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by cjensen 7y ago
Tall glass buildings have a unique bird-window-suicide problem in that birds often migrate at moderate altitudes at night.
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by cjensen 7y ago
They produce solar and non-solar tiles. The "non-solar" are tiles which match the aesthetic, but don't collect energy.
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by cjensen 7y ago
The second example did... but not all colorblindness is equal. What you want is something readable by as many people as possible. The goal is not to make the most people happiest.
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by cjensen 7y ago
The very first example is wrong. It tries to debunk a WCAG standard for text contrast using a survey of normal people. The point of the WCAG standard is to accommodate non-normal people, so any survey of normals is entirely meaningless to t
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by cjensen 7y ago
You're correct but... the effect cushioning the brain is insufficient to withstand the rapid deceleration of a car accident. It would be hard to imagine a mass driver with low enough force that a human could live through it.
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by cjensen 7y ago
Yep, that's the TASCAM [1] audio connector which is DB-25 and super common in the audio world. Traditional audio uses AES [2] using either XLR or BNC connectors and only carries two audio channels. The TASCAM cable carries far more cha
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by cjensen 7y ago
THC should not be used during pregnancy. The longer version: there is evidence of a pathway for THC to be harmful during pregnancy. Much more study is needed. In the meantime, since THC is not needed during pregnancy, the risks clearly outw
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by cjensen 7y ago
Couldn't this be solved if Apple sent encrypted requests to their own proxy server to hide where the requests are coming from?
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by cjensen 7y ago
He may be right. The law about copyright notices changed on 1978 Jan 1 [1], so if Wirth's compiler predated the change to US law... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976
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by cjensen 7y ago
Yep. If you look carefully at a most starfish, you can see that they are bilaterally symmetric. For example, when there are five legs, if you mentally halve the animal along a leg, only one of the five legs results in both sides matching.
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Maps compare BART’s footprint to other major transit systems around the world(sfgate.com)
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by cjensen 7y ago
The article states that they stopped as soon as conditions turned dangerous. This is a very common outcome by the Fremont Police Department. Worth noting also that criminals know about the rules... which one might speculate gives them an in
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by cjensen 7y ago
Both were mentioned, you just missed it :-)
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by cjensen 7y ago
The cynic and me sees this as a win... for the prison guards union. It seems to me that whether public or private, prisons should have good, independent oversight. Pretending that the "profit motive" is the biggest issue overlooks
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by cjensen 7y ago
The whole point of civil disobedience is to intentionally commit a non-violent and non-destructive crime. If there is no crime, in the US it's just a lawful protest as permitted by the First Amendment.
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by cjensen 7y ago
You guys are going to make me cry again that C++ rejected using underscores in favor of... single-quote. O_o
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by cjensen 7y ago
The USB-C Standard explicitly forbids use of USB-anything to USB-C adapters. Buy a USB-C to USB-other cable instead of trying to light your computer on fire. The reason it is forbidden is because using two adapters you can convert a USB-C c
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by cjensen 7y ago
You say that you search for info and Stack Overflow usually gets you the best answer. That's fair. That's your legit experience. My experience is very different. I'd guess 50% of the time if I get a Stack Overflow result I cl
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by cjensen 7y ago
Your points about logging with care saving more cycles that logging efficiently is very right. That said, here's how I've handled efficient logging in realtime threads since the old days of 100MHz processors: postpone the formatti
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by cjensen 7y ago
Used Nissan Leafs are unusually cheap. Generally around $12-14K from Carmax. Yes the battery is already a bit worn out, but the price cut is very worth it.
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by cjensen 7y ago
Are we just going to ignore the fact that hydrogen cars exist now in California, they work, the fuel is affordable, and the efficiency is fine? Hydrogen is useful as a solve for the energy storage problem in green energy. For example, exces
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by cjensen 7y ago
Perhaps. There's two problems: (1) The current system in the West is rights based. First person to make productive use of water gets the right to use that water forever. It's an odd system, but it's basically land-ownership f
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by cjensen 7y ago
Desalinated water is expensive compared to "free" water. At current prices for desalinated water and for produce, you cannot profitably run a farm using desalinated water. Currently, desalinated water is used in the US only in urb
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by cjensen 7y ago
That's close to literally impossible. There was an absurd plan to place a dam between Richmond and San Rafael[1]. When it was finally studied, there were two fatal problems with the plan. (1) There is not enough water in Summer, to kee
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by cjensen 7y ago
Not really. On a CRT monitor, the odd lines fade before the even lines begin lighting up, and they are on different physical locations on the monitor. Recombination of the two images to improve resolution occurs entirely in the human vision
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by cjensen 7y ago
I think this piece is misguided. Some background: as a kid, my family boated on the SF Bay. I can remember when cormorants were rare on the bay. There were no porpoises or dolphins in the bay. It was rare for a whale to enter the bay. There
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by cjensen 7y ago
Not quite correct. You are not allowed to yell fire in a movie theater if there is no fire and the yell is likely to cause imminent harm. It's a "myth" only in the sense that this simple rule (can't use speech to cause p
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by cjensen 7y ago
Yep, that is a good point about the limitations. Point I was making is there is no wholesale property right, but you make an important note.
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by cjensen 7y ago
Your comment is almost entirely wrong. "Fire in a crowded theater" is trope which means the First Amendment does not protect speech that is very likely going to cause imminent harm. It has nothing whatsoever to do with property ri
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by cjensen 7y ago
Yosemite has always had tourists doing the things you mention. Like you say, it's horrible. The focus on "influencers" in this article is contrived; the issue is that some people behave in baffling ways in nature parks.

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