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by ckarmann 9y ago
I had to debug my home this summer and I think it makes a good story. I have been renting this appartment on the ground floor for one year, and for environmental and economical reasons, I decided to try to reduce my electricity bill, which
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by ckarmann 9y ago
Scaling is like optimization in general: not everything will need to be able to scale, and even if they will, they often do not need to scale yet.
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by ckarmann 9y ago
Twitter
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Measuring coffee with raspberry pi, a usb scale and python(jamesralexander.com)
3 points by ckarmann 9y ago|0 comments
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by ckarmann 9y ago
I'm starting to think this black bar was a bad idea. All it gives is fruitless discussions like this one on the merit of a person to be awarded the black bar upon their death, like if it was a trophy or a medal of accomplishment. I thi
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by ckarmann 9y ago
No, because at the same time, starvation is decreasing even though population is increasing. It's not a problem of too many people. You don't create a self-sustainable economy by destroying human capital.
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by ckarmann 9y ago
The purpose of species is to reproduce themselves. The purpose of programming languages is not to produce other languages but to write software. It seems Cobol served this purpose well at the time.
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by ckarmann 9y ago
That would not help to prevent illegitimate views like those generated by spambots.
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Scala vs. Kotlin(agilewombat.com)
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by ckarmann 9y ago
Four-course sounds grandiose but it's nothing more than a little carrot salad, a meal, a little piece of cheese and a yogurt (and some bread), that you get on your meal tray. No kid spend 90 minutes eating that; they rather spend their
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by ckarmann 9y ago
I think you are confusing shyness and introversion. Introversion is when you don't feel the urge to talk, to act unless it's important or valuable. Shyness is when you want to talk, you want to act, you want to introduce yourself
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by ckarmann 10y ago
What is interesting is that a bit more than a decade later, the US entered the "Era of Good Feelings" where bitter partisanship went down and people worked mostly together for the common good, at least on surface. Let's just
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by ckarmann 10y ago
Basic models with albedo and heat generated by the core shows that the Earth should be much colder than it is now. The greenhouse effect is studied since the 19th century and explain why the planet is not at freezing temperature all year ro
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by ckarmann 10y ago
Because it has nothing to do with what Obama did. Any country has the right to decide who they accept on their soil or not. But only authoritarians remove that right at the stroke of a pen without due process to those who have obtained it l
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by ckarmann 10y ago
I think only Congress can push Trump out of office before the end of his term. This will happen only if he gets extremely unpopular even with his base, or the Republicans will chicken out. Barring that, there are elections in two and four y
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by ckarmann 10y ago
Erdogan already said some stuff about removing Trump (just the name) from Istanbul in 2015 [1]. That said, Erdogan says a lot of things. [1] http://presstv.com/Detail/2016/06/25/472171/erdogan-trump-
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by ckarmann 10y ago
I think it's the other way around: the chips are producing heat constantly and you want that heat to dissipate as quickly as possible, so it's not the right place to put a thermal insulator.
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by ckarmann 10y ago
You would have to evacuate Mosul (1.7 million people) and probably also Baghdad (7 millions), all in a country thorn by war where refugee camps are already bursting with people. Plus of course the entity that control Mosul (ISIS) is not kee
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by ckarmann 10y ago
Any of it? Even in France, the tax rate is less than 100%. Hyperbole does not serve discussion.
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An Interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra (2010)(cacm.acm.org)
3 points by ckarmann 10y ago|0 comments
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by ckarmann 10y ago
Java enums are the one thing that I miss in other languages.
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by ckarmann 10y ago
When there's a couple of rogue employees I can understand. When there are millions of fraudulent accounts it starts to look like a policy or at least criminal neglicence. And there are also the companies that are convinced of fraud lik
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by ckarmann 10y ago
Well, if you love this kind of bug reports, please take a look at the one I filed a while ago :) https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/11724 Thanks!
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by ckarmann 10y ago
Cooking spray. Still oil but reduced to a very low quantity so it almost doesn't matter, while still being useful for a lot of things in the kitchen.
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by ckarmann 11y ago
Congratulations for pursuing your dreams! I also work at a big game company, not even on a game but on an internal technology: no player will ever see directly the result of my contribution. I still feel great about my work because of reaso
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by ckarmann 11y ago
If NK regime falls down, likely it's going to be South Korea who is going to get refugees and to clean up the mess, since their long-term objective is to unify Korea and only the NK regime is preventing that. The problem China does not
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by ckarmann 11y ago
For evolution, what is important is that you survive and have good health long enough to have offsprings. The vast majority of people, even in modern times, have their children before 50 years old (because women have this hard limit in thei
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by ckarmann 11y ago
What language has ever died after having been used by more than a handful of programmers?
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by ckarmann 11y ago
Yes, being tall, in good health, physically well-built and smart gives you, on average, more success in career and with members of the opposite sex. But does it give you more offspring, which is the important thing for evolution? In our tim
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by ckarmann 11y ago
For an amendment, you have three sections: the "+" section lists people having voted for the amendment, the "-" section lists people having voted against, the "0" section lists people having abstained Only

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