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by douche 9y ago
To be honest, most of these things, you don't actually care about the engine oil, so much as greasing all the other bearings that are involved in the typical oil-change/service.
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by douche 9y ago
If you haven't yet, read some of James Clavell's novels. Shogun was fascinating, as was Tai-Pan - I've been meaning to get through the rest. The shogunate and the Meiji period are very, very interesting periods of histo
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by douche 9y ago
However, projections are notoriously non-predictive. If you had extrapolated the gasoline prices from 10 years ago, you'd expect that we'd be paying $10 a gallon, rather than almost half of what prices were then - even in raw dol
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by douche 9y ago
True. Almost every bullet that is produced today is made from recycled car batteries.
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by douche 9y ago
Getting a state inspection and oil change costs about $50, once a year - if you're actually urban, you might not rack up 5k miles in a year, and could get by on a single oil change. Especially if you shelled out a little more for the
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by douche 9y ago
Not the OP, but with HTML5 video in modern browsers, you can't simply escape obnoxious auto-play videos by disabling/never installing RealPlayer/Shockwave/Flash/etc.
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by douche 9y ago
> In the end, this all is just reinventing the JVM, in slower, but more secure More secure?
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by douche 9y ago
It was not uncommon to have to monkey with crap like that back in the DOS days, to do the most basic things. I vaguely remember having to fool around with autoexec.bat and play with virtual and extended memory settings to try and get Rapto
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by douche 9y ago
I'm considerably more sketched out at the thought of entering my credit card information on a half-baked local hotel website than going through Priceline or Booking.com. Even some of the bigger hotel chains have a terrifying booking e
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by douche 9y ago
> Essentially, at the end of the day, almost nobody knows what they are doing. In this line of work most people are utterly afraid to write code. We would be in much better shape if our biggest problems were developers or students cheati
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by douche 9y ago
I bought the solution manual for my algorithms and data structures course, because the professor, TAs, and textbook were so incredibly bad that I couldn't figure out how you were supposed to structure the proofs that you were expected
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by douche 9y ago
> I did three group assessments, and out of those three failed two students with the help of my teammates, by co-ordinating our peer assessment. This peer assessment does not become public until grades come out, at which point they can b
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by douche 9y ago
> My go-to strategy has been blackbox (comparison) testing. Capture as much input & output as I can. Then use automation to diff output. I wouldn't bother to write unit tests etc for code that is likely to be culled, replaced. I
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by douche 9y ago
This is exactly the scheme from Office Space - minus a decimal shifted the wrong direction... The problem is accumulating that inaccuracy when there are well-known, battle-tested libraries and data-types available specifically to avoid that
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by douche 9y ago
The really sad thing is, that as simple as most of the CRUD shit that we're slaving away at all day is, it is beyond the capacities of perhaps 30-40% of the populace - and I'm being generous in that estimation. You get out there
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by douche 9y ago
The problem with pure computer science is that it isn't even that interesting to the uninitiated. Who the hell wants to grow up to balance binary trees, derive proofs around number theory, and poke and prod at heaps of linear algebr
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by douche 9y ago
People will actively refuse to read error messages[1]. I don't know how many times I've been trying to fix something with somebody, and an error dialog comes up, and they dismiss it instantly, before whatever content it might hold
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How Should Microservice’s Communicate?(jeremydmiller.com)
1 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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Icon on Fire(thedailywtf.com)
2 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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by douche 9y ago
Most of the time, a simple decision tree can handle "advanced AI" requirements.
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by douche 9y ago
Connery will always be Bond for me... Moore, unfortunately had some terrible source material.
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Take the Bus(thedailywtf.com)
2 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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by douche 9y ago
I'm not sure that they were bad, but they were cheap, quick to build, and suboptimal after the war was won. I remember one of the older History Channel shows, maybe the Great Ships, where they had one of the PT boat veterans on, descr
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by douche 9y ago
Good question... unfortunately it tends to conflict with various socio-religious-philosophic categories.
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by douche 9y ago
It strikes me as bizarre that we are so reluctant to apply the same principles of genetics and heredity to humans that we have applied to canines, bovines, equines, and even vegetables, for centuries.
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by douche 9y ago
WW2, the original Worse Is Better: M4 Sherman PT Boats Liberty ships Almost everything the Soviets built
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by douche 9y ago
I wonder if it has something to do with trends in education. It seems like the only thing my generation ever did in high school English classes was learn how to write college application essays, the more personal, the better.
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History of storage costs and the software design impact(ayende.com)
2 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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I’m Old, Part LI: Hacking Sleep(plinth.org)
4 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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by douche 9y ago
This should not be downvoted

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