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by derekp7 5y ago
Here's a story that explains this concept. A programmer goes to his manager, presenting a paper with a lengthy problem for the manager to solve. The manager looks over the paper, thinks for a few minutes, then writes down the answer.
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by derekp7 5y ago
On the math side, the one thing that is supposed to make math real is story problems. And story problems seem to cause a lot of grief for a number of students (I know that virtually no one in my class liked or could do well on story proble
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by derekp7 5y ago
With 500+ ms ping and 100 gb per month I take issue with regular satellite "just fine". But I may be biased due to what I'm used to. Starlink should be much lower latency, even with the extra ground hop.
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by derekp7 5y ago
Couldn't you start of with a larger (meter wide) lens and focusing mechanism, so that it narrows down at the target? Then you aren't heating up most of the air between. Also what about high output short pulsed lasers? Couldn&#x
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by derekp7 5y ago
In my old house (built in 98) I had a 2000 F150. It fit in the garage, but barely. Garage was 20 foot deep, with a cement ledge of a couple feet where it attached to the house. I had to back the truck in, the back tires would bump agains
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by derekp7 5y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of the "allow location" and "allow notifications" popups. The web site will ask you first, and if you say yes the browser then asks you in its own popup. Or you can tell the browser
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by derekp7 5y ago
The web site did no such thing -- it served up a document that contained the reference. It is the end user that CHOSE to delegate interpretation of that document to a web browser (ad a counter example, look at how RMS browses the web). Ye
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by derekp7 5y ago
I just checked the line count of a simple tar implementation I'm working on, and so far it is around 4K lines and I'm not even finished yet.
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by derekp7 5y ago
For the remote data thing -- I ran into this a few years ago on Fedora when I was spending a lot of time away from the house, and buying 5 GB at a time for wireless data. I eventually had to write a script to sound an alarm when data usage
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by derekp7 5y ago
Similar reason to why I'm on Fedora. 6-month release cycle with a 12-month maintenance cycle. Which means I can frequently get on the latest kernel and other goodies such as Pipewire, yet I can also wait a couple months after release
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by derekp7 5y ago
Can the hiring hospital hire contractors through a contract agency? And if that contract agency happens to employ these nurses, would that violate this ruling?
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by derekp7 5y ago
How about this -- a jumper to update the firmware keys. System ships with third party certificate(s) (similar to the well-known certs your browser ships with). But with physical access you can update / supplement / remove keys a
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by derekp7 5y ago
The problem I have with subtitles is the same reason I could never enjoy comics / graphic novels. I can either read and process the text, or look at / process the action (pictures). For me it is the same thing as trying to pay a
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by derekp7 5y ago
When you go grocery shopping, you can A) create a list of dinner ideas and the ingredients that you need to pick up, group them in the order that they appear in the store, and head straight to the aisles to get the items. Or B) go in with
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by derekp7 5y ago
You can set up an email server to receive mail typically (assuming your ISP doesn't block it). For outbound mail, you can create a dedicated regular gmail address, and instruct it to accept sending emails out with an alternate email&#
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by derekp7 5y ago
My guess is they taste like chicken. After all, birds evolved from dinosaurs, and things like frog legs taste like chicken.
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by derekp7 5y ago
From what I understand, it was a way to attract employees during a time of wage freezes. And once that happened, you had the people paying for the health care being different people from those that consumed it. So that allowed prices to s
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by derekp7 5y ago
I doubt we will be in that situation, because then by definition all development will stop, and programming education will also stop. There will always be hardware or systems that you can develop on. Now what may happen (and is already hap
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by derekp7 5y ago
For health care, I would tackle it in multiple phases. First phase, make Medicare purchasable by anyone. Specifically if a small company can get a better deal by buying through Medicare, then let them. Along with that would be restrictio
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by derekp7 5y ago
Do you feel the same way about other life saving technologies such as seat belts and motorcycle helmets? What about hitting the anti lock breaks when a semi pulls out in front of you? The same philosophy can be applied to other life savin
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by derekp7 5y ago
The shortness is what makes it great. I recall going through a couple of thick C books, not getting anywhere. Until I picked up the K&R book, and was writing usable C within a couple weeks.
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by derekp7 5y ago
I'm sure the comment meant "cars", not "cans". However, my old gas can from more than 20 years ago worked perfectly fine. But as for any one I've acquired over the last couple decade, I can't use them fi
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by derekp7 5y ago
So if someone has Covid and gets run over by a train, is that reported as a Covid death (serious question)? Or are only deaths due to a medical reason (heart failure, stroke, etc) reported as such, since there is a possibility of them bein
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by derekp7 5y ago
Considering that the film is more than 55 years old, and the discussion was advanced by discussing the plot point, I don't see a problem with it myself.
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by derekp7 5y ago
So basically the rocket equation applied to water.
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by derekp7 5y ago
The truth is, no matter what path you take in life, you can find yourself wishing that you took a different path.
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by derekp7 5y ago
Unfortunately, there really isn't hard and fast rules about this, as it is different for each person. And sometimes you have to get some life experience to figure out what you did sub-optimally in the past, or try to learn from experi
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by derekp7 5y ago
Financial security can play a part of it, but that doesn't exactly mean being financially independent. -- Having a job where you don't go in every day thinking that today is when they will find a reason to fire me or get laid off.
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by derekp7 5y ago
Do they allow your cell phone to be out when you are working? I'd just plug my cell phone in a USB port ("I'm charging my phone" if anyone asks), and use IP over USB to talk to the phone, and run non-business internet t
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by derekp7 5y ago
The "paying users" is exactly the group that DRM is designed to hurt (control). There is a large class of users that won't mess with torrents or whatever for a number of reasons. Ones that apply to me are 1) I don't wa

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