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by jboles 7y ago
> not generally: > among Swedish men born 1951–1967: evidence from military conscription registers What's that?
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by jboles 7y ago
I think it is the latter. All the pings I see now are so mundane and banal (most of mine are friend suggestions for people I’ve never met). They really must be scraping the metaphorical bottom of the barrel.
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by jboles 7y ago
I have a HL5250DN that I picked up for $70 at least 5 years ago. It’s been going strong since then with occasional home printing duties and despite it not supporting modern wireless printing, Brother’s own “iPrint&Scan” software (with t
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by jboles 7y ago
Does this pretty-much rule out (without a huge amount of effort) nonmodal GUIs? It seems without callbacks, you would need to roll your own window management, Z-ordering of overlapping UI elements, state transition validation (e.g. clicking
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by jboles 7y ago
> DC-10 are not transporting passengers anymore. Neither MD-11. Perhaps because they’re known? They were up until the 2010's. The design problems that led to the crashes had long been solved. The reason they're not flying anymo
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by jboles 7y ago
That is an exaggeration. The DC-10 was operating with tier-1 (example: Northwest, KLM) carriers up until the late 2000s/early 2010s. The DC-10's design problems were largely resolved in its first decade of service in the 1970&#x27
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by jboles 7y ago
I curse this every time I am troubleshooting a Mac problem and someone replies to a forum thread with "reset the PRAM".
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by jboles 7y ago
You can sort of tell this from the style of IBM's TV ads, which have a condescending and smarmy tone that is quite distinctive. The ads are filled with lofty buzzwords. No talk of actual technology at all, because the ads are targetted
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by jboles 8y ago
You could also make 720k DSDD disks into 1.44M DSHD disks by making a hole in the corner (similar to the write-protect hole but opposite corner). Of course, 720k disks seemed to be made to lower tolerances than 1.44M disks, so it was not a
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by jboles 8y ago
The effusive status messages when it does this really adds to the "watch all the great work it's doing" effect. "Hi ... We've got some updates for your PC ... It should only take a few minutes ... We should be done
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by jboles 8y ago
It's always been real-time location data. At one point it was pretty low-tech (odometer hooked up to a radio transmitter) but it's now been GPS-based for ~5 years.
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by jboles 8y ago
They can be related but not necessarily. Pitch is where the nose is pointed, while angle of attack is the angle at which the passing air hits the wings. The nose can be pointed up with a low angle of attack (e.g. a climb during cruise) and
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by jboles 8y ago
I don’t know, writing silly projects in QBasic with VGA mode graphics and sound from the beeper definitely felt like fusion to me...
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by jboles 8y ago
The deployment process might be vanilla but depending on the complexity of the software, automated validation gates before/after deployment stages might need to be quite custom to achieve required test coverage.
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by jboles 8y ago
Your last paragraph sums it up well, in my opinion. Too often the answer chosen is to "add a new configuration setting", which means one more thing for ops to keep track of and one more potential cause of failure for devs to inves
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by jboles 8y ago
For slowness when single-stepping, turning off Intellitrace (if not required) and playing with the function/expression evaluation and symbol loading settings in Tools->Options can help with that, if you haven’t already.
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by jboles 8y ago
The achievers are likely the quiet ones, precisely because they're a bit tired of articles like these telling them that they can't be proud of their success.
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by jboles 8y ago
It’s not the Apple way to make concessions to security through hardware means. The hardware must remain a perfect uninterrupted glass slab, and any protections would likely be made in software. Edit: downvoter is welcome to point me to any
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by jboles 8y ago
Another one is giving insanely long names but only changing one little part, instead of taking advantage of the heirarchical nature of programming languages and coming up with a nice nested structure. Example: class TheRpcThing {
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by jboles 8y ago
I nearly got hit just this morning by someone blowing through a right turn on red. If they get that close to me that I am in range to, I will hit or kick their car ;)
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by jboles 8y ago
It's not comparable. A right turn on red is allowed at traffic lights in the US, unless signposted otherwise. A left turn on red is dis allowed at traffic lights in Australia, unless signposted otherwise. I think the latter (default
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by jboles 8y ago
Are websites allowed to make remedial changes when slapped with one of these lawsuits, or are they forced to submit to the cash grab?
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by jboles 8y ago
Osaka is an example, the Shinkansen does not stop in central Osaka but stops at ‘Shin Osaka’ station (literally ‘New Osaka’ station).
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by jboles 8y ago
This artwork reminds me of a book from my childhood, the ‘Usborne Book of the Future’. In addition to being richly illustrated, it predicted a lot of the technology we would have today, as well as described problems society might face in th
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by jboles 8y ago
In some defence forces there is an NCO rank above Sergeant named Staff Sergeant, is my guess.
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by jboles 8y ago
This is easily solved by charging the users of the shared infrastructure a rate based on their usage, with penalties for breakdowns. Australia had a similar problem when the rail infrastructure part was split off into ARTC. Some dodgy opera
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by jboles 8y ago
They could develop their own phone. Apple, the maker of the hardware, is also a stakeholder in users’ privacy. They are not obligated to assist Facebook in the undermining of users’ privacy. If their stance on privacy does not meet Facebook
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by jboles 8y ago
That's something that would change with time though, hopefully. Useful rail infrastructure, along with increased traffic congestion, encourages commercial and residential development (some may call this 'transit oriented developme
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by jboles 8y ago
I only ever knew about it because, for a time, there was a dedicated tab in the FB app for it. And that tab ALWAYS had a 'new notification' red dot overlaid. Every single time. So obnoxious. They did the same thing with their &#x2
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by jboles 8y ago
The author sounds like an entitled whinger. I'd be curious about what age he got his first job.

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