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by jzwinck 11y ago
Outsourcing everything but the engine is an interesting concept and I'm sure it applies to some cars. But I have a striking counterexample. The Ford Taurus SHO from the 90s had a Yamaha engine and a Mazda transmission. This was a flags
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by jzwinck 11y ago
In London I had a neighbor with an electric car. It was parked on the street and plugged in using a long cord to its owner's building. Seemed to work ok, though it wasn't pretty. Plenty of street crime and vandals around, somehow
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by jzwinck 11y ago
It's true that a 49/51 split makes it easier to cheat undetected. But it also means the public was almost equally in favor of both candidates. When 98% of the electorate get their wish either way, it doesn't seem quite so imp
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by jzwinck 11y ago
As a former draftsman: this is not accurate. You might think that units are convertible and we have plenty of software for that. But it doesn't work that way. If a drawing says to drill 3mm holes and you have imperial drills, what to d
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I had to read the relevant sections three times to sort this out. I believe what they are saying is that this service they made had to speak HTTP in some specific way, and since Redis doesn't speak that way directly they would have nee
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by jzwinck 11y ago
If your telco authenticates phone support using your government ID number, it very well may work. People in some countries do not even try to keep their ID number private. Some companies ask you to enter it in various places for their own c
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by jzwinck 11y ago
HDF5 is supported by many languages including C, C++, R, and Python. It has compression built in. It can read slices easily. It is battle-tested, stable, and used in production for many years by thousands of people. Pandas even has integrat
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Then perhaps the autonomous shuttles should be deployed in some country where university students do not vandalize vehicles nor fight on them. Such places do exist, and perhaps they deserve to reap the benefits.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
There is No True Scotsman mountaineer, I suppose.
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Six Face Charges In Scheme To Manipulate Lottery Game(courant.com)
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I in-place upgraded three computers to Windows 10. All three had serious problems with the upgrade. On one the graphics became slow because it had Intel HD 3000 which apparently doesn't work well in Windows 10. On another the monito
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by jzwinck 11y ago
We are all here reading and thinking about it. And SV taken as a whole eats its own dog food: I was amazed the first time I worked with a YC company how many other nearby startups they used as vendors. If you think about Boom as part of an
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Until about ten years ago there was also an 8 character limit on Solaris, but for passwords .
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by jzwinck 11y ago
They would force the provider to facilitate the removal.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
This very issue resulted in the Uber app telling my driver to simply stop on the side of an expressway and pick me up. I was on the other side of a fence next to that expressway, on a parallel road. But the Uber app wrongly understood whi
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by jzwinck 11y ago
What use is raising the terrorism alert level after an attack has occurred? Doesn't it sort of fulfill the terrorists' wishes by inflicting economic damage well beyond the physical attack?
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I like NPR so I donated once. From that day forward they sent me dozens of letters in the mail asking for more money. I suspect they spent my entire donation amount spamming me. I didn't want to agree with you. But you're not wron
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by jzwinck 11y ago
"He hasn’t replaced driving with, say, watching a movie or relaxing—instead, he’s replaced the stress of driving with something worse. He looks at the road, he looks at the wheel, he looks at his hands." It was much the same whe
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Probably a combination of context switching, memory bandwidth, and interrupt handling. If you're going to use a machine with 208 GB of RAM you may as well buy a better network card. All major vendors of low latency adapters (which in t
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Valgrind is great. But its slowness does not arise from disabling UB optimizations.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
It does what the parent wanted. Just not as concise. do-while isn't all that common anyway.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Nepal calls it load shedding too. In practice it's fairly counterproductive there. People buy banks of car batteries and inverters to store power when it's available and use it later. So they use as much power as before, with the
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Not only can a computer begin braking more promptly, it can brake more accurately. Many human drivers hit the brakes 100% when they sense danger, then the full force of braking startles them (no training), then they let off again. This can
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I've seen those too. They're quite inconvenient because they actively prevent you from charging your phone or laptop while out of the room. They should leave some marked outlets enabled but usually they only do so for the mini-fri
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by jzwinck 11y ago
It is indeed. So crazy in fact that I couldn't get a hotel room in a major city with an international airport even three days after the holiday. In New Zealand.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Many truly incredible things were built at some cost in human lives. I recently watched a documentary which said large tunneling projects expected to lose one man per X miles dug, a few decades ago. I'm not saying you should be willing
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Easier than that, simply X-Ray the bikes at the finish line. Don't even announce which races will do it, that way partial enforcement can work.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Matrix2D<int>. Removing a space from between the brackets misses the forest.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
You're right that some of those items are bad practices in normal development. But some of them would actually help a person bang together crappy but working code more quickly for a one-off task. Perhaps we should read "competitiv
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by jzwinck 11y ago
And how easy is it to get Tier 1 in the UK now? As an American, say.

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