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by davidp 9y ago
One of the bigger delays to adoption in higher-density areas will be the problem of retrofitting residential parking with charging stations. Condo associations and rental companies won't spend money to install them until their residen
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by davidp 9y ago
Strategy tip: Don't tell him to know his place and listen to the enlightened; send him the next set of links that will satisfy and maybe further stimulate his curiosity. Without those links, your last paragraph is really a statement a
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by davidp 10y ago
Yeah, screw that guy for offering free quality content in video form, AND the nicely written text piece you just asked for.
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by davidp 10y ago
I had the same question, but so far the answers here are from a "technical correctness" perspective (which isn't a concern since Go is good at compatibility). My question is whether newer libraries and best practices have evo
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by davidp 10y ago
Interesting, true; but then repeat the experiment with your peripheral vision.
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by davidp 10y ago
He has proposed, for example, that the voting age be lowered to 16. “Sixteen-year-olds are just as good at logical reasoning as older people are,” Dr. Steinberg said. As if logical reasoning were sufficient. Your typical 16-year-old doesn
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by davidp 10y ago
I find that people who have racist beliefs often see differing viewpoints as the enemy - the first breach being simple consideration of a new perspective. True, but the problem is not limited to racists. I'm in the "mod
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by davidp 10y ago
> or the blog post he wrote for Cato in 2009 lamenting that women had obtained the right to vote? He said no such thing in that article[1]. I have no idea about the rest, or about Thiel in general, but I did read the article. Your stat
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by davidp 10y ago
This computer (or one very similar to it) was described in the great WW2 submarine yarn _Run Silent, Run Deep_. Amazing to see the actual manual for it so many years after imagining it while reading the book. The book is well worth a read
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by davidp 10y ago
And use whitelists, never blacklists. Why?
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by davidp 11y ago
Your point about responsibility of the student is fair. On the other hand: https://www.google.com/webhp#q=define%20pedagogy The teachers have a responsibility to teach, in the face of varying readiness for their teachings i
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by davidp 11y ago
I don't disagree with your point, but I have to ask: How do you design a site like SO that is simultaneously valuable for both beginners and experts?
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by davidp 11y ago
Very cool, thanks. I found a page that shows all the key combinations: [0]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GtkComposeTable
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by davidp 11y ago
If you look at the assigned identifiers in the binary scheme, the authors believe that 32-bit truncated cryptographic hash functions are useful. No they don't. From Section 2: The sha-256 algorithm as specified in [SHA-256] is
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by davidp 11y ago
Or even 40; I assume even 50 and beyond, but I haven't been there yet. If we stop growing, we start dying.
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by davidp 11y ago
> And of course Go vs Python is not a good comparison, as Python's lack of types Nitpicking: Python has types, they're just dynamically determined instead of statically. That said... > make it difficult to reason about lar
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by davidp 11y ago
The author is completely spot-on that the problem arises with the funding system. It's a classic case of policymakers confusing correlation and causation, and subsequently cause and effect: They have assumed, and continue to assume, t
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by davidp 11y ago
Code reviews -- you can create a PR on the pushed code, make fixes in response to the comments, rebase, and re-push.
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by davidp 11y ago
The story and pictures were intriguing, but then at the end: "There’s a true story for you, FOX News." Wat? That's jarringly out of place w.r.t. the rest of the article, and leaves an unpleasant political aftertaste for so
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by davidp 11y ago
> I've gotten looks from taxi drives in south Europe for this, they treat it as an insult. I feel it's better to insult than be dead. It's easier than that -- just tell the driver you're not worried about him or her,
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by davidp 11y ago
FYI, this is not available for Trusty Tahr (14.04). I only skimmed to find the link to mini.iso and didn't notice the article omitted references to 14.04. My mistake, but sharing here in hopes of saving someone else some time.
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by davidp 12y ago
I think it's more straightforward and less depressing than that. For most people it's simply hard to tell the difference between someone with those traits ("still waters run deep"), and someone who just doesn't hav
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by davidp 12y ago
Any tree that grows quickly will have thicker (less densely packed) rings. The author describes a planting strategy that "tricks" the trees into growing more quickly than usual, so my intuition is that those trees will be weaker
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by davidp 12y ago
This is why hardwoods are, uh, hard. They're typically slower-growing, so their rings are more tightly packed, giving the wood additional strength. I'm skeptical that the fast-grown trees from the article are as long-term health
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by davidp 12y ago
Yep. Need line 123425938039 of a gigantic file? [0] sed -e 'NR == 123425938039 { print; exit; }' < file Fast as hell and takes no memory to speak of. Google 'awesome awk' for goodies. [0]: Yes, this happens
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by davidp 12y ago
> What's the "value" of your receptionist? Well how do you measure that? Simple: get rid of her, and have your developers answer the phones. The decrease in productivity from that is the value of her position That value is
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by davidp 12y ago
Flask is great. Off the top of my head, Falcon's smaller dependency list is nice if you're managing server environments. Flask currently depends on Werkzeug, Jinja2, itsdangerous, and markupsafe, as opposed to just six and mimep
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by davidp 12y ago
Your acceptance of this kind of corruption is the very thing that enables it to flourish.
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by davidp 12y ago
/me ponders what Duff's Device would look like in Haskell.
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by davidp 12y ago
Pretty sure this is straight-up TCP behavior, possibly combined with trying to send large files inside the TCP connection via the Citrix protocol. If you consistently lose some percentage of packets for a while, the TCP connection can drop

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