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by fr0sty 15y ago
"Quisler" is a non-sequiter. Quisling was a quisler and Obama championed obamacare and Savage wanted to create a vulgar definition of a man's name. One of those is not like the other... If "Quisling" meant "a man in drag", "pile of manure"
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> I... usually just `git reset --hard` This is still risky if your ~/.git had uncommitted changes. I'll admit to being a little paranoid but I spent enough time on the #git irc channel to learn that any advice that is potentially danger
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Do you intend to never use 'git clean -x...' anywhere in your home directory? when you run 'git <command>' git will go upward through the directory tree until it finds a .git directory. If you intend to run 'git clean -fx' in ~/foo/
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by fr0sty 15y ago
That could work, but where would the .git/ directory be? If you have in $HOME/.git you are inviting disaster with an errant 'git clean...' command. If not you need to deal with managing the options/environment to make the git commands work
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by fr0sty 15y ago
And by "phone" I mean "always-on internet-connected portable computer". Come to think of it that may be the source of the dissatisfaction: thinking of your device as a phone rather than a portable computer that also makes phone calls.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
What would be the refill/recharge time for this car? Is the alternative to have a 100gallon gas tank or towable battery array? I can charge my phone in under an hour. I can do so in the car, at my desk, or any of hundreds of other places gi
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by fr0sty 15y ago
What is the use-case for the one-week battery? I plug my phone in every night when I go to bed and this has not seemed overly onerous.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Why do we need a "more sophisticated" source of DC power? What would that even look like? 12VDC is 12VDC. Are current 120VAC (or whatever your mains voltage) similarly unsophisticated? Besides, with an install base that numbers in the hundr
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by fr0sty 15y ago
And if SOPA passes you will see suspiciously simil overzealuos attempts to stop piracy. Same song, different verse but this time you get the federal government involved which is a whole new level of fun.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
A world in which the state mandates that your work day begins before the sun rises... Where do I sign up?? sarcasm off
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by fr0sty 15y ago
I'm not sure that quite qualifies as "normal looking"...
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by fr0sty 15y ago
My point was that your "entry level" car was the same as my "luxury sedan". My previous ride was a 1990 BMW 535I and before that a 1982 Mercedes. Both purchased when they were over 15 years old and both for less than $3k so paying closer to
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> old-ish entry-level German car... 2005 Audi A4 Funny... I just bought a new-ish German luxury sedan: 2004 Audi A4. It is newest and most expensive car I have ever owned. Perspective is a weird thing...
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by fr0sty 15y ago
There is a difference between ostracism and witch hunting. The former is saying no more than "you are not welcome here" while the latter is more insidious. Besides, it isn't witch "hunting" if the witches are putting out press releases sayi
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by fr0sty 15y ago
All you need to do is write a regex to match. Currently supported languages are: BibTeX, C/C++, html, java, ObjectiveC, Pascal, PHP, Python, Ruby, and TeX. More details can be found in the gitattributes(5) manpage
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The author should try adding this to his .git/info/attributes file: *.py diff=python That should make --function-context work better on python source files.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
But it is easier to check the the GP's solution: return definitions.get(candidate) != null; vs foreach c in definitions(candidate.charAt(0)) { if c == candidate.charAt(1)) return true; } return val; That le
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Also potentially of interest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3327828 In several of these transcripts you can read the pilots reactions to various warnings (including stall warnings) which might be interesting to look at for compariso
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Last Words: transcripts and voice recordings from airplane crashes(planecrashinfo.com)
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by fr0sty 15y ago
This is a fantastic question. I can think of no situation where this behavior would be desireable, but then again IANAP
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Agreed. I personally can't think of much more to say than that.
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What really happened aboard Air France 447(popularmechanics.com)
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> Most homes are built on top of cinderblock basements, Block foundations have been replaced in new construction with poured concrete in general (in the midwest, at least). The solid walls are less prone to settling, cracking, and most
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Some home exteriors are made with brick or concrete blocks but a large number (I can't quote a percentage) of American homes are built entirely from lumber. Current construction usually involves sheathing the outside of the house with plywo
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The house has a stucco exterior. Rigid foam insulation clad with a metal mesh covered with a thin layer of what is basically concrete.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> But you can replace the ECU with one of your choice. As a counterexample: There are certain maintenance procedures for late model Audis that can only be done at the dealership. The diagnostic tool is connected to the car and then phon
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by fr0sty 15y ago
I would watch it too but only if it was 100% BS-free. Simplified, fine. I would even stand for a fair bit of handwaving. But it all needs to be possible. The words of Sherlock Holmes are apropos: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatev
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Just a note: Short and leveraged ETFs are designed to match intraday movement and are poorly suited for long-term holding. It says as much on the website. To wit: YTD EUR/USD is down .2% and that ETF is down 5%.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Of course you will need Euros for day to day expenses. The idea would be to move your savings onto USD or GBP before the exchange rates spike and convert them back into $local_currency after things in europe settle down. ...can you s
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The enclosure and switch are the same parts used to make guitar effects pedals.

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