cincinnatus

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by cincinnatus 13y ago
In my experience so far (Prius, 110000 miles) it is more like 5x. And the Prius brakes are tiny things, especailly compared to the huge brakes on the German cars I've owned in the past. The Tesla S is comparable to them in weight and handli
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by cincinnatus 13y ago
Brakes in electric cars receive vastly less wear than conventional vehicles, feels like literally an order of magnitude. They really only come into play at all during final stopping and emergency braking. The separate parking brake design o
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Doesn't seem to handle load very well, though normall I guess it wouldn't need to.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Don't you typically run up against traffic limits though? Seems like I've run into suspended pages more than a few times.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
But first they'll try to sue a bunch of people.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
It is probably unfilmable. Many things work great in our heads and don't translate when out on paper etc. in this case the internal monolog of the character is what makes it work, I haven't tried it but I'm sure if you looked at the story f
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
More than a homophobe, he turns out to hold truly repugnant views on a wide range of subjects. I was really disappointed when I learned this, not by reading about it but by reading a book he wrote post 9/11 (Empire) that I kept expecting to
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
He censored the domain name with * :-)
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
HN isn't a cult, it is a zoo :-)
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Pushover works better for that kind of stuff, plus it is actively maintained unlike boxcar which seems abandoned.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Doesn't sound remotely cult like. Sounds like good business.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Right but on a large system it is possible to mistype it to a valid address that isn't yours.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
For non-techies Twitter achieves what they would use RSS for (notification of content) with convenient annotations. Yes they are very different, but that's how it works in principle. I doubt RSS will ever be completely gone, but the number
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
False equivalency is a major logical fallacy. If you aren't trolling you have some damage to repair in your brain.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Lip service to their citizens' rights only. They've already determined it is 'ok' to kill a US citizen with a drone purely on the presidential whim, and hold you indefinitely without trial.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
The off-the-grid folks are surely on top of this. They also have the advantage of a 'natively' DC supply coming off storage batteries.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
What are you talking about? Glucose and fructose is all you'll find. It might be sucrose, but it is all the same by weight and effect once it hits your stomach.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Exactly, the type of thinking behind that chart casts doubt and caused me to stop reading. Just getting to standing desks is a big leap for most cultures. And I say this as someone who had their treadputer setup featured on lifehacker 7 yea
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
And in a rational world it would be. It's P/E ratio is crazy low compared to Google and Amazon just in raw terms. But the market is an irrational place, it only looks sane in aggregate and over longer time periods. The rational part of me s
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Exactly. If there is anything lacking in grunt for what they want they should contribute changes back. A wheel re-invention plus big-bang "we'll not just replace, we'll make it totally awesome" is not a great move.
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Hacking the Papal Election(schneier.com)
5 points by cincinnatus 14y ago|1 comments
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
The cobbler's children have no shoes :-)
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Still, why not link to a page offset and just show what is current? Or include it with the current linking and automatically redirect? Pretty basic ux optimization.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Exciting. Something you are super glad you found.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Unfortunately I wasn't able to find it when I was posting, otherwise I would have. It was really cool. Difficult to search for and I can't recall exactly where it was any more. I don't have time to dig right now but you might want to have a
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
It is always as Twain said, "Sorry for the long letter, I didn't have time to write a short one." The essential advice of all writing: the simplest word choice, the fewest words, is doubly true for technical documentation. Unfortunately onl
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
A bit of time making this more concise and cleaning up the language would go a long way when you get the time. Clarity above all other virtues for documentation, goes doubly for meta-documentation.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
We have some things to look at that give us clues. So-called 'genetic' programming/evolutionary computing gives us results that were not designed. It seems likely to me that true machine intelligence would recognize the value of iteratively
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
HFT is an abomination. Anything that will curtail it is good in my book.
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by cincinnatus 14y ago
Sounds like a list of C# benefits. In 2004.

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