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by dspeyer 11y ago
The likelihood of getting a proper BRT system when a city sets out to build one seems a lot lower than the probability of getting working light rail. Granted, both are low. In NYC, we have "dedicated lanes" for some of our buses.
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by dspeyer 12y ago
> [H]e’s heard ... that I’m a magazine writer looking into California’s almond boom. He demands to know what my angle is. Am I going to blame almonds for the state’s mounting water woes, like other articles have? > When I assure him I
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by dspeyer 12y ago
Any idea how hard it would be to genetically engineer an almond tree that could drink sea water?
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by dspeyer 12y ago
It does have one benefit. www.google.com has its IP served from google's dns servers, whereas google.com comes from com's. Google does lots of dns-based load balancing that com doesn't support.
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by dspeyer 12y ago
Am I the only one hoping they have the same favourite charity?
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by dspeyer 12y ago
Wouldn't you need standing for that? If you were actually trying to found a competing ISP, that would work, but "I'm a customer who might get better service in a freer market" doesn't sound like standing.
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by dspeyer 12y ago
How about putting in that effort for the 10 languages with over 100 million native speakers?
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by dspeyer 12y ago
If the soda started dissolving the aluminum, I doubt it would stop until it had dissolved a hole straight through the can.
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by dspeyer 12y ago
Not quite. There isn't a large group of stupid people loudly calling themselves "gay". Nor is "gay" the only widely-known English word for stupid.
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by dspeyer 12y ago
I admit, I've given up. The word "cracker" has no traction whatsoever. Partly because it sounds like something you put cheese on and partly because prominent crackers refuse to embrace it. I'm not saying the current sit
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by dspeyer 12y ago
ESR is talking about building a replacement http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5948
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by dspeyer 12y ago
Aural style sheets? Do they work?
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by dspeyer 12y ago
I haven't tried it, but http://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2013/11/02/quick-tr... seems plausible. You can also shape culture using rules. For example, at Google SRE, there was a rule th
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by dspeyer 12y ago
IIRC, mathoverflow maintains a "nothing an undergrad could reasonably be expected to know" policy.
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by dspeyer 12y ago
Other way around. One of the options engineers receiving the mailing have is to go to the hearing and present their opinions on the settlement to the judge. Most won't, but with 64k plaintiffs, most of them long-winded, it'll sti
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by dspeyer 12y ago
That's more recent.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
The parenthesis in this attack are sufficient to prevent that warning.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
return ERRCODE; Would have produced the exact same bug.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
What does it even mean to shut down the control systems on a moving car? All stop? Coast? What's the physical behaviour that isn't likely to kill someone?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> Is it really possible that not a single person at Microsoft tried changing a setting on their Windows machine and realized how difficult it was to even find the setting? When I was at MS, we usually used the command line to change sett
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by dspeyer 13y ago
It's worth remembering that Google doesn't have a single SRE team. Each major service has a separate SRE team. There's a lot of specialized knowledge in each, and redirecting the Search and Storage SREs doing the AMA to hel
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by dspeyer 13y ago
With power comes responsibility, and he has more than most.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
That's not the only way a project can backfire. For example, if BlackGirlsCode produces a generation of black women who are perfectly capable programmers but believe that they're only capable "for black girls" and not
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Isn't state controlling everything normal for Java? Now if you tried to write OCaml ...
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Include that in the calculations. There's a certain absolute sideways g-force (decreasable by slowing or straightening), and a certain absolute downwards gravity. These add up to a single total force. So long as the magnitude is at
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Not massively enough. If the US tried to arrest these targets and bring them to trial, the arresting forces would get killed.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
That sort of standard works when the executor has massively more power than the executee. For the US versus an ordinary criminal, we can do it. Facing something that looks more like a war, applying standards of justice generally results i
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Do drones have a higher false positive rate than human-piloted air support? Numbers are going to be hard to come by -- the military doesn't want to reveal anything. Qualitatively, the Collateral Murder video that wikileaks posted a w
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by dspeyer 13y ago
On the other hand, sometimes a webcomic character says something I've been thinking better than I could. Not Something Positive :)
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by dspeyer 13y ago
I think this article would be improved by removing the gender-specific parts. All these things happen all too often in any gender configuration and are real problems. Sexism or its spectre is a distraction.

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