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by cecilpl 13y ago
Or just google "300mbps in terabytes/month".
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Just because you only use the internet to watch cat videos doesn't mean there isn't critical infrastructure that depends on the continued functioning of the internet.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
> What are you worried about, a large power bill due to your cpu doing what is supposed to be doing? Video games are real-time. There's a hard limit on the number of cycles you can make use of per frame. 11 cycles spent mispredicting a
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by cecilpl 13y ago
I have the symbols memorized, and every keyboard I use regularly I've popped the keycaps off and rearranged them properly. I have memorized my password in both modes. All it takes is a quick glance at the keyboard to know which "mode" I'm t
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by cecilpl 13y ago
What does "efficient" mean? If it means the distance your fingers have to travel, Dvorak is way more efficient. Typing full time on Dvorak for the last 12 years has, I'm convinced, saved me some wrist and finger pain. Every time I'm forced
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by cecilpl 13y ago
> To clarify: it is an excise tax and applies to the _gross sale price_, not the profits (so even if the division runs at a loss, they still have to pay). http://www.irs.gov/uac/Medical-Device-Excise-Tax:-Frequently... . I'd agree with
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Remember the perfect is the enemy of the good. Don't oppose the Act because it doesn't bring about the best possible world. Oppose it only if it's worse than the currently existing situation.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
> The so-called social healthcare as pushed by the government will inherently waste a lot of money because government is always wasteful with it's resources. Governments are wasteful because whenever they run out of money they have the
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Which is why here in Canada the health care is provided by a province-level organization, which is partially funded by the federal government.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
The problem is that there's no bright line to be drawn between bunny hopping and glitching through a wall. It's a continuous spectrum of larger and larger glitches. Just out of curiosity, I assume you'd also consider abusing the "minus worl
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by cecilpl 13y ago
I agree with the middle one being the most readable (assuming you have python experience). But isn't it obviously returning a list? It's a list comprehension!
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by cecilpl 13y ago
"We were surprised to ﬁnd a signiﬁcant eﬀect of Python experience on the probability of making a very speciﬁc error (base = 0.13, OR = 1.44, p < 0.5). Instead of [8, 9, 0] for their last line of output, 22% of participants wrote [8] (fo
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by cecilpl 13y ago
If the US government started minting 0.1 cent coins and 0.01 cent coins, would that be viewed as increasing the supply of dollars?
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by cecilpl 13y ago
I'd like to see that!
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by cecilpl 14y ago
http://www.thebubblebubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/st... First sell-off - late 2011 whne the price dropped from $30 to $5. Enthusiasm @ $50. Greed @ $130 New paradigm over the last couple days.
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by cecilpl 14y ago
I had this exact thought while walking to work this morning. It came to me that the vast majority of modern society is completely independent of the actual people executing it. There are very few jobs that could not be done just as well by
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by cecilpl 14y ago
I actually dislike the navbar. I can't count how many times I've wanted to search for news about something, typed in my search, and hit "news" from the navbar rather than the results bar thus erasing my search term. Why do I have two ways t
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by cecilpl 14y ago
This has happened in casual conversation where nothing else important was going on.
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by cecilpl 14y ago
Then am I abnormal in that I get vicarious joy out of seeing someone else learn something for the first time?
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by cecilpl 14y ago
My parents were like this too, and my innate thirst for knowledge led me to persistently question people for years until I realized how much many people seem to dislike this. I love explaining in depth and enjoy the opportunity to explore t
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by cecilpl 14y ago
I have exactly the same problem. I learned to read extremely early (before the age of 2), and read Lord of the Rings for the first time when I was 7. I devoured everything I could get my hands on. I never took a speed reading course or less
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by cecilpl 14y ago
I wouldn't even ask in that situation. Always prefer asking for forgiveness over permission unless you're doing something irreversible.
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by cecilpl 14y ago
This is the equivalent in Perforce of shelving your change, then redoing your work and diffing against your shelf.
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by cecilpl 14y ago
The general population suicide rate is about 1 in 10,000, which is what the GP quoted. What's your source for saying it's 1 in 1000?
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by cecilpl 14y ago
~20Pflops = 3 terahashes/sec, which will earn you about $274/hour. Probably not the best use of supercomputer resources. :)
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by cecilpl 14y ago
And if it didn't, I'd have never known about it. I just learned this today.
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by cecilpl 14y ago
This is the difference between a programmer's understanding of "tomorrow" and a user's.
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by cecilpl 14y ago
Because McDonalds would be allowed to make a meth burger, the same way they can sell you vokda shots with your happy meal.
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by cecilpl 14y ago
There are lots of air atoms inside a loaf of bread.
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by cecilpl 14y ago
Because the people who implement the login systems aren't always security professionals. Sometimes they're random, mediocre, software engineers who don't really care about security, but their boss put them in charge of the website.

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