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by edoo 8y ago
I saw something very interesting the other day. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma doesn't take insurance and they can't charge you if they make a mistake. Their post-op infection rate is 5% the rate of hospitals that get to bill yo
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by edoo 8y ago
Going to New York is a political move. They could have set up in the midwest, paid everyone 75% as much as the going rate in NY or silicon valley, and the employees would have 50% more expendable income than they are used to. This wasn&#x
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by edoo 8y ago
Perhaps technically true, but the entire point of the MVC is you can do simple record retrievals with a single line of code using auto generated active record models. One line vs a monstrous dirty function isn't acceptable.
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by edoo 8y ago
I had a very very similar experience. I saw the craziest code in my entire career while debugging performance issues. Even though they were using a PHP MVC framework, they were pulling every record from a db table to iterate over to find
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by edoo 8y ago
I thought it was mileage not years. First 2k miles are second most dangerous. Next 2k miles are most dangerous because you get comfortable enough to make mistakes.
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by edoo 8y ago
And horses are 20 times more dangerous than motorcycles.
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by edoo 8y ago
Wow so 4.6 million people seriously injured in car accidents in the US in 2016. Given an 80 year average lifespan you are statistically at 110% risk of serious lifetime injury using the most basic statistics. 4.6M / 330M = yearly risk
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by edoo 8y ago
I'm excited. If you have been alive a substantial amount of time you are easily running a lifetime average of about 1-2% chance of dying in a car accident in your lifetime. Things have gotten much safer the past couple decades so tha
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by edoo 8y ago
It might be fun to come up with the probability of a worse case scenario, like parked on the crest of a hill in bumper to bumper traffic. Although probably not practical to worry about in reality, there is some probability that all 200 cars
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by edoo 8y ago
I've used Sprint before. It almost seems like all websites are throttled.
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by edoo 8y ago
I had a founder that was so cheap he only hired the most entry level engineers for all aspects his projects and it was always a disaster. At this point it is obvious that approach is actually more expensive and usually failed him. Once th
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by edoo 8y ago
I used to do a slightly different system where I'd have ridiculous answers, sort of a word game play on the question itself, and forgetting your secret answers with a company like Verizon can take days to figure out.
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by edoo 8y ago
Banks and the rest hate me. I use keypass to generate random alpha numeric 'passwords' I use for the answers to personal questions.
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by edoo 8y ago
You can do the exact same with a few lines of bash and the gdb package which includes gcore, a standard utility that saves core files from running programs.
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https://github.com/smaugmuds/_smaug_/tree/master/src I still do C so it isn't so far removed.
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by edoo 8y ago
MUDs were advanced data processing systems. As a kid I wrapped my head around one with a 100k line code base. That has led to quite a successful career and I still use a lot of the same techniques I learned.
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by edoo 8y ago
Catch 22. The killer robots will be quite proficient in tracking electromagnetic radiation.
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by edoo 8y ago
I can't help but wonder what the rate is that didn't admit to being asked to commit scientific fraud because they did.
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You could almost say we mostly learn from failures. If you had blind success with a complex method the only way to test the limits would be tweaking it to failure.
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by edoo 8y ago
I've seen a couple white papers on modern rendering techniques that were actually developed in the 50's or 60's and one day someone happened noticed that modern hardware could easily do it in real time now. I wonder how many
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by edoo 8y ago
So it sounds like Ubuntu with different default GUI apps. I would almost consider recommending something like that for brand new users but it would have to be rather established. If you have the slightest experience installing packages an
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by edoo 8y ago
Cannabis slows down certain abstract thinking abilities and you basically think differently for a while. This can be an amazing insightful juxtaposition to normality. I suspect it is the effect on the short term memory centers that make i
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by edoo 8y ago
The issue was solved with epoll back in 2004. All modern socket processing should be using async IO. This is just an example of how to hold the sockets open and use it more like a TCP server. Ruby might be the good choice for this if you
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by edoo 8y ago
I wonder if we can get Steve Carell to do a "Goodbye Windows" song. Been dual booting for many years now only for steam.
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by edoo 8y ago
To each his own. Just because someone doesn't believe in guns or defending their own property doesn't mean it isn't prudent to have a small emergency stash of food.
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by edoo 8y ago
Cool means average temperature less than 65F. Underground easily meets that in hot areas.
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by edoo 8y ago
A government report estimated 90% die off after 1 year if the lights go out due to solar flare or EMP. You can get a basic 1 year supply of food that will last 20 years in cool storage for under $1000 shipped. That is 3 months for a famil
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by edoo 8y ago
I learn best fiddling first and theory later. Check out the DE0 Nano. Cyclone IV with ram, buttons, leds, eeprom, accelerometer, adc, header breakouts, under $100. Any fpga dev kit in that class will work. I was able to jump right into i
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Hah great analysis. One factor with bus' is the schedule is likely planned to minimize early arrivals at the risk of being late more often. Usually when a bus is early it has to sit and wait until its departure time. A late running
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The AI would have to be processing at a high enough level of abstraction to be fooled the same way. Basic image recognition is... basic. Check out this adversarial attack on an image classifier. They turn a panda into a gibbon with a spec

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