how they dealt with water supply and (if they have it) natural gas? Those are much harder to make

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