johnm1019

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by johnm1019 10y ago
Reading your comments with the word "portal" gave me an eerie flashback to AOL and then Yahoo!
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by johnm1019 10y ago
and I still use ATM machines....
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by johnm1019 10y ago
Can someone explain how they are getting near 50% thermal efficiency? All the articles mention it, but I can't find a reasonable explanation.
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by johnm1019 10y ago
The article raises a few interesting points I didn't know: - In SoCal there are several areas which have geothermal activity and correspondingly several electric plants based on that - This geothermal activity raises both hot water and
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by johnm1019 10y ago
This is much more interesting than the article. Is there anywhere that explains how roundup is made and highlights this fact?
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by johnm1019 10y ago
I completely understand cutting a chrome panda and eliminating open bar on Friday nights, but things like an employee shuttle seem like a solid use of company money to increase real productivity. Time spent driving a car or navigating a fe
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by johnm1019 10y ago
For an open source tool this release notes log is huge!
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by johnm1019 10y ago
In this case I think the approach taken by the US is better -- set aggressive fuel economy standards and let the market either a.) figure out new technologies for much better fuel economy b.) figure out electric vehicles are cheaper My poin
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by johnm1019 11y ago
> As one judge wrote, a lobbyist is “induced to use his influence for the money he is to obtain; when, as a patriot and a citizen, he should only act for the good of his country.” I wish that was still true.
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by johnm1019 11y ago
> U.S. debate to privitize air-traffic control spotlights Canada Heaven forbid, we would pay the Canadians for what they have that is already proven to work well and efficiently...
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by johnm1019 11y ago
> Verizon officials have assured wireline customers that they will suffer no service disruption during the strike, saying the company has spent months training unaffected workers, primarily supervisors, to take over the duties of their u
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by johnm1019 11y ago
As someone who is self-employed, works from home, and actually likes their job - scheduling free time is really important for me. If I don't, my work and my side projects creep into everything. I also thought this practice was ridicu
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by johnm1019 11y ago
TLDR; It doesn't fix jetlag but it might get you started on the right path one "day" cycle sooner. There isn't "one simple trick" and not have jet lag. Everyone will have jetlag after going through a large tim
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by johnm1019 11y ago
From the article... > Both he and Liang think that the problem can be surmounted, for instance by inactivating several essential HIV genes at once...
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by johnm1019 11y ago
That's a reporter doing their job. If they called one time and left a voicemail, there would be outcry because, "they never gave her a chance to tell her side of the story."
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by johnm1019 11y ago
A striking caption from one of the images in this gallery > This monastery was occupied by the Germans, most monks escaped to the Netherlands. The wire was build right through the monastery's yard, all 2.5 km of it. The monastery ha
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by johnm1019 11y ago
QA is dead because Agile killed it? (quoth the article) I work at a Fortune 10 company and this is just wrong. Furthermore, leveraging QA in an Agile process is critical to continuously improving our software quality.
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by johnm1019 11y ago
It's always nice to see the author of such serious articles is in fact human. Can we use this as a way of detecting the robot writers? (is being actually fun hard for AI?) > Customers likely didn't expect that, 18 months after
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by johnm1019 11y ago
Although it's way more than an SSE wrapper, the Eigen library is excellent in my experience and targets multiple platforms. http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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by johnm1019 11y ago
Based on your list size, try a reasonably designed hash function here.
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by johnm1019 11y ago
> "In order to make AI work in the real world and handle all the diversity and complexity of realistic environments, we will need to think about how to get robots to learn continuously and for a long time, perhaps in cooperation wit
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by johnm1019 11y ago
I find it interesting that due to high rent prices the article hypothesizes that people are moving away from Vancouver and the next upcoming city is a peninsula on an island? What do you think is going to happen in the real-estate market t
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by johnm1019 11y ago
Occlusion ~= how your upper and lower teeth fit together when you close your mouth.
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by johnm1019 11y ago
Would it be possible to use a spray rich in these bacteria (and maybe other nutrients?) onto that island of plastic at sea?
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by johnm1019 11y ago
In Germany every service that you can sign up for online but requires proof of who you are uses something called "PostIdent" -- and its a service offered by the post office where you take the form in with your passport (or ID card
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by johnm1019 11y ago
That's why they wrap it in a steel sandwich -- to protect the lead, not principally for radiation protection.
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by johnm1019 11y ago
Obligatory XKCD chart for understanding the radiation amounts in the article https://xkcd.com/radiation/ 100 mrem == 1mSv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Rem_equivalence Thinking about the a
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by johnm1019 11y ago
In my experience doing 3D image reconstruction from 1D and 2D sensors, there are often situations where the engineers can only explain what's going on using math equations - and not in any other qualitative kind of way. For some peopl
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by johnm1019 11y ago
I think it's great that YC is thinking big and taking a risk by doing something no one has done before. The US economy wins whether they succeed or fail at this experiment, and the value creation if they succeed will be huge.
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by johnm1019 11y ago
Wouldn't this only sap the global economy if all those bad loans were backed by average Joes, who were then hurt by the loss of return? If instead they were backed by governments and multi-national conglomerates who already had hoarde

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