curlypaul924

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by curlypaul924 8y ago
Partner with someone who can keep up, like Amazon?
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
AFAICT it's impossible to get from _any_ vendors now. The XZ3 compact doesn't exist, and the only other phone I know of that has a comparable screen size is the Nokia 1, which as a phone isn't comparable at all. There are al
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
The XZ1 compact is only 5g heavier than the X compact. Does it really make that much of a difference? The XZ2 compact is quite a bit heavier. That would be great if the battery were larger, but it isn't (at least not by much).
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
That's not really being fair; Windows was created decades before Android (one decade if you only count NT). The security model is different, because it was created in a different computing era. I think the difference in API stability
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
What should new code be using instead?
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
I DD a car with a backup camera. It is the nav and entertainment stuff that I find distracting.
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
I suspect that backup cameras make the car less safe overall. The reason is that the image from a backup camera is displayed on a screen. Cars with backup cameras display information on the screen when the car is moving forward, which can
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
Cars with automatic transmissions (either planetary gear or dual-clutch) do often get better gas mileage than those with a traditional manual stick shift. The reason is not what some might think. Once, a manual transmission was considered
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
I've suspected for a while that the pharmaceutical companies are manipulating the drug pages on wikipedia. Often I'll come across a claim about a drug and then click on the reference, only to find that the reference says somethin
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
What if you had samples from multiple hard drives in the same room? Could they be combined to provide a better signal than a sample from a single drive alone?
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
It disappeared long before Google+, didn't it? But yeah, I want plus back too.
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
I'm confused. Are you suggesting that Fortran is a good environment for game development?
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
If that's the goal, then why write it in batch instead of BASIC?
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
I keep trying firefox mobile every few months, and it feels really sluggish on my phone compared to chrome. I really want to like it; firefox has for a decade been my browser of choice on the desktop because of add-on support (which unfortu
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
Advertising isn't fundamentally bad for privacy, otherwise newspapers and movies would be bad for privacy; it's targeted advertising (which requires keeping a profile for each user) that is fundamentally at odds with privacy.
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
I think $5/year feels about right for a low-traffic personal blog. I also think free makes sense, if the business model is to get people using the tool for personal projects, hoping they will recommend it at work.
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
Reminds me of: http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/index.html though this one is based on Fixedsys instead of VGA. I used VGA16 for years, until LCDs, subpixel rendering, and Unicode progra
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
This sounds a lot like the stale argument that dying can reduce CO2 emissions.
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
It's more like saying that you'd save fuel by running an equivalent ICE at home. You'd be unlikely to save money , because of economies of scale.
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
Are you taking into consideration the loss of energy in power transmission and distribution? (I also find the argument hard to believe, but I'd be interested in seeing a proper comparison)
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
Yes, it does -- why else would the endurance racing world be embracing hybrid technology? A hybrid car has won Lemans for the last 5 years. At least with the Prius-style hybrids, though, regenerative braking isn't the only advantage:
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
18/20. I got thrown off by the kerning in CVS/pharmacy. On Crate&Barrel, I was thrown off by the C. Why does it look different from all the other C's in the Helvetica versions of the logos?
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
But how can you get more instant than "it's already running"? The emacs way of doing things seems to be to do _everything_ in emacs -- it's your shell, your editor, your debugger, your mail client. Vim users, on the ot
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
Nit: "not ever" and "never" are synonymous. I think you meant "it was ever so" or "it was always so" or "it was not ever an issue". Interesting hypothesis. Ergonomics is certainly one of t
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
I noticed this as well. Now I'm wondering -- how would one generalize this proof, keeping the same easy-to-grok style?
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
This sounds like a violation of the prime directive.
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by curlypaul924 8y ago
I don't think the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) report necessarily rescinds the report from IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer)? The Guardian ran an interesting article when the IARC report came out exploring h
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by curlypaul924 9y ago
Of course the 2.3 is turbocharged, so the displacement figures aren't directly comparable. A closer comparison might be last model year's 3.7L V6 which produced around 300HP.
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by curlypaul924 9y ago
A different side of the story: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/09/bob-lutz-myth-11-lu... Bob Lutz is known for bragging about the Viper being designed "from the gut", but Michael Karesh points out
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by curlypaul924 10y ago
I think, among other things, it has to do with the size of the swap space relative to the speed of the swap device. IME high disk i/o combined with large swap space means swap never fills up and the OOM killer doesn't kick in. O

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