humbledrone

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by humbledrone 6y ago
It's just really unusual for the area. I've lived here for about 8 years, and during that time I've heard exactly two claps of thunder (until last night). Thunderstorms are just not a thing here.
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by humbledrone 6y ago
I made a web-based clone as a Java applet circa 2003-2004 for a $300 contract on rentacoder.com for which I was never paid. :) I built just the basic skeleton of a game engine, and stupidly handed over the code to the client before they pa
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by humbledrone 6y ago
> the code works fine and doesn't actually need abstraction Well, maybe it works fine. We didn't see the other 97 lines to verify that they actually include all the integers from 3-99 without skipping or duplicating any. (NB wi
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by humbledrone 6y ago
> But at the same time it shows that rocket tech is not as difficult as people make it out to be. It really doesn't. The scale model probably weighs a few pounds where as the real Falcon Heavy weighs 3 million pounds [1]. Think abou
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by humbledrone 6y ago
Paper airplanes fly, and they have flat wings! It turns out that flat wings work just fine, but the airfoil shape we see on airplanes is more efficient: http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/airfoilmyth.html
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by humbledrone 7y ago
You don't seem to understand how natural selection works. The people whose lives have been extended from 70 to 80 years are well past their reproductive years, so their genes have already been passed on (or not) and their early death d
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by humbledrone 7y ago
We could differentiate between providing basic life support (housing + food + medicine) and paying for your hobbies. I am doubtful that the stick is the only option (destitution) and not the carrot ( having an iPhone Pro Max Super Wazoo 300
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by humbledrone 7y ago
> the cynicism comes from Bezos being committed to fighting climate change as long as it doesn't take his money, and actually, it should probably make him money in the process. If this is the way it works out, isn't that actual
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by humbledrone 7y ago
That's simply tax fraud.
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by humbledrone 7y ago
I frequently see the "they're just doing this for the tax breaks" sentiment for these kinds of donations (especially when the donor is a corporation or hyper-wealthy individual) but I don't understand the reasoning. From
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by humbledrone 7y ago
I'd rather get hit in the head by a ten pound blob of clay than a five pound iron ball. (Preferably neither, though.)
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by humbledrone 7y ago
> Inhaling smoke isn't good for you. Sure. Neither is being overweight, which is just as measurable as nicotine use. (Probably more measurable, since you can't easily lie about being overweight.)
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by humbledrone 7y ago
Smoking is not binary either; there's a world of difference between a couple cigarettes a week while at the bar vs. a pack a day every day.
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by humbledrone 7y ago
Thanks. I must be only used to proto2.
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by humbledrone 7y ago
> It’s impossible to differentiate a field that was missing in a protobuffer from one that was assigned to the default value. Presumably this decision is in place in order to allow for an optimization of not needing to send default scala
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by humbledrone 7y ago
Protocol buffers already do that; serialized fields that are not recognized by an older message definition are parsed and can be accessed via the "unknown fields" API, exactly as "r" above. Intermediaries can pass these
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by humbledrone 7y ago
Gasoline tax and vehicle registration fees pave the road.
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by humbledrone 7y ago
All of the gold that has ever been mined by humanity over the last few thousand years would fit in a cube about 21 meters per edge. So I think that actually it would make a big difference to grab something this size made out of gold. https
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by humbledrone 7y ago
How hard did they push you? If they shoved you with only a micronewton if force and you fell, it's probably the fault of your overreaction.
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by humbledrone 7y ago
How good of a programmer do you need to be in a language that only has two valid characters? Just press tab and space and go. Typing speed is the only factor that I can think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_
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by humbledrone 7y ago
Diablo II and III have hardcore mode which makes death permanent, which IMO makes the game much more fun.
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by humbledrone 7y ago
(Note: my replies below assume a sane situation at a FANG company with good management.) #define MM middle manager > But they are never in any meetings Do you mean they are never in any meetings that you are in, or do you mean that you h
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by humbledrone 8y ago
It's worth noting that in some sense, all words are just made up.
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by humbledrone 8y ago
The thing is, none of the neighbors actually care about the staircase with no handrail. They just want what they consider to be an eyesore to go away, and they're using code/law as a tool to get that. It may well be that the owner
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by humbledrone 8y ago
My God, a staircase without a handrail? What's next, riding a bicycle without a helmet? Better bulldoze the whole complex.
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by humbledrone 8y ago
What you want is a one-tailed Binomial test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_test You need these ingredients: - The scientists polled for whether they're rising up need to be randomly sampled from the popul
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by humbledrone 8y ago
Why would the fishermen not be the optimal finding source? Basically the premise here is that their use of plastic nets is already externalizing a cost onto society. Forcing them to pay for nets that cause less externalities just means we&#
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by humbledrone 8y ago
As a hiring manager, I am careful to avoid drawing any negative conclusions from looking at a personal GitHub profile, because I believe that sloppiness or "bad" code is actually just fine in the context of random personal project
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by humbledrone 8y ago
If this is physical labor, then so is typing at a computer keyboard all day.
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by humbledrone 8y ago
Check out IOTA. In theory (and so far in practice) it solves the problems you describe. It does not yet have as solid a theoretical foundation as blockchain currencies, though, so there's higher risk that it turns out to have some flaw

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