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by cjensen 8y ago
Just to emphasize this: the southern San Joaquin valley drains to the ocean only during extreme El Niño events. So basically there is no water left to be captured there. The only water left is north of Sacramento, and is needed to keep the
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by cjensen 8y ago
Yes. They are not as useful as you might hope since California's dry season lasts six months, so they will go empty when you need them the most.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Sure. But the issue is professional gardeners -- including those who just have a pickup truck and and a few dozen clients. It's not just "handle a job on a full charge" since they need to work all day. The Stihl backpack batt
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by cjensen 8y ago
Like many, I pass the Tesla plant on my way to work. When Model 3 shipping was underway, their output lot was full and car carriers were constantly loading. I noticed a change (which may have been there awhile without me noticing) a few day
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by cjensen 8y ago
Do people read "The Mythical Man-Month" anymore? The answer to questions like these are part of the book. First, there is no "Silver Bullet" which makes software development easy. Second, adding a layer of additional eff
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by cjensen 8y ago
Correct! You must contact your city to deal with it, though if you are just relocating it by a few feet no one is really going to complain. And really, why not let the city accept any liability for any damage if they are willing to?
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by cjensen 8y ago
Right. But that's a city issue. Private businesses can't have legal stuff removed from public city sidewalks just because they don't like it. In this case, the city of San Diego has chosen to not regulate this issue. Contrast
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by cjensen 8y ago
I wasn't the one who actually got sued. He had to deal with the mountain of nonsense, not me
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by cjensen 8y ago
Just to really emphasize this... Internet Brands literally sued one of the volunteer admins for this[1]. Please use Wikivoyage instead! [1] Disclosure: As an admin, I may or may not have been one of the "unnamed co-conspirators" i
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by cjensen 8y ago
Traffic lights were a concern for Y2K... but it turns out that in the real world, traffic lights just need a day-of-week so they continue to work fine.
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by cjensen 8y ago
That's a really excellent location. Diridion Station has good transit connections all the way to SF (Caltrain) and Richmond (Capitol Corridor) [1] in the north, Gilroy (Caltrain) in the south, and Stockton (ACE) in the east. It's
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by cjensen 8y ago
My projects take 10 minutes to build on a modern system, which is plenty complicated enough. Don't appreciate the "good for you" flippancy.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Just to address part of your concern: Traditionally disk speed makes very little difference to compile times for real world C/C++ projects. This is because real world projects have many files, and each one can be compiled in parallel.
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by cjensen 8y ago
I pay for news, but not all news. It's hard to discuss an article that isn't available to a reasonable number of people.
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by cjensen 8y ago
That would be "Chromium and SQLite", which is a combination that makes sense. "Or" doesn't make sense.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Yeah, that's obvious nonsense. Merely using SQLite in your app does not open a port. How, exactly, are you going to be "vulnerable to remote code execution" when you don't use any network connections? And the phrase &quo
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by cjensen 8y ago
UCLA can't walk out and Elsivier knows it. A University which lacks a library containing the currently published scholarship is going to have a really tough time attracting PhD students. How are they supposed to cite relevant work with
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by cjensen 8y ago
Right. They don't have the same level of commitment from the US government. SIPC is like Fannie Mae, where the US implies a backing without making a promise. When push comes to shove the US Government gets to choose whether to do a bai
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by cjensen 8y ago
The FDIC is part of the government and the government owns a printing press. You WILL get your money back. No private insurance company can provide such guarantees and keep then if the entire sector needs to be bailed out at the same time.
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by cjensen 8y ago
California has controlled burns. Fire barriers and escape routes do need to be improved, but not sure that mattered given the wind in this particular incident. Also thanks, I liked that article describing blocking, but it didn't tie
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by cjensen 8y ago
Your reference is for Napa. The reference for Paradise from the same site[1] shows rain in May and October, as I mentioned. SST anomalies, like all anomalies, cannot be interpreted without first understanding the distribution of anomalies.
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by cjensen 8y ago
> The Camp fire happened because we received precisely zero inches of precipitation from the beginning of April, to the end of November this year It rained in May and October. It is not helpful to your argument that you are expressing
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by cjensen 8y ago
This would be a good opportunity for Apple to draw a line in the sand. They can afford to lose Australia, so they should just stop selling there. Better to battle now rather than waiting for a bigger fight.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Just as an aside, there is this sentence in the article: "On the peninsula, where larger companies tend to be located, you see a lot of Java developers. In San Francisco, where startups dominate, you see more JavaScript." None o
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by cjensen 8y ago
High framerate is very helpful for sports... and the 2020 Summer Olympics is in Tokyo.
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You realize the CEO and COO of Enron went to jail, right? Technically, it was the FBI, but still.
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by cjensen 8y ago
First, that's inherently non-portable. That aside... On most systems, the null pointer happens to be a pointer to address zero. For other systems, e.g. 8086 16-bit mode, you can create a intptr_t (which is the same size as a pointer) a
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by cjensen 8y ago
Literal zero in a pointer context is interpreted by the compiler to mean "the null pointer." The compiler then compiles the null pointer into the code.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Prior to nullptr, generally I used literal 0. In those cases which require disambiguation, I used (void * ) 0.
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by cjensen 8y ago
So I immediately checked my favorite language gotcha, the macro NULL. The text is entirely wrong. The macro NULL is harmful in both C and C++. It is not "stylistic" AT ALL. Here's the problem with the macro: the macro NULL ca

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