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by cr0sh 7y ago
Regarding your note on people in rural areas: Many of our ground-based missile silos are "in rural areas" - a good portion of the midwest would be reduced to a no-go zone for a long time.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
How does a fail-deadly deterrent factor in? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand Supposedly this is real - and likely still in operation.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
For video editing, quite a few: https://www.lifewire.com/best-linux-video-editors-4176979 Openshot and Kdenlive I'm familiar with (I've used the first in an earlier version, and the latter I know by the name, but
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by cr0sh 7y ago
It wasn't just wallpaper - virtually anything that was green in that period was done with arsenic. There was also this tragedy (arsenic included among others): https://www.racked.com/2018/3/29/17156818&#x
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Better question - where did they get a datasheet? Ok - I haven't read the article - maybe they're talking about some processor where the manufacturer actually provides a datasheet. Most companies do. I think even AMD does; I know
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I can't imagine the ICE ever going completely away, simply because there are certain uses of it, especially in 1st world developed countries, where electric probably won't ever be able to substitute for it. It basically comes down
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I've become convinced that density really is the answer to building a more humane way of living. Counterpoint?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> There's almost no place in this country where you can live without a car. There's almost no place in this country -that is affordable- where you can live without a car. That's the real problem. Sure - there's NY or
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The detail about changing gears is glossed over, there is that big stack of what look like sprockets so it is assumed that changing gear is possible, but, get to the bottom of the article, and it isn't. Actually, it's not - t
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm curious as to how you would drive both rear wheels with a single central shaft? Both sides would rotate in opposite directions; I can't find a good example to illustrate what I am saying, unfortunately. I trust you understand
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I think they mean the gear (cassette) on the wheel - not the one up at the pedals; there wouldn't be a way to "enclose" that end. Instead, though - flex might be able to be eliminated by making the "hub" larger, so
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by cr0sh 7y ago
From my understanding, and I may be wrong, the reason why systemd is..."controversial"...had mainly to do with the heavy-handed way it was incorporated. It was almost like it appeared out of nowhere, written by one person who &quo
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm 46 and still employed as an SWE - got my current position 3 years ago. The key is to not let your skills stagnate, and to always be playing with something new - even stuff that you may not think you'll use in your career. For
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I had one great interview once that worked out very well; it's only downside was the length of time it took. I went to the interview, did a sit-down back-and-forth in-person discussion about my past work and resume; the usual. No white
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Fields where you have to show something We could have this for our field - and to a certain extent we already do, at least via a github repo. Only problem is, nobody seems to look at them. People have mentioned that SWEs should have a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I know a lot of people have to say no these days since they just have a MBP running OS X. That's where the person who knows how to set up a VirtualBox VM running Windows and VS would have a large advantage; when they brought in th
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> for someone who doesn't develop software at home. Are you saying in general - or just for Windows-based software (since you mentioned needing to set up Visual Studio)? The latter I can understand; but the former makes me want to a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Caution about "switching to ubiquity" - not that their product is bad or anything, but they take configuration of their stuff up several notches if you go with their commercial stuff (not sure about the home stuff). I had consider
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Nothing's going to get thru a black industrial sharpie; if that doesn't work, though, black fingernail polish, or if you don't mind the expense - black Testor's acrylic paint - will do the job.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> That is just wrong. I suppose it depends on what you mean by "wrong"? For instance, it's perfectly legal to record inside your house - visibly or not - provided it's not in an area or place where the user would expe
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Security cameras also don't always look like security cameras...but most (especially Nest devices) do. However, if I was trying to find out some kind of nefarious activity within my home, I wouldn't put up an obvious security came
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Got the skills to build your own stuff (sensors, etc)? Plenty of examples out there - plenty of instructables and other tutorial-like information to build these items. For a camera - cheapest kit that I know of currently is what is called a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm a bit older than OP - just recently turned 46. I've been a software engineer (professionally) since I was 18 years old when I was first hired by a small mom-n-pop shop. One would think I could simply plop my resume down, do an
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I've heard that German luxury cars (what we consider them here in the USA) are more like what we think of Fords here; so common and normal, considered affordable. Or maybe just not "high end" due to being common? Again, thoug
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by cr0sh 7y ago
FE'ers likely have interests in those areas, too; after all, you can't have a conspiracy unless you have a "they" to rail against...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
>I love the idea of visible RAM. Have you ever heard of the old game "Core War"? You might enjoy it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Plastic as such is quite a inert material. Certain plastics are used for implants - there must be a good reason for it? Bioreactivity, rejection, degradation? Those and other reasons might be a concern to be thought about in regards to
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> democratically elected. If this were true, he wouldn't be POTUS. At best, you could say he was "elected according to the rules, procedures and processes of our democratic republic form of government, as defined by our Constit
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Come on this guy is the president of the US people need to stop calling him ignorant and dumb just because they don't like aspects of his persona (racist/greedy/cunning/divisive). I don't consider him ignorant
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> What is happening, right now, is literally what happened in the Great Depression (with the concurrent reemergence of nationalism) and is what led to two back-to-back world wars Note: I understand that "yield curve inversion"

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