flyingfences

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by flyingfences 4y ago
This statistic is heavily weighted by suicides and domestic violence. If you don't have cause for concern over those two issues, the numbers are very different.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
9000 pounds is 4.018 British Tons.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
9000 pounds is 4.5 tons.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
In the new market, perhaps, but we still listened to "books on tape" in our minivan for another ten years. When the library started switching to carrying CDs, we had to use one of those cassette-to-aux adapters plugged into a port
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by flyingfences 4y ago
>If you have a fixed income If you have a fixed income _and_ already have a lease somewhere you like and don't foresee any reason to move in the future then (and only then) rent control works in your favor, at the expense of anyone
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by flyingfences 4y ago
It is about the feeling of control now. The reason people who still choose manuals do so isn't because of the torque curves -- automatics are now better at handling that -- it's because they like the feeling.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I can't speak to the particular 34-key board in the OP, but I've been using a Colemak 60% (HHKB) at home and a full-size QWERTY at work for a few years (after using Colemak almost exclusively for a few years before that) and I can
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> that ends up on the platform And therein lies the problem. The focus is on the platform. It's all about the platform. The "creators" churn out "content" to make the "platform" better. The platform dri
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Earlier this summer, my employer switched the entire company from a 5x8 to a 4x10 schedule. We're still working 40 hours per week, but the three-day weekends and the avoided commute definitely outweigh the earlier mornings.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
It's not done in the code itself, it's done in the compiler configuration. We specify a mapping of memory ranges (based on the hardware and how we want to use it) and the compiler assigns addresses to variables within those ranges
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Function variables, with scope and lifetime limited to the call, get their place on the stack as usual. Everything else -- i.e., constants, static function variables, and anything with higher scope -- is allocated its own memory at compile
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> Do they not join the legion of taxpayers? If they're only making $20k per year, no, not really.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
The options on the menu are for people ordering whole pies. If you walk in for a slice, you pick from the few popular options on deck.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Yup, and that's exactly why we turn the optimizations off and keep them off, even for the shipped release.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
My experience in the aerospace industry may or may not be more widely applicable, but here are my two cents. Using "better more safe programming languages" generally gets you [some greater level of] memory safety and thread safety
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> she FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Sussman
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I see them shilled in youtube sponsor deals often enough that I have to assume they're no good.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> impacted the culture and aesthetic within the firearms enthusiast community. And then he makes the leap of presuming that an aesthetic within the enthusiast community is driving a surge in mass murder. Frankly, the opposite seems more
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by flyingfences 4y ago
A proper trackpoint is supposed to have three buttons. The middle button works the same as on a desktop mouse: while holding the button, moving the cursor scrolls the page. Among the few laptops that still include a trackpoint at all, I&#x2
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> you can always choose to live in a cheaper home I'm not sure if you've looked around northern New England recently, but there are practically no cheaper homes left.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
The key difference, I think, is that software is user-facing, whereas hardware no longer is. The bigwigs and bean counters who make the hire-versus-outsource decisions can tell that lowest-bidder outsourced software sucks and so don't
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I can. I shouldn't have to.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
One of the benefits of a waterfall development model over these agile strategies is that code review becomes a whole-team, front-and-center piece of the process, not a distraction from other tasks. With each revision of our product spec, we
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I have to disagree emphatically that C is outmoded. It may lack some of the polish and novelty of Rust et al, but it's still a fine language. More importantly, it's an industry standard, has been for ages, and will be for ages. So
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by flyingfences 4y ago
The authors have written up a summary [0] of the differences: in short, 3e reflects the changes in typical computer hardware over the last decade or two. Note also that there are two versions of the third edition: the standard edition (colo
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by flyingfences 4y ago
They are going on strike, demanding that the government salary be higher. If they continued to represent clients, they would be breaking the strike, so their "negotiations" would fail. I agree, it is completely reprehensible.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I've been aggressively filtering and purging my Reddit feed for a couple of years, and at first it was enough, but only at first. I finally bit the bullet and deleted my account after ten years. I only go back to Reddit when I know the
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by flyingfences 4y ago
A passport works, but it a) doesn't list a home address, which is sometimes necessary and b) is too bulky to conveniently carry around.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Yes, I'm glad for the opportunity to buy more Bitcoin at this discounted price.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Hell, even refraining from filing opposing briefs would suffice.

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