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by epmatsw 14y ago
Makes sense. I guess I just was imagining corn and grains, stuff that seems like it'd be easy to pick mechanically. Didn't really think about stuff like beets. Thanks for the answer though!
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Genuine question, is there a truly significant portion of American agriculture that is based on plowing by hand? I was under the impression that most food comes from commercial-level farms that use machinery to plow. My dad works on a prett
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by epmatsw 14y ago
I'm not at all surprised by this. I mean, I use the same dictionary-word password for 98% of websites I visit. You know why? Cause for the most part, it doesn't matter. If someone manages to log in to my Hackernews account and accounts on r
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by epmatsw 14y ago
That's pretty much what I figured. If we wait a bit, I wouldn't be surprised to see a writeup from Geoff, the author of Ag. His blog posts when he started development on it were really interesting. http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silv
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by epmatsw 14y ago
It would be interesting to see benchmarks on this. I know TSS was faster before, and this release didn't seem to highlight any performance improvements.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Interesting. We do software for larger hospitals that has some web-based elements and require IE 9+ or Chrome. I guess we're targeting different audiences.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
You'd be surprised about hospitals. At a hospital with modern software, a lot of the browser based stuff they use actually runs through Citrix or something similar, so they're using IE9/10 or Chrome for the most part.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Keeping old-IE compatibility prevents some optimizations and makes the code have to do extra checks, but using one file that supports it is simpler than using two files?
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Agreed. I don't see it happening for quite a while.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
The more I've learned about how the medical system works, the more it seems like the future is going to tend towards replacing doctors with systems like Watson, concentrating knowledge in a quick, easily updatable form and keeping doctors a
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by epmatsw 14y ago
I don't know when it switched, but my APCS exam in 2008 was Java. The sample program we had to learn for the exam was also in Java, so I assume that was the default language.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Looks like about 15 per year. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811165.pdf
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by epmatsw 14y ago
How is that a better experience? This is a legitimate question, I don't think I understand what you're referring to.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Oh god. I've seen way to many bugs as a result of this stupid feature.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Ah, didn't realize they weren't weighted. Still, it'd be interesting to see if the apparent bias to the southwest is statistically significant.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
It's interesting that the infection seems most common in the Southwest. Do botnets like this spread geographically based on email address or physical connection/proximity? Or are the targeted sites or infection points targeted at users in t
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by epmatsw 14y ago
HackerNews is the best example for me. In firefox, I can type in y, and it will know that I want news.ycombinator.com. In Chrome, the only way to have it autocomplete (at least the last time I tried it) was to start with n.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Man, I need to remember to not read the comments on other websites. They're just horrifying...
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by epmatsw 14y ago
I don't know how accurate this [1] is (because the citation link is dead), but Wikipedia claims Veronica Mars cost about $1.7 million per episode ($2.1 million for the Season 1 finale). Each episode is 1 hour, so double that, and you assume
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by epmatsw 14y ago
The difference being that basic computer science algorithms are very very well studied and understood, while human nutrition is not at all. In your example, computer scientists would argue against the conclusion based on knowledge, while bi
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Regarding 2, I'm not sure I'd want to see the results of pressing a human at 16g against a kevlar mesh, especially considering it's mainly our squishy bits that'd be up against it.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
So many of these are really funny in retrospect. It's almost like Apple just did the opposite of a lot of this advice: compete on specs, become more open, license their products, rent generic PC store space. On the other hand, in retrospect
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Command+Q?
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by epmatsw 14y ago
And therefore shouldn't be washed? Seems like you made a pretty good argument for washing them to me...
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Hunting is a pretty solid and common use for a weapon that wasn't designed for military use.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
A significant portion of Americans don't trust their government to provide efficient services. In general, we'll trust other citizens and corporations to do a better job. On top of that, you have many people who are reasonably insured and d
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by epmatsw 14y ago
Electronic Health Records are harder to implement than you'd expect. HIPAA sets really harsh penalties for violations that can occur much more easily if hospitals and doctors provide open access to other facilities. Organizations are also o
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by epmatsw 14y ago
I think the best way to roll out self-driving cars would be to build up a base product (like Google has done), and then open source at least a large portion of the software. Run a campaign that anyone reporting a critical bug gets their nam
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by epmatsw 14y ago
But the average consumer doesn't think like that. They see a 64gb iPad and a 64gb Surface. To most people, that's like a 3 meter rope and a 3 meter cable. They're the same measurements, and they "should" be the same.
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by epmatsw 14y ago
That's an absurd argument. Because it's not likely to fool someone twice, it shouldn't matter that it's obviously deceptive?

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