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by dripton 12y ago
I had a used 1977 Monza in high school. Pros: It was $750, and it lasted two years. Cons: No power despite the V8, poor gas mileage, expensive tune-ups because the V8 was squeezed in so tightly that you needed to lift the engine to change t
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by dripton 12y ago
A $200B company needs to make big bets to move the needle. The limiting resource at Berkshire is Warren Buffett's time. For most people, spending a few hours on a million-dollar deal is the move of a lifetime. For Buffett, it's
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by dripton 12y ago
That's an interesting angle that I hadn't heard before. I'd still rather have a contract, just to avoid confusion about the terms of the deal.
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by dripton 12y ago
Similarly, 16C is 61F.
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by dripton 12y ago
Beautiful. If I were teaching the class, you'd get the A and I'd remember when it was time to write recommendations. But I remember some professors who might have failed a student for pulling something like that. Or even accuse
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by dripton 12y ago
Current F1 rules do not allow in-race refueling. But, yeah, expensive purpose-built race cars have little in common with road cars.
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by dripton 12y ago
I had two different employers go bust in 2002. First one was a startup acquired by a big corporation in 2000, but they gave up on us a couple years later. How much the larger economic climate affected that, versus the indisputable fact tha
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by dripton 12y ago
Tastes differ. I thought it was a fun story and a quick easy read. I'd recommend it to pretty much anyone. My wife, mother, and sister, all of whom are big readers but none of whom are really in the target nerd demographic, all like
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by dripton 12y ago
Works for me in Firefox. (33.0 on amd64 Linux)
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by dripton 12y ago
It's been alleged that having a Go-Pro camera on his ski helmet contributed to the severity of Michael Schumacher's injury. Of course, this is very hard to prove.
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by dripton 12y ago
I'm not so sure. Several of the most popular game platforms (Xbox, PlayStation, iOS) are effectively closed, with gatekeepers who decide which games are allowed. And those gatekeepers don't allow certain types of games on those
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by dripton 12y ago
It wasn't a real on-budget surplus. It was only a surplus if you took the revenue from Social Security tax and ignored the obligation to later pay Social Security with it.
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by dripton 12y ago
Insane in the short term. But in the long term, if they make the program less maintainable, they may prevent future improvements.
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by dripton 12y ago
The FinCEN threshold is $10000. The article mentioned buying enough Amazon gift cards to buy a stroller. The most expensive stroller I could find on Amazon in a minute was less than $600. So I don't think we can blame the government
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by dripton 13y ago
A lot of government information is tied up with individual privacy. For example, Census data isn't released for 70 years, for privacy reasons. I certainly wouldn't want the IRS to release my tax returns, or Medicare to release m
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by dripton 13y ago
This may be "cheating" in some tournaments where you're expected to fairly seed your players. But it's considered totally fine in sports like baseball. In a short playoff series, if you think the other team's star
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by dripton 13y ago
Or maybe all the other crawlers would just claim to be Googlebot. Just like all the other browsers (partially) claim to be Netscape.
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by dripton 13y ago
I've seen keysigning parties at a few technical conferences. Find one, preferably one that caters to programmers and/or sysadmins rather than managers and/or marketers, and which has extra space for not-scheduled-in-advance
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by dripton 13y ago
Different cable types. One analog, one DVI.
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by dripton 13y ago
I had 3 monitors / 2 Nvidia cards working fine in Kubuntu 11.04 and 12.04. All one X session. It was easy. But that was with uniform geometry. (I had 3 identical monitors.) Haven't tried non-uniform.
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by dripton 13y ago
My personal experience over the last couple of years: I ran Gentoo for years, and my experience was similar to yours. I could get things to work but it took a lot of frustrating trial and error, and then periodically a version upgrade woul
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by dripton 13y ago
The engineers don't necessarily have enough power for that to work. And the current engineers on site aren't necessarily those at fault for a disaster that was caused by incorrect design or construction 30 years ago. What I woul
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by dripton 13y ago
I've had no hard drive failures in over a decade, but my first SSD (a Crucial M4) failed in about a year. I'm back to reliable hard drives.
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by dripton 13y ago
The startup I worked for got bought by a big company, then two years later they decided to shut us down. But they wanted a fraction of us to stick around for 3 months and keep the servers running while they transitioned to the new system.
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by dripton 13y ago
Dreamhost. Since 2000, when they were the cheapest IMAP provider. I do have to click through SSL errors sometimes (because reverse DNS doesn't match forward DNS), and they broke my procmail setup when they upgraded something a few ye
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by dripton 13y ago
If it's a Federal charge, Virginia law doesn't matter.
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by dripton 13y ago
I've given up on LinkedIn. They had a high-profile breach less than a year ago and they're still doing insecure things like this. Either they don't know or they don't care. So I'm setting the permanent bozo bit o
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by dripton 13y ago
I think I managed to close it. I had to click 4 or 5 times, but the process didn't seem to generate any errors. We'll see.
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by dripton 13y ago
I have cancelled two out of two accounts that have tried to phish my email password. (Udacity and now LinkedIn.) "Everyone" certainly does not do it. (I know Facebook does it, but just because the slimiest big company on the we
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by dripton 13y ago
Not everyone uses Gmail. The fallback is to ask for your email password. Really.

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