greenshackle

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by greenshackle 10y ago
> bicycle > Canada That's great, except for the 7 or so months out of the year when it's not. If flukus prefers dense areas that's his deal... arguing about preferences is dumb.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Why are hookup apps making sex less stimulating? Because they cause people to have more sex. I can't see any other reason. So what you're saying is, young people are having less sex, because they're having more sex? (take thi
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by greenshackle 10y ago
How does that contradict the quote? Maybe your doc sends you home with no help precisely because it is poorly understood and so they don't know how to help you?
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Adler doesn't say you should read every book deeply though. He defines four levels of reading, from reading the table of content, to deep reading and synthesis of multiple works in the same domain. Elon's technique makes sense, bu
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by greenshackle 10y ago
It's not about efficiency, it's about effectiveness. Sequential reading may be more efficient, but it's infinitely less effective if you never pick up the book to read the next chapter. It's a workaround for the 'I
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by greenshackle 10y ago
"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Does it need to have Windows client? I'm guessing yes. If not there is [SFLVault]( http://sflvault.org/ )
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Python 3.5 introduced the async/await syntax, I don't do C# but at a glance it's the same. I've been working on a similar project and I've also found the push model easier.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I just started writing a functional stream processing library in Python for some of the same reasons. We use somewhat different concepts. I tend to think of streams as infinite, so it didn't occur to me to include something like a reve
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Yes, and VLC should have to pay movie publishers since they let users add subtitles over the video stream. That makes a lot of sense. /s
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by greenshackle 10y ago
You're missing the point, of course hammering the GPU creates a lot of heat, but you would expect a high end system that came pre-packaged with the GPU to be able cope with the heat. If the system is overheating , clearly it is not co
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by greenshackle 10y ago
So did I...
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by greenshackle 10y ago
To oversimplify by a lot, Civil/Environmental = urban/industrial (e.g. industrial/municipal wastewater treatment, air pollution), Environmental = agricultural/resources (e.g. soil management, biofuels, soil decontaminati
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by greenshackle 10y ago
They mean in the USA, it's based on a misintepretation of the graph below the quoted phrase, or on poor wording on their part. The graph says there are as many vision-impaired American internet users as there Canadian internet users -
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I don't think speaking of 'treating people as actual humans' is productive. It's a rhetorical device to paint people who disagree with your policy proposals as evil. It will get people who already agree with you to give
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by greenshackle 10y ago
"it was found that there are more hard of hearing users in the United States than the population Spain and more users who are blind and low-vision than the population of Canada." Really? There's more than 35 millions internet
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I don't find it too surprising that fewer hours worked results in a higher productivity per hour. EDIT: But I am surprised by the higher productivity per worker, compared to UK.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
You're not wrong, but then again, the typical American doesn't live in a typical city (where typical = median). The average American city/town has a population of 20,000, yet 80% of the population lives in a metropolitan area
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I suspect when people are asked what they regret and they say, I wish I had spent more time with my family, what they really mean is, I wish I had more time to spend with my family. Humans are not actually very good at remembering their pas
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Maybe I was unclear, what I meant is that usually you need to tinker with the internals at some point. Which is fine, but it does mean you need more than basic knowledge to use the tool productively. (And if the software is proprietary an
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Powerful abstractions make the promise that you'll only have to learn the abstraction to write powerful software, so "even people with only basic knowledge will be able to do X using abstraction Y". The promise is almost alwa
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by greenshackle 10y ago
More than two scales in fact, I can think of three: scale of firm, scale of distribution, scale of product. In most industries scale of firm goes hand-in-hand with scale of distribution. Software breaks the paradigm, so we have to be carefu
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by greenshackle 10y ago
An aside: Organic farmers use Bt too. As a spray. Bt proteins are a naturally occuring substance, after all. They argue the spray is not as bad as the GM crops due to the timing of exposure. I really don't know enough about insect biol
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Off the top of my head: Bt proteins, copper. There are many more, you can easily google and find a long list. And yes, that's the same Bt that's in Bt crops, by the way (proteins from Bt bacteria). Organic farmers use it in a spra
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Yeah I'm not saying the payouts are great. But let's say, pessimistically, that the lawyers took 80%; if they had done it pro bono, you'd get 5 coupons instead of 1. Better, but not by much. A small payout could be due to gre
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by greenshackle 10y ago
The guidelines for a framework I use is to put views and models in separate folders. Which means code for any model is spread out between at least two folders. Finding code is annoying.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Yes, you can reverse it on Windows. I should know, Windows 10 activated 'natural' scrolling on my touchpad when I upgraded. I'm really not sure why.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I disagree. There's a large grey area between 'completely unknown' and 'scientific certainty'. I prefer guessing and doing computations with my guesses than throwing my hands up in the air and calling it unknowable.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
No, it means he is french. I am french and understood immediately. It's a valid but rarely used word in english. It means flexible, or 'with many functions/uses', or 'good at many things'.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I know class action lawyers who work incredibly hard to defend the 'small people' and don't make that much. They take David vs Goliath cases. They went after a tobacco company, for example. The lawsuits take a lot of work, th

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