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by czep 9y ago
> Rate of speed is irrelevant. Rate of speed is relevant for two reasons. First, there is a posted speed limit. Second, kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity. All else being equal, an accident at 90mph is going to b
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by czep 9y ago
Parent said all lanes driving "usually right at the speed limit". How do you interpret that as "Driving slow as shit"?
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by czep 9y ago
I am most certainly not trolling, I was merely pointing out that the parent's characterization that "its maddening that all 3 lanes seem to travel within 3-5 mph of each other, usually right at the speed limit" sounds to me a
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by czep 9y ago
Maddening? That sounds perfectly peaceful to me! It sounds like everyone just wants to get where they're going, safely. Why do you feel so driven (!) to go so fast? Given the choice between what you describe---an orderly set of traf
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by czep 9y ago
> But the 20% that don't, I flip them off every time, since they fucking deserve it. Man, that's harsh! If these victims of yours are doing 45 on the interstate then a flash and a honk is certainly in order, but I sincerely ho
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by czep 9y ago
I feel your pain! It took me a long time to get used to R. The only reason I tolerate it is I used SAS before that, so my point of comparison is an even more obtuse programming framework! Some general advice should you want to work with R
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by czep 9y ago
> Python with sklearn and pandas blows R out of the water. For some things yes, but for others the reverse is true. I'm also a heavy R and python user and find the two ecosystems extremely complementary. For building pipelines and
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by czep 9y ago
> They are more prone to trends, fads and more personal biases This is not necessarily true, and I would urge caution when making such generalizations. There is junk social science and there is also plenty of junk "hard" scien
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by czep 9y ago
> Libertarians would free property owners from government restrictions on their rights to control and enjoy their property This fascination with property rights is why libertarians are so often dismissed. Liberty should mean a lot more
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by czep 9y ago
What are good strategies for combatting such abuse? Validate email before posting, forbidden word lists, active site moderators?
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by czep 9y ago
> So much whitespace in the demo. This. If you want old school, go with 10px Verdana, and pad sparingly. I want information, not negative space dammit! With pine, my email editor in 1995, I could read 40 subject lines on a 640x480 scre
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by czep 9y ago
> "Yeah, I'm guilty of running FireFox as root." Noooooooooooooo!
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by czep 9y ago
Is modular css changing bootstrap adoption? I'm a backend guy so I don't have much experience to develop a sense of large-scale front-end trends. I've used bootstrap since early v3 in various places and usually found it tim
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by czep 9y ago
> Often, the speed limits are too low in the US, and "everybody" goes faster. Excessive speed is the primary cause of a third of all fatal accidents and a contributing factor in at least half. Instead of training the self-driv
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by czep 9y ago
I've written about this sentiment before and think it's spot on. SV is foremost about projecting an image. An older tech worker who still needs to pull down a paycheck utterly shatters the mythos that a few youthful years of bri
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by czep 9y ago
It also highlights how close the clouds are to the surface of the Earth. In everyday perception, at least to me, the clouds always seem very distant and cleanly separated from the surface. Here you can see they are actually very nearly co
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by czep 9y ago
That's true 95% of the time.
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by czep 9y ago
It also lowers the attractiveness of the unit from the perspective of other potential tenants, since many people are not interested in living around the noise, smell, or allergens of animals.
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International Prototype Kilogram(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by czep 9y ago|0 comments
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by czep 9y ago
The whole point of a side project is to over-engineer it! The thought of holding myself to deadlines and driving myself to "ship" is totally antithetical to the entire purpose of a hobby project. It's a welcome relief from
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by czep 9y ago
Whoa! It's not defrauding advertisers, unless you want to claim that clicking a link on the internet without intending to purchase something is considered fraudulent.
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by czep 9y ago
Security of an email server has nothing to do with secure transport of emails. If you run qmail, nobody will ever root your server. Sure they'll be able to intercept and read your email, but they won't root your server! I did ru
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by czep 9y ago
Do you need a referral to submit to arxiv? I recall when wanting to submit a paper there a few years ago you had to get someone who's already published to vouch for you. Am I reading correctly?
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by czep 9y ago
> Keeping an LFS system up to date with security patches should be virtually impossible unless you set aside a decent portion of your daily free time for this task It's really not that hard once you know what software is actually on
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by czep 9y ago
> Some of the provided tarballs are riddled with old vulnerabilities Are you sure you're referencing the current stable version of the LFS book (8.0)? As noted elsewhere in this thread, there was a Live CD version of LFS which hasn
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by czep 9y ago
Both Android and iOS have "Do Not Disturb" features which almost accomplish this. On my Android phone, the "Priority only" setting will silence any calls from outside your contacts list. It would be ideal to be able to
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by czep 9y ago
How do you use Slack to document online status? Does someone maintain a record of status timestamps? That sounds terribly degrading not to mention a bureaucratic nightmare. And it's very easily gamed. But most importantly, you shou
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by czep 9y ago
The government doesn't fear intelligent people, who are by definition smart enough not to risk their career or physical safety to openly criticize. This "sizable population of intelligent English-reading Chinese" are primari
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by czep 9y ago
It's more like not wanting rent-seekers, whose property was given to them at birth, to be entitled to other people's labor. All property is theft, because in the grand scheme of things, we are all renters. We are here on borrowe
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Ask HN: What are you doing for earthquake preparedness?
2 points by czep 10y ago|2 comments

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