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by crikli 10y ago
One thing I didn't point out in my answer about why hex wouldn't work is that a single pivot does not to irrigate an entire section of land (a section is 1 square mile) [1]. Some pivots will irrigate a quarter of a section, but ev
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by crikli 10y ago
Good question. That would be fairly (ok, wildly) impractical. Most of the roads are gravel, which means that maintenance would be a nightmare. Road graders aren't great at keeping the blade level on turns. So you'd get buildup&#
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by crikli 10y ago
Same shit here. Didn't realize Google voice was the compromised source.
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by crikli 10y ago
Same here. And it occurred to me last evening that I'll not be subjected to endless political ads during this most bizarre of election cycles. That's worth more than any financial savings.
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by crikli 10y ago
Everyone wants the future to win, even if they can't articulate what the hell that means, but who wants to disagree with it, because it sounds really cool, and nobody wants to not be cool. It's easy to take this glowing 10,000 foo
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by crikli 10y ago
Print working directory?
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by crikli 10y ago
Lactic acid buildup does not have the relationship to fatigue that you are implying. Common myth. For more and in from far more knowledgeable persons than me: http://www.scienceofultra.com/podcasts/10
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by crikli 10y ago
Conversely I don't have a CS degree and I take a rather cynical view of candidates who have do. Perhaps I've created a self perpetuating outsiders club at my company. :) In all seriousness, though, it's because the CS majors
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by crikli 10y ago
Someone in a similar HN thread once recommended the book "Hiring With Your Head" and then sorta did a mic drop. I must do the same. Buy the book and implement it. It directly deals with so many issues mentioned here (great dev b
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by crikli 10y ago
This whole thing is just a few chained together straw men. Libertarians do not say "people should keep their money because they worked hard for it." They say that "people should keep their money." No qualifier. Liberta
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by crikli 10y ago
"It may not all be 'horsecrap'" It's probably not. Bitterness creeps in far too easily and my words became caustic.
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by crikli 10y ago
You see a lot of paper debris in the air that looks similar to the striated but crumbly paper in the OP video. You make a good point and I think it's both things, actually. 1) The bonds in the paper fracture 2) The elastic energy in
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by crikli 10y ago
Same "explosion" happens when he crushes a book with the press. Wrecks a camera. "Mayhem" as he says: https://youtu.be/PmvKlnhMjUw?t=1m55s
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by crikli 10y ago
Dad had adopted a (basically) ketogenic diet. He wasn't obsessively strict about it, he'd cheat, but he did a pretty good job of avoiding cheap complex carbs like bread/pasta. In all honesty, I'm pretty touchy about alt
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by crikli 10y ago
It sure as hell doesn't work with lung cancer. My dad had been sugar free for almost a decade prior to his diagnosis of small cell adenocarcinoma. He lasted almost a year.
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by crikli 10y ago
The VSI (vertical speed indicator) is the "freefall indicator" of which you speak. :) The problem is that when there's the pitot-static failure the VSI (generally) indicates by "sticking" wherever it was when the fa
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by crikli 10y ago
Yes,it does. The problem is that the pilots didn't know that they were in stall because of conflicting readings from their instrumentation due to a failure in the pitot-static system. Pitot-static runs airspeed/altimeter/ve
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by crikli 10y ago
The body resets its metabolism to survive on less food IFF you're burning enormous amounts of kcals daily while on an extremely restricted diet, as these subjects were. "His routine went like this: Wake up at 5 a.m. and run on a t
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by crikli 10y ago
You're close on the four rules. :) 1. Every firearm is loaded. 2. Don't point it at anything you don't want to destroy. 3. Trigger finger stays indexed until sights are engaged with target. 4. Know your backstop. I can't
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by crikli 10y ago
It wasn't just that. Ultimately I decided that there were more effective 2A organizations that I preferred to support.
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by crikli 10y ago
I'm an engineer, gun owner, and former NRA member[1]. I hate the idea of smart guns, but politics are a distant secondary concern. Firearms fail all the time, even the simple reliable ones. Bad primers, failure to eject, failure to cy
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by crikli 10y ago
I've said in other threads that Marissa is the highest profile example of this principle.
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by crikli 11y ago
Yeah, fuck Gawker (and Deadspin too, for that matter) but if this means the death of Jalopnik that's going to free up at least an hour of my day. :(
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by crikli 11y ago
Trying to think how I'd want this handled if you and this fellow were one of my employees... First, I'd want you to tell me about the issue (if I wasn't aware of it already). Have you told your boss? What was his reaction?
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by crikli 11y ago
Bill Belichick and Jim Harbaugh inspire absolute confidence in their players. The teams buys in 100%. Subsequently you hear a lot of the "run through walls/gates of hell" sentiment from men they coach. Conversely Marissa ha
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by crikli 11y ago
"I was destined to become CEO from CTO but decided COO and second in command is the best position for me." I have a very good friend made exactly the same call. He just didn't feel he had the people skills to be the head guy
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by crikli 11y ago
Mayer is a prime example of what happens when someone whose career should have peaked at COO becomes CEO. You see it all the time in sports when guys who are brilliant technical coordinators get moved to head coach and subsequently flounde
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by crikli 11y ago
Agreed regarding Carlin's storytelling ability. I tried to get into The History of Rome podcast after Blueprint for Armageddon and just couldn't engage. Got spoiled by Dan. I too was disappointed in the speed with which the last
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by crikli 11y ago
If you've not listened to Dan Carlin's 6-part series on the Great War, take the time to do so. The "whys" and "hows" of World War I are much harder to get your head around than WWII...it's just much less
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by crikli 11y ago
Sorta apropos: if you have not read The Bees give it a look, even if you're not one for fiction. This "group hug" is part of a key scene and other bee social behaviors make for a unique and fascinating novel. http:/&#

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