gdickie

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by gdickie 4y ago
I drive a Ford Focus Electric. All of the non-drivetrain parts are standard focus stuff, and are fine. The same mostly-physical-controls UI that non-electric focus has. The usual wear parts wear out just like an ICE car, but the brakes need
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by gdickie 7y ago
The federal tax incentive is a refundable tax credit. So it doesn't interact with deductions. It's regressive in the sense that you need to be buying a new car to get it. But it passes to used car owners in the form of a lower res
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by gdickie 9y ago
When you have a long list of numbered filenames with no padding, pipe the list through "sort -V" for "version number" ordering. Edit: Glitchmr has a better solution below, "ls -v".
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by gdickie 11y ago
For flash devices, power consumption / thermal dissipation is usually a small constant for the control logic, plus a very small amount per read, plus a small amount per (page) write. If you are limited to the write rate allowed by the
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BlaBlaCar is building a global transportation network out of empty car seats(qz.com)
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by gdickie 13y ago
The last time I was looking for work, LinkedIn was useful. I heard of a company that sounded like a good match. LinkedIn found a 2nd-level connection working there, and an interview resulted.
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by gdickie 14y ago
I prefer the correlary, as motivation: "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
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by gdickie 16y ago
This is the paragraph where the research is described as a significant step in fighting terror, curing cancer, or solving world hunger.
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by gdickie 16y ago
Very pretty, fun to play with. The rollovers are getting chopped off for most of the right side of the map -- they run off the right edge of the page. Can they be pulled in? At least initially, I was leery of clicking -- but it turned out t
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by gdickie 16y ago
At the lowest level, you don't need to double-up, you can use an error correcting code. If the memories and registers on a chip use a multiple-error correcting code, then the underlying error rate could be quite high without making any diff
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by gdickie 16y ago
The Netezza database appliance essentially works like this -- each disk is paired with an FPGA and a CPU core. The disk-local CPU takes care of caching directory information for the disk, decides what order to process disk pages in, and man
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by gdickie 17y ago
I will often do this when I am drawing a blank. Write psuedo-code, or code that is how you would like it to be, if your language / macros / libraries supported it. Then you can worry later about making your language support what you just
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by gdickie 18y ago
Gatto uncovers the underlying intention for public schools to produce docile factory workers. Once you make your goals clear and explicit, much of the argument over how to educate becomes moot or even silly. Sudbury Valley School in Massach