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by jonemo 12y ago
> Caltrain is actually very accommodating to bicyclists Unless they leave you stranded because they are "full" of bikes. Like most non-local trains during rush hour.
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by jonemo 12y ago
Also commonly used in academia when you are not on campus but need access to IP-restricted journals. Or to freak out your lab mates and start the robot from home.
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by jonemo 12y ago
The essential piece of information missing from the article, because it's common in the US, is that pedestrians usually get green at the same time as traffic in parallel with them. In Europe it's a more common pattern that all ped
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by jonemo 12y ago
I didn't compare Germany and the USA, I compare the German Autobahn to a specific stretch of 101 in California (for the Autobahn I was thinking of the A9 here but save for the north east most Autobahns are pretty similar). Comparing on
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by jonemo 12y ago
I'd upvote this 10 times if I could. It's amazing how much Americans rely on driving while being abysmally bad at it. The amount of driving errors, almost accidents and accidents you can see during half an hour driving on 101 on t
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by jonemo 12y ago
Slightly misleading headline. The city has no issue with the "library", they take issue with the library being a free-standing little shack making it a building code violation. Restricting where on a property one can erect structu
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by jonemo 12y ago
I don't know if anyone does that, but if you are making your access point only discoverable to known devices (i.e. known MAC addresses) then this would be a problem, right?
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by jonemo 12y ago
This was also my favorite sentence of the piece. People sometimes criticize my writing as having to many parentheses. From now on I will just tell them to read it in the voice of Jon Stewart. Because that's exactly how I want all my te
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by jonemo 12y ago
I remembered reading an article that made the case that computer keyboards evolved from scientific calculators which had the arcmin and arcsec symbols but no use for quotation marks. After thinking about this for a bit and reading Wikipedia
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by jonemo 12y ago
It obviously matters what you compare it to. This study compares walking to sitting. No claims about standing, running, cycling, skydiving.
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by jonemo 12y ago
It's LaTeX syntax. Also: Because there is no symbol for quotation marks on the keyboard? Technically, " is a unit symbol for inch and not a quotation mark, which would be weird because there is only one of these on the keyboard bu
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by jonemo 12y ago
I always thought only the Germans are crazy to start work (and school) extremely early in the day. Turns out it's the same in the US but I've only lived in two of the top 5 cities on that list (Ithaca, NY and SF Bay Area)...
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by jonemo 12y ago
NPR's Planet Money podcast recently had an episode on this titled "The Wild West Of The Internet". They take a pretty neutral view, but I found the interviews with people who own some of these TLDs now interesting. http:&#x2
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by jonemo 12y ago
Squirrel is also high up on that list.
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by jonemo 12y ago
Another Debian based boot-from-CD OS that used to be quite popular is Knoppix [1]. I remember that was a big thing in the times of Win98 viruses when people used it for system recovery. In Germany they distributed it as add-on to computer m
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by jonemo 12y ago
What's in the name? Why Omaha of all places?
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by jonemo 12y ago
A few fields that use matrix computations extensively that come to mind: robotics, graphics, control, machine learning. I'd go as far as saying that matrix computation plays an important role in more or less every kind of programming e
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by jonemo 12y ago
I have a CA license and my US driving school track record consists of a total of 5 hours of "classroom education" (video watching) and passing a driving test despite running a stop sign in a residential area (my German license did
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by jonemo 13y ago
Thanks for the hints. Seems like my Google Now works as expected then, but my lifestyle isn't (yet) supported... The fact that it recommends I bicycle from Alcatraz is after informing it (through the icon with the three dots) I usually
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by jonemo 13y ago
What most people in North America seem to conveniently forget about this rule: You have to come to a stop first. Another piece of trivia about free right: In all of New York the free right is allowed as long as no "No turn on red"
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by jonemo 13y ago
... for $5 a pop.
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by jonemo 13y ago
I think this can be generalized to: Turning and/or crossing lanes results in more potentially dangerous situations than traveling within a traffic lane.
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by jonemo 13y ago
Not looking over your shoulder when turning will give you an instant fail in the driving test in Germany. In the US most states' drivers manuals recommend looking over your shoulder but most people don't do it. I tend to blame it
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by jonemo 13y ago
Is Google Now a useful utility for others? I recently activated it when I purchased a new phone and am having a hard time understanding how to use it. It's showing estimates for how long it will take me to get home or to work but they
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by jonemo 13y ago
The story states that IEX runs HFT trades through an additional 60km of cable. Does anyone know or have a source for how this specific number was chosen? Who decides whose orders have to go through those extra 60km and whose don't?
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PayPal Is Rolling Out Its New Mobile First Website Globally(techcrunch.com)
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by jonemo 13y ago
A few more bike lanes and bike storage space on the commuter train goes a long way. I live 20 miles from work and prefer to leave the car at home.
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by jonemo 13y ago
Very similar: The product I work on is something that you really only need to use once (unless your genome changes somehow, but that doesn't happen to most people). However, I use my side project http://www.3dprintingpricech
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by jonemo 13y ago
> Normally, once you show someone how it works and explain that it isn't likely to change, they adapt. Soon we'll read reports of pipes bursting and apartments flooding because a Nest switched off the heating during winter afte
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by jonemo 13y ago
Mac hardware doesn't break, but when you purchase the four year warranty on a Dell (which will get you a total near the price of an equivalent Macbook) it will break a few times during the four years, but each time you get it fixed or

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