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721.
by dzdt 9y ago
Agree, plex doesn't test well enough before release. I've found a good strategy is to wait at least 3 months after a release to upgrade, and then only after checking the plex forums that the new version is working well on your OS
722.
by dzdt 9y ago
See this page on extreme temperature electronics for a good discussion of what is available on the electronics side. The short answer is, there are discrete components that have been demonstrated to temperatures higher than Venus's 46
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by dzdt 9y ago
There is a systematic property of the modern medical system to overtreat. At the first level, if a patient goes to a doctor the expectation is the doctor should do something to help. If the doctor says, "sorry there is nothing I can d
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by dzdt 9y ago
This link is inserted completely randomly in the discussion tree, but it made my morning.
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by dzdt 9y ago
> It's not like it's reading external input and compiling it. Some games, because of bugs, allow exactly that. User input might be directly executable. That means that static compilation cannot be achievable in general. Either
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2017 Ig Nobel Prize Winners(improbable.com)
2 points by dzdt 9y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 9y ago
> It has nothing to do with her as a person and everything to do with a bad PR incident. Yes. The rejection is not about further punishing Ms. Jones. It is about protecting Harvard from bad press. Is it unreasonable that Harvard admiss
728.
by dzdt 9y ago
Well if you have a dozen children it is a safe bet that some are over the age of 12 and have lots of experience with younger siblings, excellent babysitter qualifications.
729.
by dzdt 9y ago
Works for me. Either quickly down-and-up or isolated to certain users. I think google is pretty good about engineering no global single points of failure; all updates are rolled out to only a fraction of users/machines at a time, etc.
730.
by dzdt 9y ago
When people complain about software patents, a typical response is "modern patent law really was designed for pharmaceuticals" and that the brokenness for software was more-or-less an accidental side effect. But stories like this
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by dzdt 9y ago
According to the article, the concrete floor was laid about 30 years after the artifacts were abandoned. If I understand it right, the fort had been raised and leveled more than once in between, so there was a thick layer of soil and debri
732.
by dzdt 9y ago
That is an incredibly pro-corporate anti-individual jurisdiction. Where is this?
733.
by dzdt 9y ago
There are measured ring-width chronologies from all over Europe. Years which are hot and dry give small amounts of tree growth; wetter years give more growth. The sequence of thick and thin rings correlates across large regions, allowing
734.
by dzdt 9y ago
Lol. At my work I am still eagerly awaiting the arrival of C++11.
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by dzdt 9y ago
In the US, the most standard "fixed rate" mortgage has the rate fixed for 30 years. A mortgage where the rate changes before loan maturity would be called an "adjustable rate mortgage" ("arm" for short).
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by dzdt 9y ago
There is a longer, more detailed article on this work at https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/sinai-pe... . The articles are similar enough they must originate from the same press release,
737.
by dzdt 9y ago
Yes, this. As machines get more capable, the economic role of humans diminish. This is analagous to the fate of horses after the introduction of the internal combustion engine. Most everyone on this site has the education and skills to sta
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by dzdt 9y ago
The undefined behavior is that the static variable "Do" (a function pointer) is used without initialization. The compiler optimization is that since, in the whole program, the only value to ever be assigned to "Do" is t
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by dzdt 9y ago
This comment hints at either interesting thoughts or craziness, but is about four times too short for me to tell which.
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Addicks reservoir overtops spillway, threatening Houston(mobile.twitter.com)
3 points by dzdt 9y ago|0 comments
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If the Addicks and Barker Dams Fail (2012)(houstonpress.com)
1 points by dzdt 9y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 9y ago
Reference please? My Bayesian estimate is that it is much more likely that you misunderstood badly or believed fake news than that the EPA was upset about a drinking water spill.
743.
by dzdt 9y ago
This article is based on the iphone app. Does anyone know the situation with the android version?
744.
by dzdt 9y ago
Maybe that is why coffee drinkers are healthier. Up for more coffee and/or bathroom every hour or so.
745.
by dzdt 9y ago
One of Scott's commentators (Stacey Jeffery) writes: That’s not because he necessarily said anything actually sexist or actually racist, but because he said the kinds of things that you usually only hear from sexist people, and in par
746.
by dzdt 9y ago
That is the brave new world awaiting us all. As machines get more capable, the economic role of humans diminish. This is analagous to the fate of horses after the introduction of the internal combustion engine. Most everyone on this site
747.
by dzdt 9y ago
Only more often it is the police who pretend to plan a crime and recruit suspects to participate in that fiction. If the suspects show willingness to participate they get arrested. [1] http://www.npr.org/2014/07/18
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by dzdt 9y ago
A good fraction of netflix use is on underpowered devices attached to tv's. Only the cable company can support channel-surfing on such underpowered set-top-boxes, because only the cable company gets the bandwidth to continually stream
749.
by dzdt 9y ago
There are many more such pictures at http://theviewshed.com/views-list/ including some that boast greater distances than the original post.
750.
by dzdt 9y ago
There is a cool demo trick to raise the apparent resolution for scrolling 80 column text. Alternate between two 80 column displays each of which have 4 pixel columns per character as matches the hardware resolution. On even frames displ

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