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by epx 11y ago
Opposed pistons is a way to have a very long stroke engine (high torque and smaller piston speeds = smoother), without the bigger radius that the crankshaft pin would have to rotate.
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by epx 11y ago
Sad. Turbo Pascal and later Delphi were immensely popular in Brazil in 90s and 2000s. Many small software houses depended on it. I had a bunch of old Turbo Pascal / Objectvision (I think that was the name) manuals, and a guy actually b
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by epx 11y ago
People complain too much about anything...
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by epx 11y ago
PHP has batteries included. For almost everything you can imagine doing, from image manipulation to send e-mail, there is some (poorly conceived) API. And, coupled to Apache MPM or equivalent, it offers a very simple model of development wi
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by epx 11y ago
I feel this problem in relation to frameworks. Job listings, etc. tend to ask for specific frameworks or libraries, but they come and go too fast. Normally I do 'lazy evaluation' and only worry about learning a framework when I re
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by epx 11y ago
People are drinking way more to compensate for that. I prefer that people kill themselves instead of killing others (in traffic accidents related to alcohol, etc.)
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by epx 11y ago
I see that as a worldwide problem, as interest rates tend to zero. In Brazil, real estate prices are completely out of touch with median income (at least, the rents are still affordable, because the typical landlord owns only one or two pla
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by epx 11y ago
A .vn minister said recently that toothpaste was difficult to find in stores because people were brushing their teeth 3x a day, which is "obviously too much, 1x at night is enough". It is incredible how stupid things a person allo
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by epx 11y ago
Not judging the merit of the complaints, but trying to "cure" gender imbalances by adding another imbalance will create strong non-linearities, that will attract people that like to exploit these non-linearities instead of attract
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by epx 11y ago
Trying to do that creates strong non-linearities and the end result is unlikely to create a healthy equilibrium.
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by epx 11y ago
A grandnephew of my wife was born with microcephaly, likely one of the first victims of Zika virus, when the surge of the birth defect was still not detected by public health. I can just imagine the social cost of that -- how many persons i
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by epx 11y ago
Li-ion can't handle our scale.
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by epx 11y ago
Haha!!
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by epx 11y ago
Python 2 was broken when Unicode strings were allowed weak conversion from/to regular strings.
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by epx 11y ago
Eating an apple and feeling guilty... think about crazy people. I actually knew a handful of persons like that (mostly women). They cared about anyone except their own offspring, and the children are adults now, and struggling. So sorry, I
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by epx 11y ago
I began to port a small project to Swift and at a certain point Xcode crashed because of a copy-paste on a swift file. Postponed it until Xcode 7...
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by epx 11y ago
People fantasize too much about capitalism. The definition of capitalism is: capital and income are expressed under the same monetary unit (like mass and energy could be): income = capital x interest rate The former alternatives was to put
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by epx 11y ago
Governments play a trump card: the known devil is better than the unknown one. Sunk cost, you know.
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by epx 11y ago
Governments hardly ever do that. 99% of the .vn oil money went to Chavez supporters and sycophants, and 1% actuallly went to the people. And this 1% doubled as a way to earn, cheaply, support from left-wing, well-meaning people like you.
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by epx 11y ago
Chrome is working better than safari in my iPhone 6+
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by epx 11y ago
War Games.
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by epx 11y ago
"Why free software misses the point of open source."
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by epx 12y ago
A perfectly unbiased text :D
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by epx 12y ago
Yes, came to know antidepressant medicine because of that.
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by epx 12y ago
Become the manager!
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by epx 12y ago
Would not get anything near that if the election was today. Election was won basically by public spending + promising that no austerity measures would take place after the election. Brazil has lost a golden opportunity to improve itself bet
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by epx 12y ago
Well, the actual divorce rate is certainly not that different in magnitude. It is not 5-10%.
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by epx 12y ago
Not everything needs to have a social function.
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by epx 12y ago
People are quick to dump evolution when it does not sing along with PC. I agree that EP has a low SNR ratio but I don't buy that every difference is socially constructed.

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