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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Population clustering actually follows from the way people travel. It's a virtuous/vicious cycle where in the US we've been building in ways that reduce or eliminate the usefulness of high speed rail while countries that have
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
I guess Texas has finally figured out what Coleco already knew back in the 80's. Warm Dead Bird is a much more accurate name than fried chicken.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
What a terrible loss for me as a person to be able to go to the store and buy a "milk" that doesn't come from a cow but that I can put on breakfast cereal and drink with my coffee. Meanwhile I don't see Texas aggressivel
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Oh damn it now I have to throw my laptop away.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
I was actually making the point that the FEMA Director for the Pacific Northwest probably knows a lot more about the scenario in question, and that his statement may be grounded very deeply in fact such that it's not hyperbolic at all.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
I'll cede this point. If you're accounting for the quantity of pennies down to the precision of individual penny atoms then your accounting must be accurate to within the quantity of penny atoms that are rubbed off the penny durin
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
YLL is a horrifying metric because it values someone who is 20 over someone who is 60. The only argument I can see for its "usefulness" as a statistic is if you want to imply that the old are less useful than the young. This kind
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
It's more accurate to say "never use floats for accounting." You should be able to state with 100% certainty how much money you owe no matter how much money you owe.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
"That's more money than my boss makes in a year."
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Could you do it with mineral or tool oil?
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
I'm not sure I would call statements by a FEMA director "unscientific."
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
"Okay, let me toggle the bootloader in. Call me back in about an hour."
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
My experience was different. I ended up going to one of the Shane Company stores on the west coast and the salesperson didn't push diamonds at all. She showed me damn near every red/pink sapphire in the store until I found one I w
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Use an axe or a chainsaw.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Are you saying that people don't ever zoom in on images on the web? Because my wife does this regularly to look at details in photos.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
They can actually use formal methods to prove that their software is bug free. This technique is often used in safety-critical systems to ensure that they function as-specified. As long as the specification is correct, the software system s
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
One of many problems that are only solvable with a software watchdog.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Well to be fair the hospitals are the same people who have been complaining that they can't get enough qualified nursing staff for the past 15 or 20 years.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
It's probably related to the huge difference in how my wife and my mother are treated by "professionals" and contractors when I'm around versus when they're alone.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Except in this case "throw away money" is a euphemism for "paying workers enough that they don't need welfare to support their families."
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
One of the really high-end Garmin watches have solar charging: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/641375 According to their docs it increases the battery life by up to 3 days when you're not using the GPS
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Garmin watches also have transflective displays. I've never needed the backlight since I've always got either sunlight or a headlamp.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
When you're doing this, please be careful to pick up the leftover peanuts. One of our neighbors does this and our property is constantly being invaded by rats who are attracted to her discarded peanuts.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
Cockatoos are remarkably cheeky. When I was in high school a girlfriend I had at the time had parents who owned one. That Cockatoo would scream her name at the top of its lungs in her mom's voice. It was like the bird knew exactly what
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
TI's technical reference manuals for their MCUs are some of the best I've used, though. That's not saying much. But compared to Marvell or NXP/Freescale they're really good.
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by jschwartzi 5y ago
The third thing that sucks about I2C is a little thing called Clock Stretching which can completely blow up your latency when reading sensors. The last company I worked for had to design a sensor out because it would stretch clocks unpredic
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by jschwartzi 6y ago
I think there's a really big difference between being FORCED to get the vaccine, and being reminded that your actions have consequences on other people and not just on yourself. Nobody is saying that you should be required to get vacci
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by jschwartzi 6y ago
> insurance is in most cases part of the job contract and that there are huge (cost) inefficiencies due to insurers battling over coverage costs with health providers. To say nothing of how maddening it is to have to change doctors every
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by jschwartzi 6y ago
Also it's worth noting that the smoke point is different for extra-virgin versus other olive oils. A purified olive oil has a much higher smoke point and can be used for higher-temperature pan-frying. EVOO can be used for pan frying or
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by jschwartzi 6y ago
That makes sense to me. I'm used to people not understanding that getting an address solves a lot of problems for a lot of homeless people. And since we're on the same page about that I understand now that you're wanting to f

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