darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
BLAS/LAPACK is fortran, not C.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> " but snake oil only exists where a real, functioning product doesn't" I have no idea where you could have gotten that impression. Snake oil can exist whenever the consumer is unable to distinguish real products from
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Damn, I was hoping this would be about debugging vimscript.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Many customers keep the tarot card shop down the street in business too. Any marketing professional worth his salt employs the full force of his persuasive skill against his own customers/employers. A marketing firm does not merely t
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> You feel ugly and lonely. Look at this group of young attractive people. They've got a vibrant group of friends and do lots of cool things like drinking ice cold Coca-Cola™ . You should drink some Coca-Cola™ too so you ca
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by darkpuma 7y ago
From the 1828 (first edition) of Webster's dictionary: > Republic: 1. A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. In modern usage, it differs from a democ
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It continues to work with respect to flamethrowers. Where is all the flamethrower crime? I've not heard of any.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Federal and state employees use a wide variety of techniques to control feral hog populations, but feral hogs are very prolific. A mature female feral hog can have two litters a year and as much as a dozen piglets per litter. Because the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It really depends on the animal. Some, particularly feral hogs, are invasive and incredibly destructive. Humans set them loose, so it's our responsibility to run some damage control.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Anyone with a small child at home would rather have a wilkinson/gilette that are safes (blade-wise)." Fair point, I'd mount a sharps bin high on the wall where I could reach while standing but out of reach for th
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The way I was already holding disposable cartridge razors was at the neck of the razor relatively loosely with two fingers, with the rest of the handle loosely supported in my palm by my other fingers. I found this technique transfers to s
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "This is curious. The person is able to operate a key, but is unable to enter a physical code on a keypad?" That doesn't seem too implausible to me. If you thrust your key at the lock but miss... you scratch the lock
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The marketing for high margin disposable cartridge systems is highly effective. I find people fear the that a safety razor will be too complicated or difficult to use.. without ever trying one. I bought into this too; before the first ti
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That works, but at the same time I'd like to see webm amended to include optional subtitle tracks.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Librarians and secretaries are two examples of "non-programmer" careers where functional knowledge of SQL is pretty common. Less-so these days with secretaries, but moreso for librarians. Not to mention tons of researchers acr
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Okay, I'm on board. But what container am I meant to be using for my AV1 content? I see the value of a limited subset of mkv, e.g. webm, but webm is too limited in my opinion. It has no facilities for soft subtitles for instance
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> it's either a really special edge-case Bingo!
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Most common SQL statements read like somewhat stilted english. Many non-programmers find this particularly accessible. Yes you can make some lovecraftian horrors if you really want to, but SQL is one of those things where just a little bi
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's case insensitive, you can use lowercase if you like. The reason the UPPERCASE persists is frankly because most people like it that way. Or maybe I'm wrong about that and we're one preference cascade away from a major
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Saying you can do better than SQL is an extraordinarily bold claim, considering SQL is one of the most successful programming languages in human history and certainly the most successful fourth-generation programming language. Wide swaths
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> Regulating cities so they don't do something stupid is reasonable. States should forbid cities from funding the creation of sports stadiums then. They're almost always disastrous. https://news.stanford.edu/
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Considering the discrepancy between the resources available to Google and the results achieved, I think it's safe to say that was a half-hearted attempt at most. There is part of me that thinks the whole thing was a PR stunt.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Oh yes, I'm aware. And in Seattle when Japanese-Americans were interned, many African-Americans moved into the property left behind, brought to Seattle by the huge surplus of jobs working for Boeing. Today there are Japanese-Americ
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I don't have a list of names to cross-reference, but I'd guess more than a few were. Their leader was stripped of his citizenship and kicked out of the country. A blanket internment of German-Americas was considered but deemed
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I do think that was a huge over-reaction, particularly in retrospect, but you can't chalk it up entirely to hysteria considering it happened in the aftermath of the Niihau incident.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The drone and/or stealth properties of it are likely overstated. The fact that Russia is constructing at least two incredibly expensive submarines (Khabarovsk and Belgorod) to carry them suggests that they aren't suited or inten
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Corrosion is almost always to blame. Corrosion damage can often be repaired with some microsoldering work.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "These are fine Swiss rifles, not AKs." "Fine swiss rifles" are known for being expensive to manufacture, not for being fragile. Incidentally, why can I buy a fine Swiss watch that works 500 feet under the ocean,
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Okay, well the way you are phrasing it seems to suggest you're annoyed that the story was published and/or posted here.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Yeah, I've had persistent trouble with LaunchServices and nothing I've found on the net helps. All the suggestions are wild shots in the dark.

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