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by jdblair 11y ago
The point is to encourage you to bring your own bag, eliminating a disposable bag from use. To do that you have to charge explicitly for it.
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by jdblair 11y ago
Because that will bite you in the ass. Someday the person who knows how to ssh in to fix stuff will be on vacation, or at another job. Or someday you'll decide you would really like to put the service in an autoscale group and now you
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by jdblair 11y ago
BART is famously underinvested and is struggling with the same issues. For example: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2016/news20160316-0
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by jdblair 11y ago
That's pretty much what they did, but as a fundamental architecture of the OS. The "emulation box" is the win32 subsystem. Applications interact with the API in the subsystem, which translates, for example, win32 calls to the
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The Market Fairy will not solve the problems of Uber and Lyft(ianwelsh.net)
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Famous Photo of Chernobyl's Most Dangerous Radioactive Material Was a Selfie(atlasobscura.com)
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by jdblair 11y ago
It seems to me a more practical strategy for staying "under the radar" is to use cash for small daily purchases, for things where cash is more reliable (e.g., private sale of a used car), to help out a contractor I'm paying,
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by jdblair 11y ago
I really don't understand this. What's a reasonable amount? I withdrew $2500 in cash from my bank last week. No questions other than "how would you like that?" and "would you like an envelope?"
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by jdblair 11y ago
Fairly new Netflix employee here (started last November). From what I can see so far the "highly aligned, loosely coupled" culture here works very well. The company has a clear focus, we all get it, and we all work to make it happ
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by jdblair 11y ago
Because its part of the terms of the Camp David Accords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords#Framework_P... "The agreement also resulted in the United States committing to several billion dollars wort
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Barry Eisler on Whistleblowers at the Assoc of Former Intelligence Officers(freedom.press)
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by jdblair 11y ago
I'm so happy someone beat me to this joke.
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Truth and reconciliation is coming to America from the grassroots(theguardian.com)
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by jdblair 11y ago
A personal anecdote: I stumbled on LISP and Scheme around the time I graduated from high school in 1991. I became interested in LISP from learning about classic AI research. I found a professor my first year in college who mentored me in an
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by jdblair 11y ago
AutoCAD uses AutoLISP for scripting and extension. Its been a significant part of AutoCAD since 1986. http://ronleigh.com/autolisp/ahistory.htm
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by jdblair 11y ago
This is the most amazing Mir story I know. Dave Wolf and Anatoly Solovyev finished a spacewalk and were locked out by a faulty airlock. Radiolab has a tremendous recording of Dave Wolf recounting the experience. http://www.radiol
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by jdblair 11y ago
So serious! I think we can make jokes and still have a serious discussion.
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by jdblair 11y ago
Obviously, the arctic is heating up more because heat rises. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night.
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by jdblair 11y ago
"Banks of old" had no insured deposits. Regular financial panics meant that runs on banks meant most depositors sometimes lost all their money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banking_crises
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by jdblair 11y ago
Oh right, I forgot some states do this. I even used to live in Alabama, which has the same policy. Coming from Ohio (where I grew up) I always thought this was oddly impractical.
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by jdblair 11y ago
Both Uber and Lyft give you the license plate - I just note the first 3 digits and watch for that. I thought that's what everyone did.
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by jdblair 11y ago
SDCC supports architectures that GCC doesn't support. 8051 is one of these. I'm not sure if GCC supports any 8-bit CPUs.
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by jdblair 11y ago
I used SDCC for a project that targeted an 8051 CPU. Its not fancy but it gets the job done.
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On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs(journals.plos.org)
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by jdblair 11y ago
I've been a member since the 80's. I don't vote b/c I know nothing about the candidates other than what is written in the voting material. Either I'm being presented choices that don't really matter for the ope
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by jdblair 11y ago
The US freight rail system may be maintained with private funds, but it was initially constructed with massive public subsidies. These took the form of land grants, not just for the right-of-way, but for surrounding land. This land was then
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by jdblair 11y ago
The choice "raised or underground highways, take your pick" is a false dichotomy. The correct choice for urban health is to not build the highway in the first place, or to remove intra-city highways. The trouble is that once they
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Low-background steel(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jdblair 11y ago
My IDE is full screen emacs, with one emacs window running a shell for when I just want a command line. This works great on MacOSX and on Linux. It gives me integrated debugging, code navigation (with cscope-mode), code completion, git supp
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by jdblair 11y ago
You can't have a geostationary satellite in "much lower orbit." The orbital period of a satellite is set by its altitude. A lower orbit means a shorter period. Since a geostationary satellite is one with an orbit above the eq

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