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by dded 13y ago
You just prompted me to Wikipedia the AE-1 (my father had one). Apparently it was made for eight years. Hard to imagine one model of camera on the high end of consumer market being made for 8 years today. Camera technology was amazingly
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Not speaking for the GP of course, but I often like to see the Latex source of a well laid-out document. I learn from reading it as an example.
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We run a number of compute servers, and we mostly run just a couple of different types of jobs. (Sort of a traditional 80/20 split: 80% of computes are spent on a couple types of jobs, 20% is spent on a very large variety of jobs.) We
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The headline addresses the very real concern that Ford has with the image their customers might have with an aluminum truck. They're concerned that people might equate aluminum with flimsy. Expect competitors to encourage this thin
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> All pickups use body-on-frame construction Including the Honda Ridgeline? I thought that was an exception. In any case, you're mostly right, and that design is unlikely to change. Folks who actually use trucks in their work oft
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Since you seem to have some expertise, maybe you can answer this question: Is there a work function difference between steel in contact with aluminum, and does it accelerate corrosion in the steel?
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> The model was too expensive to produce Due to aluminum? > Isn't the whole point of a pickup to most people (not all) being imposing and bulky? This is a whole discussion in itself. Modern pickups, to my eyes, look more like ca
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There's no lack of weight with the F150: curb rate appears to range from about 4700 to 6200 lbs [1]. The trouble with trucks in snow is the distribution of that weight. [1] http://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/s
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Car and Driver once had a piece about a largely aluminum Audi that they were reviewing [1]. They got into an accident (not terrible--no one hurt), and the $30,000 repair took months at the only facility in Michigan that could repair alumin
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The Python .sort() method sorts in-place. The sorted() function returns a sorted copy, leaving the original untouched.
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I'm picking on you, but could just as easily picked on most the other replies. Your answer to this topic is only interesting if you explain why . Even a very brief explanation will do. As it happens, I've never heard of Elixir.
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The looming end of XP comes up periodically, usually with some mention of needed enterprise and small business software that does not run on anything else. (I recently noticed that my dentist's systems were running XP; and wondered, w
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BlackBerry Staggers to a Deeper, $4.4 Billion Loss(nytimes.com)
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> the first command I wrote was "comment-or-uncomment-region-or-line" verilog-mode (and I imagine others) includes something like this this. C-c C-c comments region, and C-c C-u uncomments it. It handles embedded /* *&#x
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> Most companies spend endless time and money writing and enforcing HR policies to deal with problems the other 3% might cause I would emphasize the word might in this quote. The small mountain of HR policy poured on us slowly grows e
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The graph plotting lines of code vs. time is interesting. The lines for C and R steadily, almost linearly, grow over time. But the line for Fortran comprises long level periods punctuated by sudden jumps. I assume that these sudden jumps
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True. But my point, really, was that in most circumstances even tabs mixed with spaces isn't so very bad. I mentioned Make and Python as examples of exceptions. BTW, do you really use tabs in Python code? I've not ever encounte
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But this is largely a comment disguised as a variable name, and is no more or less likely to stay up-to-date as a comment. If the Dell Identifier were to ever be changed to "DuplicateAssets", you're just as likely to have
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Make requires tabs (at least a leading tab). Anything but an all-spaces practice will make you miserable in Python. But in practice, in any environment where I've worked, there's never been a problem with mixed tabs and spaces for
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One of Perl's strengths, actually, was (is?) how well it was supported on many different types of systems. Today's world is largely Linux/Windows/Mac, but that was far less true in the 90s. I started using Perl on VMS,
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Perhaps you're being facetious, but on the off change that you're just not familiar with 16F (-9C), understand that that's cold. I'm a runner, but I don't go out if it's below 20F--I can't take it no matt
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>> good deal faster >> You could always try it and see :) >> Example test: openssl speed md5 sha256 When I was looking for a fast hash easily called from Python, I settled on adler32 (as the fastest) after some trial-and-e
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Here's my take: Let n be the number of people needed. Probability that a person's birthday is not today: 364/365 Prob. that no one's birthday is today: (364/365)^n Prob. that someone's birthday is today: 1 - (3