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by derekp7 4y ago
I really think PHEV would be idea, if only they had just a bit more electric-only range. Many of them only get you 25 miles or so on electric only, so you would still end up using the gas engine quite a bit. Bring that up to 40 - 60 miles
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by derekp7 4y ago
If it its text, then it leaks the length of the text that was redacted. Something to keep in mind. So you may want to actually move the remaining text spacing a bit one way or the other.
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by derekp7 4y ago
I've needed to scrape the USB connector in the phone with a needle (digging around the outside and scraping the tab in the middle) in order to get the cord to stay in place. It gets filled up with pocket lint gunk, and needs cleaning
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by derekp7 4y ago
There is the Notary Public service for physical documents. I did a quick search a while ago out of curiosity, and there appears to be an eNotary service that uses X509 certs to notarize a digital document. I've never seen this used &q
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by derekp7 4y ago
Windows ME still had the same loading sequence as Windows 95/98. That is, DOS kernel booted and then loaded the Windows code. Now it is true that Windows 95 and above mostly bypassed DOS once it was loaded, and DOS was used as merely
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by derekp7 4y ago
Don't most EV's get charged at night when factories and AC's aren't drawing current?
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by derekp7 4y ago
I think his major contribution at SpaceX was a the vision. And that the engineers could work on things knowing that the rocket may blow up in testing, and that was not only OK but also promoted as an example of success by the company CEO.
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by derekp7 4y ago
The thing for me is that we (humanity that is) already know how to safely land a rocket booster and reuse it. SLS has been in development for quite a while, and lots of funding. So why aren't recovering the boosters part of the progr
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by derekp7 4y ago
What is interesting, is I've been feeding in prompts from /r/writingprompts on Reddit to see what gets generated. And the stories, while somewhat impressive, all have a certain feel to them kind of like they are formulatic.
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by derekp7 4y ago
Just some back-of-the-napkin math. An electric car uses approx .25 kWh per mile. Household solar gives you 15 watts/sq ft. Assuming a car 5 ft wide, the hood 5 ft long, roof 4 ft, and trunk 3 ft, that's 60 sqft of sky-facing su
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by derekp7 4y ago
I have an older Brother HL-3070. Main issue is that when printing files of certain complexity, they print fine if I do it under Windows but it takes sometimes 5 minutes to render each sheet if doing it under Linux. Not sure if it is due t
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by derekp7 4y ago
Just so you know, the reason your comment isn't productive (especially with the culture of this site) is that your are creating a projection of the developer's mind and motivations, that most likely isn't true (I doubt they a
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by derekp7 4y ago
Think of porting to a new CPU architecture. If you have your compiler written in its own language, then when you add support for the new CPU target you can compiler your compiler using your compiler and target the new CPU. Now you have a
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by derekp7 4y ago
Web apps are potentially re-downloaded every time you use them.
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by derekp7 4y ago
Don't forget habits. Breakfast before leaving for work (even if you aren't hungry), lunch at noon, and dinner when you get home. And the 2:30 pm snacks. And the morning coffee loaded up with cream and sugar. One thing that I fo
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by derekp7 4y ago
That one caught me the other day (shortly after an Android OS update). I only saw it once, with the button down at the bottom of the screen. I can't seem to get it to do that again when I try calling my phone from another phone. Also
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by derekp7 4y ago
But would you give up all your access to anything modern, for the rest of your life, in order to have the power and influence that Rockefeller had? Primitive medical treatment, limited communications to others that aren't in your vici
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by derekp7 4y ago
Absolutes are often bad (i.e., zero tolerance). And many regulations are absolutes. It isn't enough to comply with the law as written, you have to comply with the strictest interpretation that a judge may come up with. And that may
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by derekp7 4y ago
Now all Youtube needs is to give the content creator the ability to disable the fast forward / skip 10 second buttons at specified portions of the video (in return for a fee of course).
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by derekp7 4y ago
Was watching it at work, and a crowd was gathered around the desk thinking it was a trailer for a new Star Trek film or something. Told them, no, this is real, and the look on my non-geek office mates faces was absolutely priceless.
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by derekp7 4y ago
I recall that the synchronous landing was unintentional, they are supposed to be staged a few seconds apart for tracking purposes. Also the live feed for the first launched accidentally used the same camera feed from one booster on two win
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by derekp7 4y ago
Would /srv be for files that are served up mostly unmodified? Or would you also put the database for a web application under, for example /srv/db? In a sense, the database contains objects that get served up but they get tr
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by derekp7 4y ago
I always felt that private prisons could work great, if specific incentive laws are passed. First, give the inmate a choice of which prison to attend, so they are competing against each other based on reputation. Second, if someone re-off
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by derekp7 4y ago
How much are voting rights worth in practice though, from a single entity? It is only really important if they would have the swing vote, or if something requires unanimous decision.
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by derekp7 4y ago
I think that is the brand I picked up at Walmart one time. And I really did notice the difference -- it had a more buttery texture, and was delicious on my salad.
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by derekp7 4y ago
What is even worse is if the company has a requirement for 40 hours of training annually, and they provide it in-house (using bulk content CBTs) that don't really give you any skills. Then stipulate a "training fee payback"
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by derekp7 4y ago
The question I have is how did mega projects in ancient times (such as the Pyramids) get enough people to work on them, and still have enough food to feed them? Or were the people on those projects (and other city-building projects at that
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by derekp7 4y ago
Can a new proposition override (or cancel out) an older one? Are they similar to Constitutional amendments (such as 21's canceling out 18'th) or are California props more sticky?
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by derekp7 4y ago
If only I would have had the foresight to buy a lottery ticket with the correct winning numbers. Yes, there was Bitcoin, however there are always millions of investment opportunities that may or may not pan out. Most don't.
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by derekp7 4y ago
And that right there is why a good CEO can make or break a company. They don't have to be experts in everything, but they need to be good enough to tell which of their experts working for them to believe, or to bring in outside expert

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