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by cjensen 9y ago
The article asserts there is a "drought" because Earthquakes on certain faults haven't occurred in the last N years. But the article fails to even suggest a frequency of expected occurrence which would lead to such a conclusi
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by cjensen 9y ago
That's not what he's saying. He's saying a stream of data from a server rather than directly from sensors.
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by cjensen 9y ago
In the US, there are laws that invalidate evidence gathered by the government through illegal means. This simply does not apply to private entities.
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by cjensen 9y ago
Wow. The first sentence is so wrong I can't even. Venezuela's problems are entirely self-inflicted. US sanctions have very little effect on the worth of their money. Spending vastly more than they make, in part because of their in
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FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets(faa.gov)
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by cjensen 9y ago
Yes. It's abuse because Uber presumably have a lot of bikes they would like to inject into the system. Every bike displaces one available parking spot. Suppose there's a small town with one bike lot at the library. Everyone keeps
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by cjensen 9y ago
Abusing public bike racks to hold private rental inventory. The best bike shares build and operate their own racks with permission from the city. Others allow leaving the bike in any location. It figures Uber would attempt to get the benefi
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by cjensen 9y ago
The "hack" in question involves replacing the hard drive. This isn't an embedded issue. This is a physical access to OS issue.
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by cjensen 9y ago
Pretty much. The sidebar references Wikipedia's List of brightest stars [1]. That table has the distance from Earth to the Sun in lightyears. So maybe a parsing problem with 0.000015813. On the January 21st this was changed from 0.000&
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by cjensen 9y ago
Can you elaborate on why you think the route is drawn for "political gains"? I ask because the route makes sense to me geographically given that the initial useful core route is SJC/LAX.
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by cjensen 9y ago
It's kinda important to build with less flamable materials whenever possible.
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by cjensen 9y ago
It's not that simple. You can't go around firing your lawyers every time you feel like it and causing trial delays and mistrials. The state has a right to try you, and you cannot avoid that through shenanigans. Client had already
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by cjensen 9y ago
Determining that something is overvalued is vastly easier than determining when the overvaluation ends. I was one of those who saw the housing bubble for what it was in 2003. Among people who saw it, the causes of the bubble and the bubble
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by cjensen 9y ago
No. In the US the top speed is 20mph [1]. The author's bike is not street legal. It's classified as a motorcycle under US and Arizona law. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws#United_S...
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by cjensen 9y ago
Upthread at the moment there is a Samsung owner who does have shutdowns from battery problems. Part of it has to do with how the battery has been treated. Wild swings in charge daily cause damage. Hot temperatures cause damage. I'd gue
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by cjensen 9y ago
There was a proposal for a super/inherited keyword in C++. It was immediately killed when Michael Tiemann demonstrated this technique of adding it manually via typedef in the base class. As others have pointed out, putting the keyword
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by cjensen 9y ago
If one's adherence to business practices are more important than one's marriage, then one's priorities are broken.
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by cjensen 9y ago
Prenups are fine. Many people view them as just contingency planning. This is about a POST-nup, which makes no sense to me. The husband is either being an idiot who listens to idiot advice, or the husband is planning on leaving her. Either
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by cjensen 9y ago
Capacity is not power. Old batteries produce less power (volts times amps) no matter how full they are.
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by cjensen 9y ago
All modern batteries degrade past the point of usefulness. It doesn't matter how big the battery is if you leave it in the Sun long enough it will die. The question is, "what then?" Many people are reasonably asking that they
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by cjensen 9y ago
My 2008 MacBook Pro has a removable battery. Apple documents that without the battery (i.e. on AC Power) the CPU is underclocked because there is not enough power available. So it wouldn't be unprecedented. And I wouldn't be surpr
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by cjensen 9y ago
"A run-flat tire is a pneumatic vehicle tire that is designed to resist the effects of deflation when punctured, and to enable the vehicle to continue to be driven at reduced speeds " [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by cjensen 9y ago
Apple will replace the battery for $79 [1]. When you consider the cost for a battery, the labor for replacement, the confidence that this is not a junk replacement, and the warranty for the service, that's a very reasonable price. Ther
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by cjensen 9y ago
Yep. Normally they prefer the side route. I'm sure if traffic is bad on the side route they will adapt and take the sensible route instead.
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by cjensen 9y ago
Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Bing Maps will all try to murder you if you ask for directions from Santa Maria, CA to Ventura, CA. The obvious route is to follow the freeway that was built on the best route between the two cities. Instead, al
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by cjensen 9y ago
It tastes exactly the same as non-iodized salt and has no downsides. Yes you should be eating it.
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by cjensen 9y ago
It's a Bombardier[1] which are the most common Coach used in California. It's MUCH tighter than it looks in those photos. For example, at the table seats it does not fit two laptops entirely on the table at the facing seats. It&#
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by cjensen 9y ago
Why not both?
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by cjensen 9y ago
At least 20% of those languages have macros (the three C-derived languages and Assembly). You don't need to have a pre-processor to have macros. Some of those languages, like Python and C#, have advanced features which eliminate much o
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by cjensen 9y ago
If you're going to write a long lecture to people, it's helpful to do some Googling to fact-check your own understanding. The claim that macros do not exist in other languages is incorrect. Every sensible assembly language compile

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