jdmichal

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by jdmichal 6y ago
The only thing I've found so far is age discrimination and race discrimination lawsuits. Nothing having to do with the working environment or promises.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Unsure whether you meant walla , but just in case this is what you meant: It's "voila", from French "et violà". https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/...
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's supposed to be 12 months of 30 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I worked for a company based in NY and had to certify every year that I worked in NY state for less than 10 days a year. If I couldn't make that certification, then I would have owed the state taxes.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
One could do a pretty good job of it too. AIS data contains position, heading, and speed. So it's everything you need to interpolate movement between data updates.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Just as another comparison point to go along with soneil: https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/sites/default/files/blog-... This ship is named "Wonder of the Seas", not "Royal Caribbean Internati
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by jdmichal 6y ago
There's a huge gulf between "making things is a fun hobby" and "if I don't make things, I may not be able to eat / have shelter / clothe myself".
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is my philosophy: Data types are object-oriented. They are responsible for ensuring that their internal state is consistent, and nothing more. They may inherit if it makes sense, but it usually doesn't and most of the time aggre
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> I guess they are caching account balances and limits in some in-memory DB. This is a common design choice for payment processing systems. They are a payments processor, not an issuer. That means they are on the merchant's side of
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> This would mean that there is probably a possibility for people to "overspend" money they don't have... They are a payments processor, not an issuer. That means they are on the merchant's side of the transaction, n
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Expected famine and drought would likely work equally well. There's a lot of small communities that continue to exist purely because the government keeps the famine and drought part from happening. I'm thinking old mining and
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> I'm still not very convinced any civilization will actually expand significantly beyond one solar system. I'm fine with the idea of a species -- or whatever definition you want to use here -- expanding beyond one solar system
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I wonder: Is it like the new Office formats, where it's actually a zipped bundle? In this case, maybe they just zipped up all the files they already had and saved a lot of reimplementation in other parts of the system.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I still have a vintage 2010 HP TouchSmart tm2 sitting around. It was certainly an early execution of the convertible idea, and I appreciate it for that. Doesn't stop me from also appreciating my modern Surface Book 2 and Dell XPS 13,
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I agree with your general sentiment. (He says typing on his Dell XPS 13...) But it also seems to me that ditching a drive bay to get a bigger battery is the definition of a design decision and not in any way jumping the shark.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> For that matter, some other issues that have nothing to do with GeckoView, like breaking Bitwarden autocomplete and not restoring deleted tabs to their correct position on undo, haven't been fixed for even longer. Is this related
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by jdmichal 6y ago
That's a terrible projection to be judging distances with...
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Yes, renewable is cheap, but also unreliable. And storage to manage that unreliability is, per your link, more expensive than the corresponding fossil fuel plants. It's either that or drastically over-provision the renewables, which
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Specifically, the idea of a voided clause voiding the entire contract is sometimes a feature -- severability is not always desired. A simplistic example would be a contract with two clauses, one specifying that A sends B widgets, and the
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Except this is falling exactly into the trap that ClumsyPilot points out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464707 The USA can afford to emit less than it did 10 years ago precisely because it has emitted so much in
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Others have posted links to the Reddit thread overall, but I think this is the specific question being referred to: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lpzbzo/were_scientist... EDIT: Apparently the ro
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Dipped nibs are still often used in calligraphy. They'll use either flexible nibs, where line width will vary with pressure, or stub / italic nibs, where line width varies with the orientation of the nib to paper.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
There's zero inconvenience barrier between my fountain pen with ink cartridges and my rollerball pen with ink refills. Writing and replacing the ink cartridges are functionally equivalent between the two. But my fountain pen has a 1m
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by jdmichal 6y ago
The Pilot Metropolitan is also in the same price range and comes with a converter already.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Their general shape doesn't look that far off from, say, a Pilot Metropolitan? Most of the pictures look fairly typical sizing except for maybe the very first picture.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I live in Florida, so they only non-federal tax I pay is property tax. (Excluding sales taxes, of course.) Every year, I get a full breakdown of exactly what mils go where with the bill. I bet we would have something similar at the feder
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by jdmichal 6y ago
To be fair, even if you register for the opposing party, helping to choose the opponent is still useful. I've considered such plays before.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
For whatever reason, it look a long time for parameters and locals to have a name in addition to a slot and a type in the JVM bytecode. Before that data was introduced, it was an impossible task. Also why things like de-/serializatio
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I agree regarding the chaining. I don't even remember thinking twice about it when it was introduced. But the ability to transform exception types without losing the original context and stack trace is actually a pretty big deal!
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You're picking nits that don't mean anything. If a specification exists outside of the definition of the program -- aka the code -- then it is only useful as a point of comparison between intent and implementation. Most software

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