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by crpatino 9y ago
You are missing the DoItYourself part. I am aware consumer electronics have lots of interesting sensors. The issue is, can a reasonably intelligent person with hand tools and standard parts from the hardware store build one?
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by crpatino 9y ago
Right, I was about to make the exact same comment (in much less charitable terms). I do not think we are anywhere close to a DIY subatomic particle detector, but a kit that would allow you to, let's say... test for common minerals in
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by crpatino 10y ago
This is correct if you live in the US, where interest rates are artificially low. If you try to live like that in a country with double digit mortage rates, and credit card rates in the ballpark of 30% for people with an established good re
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by crpatino 10y ago
Agreed. The issue we seem to forget when discussing these issues is that there will always be a bottom income quintile, and that it will always be populated by a full fifth of the population (not the few deviant outlayers they make it out t
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by crpatino 10y ago
A broken clock says the right time twice a day. The whole point is when .
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by crpatino 10y ago
Could you elaborate? What specific concerns you disagree with? What are the importation issues that, in your opinion, FOSS advocates fail to take into account?
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by crpatino 10y ago
The argument applies just as well to each member of society. Imagine the savings in law enforcement if every one of us just followed the rules all the time!!!
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by crpatino 10y ago
> If you can train yourself to put the constant first, you can train yourself to use the right operator. Right... that's assuming you work solo. In that case, you might as well be using some higher level language and sidestep the wh
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by crpatino 10y ago
Ok, this explains a lot. What you are seeing is people taking specific C codying styles into other languages. This is a cargo-cult style and probably in detriment of your code base. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense in a C code base
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by crpatino 10y ago
I would upvote you twice if I could. The anti-science crowd and not idiots, but rather moderately intelligent individuals that go bersek after catching the Science spokeperson's oversimplifications and/or white lies. Fool me once
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by crpatino 10y ago
Of course I do not have inside information, but if I had to guess... Trump basically stumbled on this untapped political bounty more or less by chance, but he has smart enough to recognize its value and design a political persona that would
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by crpatino 10y ago
pretty much, yes. i'm still to see any complainer grown an adecuate amount of facial hair, though. (incompetently) reinventing some bad idea from before you were born does not cut it, you know?
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by crpatino 10y ago
Probably not, but don't worry. Our ability to destroy the world is greatly exagerated. I don't think we will even manage to get ourselves extinct, though a great deal of needless suffering is pretty much innevitable at this point.
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by crpatino 10y ago
As already noted in other sibling comments, the Netherlands is famous for having lots of territory under current sea level. According to Wikipedia, roughly half of its territory is 1 meter above sea level or lower. Two more facts from the
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by crpatino 10y ago
I don't know if you are trolling, but I will bite. You know the Netherlands will be literally underwater within this century, don't you?
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by crpatino 10y ago
You are right, but that should be taken with a grain of salt. Most preindustrial work was agricultural, and therefore heavily tied to the seasonal cycles of the year. While your comment is factually correct, it conveys the wrong image to th
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by crpatino 10y ago
Not sure what you meant, but I think an appropriate answer would be: for fun and profit. It is a bit like saying, why go climbing the mount Everest if lots of people have already done so. Indeed, why trying to do stuff nobody else have done
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by crpatino 10y ago
Because I would not be writing a new story about Tinkerbell, I would be trying to convey the idea that Hydrogen is "tiny and hot tempered", just like Tinkerbell, while Helium is "quite small, but not as tiny as Hydrogen, and
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by crpatino 10y ago
More or less off-topic question. How to not get sued by overzealous copyrights holders? I have an idea for an informal Chemistry 101 notebook. I might end up making comparissons between cartoon characters and periodic table elements: Hydrog
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is more complex than that. It is obvious to you that apples cannot bring any pests. Last time I checked you were an IT professional, not an epidemiologist; so please forgive me if I am skeptical of you abilities to judge whether the asse
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is not silly. People carry necesities of life while traveling, but there have been deadly plages since there has been long distance traveling too. It is imposible to know in advance everything any traveler might have on their person at t
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by crpatino 10y ago
You make it sound like the entrails of the fish do not have anything to tell you...
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by crpatino 10y ago
With stakes that high, you can always put an explosive payload on the eagle.
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by crpatino 10y ago
The more I think about it, the more I think this is a bluf to push drone designers to overengineer their devices. Eagles are not scalable, but it is way simpler to train a handful of them as a proof of concept than to eagle-proof existing d
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by crpatino 10y ago
> Telling people that they cannot 1) have their records management system and 2) have internet access on their computer is simply unrealistic. I bet 100 years ago it was considered unrealistic to tell white collar employees that they cou
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is probably a bad idea to try to fool a federal agent with "false home screens"... but I upvoted nonetheless because of the "No Facebook" part. A feature I really would want to see from social media is read-only, time
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by crpatino 10y ago
The people that voted for Trump get to gain a bunch of thankless, low-pay jobs that will no longer be allocated to illegal aliens. There might be bigger fishes to fry, but given that they never get invited when salmon is on the menu, they a
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by crpatino 10y ago
In my current job, I have to deal with once certain 10x programmer with... how to put it charitably... some distinct lack of social graces. He's better than everybody else but not 10x better, also, he does not make everyone 10x dumber,
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by crpatino 10y ago
There's room for exactly one hyper inflated ego in the Linux kernel development team. If you are not Linus, you are 25 years late.
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by crpatino 10y ago
If your head count is 5 or less, one brillian jerk (BJ) can carry the team on his shoulders. If BJ's a 10x programmer, and the other option is to hire a brillian and nice (BN) who's merelly an 8x programmer, you are better off wit

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