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by jdblair 8y ago
Or groups of 11, so if they can't reach consensus there is at least a tie breaking mechanism.
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by jdblair 8y ago
Perhaps everyone has a strong opinion of headline candidates, like senators, presidents, governors and such. However, I think small group concensus would really improve the voting for everything else: state constitutional amendments, bonds,
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by jdblair 8y ago
That correct. It was a case of nested loops and some code that was in the wrong loop. Braces are most definitely not whitespace, even if they serve the same function as whitespace in Python.
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by jdblair 8y ago
Actually, it had a camera. It was an ordinary webcam but it was mounted in a very conspicuous, conventional security camera housing.
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by jdblair 8y ago
Only in Python can I commit a whitespace-only change that results in a 10x speed improvement.
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by jdblair 8y ago
Nit: its "physics canon," not "cannon." Like "canonical."
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by jdblair 8y ago
But then this will happen: "uhhh.. air?" "Order denied"
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by jdblair 8y ago
I wasn't trying to suggest the design is not fire safe. Fire codes ensure it will be safe when completed.
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by jdblair 8y ago
I don't think they're a negative, either. Build, build, build!
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by jdblair 8y ago
All of the spectacular construction fires in Oakland in the past few years have been this type of construction. The enormous open wood frame structures were like carefully constructed bonfires built of dry wood. Lots of surface area and ven
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by jdblair 8y ago
From the article: Until a few years ago, it was fairly uncommon for an architect to go beyond four stories with wood-frame construction. Today, many designers choose five stories of wood over concrete podiums as a way to cost-effectively in
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by jdblair 8y ago
How do you get the hot dog toppings (mustard, relish, onions, etc.) into the hole in the roll?
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by jdblair 8y ago
That's how the DOC format in the 90s and early 00s worked. I was under the impression that the early formats for Word on DOS, Windows and Macintosh were all different and represented in-memory structures written directly to disk. Unfor
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by jdblair 8y ago
This is especially noteworthy because the older Word formats were essentially memory dumps of the data structures used to store the document.
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by jdblair 8y ago
Lua's version of NULL, called nil, once bit me badly due to behavior in a sqlite library. The sqlite library I was using represented SQL NULL as nil, a perfectly reasonable choice. However, in lua there is also a convention to use nil
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by jdblair 8y ago
Yes, it's a consumption tax on something you want to reduce the consumption of, not across the board on all products. Most proposals include an offset (e.g., basic income guarantee or negative income tax rate) for low income earners.
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by jdblair 8y ago
You charge a carbon tax at production of the raw feedstocks that contain the carbon (coal, oil and gas), not by tracking individual usage. Everyone pays the carbon tax because the price increase necessarily feeds through the whole economy o
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by jdblair 8y ago
A regular tenant can also do tens of thousands of dollars of damage. After the security deposit the landlord is not likely to collect more money.
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by jdblair 8y ago
See my comment on the other leaf.
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by jdblair 8y ago
Isn't that what the security deposit is for? I say this as a landlord, in California it's common to allow tenants to sublet for less than 30 days.
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Sipeed MAIX: inexpensive, crowd-funded RISC-V module(indiegogo.com)
55 points by jdblair 8y ago|2 comments
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by jdblair 8y ago
At the fantastic Museum of Jurassic Technology, in Los Angeles, there is a wonderful display of actual letters like this sent to the Mount Wilson Observatory. They are beautiful for their earnest curiosity. Some of these letters are online
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by jdblair 8y ago
This is not exactly a hack, but a good comparison of "good enough for now" vs. "future proof." 10 years ago I worked for a solar monitoring startup called Energy Recommerce. This is one of the most satisfying jobs I’ve h
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by jdblair 8y ago
Sweden was once a superpower. Or, at least a "great" power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire
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by jdblair 8y ago
My liquid measuring cups are glass and have a customary scale graduated in liquid ounces, not 10ths of a cup. They also have metric measures on the other side.
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by jdblair 8y ago
Measuring cups aren't graduated in 10ths. They're split into 8 liquid ounces. 0.2 cups = 1.6 oz. (My wife, who is from Finland, thinks the measuring system is insane. At least now I'm good at estimating conversion from F to C
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MP02 Minimalist 4G Mobile Phone(punkt.ch)
2 points by jdblair 8y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 8y ago
If that's the goal, then active measures to deter reselling tickets should be used. Thom Yorke succeeded at this when I saw him earlier this year. All tickets were Will Call and you had to enter immediately after ticket pickup. Selling
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by jdblair 8y ago
Why aren't ticket sales an auction? That would allow Ticketmaster and the promoters (and hopefully artists) to extract maximum value for each ticket. It would simultaneously take all the profit out of scalping. Tickets could be exchang
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The Developer Coefficient (good devs harder to find than cash) [pdf](stripe.com)
3 points by jdblair 8y ago|0 comments

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