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by jzwinck 10y ago
Thanks for that, it's very interesting. The blind people in my city seem to just walk around using their senses without special tiles. Once in a while they speak up and ask someone to help them, but not often. As a cyclist I sometimes
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Laws are rarely fully or evenly applied. Even if the law says something must be done it might still not be done. For example there are many thousands of people every year who are not allowed to be in the US but who self-identify as working
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I live somewhere not mentioned in the article but we have tactile paving too. I have never once seen a blind person using it (no, I am not blind myself). On the other hand I did see construction workers installing it, and it seems to take q
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> Your top sales guy makes $9 for every $1 spent on him (+$8) where as your top engineer costs $3 for every $0 he generates (-$3) In this case you should immediately fire all your engineers, your CFO, and your COO. Because why would you
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My experience has been rather the contrary. A couple times when bicycle touring I got to some town only to discover it was "X Festival Week" and the town tourist office could not find a single place to sleep. AirBnB still had pl
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Wow. Two of those could be removed. One to be replaced with a Duane Reade and the other a Starbucks.
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That is Thailand. It is theoretically illegal but still popular. The birds usually don't die. Here's more: http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-news/751760/coc... I was recently in Lao an
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Paper Planes told me "This experience requires WebGL and a modern browser." I have a MacBook Air, fully updated, with Google Chrome. It redirects me to the Google Chrome download site. Any clue what I'm doing wrong?
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Things like this are great to remind ourselves of some of the rationale for the ways things are. When I worked at a company which used a lot of Fortran, I kept a punch card at my desk. Among other things this made it easier to explain to ne
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They can. I had a set of Crucial SSDs which all contained the same firmware defect which took them offline after X hours of power-on time. I also had a RAID 1 array where both SSDs failed within a couple days of each other (due to wear). Th
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If you are not hard up for money you should immediately look for a nice trip somewhere. Be flexible with location instead of time to get a good price. Take three weeks off. Nice places this time of year might be Cuba, Thailand, Costa Rica,
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You would be tying up a $100,000 depreciating asset to mine bitcoin for a few weeks or months until you are discovered. You could make more money by not buying the car.
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Power doesn't matter. Phones get slower with each passing year as more bloat is added OTA. Consoles get faster as new games exploit more and more of the power available at launch. The experience has almost always been better on consol
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by jzwinck 10y ago
I would say it was the original Famicom or NES, which came hot on the heels of Nintendo's first hit electronic games, Game & Watch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%26_Watch The NES was a phenomenal break
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Datacenters are power (heat) limited. If a device does half the work of a new one using the same power, it is probably on the way out. Certainly by the time it hits say 30% it's time to go unless it's a special device.
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I wonder why this seems so intractable in some countries. In others, such as Indonesia or Vietnam or Taiwan, WiFi really is free in most establishments and nobody seems to have a problem with customers abusing it. Even a $10 hotel has WiFi.
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I walked into an NK submarine from 20 years ago. I was not impressed. It had a regular old VCR sitting on a regular shelf like in a motorhome. And construction that would make a Victorian pipefitter blush. It ran aground during routine oper
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by jzwinck 10y ago
On several occasions I have been rather nearly killed by reckless drivers. In each instance I recorded the license plate number and phoned the police. In each instance the police said they could not be sure who was driving therefore could n
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Homeless people could just sit on buses all day and get paid for it too. And within a few days some disruptive people will duct tape their phones plus large batteries to the bottom of buses. Then terror alert.
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First Brexit, then Trump, and now, behold the smart hairbrush(arstechnica.co.uk)
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Epoll is level triggered by default. Edge triggered is an option called EPOLLET.
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I'm one of the millions of Americans living overseas. Who represents us?
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To speed up parallel compilation, use icecc. It's great if you half even two or three computers on your LAN. For high precision currency, use int64_t (perhaps in a simple POD class). This, with an 8-digit implied decimal part, is enoug
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While it would be hard to call any kiloperson organization a hero, it is remarkable how people on the Windows team keep old software working even if it does not deserve to. The most accessible documentation of this is Raymond Chen's bl
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> an artificial intelligence would also initially not be embodied, it would be sitting on a server somewhere, lacking agency in the world. It would have to talk to people to get what it wants. Organized crime and semi-organized criminal
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You're right, some of them are operated by the usual local bus operators. But some in that list are not. And some not in that list include weird ones like all the condo shuttles, the airport-CBD buses, and of course we can't igno
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Some examples might be COBOL, Java, BASIC, and Logo. Of course reading any program still requires a mind accustomed to logical thought. A subsistence farmer has a different sort of "no formal training" than an 18 year old taking C
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NYC does this as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_express_bus_routes_i... An express bus has far fewer stops and may use an expressway for part of its route. One ride costs about 2.5x the usual bus fare. S
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Not quite as impressive but Singapore has gigabit fiber for 26 USD per month equivalent. The long latency to US servers can be a bit troublesome but that's physics (for now!).
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A company like Google has the scale and experience to create a regulatory landscape in which a car even 10% less safe will be forbidden on public roads. They might even look good doing it. As geohot discovered, cars are sold to consumers on

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