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by derekp7 7y ago
Complexity probably has something to do with it. Every surgery is slightly different. So a reasonable size checklist would be missing enough items to kill the patient, and a complete one, the patient dies before you are 1% through it.
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by derekp7 7y ago
The biggest problem I have with kudzu is the thought of copperheads and rattle snakes hiding in them. Used to scare me to death as a kid.
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by derekp7 7y ago
I'm trying to figure out why this article says paper wasn't expensive, using the example that a laborer could by 75 sheets of paper for a day's wages. Today, I can by 5 times that amount, for about 10 minutes of wages. By t
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by derekp7 7y ago
Think of the Google search results page. Currently, you have to scroll the content, then do another action to go to the next page of results, then scroll again, etc. Very tedious to quickly scan through the items. So infinite scroll woul
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by derekp7 7y ago
I care more about vertical resolution, and vertical height, more than about aspect ratio. So with 3k and 4k getting more popular on higher end laptops, the 16:9 doesn't bother me as much. I can keep a code window on one side and docu
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by derekp7 7y ago
You know, conduit is less than $3.50 for a 10 ft section last I bought some. Fittings are another dollar or so each, and I can't see 30 ft of copper wire costing 2 grand. So you are paying mostly for the electrification's time.
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by derekp7 7y ago
Most car owners have no problem renting a vehicle on a trip, at least when they fly out somewhere. Trips almost 100% renting (hotel room, chef services [restaurants], seat on the plane, car, limo to/from airport). Once in that mindse
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by derekp7 7y ago
I have similar experience with my hybrid, compared to my previous paid-off F150. Although still a gas car, the cost savings of driving it (gas, plus oil changes are half as often) pays for about 80% of my car payment. My next car in anothe
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by derekp7 7y ago
I sometimes feel like I have a leg up based on when I learned computers (self taught mid 80's to early 90's). At that time, everything was more low level, and there were fewer, yet higher quality books on the market. So I starte
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by derekp7 7y ago
I've found that with myself, as I get older I get more selective with what new stuff I learned. I've seen so many fads come and go, and don't really have a whole lot of time ahead of me, so I need to make sure that what I le
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by derekp7 7y ago
Since streaming services keep shows in their library for quite a while, and with binge watching being popular, it may be a good strategy to cycle through the services periodically. The problem is that they don't have a way for you to
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by derekp7 7y ago
For "food deserts", this can be fixed by requiring places to offer a good selection of quality healthy items in order to be able to accept food stamps. This will work, as long as the food stamp based income is significant enough
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by derekp7 7y ago
For low volume production items, the plastics are more costly to design than the electronics. Therefore laptop docking stations are expensive to manufacture, especially as they are in use by only a subset of users. By converting to a docki
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by derekp7 7y ago
Not only that, but it is interesting to see the multiplier effect of those overhead funds. If a charity redistributes 90% of donations to their cause, can they raise twice the amount of money by increasing their overhead by 5%? It is well
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by derekp7 7y ago
Why would it be higher (than it is now)? I can see self driving being lower (comparatively), although current safety items such as anti lock brakes and collision avoidance doesn't seem to have much effect on rates. If half the cars a
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by derekp7 7y ago
The problem is that batteries are too expensive, too heavy, and they wear down eventually. Not only is there the market demand, but there is also the fears of consumer backlash if they don't (or can't) get it 150% correct. Remem
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by derekp7 7y ago
I thought it was more like 400 million years between water and the first life -- and that is the oldest life we have evidence of. It could conceivably take a couple hundred million years for life to go from the initial spark, to having evo
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by derekp7 7y ago
Even though we have only one datapoint, I wonder how much can be inferred from this planet's life characteristics. First, life came about rather shortly after the planet was able to sustain it. So this timing is either very unlikely,
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by derekp7 7y ago
AC actually opened up the south to office buildings. They most likely wouldn't exist (except where necessary) without it.
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by derekp7 7y ago
The other thing is most new houses are constructed without any concerns to natural (cross ventilation) cooling. My previous house was built in 98, and had huge windows that happened to line up on the east and west sides. They let in a lot
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by derekp7 7y ago
Just to clarify, these complaints are primarily about Fedora specifically -- at least in my experience RHEL (and CentOS) have been very solid. I just wish that Fedora had a model similar to Ubuntu, where periodic releases are targeted for
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by derekp7 7y ago
This is actually one of my favorite things about Linux. I learned Unix back around 1989, using IBM AIX. The AT&T books (blue star-field covers) were mostly applicable (except for IBM specific items), and everything I learned then I&#x
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by derekp7 7y ago
Is it even possible to delete something from the middle of a tape (assuming tape backups are used)? The only thing that can be done is to read the tape in, transfer all "good" data to another tape, then erase the original tape.
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by derekp7 7y ago
Have you noticed in these instances if the web version of maps is better than the Android app version? I've seen that, was trying to use the web page to reproduce the problem so I could report it. But the web app was correct, whereas
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by derekp7 7y ago
Is there any way to report corrections to Google maps? On more than one occasion, I've had a route that called for a left turn at a traffic light, try to route me into a right turn and an immediate (illegal) u-turn. In another case,
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by derekp7 7y ago
A couple good examples: When you touch the screen, and drag, the mouse equiv. action is clicking the button and dragging. But with touch, in many cases you want the screen to scroll, whereas with the mouse you want to select / highli
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by derekp7 7y ago
The problem is that enterprises have one mechanism to purchase software, and a totally separate mechanism for charitable donations. The two budgets are run by separate groups, and never interact. The solution? Offer your code under an ope
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by derekp7 7y ago
Look for as cards that are certified for dash cams. Either that, or make the write intensive volume a network share.
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by derekp7 7y ago
Sounds like a nightmare for the new guy that gets hired, and there is no place for them to sit in the team room. Yes, I was that new guy, when a team I was hired into expanded. The office had high cubical walls separating different areas,
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by derekp7 7y ago
Most programs aren't coded to have all of their elements scale properly. You have icons, buttons, pictures, etc that may be bit mapped images, then you have other elements that are vector mapped. So if you just change the font size,

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