diabeetusman

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by diabeetusman 9y ago
Could be either [0] http://grammarist.com/usage/biannual-biennial-and-semiannual... [1] https://writingexplained.org/biannual-vs-semiannual-differen...
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
That's partially why I like the idea (if not the implementation, apparently) of Mr. Yuck and his friend that I just learned about, Mr. Ouch [0]. To me, it looks like he gets the point across pretty well-- come near here and die. Ther
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
Pretty odd time for a press conference, right?
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
I actually only use the right shift and very barely use the left one myself
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
When getting it wrong starts costing them money, is my guess.
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
I'll answer your question with another question: how much money did they lose because of this power outage? Until the money lost is greater than the costs associated with adding redundant, backed up power supplies, they probably won&#x
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
Flaps do increase drag (especially at higher speeds) but they also decrease the stall speed which is why they're deployed during takeoff and landing-- they allow a slower takeoff speed. In effect, at lower speeds, the lift increase ha
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
I interpret that to mean that the NSA said "Add this and give only us a way to turn it off"
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
They didn't lose though. They're back without having to change anything on their end.
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
The fact that the maximum tweet length doubled means that Twitter's external behavior did change
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
I moved my i3 arrow keybindings over from jkl; to hjkl. MOD+H does horizontal split, I think? I remapped it to MOD+B to be right next to the vertical split key.
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
They both have an insane false-positive rate as well as an insane false-negative rate (95%, as other people have pointed out).
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
I don't think the article ever really answers the question that it posed in the subtitle: does insurance cover hagfish slime? Invoking Betteridge's law of headlines, I'm guessing not?
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
World Cup 2014 probably beats July 20, 1969 as far as pure viewership numbers go Edit: 600 million watched the moon landing [1], 3.2 billion watched the World Cup [2] [1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/sp
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
You understate the issue-- the GPIO pins had a default throughput of 230 Hz [ https://communities.intel.com/message/207904#207904 ]
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
At the company where I work, they temporarily disable accounts for both paternity and maternity leave to prevent that exact issue.
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by diabeetusman 9y ago
On the other side of things, there are certainly laptop computers without active cooling-- the new MacBook, for instance
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by diabeetusman 10y ago
You can swing your arms around as much as you like, but if you swing them into someone's face, that's illegal. As someone posted above, you can make food with peanuts as much as you'd like, but if you sneak peanuts into some
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by diabeetusman 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13765452
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by diabeetusman 10y ago
But you can't charge and use it at the same time
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by diabeetusman 10y ago
I'm seeing studies showing the reverse-- endorphins can suppress insulin creation (and lead to hyperglycemia) ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2944808 ). Got any links? Really interested in reading more (see
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by diabeetusman 10y ago
It's not just 'load' the syringe. There's a liquid and a powder that has to be mixed. First, the liquid is injected into the powder. Remember to remove the protective cap from the vial and the two protective caps from
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by diabeetusman 10y ago
I can't imagine there's anything "important" enough that would bring down the whole plane with one shot. I mean, sure you might kill a person or two, but pretty much every system is double- or triple-redundant, even the
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by diabeetusman 10y ago
I'm running Chrome in Win10 and it does the exact behavior you describe only Linux/OSX doing.
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by diabeetusman 10y ago
> Anyhow, the upshot of this is that US rocket scientists spent literally tens of billions of dollars developing hyper-locally-optimised rocketry schemes, most of which failed outright. For the remainder, for every dollar of kerosene the
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by diabeetusman 11y ago
What's a more efficient way of getting from San Francisco to LHR? Via ship, the long way?
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by diabeetusman 11y ago
I'd probably buy one or two. In college, I was a mechanical engineer living with a CompSci major, CompE major, and a CompSci / CompE double-major. I'd occasionally stop them when they were explaining things to me with "
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by diabeetusman 11y ago
If it can work with one phone, Apple can easily modify it to work on any phone
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by diabeetusman 11y ago
> That money can perverse moral incentives This isn't something newly discovered, I hope.
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by diabeetusman 11y ago
In this case, the user clicking through the prompt isn't the issue. They wanted to run the non-malicious installer and so they did. If they read and re-read the prompt, they would still make the same decision

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