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by dantillberg 6y ago
It depends what you're optimizing for. If you're primarily interested in resilience to power outages, then maybe you are OK with the wasted energy used to freeze/re-freeze the extra water.
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by dantillberg 6y ago
You could imagine building a globe-spanning power distribution network. Solar panels on one side of the planet could provide power at night on the other side of the planet.
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by dantillberg 6y ago
For giant files, you can at least break the file up into pieces. If nothing else, it's a greater technical challenge to build a caching system that scales to infinite GB. Why would Cloudflare invest in such a system when it's of d
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by dantillberg 6y ago
> This is why we can have an election outcome that no one in the media predicted. I presume you're referring to the 2016 presidential election in the US, and if so that's patently false. FiveThirtyEight estimated a ~28% probabi
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by dantillberg 7y ago
"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be pre
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by dantillberg 7y ago
The great work of the vast majority of civil servants is largely divorced from the polarized politics at the top. Their jobs and missions don't change much from one administration to the next.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
In a sense, this rings true in this pandemic, right? Many people are relying on video games for entertainment while confined to their homes. ------- Edit to reply to the comments below: A lot of good replies, thank you. I've largely be
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by dantillberg 7y ago
If tens or hundreds of thousands of people were dying every day from the virus, might we find many volunteers willing to be intentionally exposed to the virus in order to rapidly test the efficacy of a vaccine? I imagine so. I believe the m
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by dantillberg 7y ago
Weird. Is Germany's circle at the centroid of West Germany, maybe?
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by dantillberg 7y ago
This isn't really an issue that the vast majority of people face. Sure, it's a hard problem, but only a tiny number of people are affected by it.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
The "Newly Infected vs. Newly Recovered" chart on the site I linked above includes cases in China. The virus does in fact look to be somewhat under control in China, but not elsewhere.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
The outbreak in China is indeed somewhat (maybe even largely) under control. But if you look at the trend in cases outside China, the growth is still clearly exponential [0]. [0]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus&
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by dantillberg 7y ago
How is this a violation of the friend's privacy? The friend shared with Facebook, and Facebook intends to store the data forever. The friend shared via Facebook with the GP, and GP could go and read/view the data as often as they
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by dantillberg 7y ago
My read of GP's story is that the prepared queries varied by supplying different hard-coded parameters, in addition to some bound variables. For example, the WHERE clause might be "WHERE first=? AND last='Smith'". T
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by dantillberg 7y ago
But to where? Do any banks exist that have reasonable security procedures?
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by dantillberg 7y ago
What connection does 'origin' have to 'what'?
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by dantillberg 7y ago
They likely are referring to feeding actual literal rats. Rats get into trash left out by the street for pickup.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
You can imagine that there were likely many curious people that died pursuing their curiosity.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
I ported a fairly complex (thousands of lines of code, in use in production) program from Python to Go. The Python version is around 1/3-1/2 the size of the Go version, but the clarity with which bugs are visible in the Go version
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by dantillberg 7y ago
In the case described above, the topography is "completely flat", and the internet provider in question already provides electrical service to the premises.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
If you can't get municipal fiber where you live in Longmont (I'm a resident; hi!), you should most likely be complaining to your landlord, not the city. If you're not sure, call up Longmont Power & Communications and ask
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by dantillberg 7y ago
But if the business spends $100 and the rebate is $2, but I personally pocket the rebate instead of giving the money back to the business, wouldn't that $2 become taxable personal income? (and perhaps also theft, depending on my relati
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by dantillberg 7y ago
Yes, but could we maybe get a decent approximation of the windshield temperature from interior temperature, exterior temperature, and speed? Combined with interior/exterior humidity (maybe these gauges might be the expensive/finic
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by dantillberg 7y ago
Indeed, this is what I was thinking.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
I don't use Twitter, yet I still hear what the President says on Twitter.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
Once you search for it, then the web page could actually know.
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by dantillberg 7y ago
> don't you think that China defends its allies too? This made me curious: what nations could be considered allies of China? North Korea, possibly maybe?
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by dantillberg 7y ago
I don't personally think it's worth it, no. To me, though, that's a different issue than "it can't be done." "Yes, we can do A. The likely result of this action, however, is X Y Z." I prefer to presen
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by dantillberg 7y ago
They could in fact actually open every box to check the contents. 15 million is not some unfathomably large number of boxes per day. It would increase the cost of shipping across the borders that require that additional checking, by whate
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by dantillberg 7y ago
Re "weather is equivalent": I was curious, so I plugged the comparison into Weather Spark to see: [0]. Split is warmer in summer, colder in winter, a bit more humid, and moderately less sunny in the summer. It's very similar,

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