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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Your numbers are from the city of Paris. Most people riding in the metro during working rush hours are not from the city of Paris, but from the suburb. The suburb population in 1921 was 4.8 M in 1921 and 12.2 M in 2010. https://e
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Distrust in cloud storage in which way? What are yafraid will happen. Which data are you afraid is going to end up in whose hands? The data I really care about is encrypted right on my laptop,and I backup that encrypted data.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
The author talks about compromises we made in accepting technology. I'm pretty sure she doesn't argue it should have been different. Now, let's address your question, should it be different? Sure, but not taxi vs people drivi
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Isn't it about taxi vs ride sharing? The author wrote: "I’m also more aware of the profound compromises we’ve made in giving tech companies, even those with well-intentioned CEOs, so much power over our daily lives" How do yo
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Would it be different with a taxi company? Would a taxi customer be able to obtain anything from a taxi company beside the money paid out by the insurance? Does it matter who pays for the insurance, company vs driver? Aren't a lot of t
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
But electricity has the advantage of being easy to convert to. Cars last on average 20 years. If all your cars are electric but your electricity is dirty, you can legislate that electricity needs to be cleaner, affecting only a few players,
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Exactly. And even that, you could use a VPN. In fact anything an airbnb host can do, your ISP at home can do it to, and is far more likely to be doing analytics on it, or be subpoenaed for it. So if it is a concern, you're probably alr
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Assuming you don't accept bad certs, don't ssh if there's an issue with the host key, don't use http, relent and other plaintext protocols, why?
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
How do you differentiate an apps crash from an OS forceful kill? Both would show a last good status and no good exit.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I find the article a bit "light" (pun totally intended!) on information. As usual, wikipedia saves the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_HAV_304/Ai... Specifically, what I expected f
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
You have no contact information in your profile.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I have tried all sorts of methods and software, but in the end always ended up with a single "today.txt" file. This year I have started to the same thing, split into today/this_week/this_month but also buy, sell, and for
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
What do you think goes through people's head as their managers walk to them "can we talk" during a staff reduction exercise? Have you ever sit across an HR person saying all the right things and putting an as empathic as poss
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> Also you can set the file descriptor limits to whatever you want. Isn't limited by the amount of memory?
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Does anyone beside compiler writer write in assembly? For what systems? Why wouldn't they use a compiled language?
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
From the article: "It’s a trait shared by elite families in China, whose high status has persisted since the Mao years." https://qz.com/314720/heres-the-surprising-social-trait-that...
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
It is availbale, almost, everywhere but be careful with the version, different Linux diatros are at different versions, the last time I used OSX it was stuck on a very old version, and I expect the different BSD OSes to run fairly new versi
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Saved me a few times when doing laptop surgery!
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
The thing is, if you use vi/vim in your day to day work, you already know ex. Not only that, but most people who will enhance and debug your script will also already know ex (from using it within vi).
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Agreed, this more about familiarity than "wotds from everyday language". If it weren't, the same people who complain about iota would also complain "lambda functions".
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Why ed over ex?
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
reduce() is still available in the functools module. I highly recommend to become familiar with the functools, itertools and collections modules to anybody using Python and not using them regularly.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> The government, soapboxes, homes and places of business that are happy to have them. But if say ISPs start blocking non-beige content, then freedom of speech is dead. Shouldn't there be a minimum internet infrastructure where peop
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
And I believe this is were the clean plate mentality came from, only take what you need, the rest can be saved for a later meal. Having said that, as a kid and teenager I always felt that I could it a bigger portion so always took "too
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
If you want some closer to C arrays, you can use Python array.array, which is part of the standard library. https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/176
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Not sequential: you can treat it as a set (in the mathematical sense) and solve your problems as a set operation, eg: "I want all the numbers greater than one". It makes it easy to read but also allows 1)not to deal with it until
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> high population yet low population density As somebody who hates driving I immediately wondered how that could be a good thing! > everything is too spread out Ah! Yes, I can imagine.
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Google Fusion Tables to be shut down on December 3, 2019(gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com)
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
II don't know the details so my example might not make sense, but two factors are: Shipping: no easy to ship from producing site to say NE coast, so they might buy from Sweden and Saudi Arabia, while producer, say in Texas might have a
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I suspect the problem with hangouts is that it's free. The new gsuite meeting, or whatever it's called, looks a lot like an upgraded version of hangouts, but you have to pay for it. (Pay for gsuite)

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