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by cjensen 12y ago
San Francisco has homeless shelters and a program to get transients into permanent housing. The homeless who need showers are the ones who refuse the program.
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by cjensen 12y ago
TCP deals with congestion and bandwidth allocation automatically. Decades of algorithms work in your favor if you use TCP. A single missing packet will seriously mess up your video stream. Remember that long sequences of movie pictures are
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by cjensen 12y ago
Is there a reason why they don't have a map for static strings, and use an array for regexs?
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by cjensen 12y ago
An anti-virus vendor really wishes Apple would let them sell software to Apple's customers. Of course, they'll need Apple to first remove the sandboxing requirement so they can snoop on other apps. Conveniently, that will open up
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by cjensen 12y ago
The context was a CEO in front of multiple reporters. A CEO's words always matter; when spouted in front of reporters, there are no do-overs.
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by cjensen 12y ago
The mission was not a success: it did not meet their minimum goal of one week. Failure happens and is nothing to be ashamed of when trying for such an ambitious goal. ESA needs to own it and move on.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Guy is confused. New documents which are not explicitly saved to the local filesystem were already stored to iCloud on Mavericks.
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by cjensen 12y ago
I assume it's to avoid the weight of all the other gases, but it's a great question that I'd love to see an answer for.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Nice idea, but what about the Elephant in the Room? How do you eliminate the buildup of salt in the soil which can ruin the farmland?
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by cjensen 12y ago
Why not use USB-3 storage?
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by cjensen 12y ago
Perhaps it is just that modern CPUs are powerful enough that even the low-end ones are now Good Enough for most people. There have always been cheaper CPUs available; Apple just avoided them in favor of a better experience.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Yes, that's long been the obvious stupidity in Apple's Mac line: the lack of a mini-tower. Mini-towers let you stick in a full power desktop CPU and as much disk space as you want. Moreover, they dropped the expandable Mac Pro in
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by cjensen 12y ago
Settling just means that PG&E did a risk analysis on how they thought a jury might respond. Yes, the Chromium was high, but high-Chromium combined with a cancer cluster is still just a reasonable outcome from random probability.
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by cjensen 12y ago
No worries. My point is really to say, "what kind of sample size do you have in mind"? In this instance, the sample size seems to be everyone in a particular region who has played soccer. That's just too vague, in my opinion,
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by cjensen 12y ago
"If an area get's 10% more cancer than expected but twice the breast cancer then there is probably a local cause." That is incorrect: deviation percentage is meaningless without a sample size. In a group of 100 people, twi
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by cjensen 12y ago
Griffin is, perhaps without intending to, doing exactly what you hope she isn't: she's making a list of goalies in the US who have cancer. Who else is going to contact her to get their name on the list? The act of collecting a lis
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by cjensen 12y ago
Sure sounds like the Clustering Illusion[1] to me. Just another Erin Brockovich-style failure[2] to understand statistics. [1] http://www.skepdic.com/clustering.html [2] http://www.slate.com/articles/he
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by cjensen 12y ago
That's interesting, but I'm pretty sure a physical dollar bill is more useful. A physical dollar can be used to make purchase stuff locally without a computer, and is easily accepted for a sale. In the example given in the article
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by cjensen 12y ago
NASA had a "go cheap" program to try crazy stuff on a shoestring that just might work. There were good results like Pathfinder ($150M) which tried the crazy idea of landing using an airbag. The problem is that the Powers That Be w
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by cjensen 12y ago
We have an enormous cushion and can survive multiple drought years. The current water restrictions are just mild precautions against the chance that this will be a multi-year drought. Right now we are at the "please let your lawns get
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by cjensen 12y ago
There is a time and a place for banging the Free Software drum and pointing out the deficiencies in proprietary software. This is not the time. The statement is incredibly tone-deaf.
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by cjensen 12y ago
I'm talking about the "endurance" spec. Because Flash Memory can only be erased a finite number of times[1], SSD manufacturers specify the drive's endurance -- defined as the number of bytes which can be written to the S
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by cjensen 12y ago
After a few hundred drives, our anecdata is that failure over time on SSDs is generally related to drive endurance. Make sure you use a SMART utility which can read (and translate to English) the current net usage of the drive. Throw them a
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by cjensen 12y ago
You can't sell the app without the license! So update rate doesn't matter.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Yep. Only the really-expensive commercial license comes with a permanent license. We used to have one. It's such a pain in the neck to have to jump through hoops and deal with salespeople for every very-expensive renewal that we stoppe
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by cjensen 12y ago
My pet peeve: when you opt out, they say "please stand right next the machine for a few minutes while we get somebody."
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by cjensen 12y ago
The Passenger Pigeon lived in an environment where flocks were found everywhere. An individual pigeon could safely "wander off" and find a new flock. Once the population level descended below a critical level, the species was doom
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by cjensen 12y ago
I consider it "stomping" because the law says the remains belong to the tribes. I'm not fond of that law, but it is clear about who pre-Columbian remains belongs to. I'm very surprised the scientists got any access.
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by cjensen 12y ago
The article might lead you to think the Corps was the only one in favor of turning over the remains. That's just not true. The Corp had bi-partisan support in Congress for their actions.
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by cjensen 12y ago
The legal info in the article was not news to me. The litigation is pretty old news; the ethical implications are well-trodden ground. "Ambivalent" means I see both sides; it does not mean I completely agree with Native American s

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