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by cimmanom 8y ago
Yes. During that period when you could get 64GB in a Windows desktop replacement laptop but only 16 in a top-of-the-line MBP, they reworked their memory systems to (IIRC) do some sort of predictive paging to improve responsiveness under me
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Yes, absolutely! I’ve been thinking about a project that would require an API like this. I’m a little surprised that there aren’t already several options. Was pretty sure I’d seen a couple of services that will print and send letters in env
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by cimmanom 8y ago
$20K sounds like an underestimate by a couple orders of magnitude if you estimate a single year of full time work by one developer at $100K. Many mid-sized Python projects use libraries that I’d guess together represent somewhere between $2
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by cimmanom 8y ago
There’s probably a market for this among freelancers.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Some Olympic-level athletes deliberately train at high altitudes because the body responds by making more red blood cells in order to make the most of what oxygen is available. This then gives them an advantage when competing at lower altit
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by cimmanom 8y ago
What seems more likely to me is just that the frames they put these things in cover the cameras anyway.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Is it that hard? I've seen one get stuck on an Ubuntu boot screen (of a 5+ year old Ubuntu version, no less) with messages about loading MySQL. I mean, at least they weren't using Win98, but that's a pretty low bar.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
What does “bad design” mean in the context of a system that wasn’t designed? Evolution is a process that involves tiny random changes stabilizing at or near local maxima. Where you end up is largely about where you started.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Sorry, I like my e-reader in part because at the end of a long day it can change font sizes to accommodate tired eyes with imperfect vision. Yeah, this makes page numbers inconsistent. BUT the reader also has a concept of a “location”, whic
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by cimmanom 8y ago
That I don’t know. Most birds have the ability to regurgitate food for their young, but that’s not the same thing as a gag reflex. Maybe google or Wikipedia have more info?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Part of it probably has to do with lungs originating as gills. Passage of water across the gills was what was crucial for optimal oxygen intake, and taking water in through the mouth facilitates that for fish. Getting food stuck was probabl
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Man, who has time for something like that?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Most “high deductible” plans (the ones eligible for an HSA account) use coinsurance for medical services, instead of copays (there may be copays after you hit the deductible). This is different from an HMO, PPO, or EPO, where you’ll have co
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Most protected classes are attributes that a person has no control over - age, race, sex. Political views do not fall in that category. The big exception to that that I can think of is religion. One could debate why that’s a protected class
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by cimmanom 8y ago
To use them? Not all that much. It'd be much harder for someone whose first language uses a non-latin alphabet. But understanding that a certain sequence of characters represents a specific purpose in the language isn't really
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by cimmanom 8y ago
PrivacyBadger
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I’m sorry, that sucks. I do suspect, though, that the sleep deprivation is at the root of your focus challenges. I hope you’re able to find a solution!
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Assuming there’s a grocery store within a reasonable distance that has a real butcher counter.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
This isn’t just ground chuck. That’s the whole point.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Sleep deprivation will do that to you. Have you looked into improving the quantity and quality of your sleep?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
We've absolutely gone overboard. But certainly there's some balance that could be struck where we can keep the FEW truly unique and beautiful treasures without marking entire neighborhoods as closed to development.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It’s not the browsers. It’s the single-page apps. I can have 50 HN or readthedocs tabs open in Firefox with negligible memory impact. But two to three tabs of apps (say, Gmail and Trello) or a handful of over-engineered news and blog articl
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Are we? Since when does the federal government collect property tax?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Except that every municipality is trying so hard to recruit them that they're getting more in tax breaks and other incentives than they and their employees would be paying in taxes in the first place.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
This. I’m not usually a fan of scrum, but this is one of the problems it can help solve. You can decide to zig or zag every couple weeks at the end of a sprint, but for those couple weeks you’ll hold steady in one direction so that you can
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Don’t build something like that unless you have good reason (ideally from user research) to believe that it’s something a large portion of your current or potential user base would actually use.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
They’re a relatively high percentage of vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-bicycle collisions, though. Very important for a pedestrian-oriented city like NYC.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It's typically also in the contracts/ToS. Of course, detecting violations may be challenging.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
But without government-sanctioned apps to track the victims and prevent their escape.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
That sounds incredibly painful.

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