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by jzwinck 4y ago
Just this week I bought two tubs of vegan yogurt by mistake. They were the same shape, size and color as the milk based yogurts sitting all around them on the shelf. The only clue was the word "soya" printed at the bottom edge of
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Here are a car and a motorcycle each with three wheels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Robin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_MP3 What shall we do with them in our class hierarchy?
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by jzwinck 4y ago
A sliding door needing to be operable "without special knowledge" is interesting. Imagine if that code were expanded with "or uses latches and handles certified according to XYZ 123." Then someone can certify latches and
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by jzwinck 5y ago
For example, incrementing an int until it overflows.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Movies are often shot with anamorphic lenses which are lenses with a sort of vertical cylinder shape. This lets wider aspect ratios be shot using the full frame of a more square aspect film or sensor. https://www.bhphotovideo.com
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Modern bakers are competing in a market dominated by extremely cheap mass production. The economy of scale has moved out of the local bakery and into the regional bread factory. People are willing to pay double or triple for artisanal bread
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by jzwinck 5y ago
If all emergency numbers dial EMRGD, how does it work in places where 999 and 995 are for two different types of emergency?
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by jzwinck 5y ago
It sounds like you're saying that even reviewing code of subordinates is micromanagement? If you have a team of junior developers, who should review their code? Someone from another team?
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Why did you feel that making direct technical contributions was micromanagement?
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Someone I know well was hired at Twitter more than a decade ago as a senior software engineer. He had experience with natural language processing, and was given a project to identify spam and bot accounts. He worked on this for a while, all
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Using multiple receivers on the ground to improve accuracy is done, but the details are different to what you describe. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Can you share a couple examples of those parameters?
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by jzwinck 5y ago
This is not true, has not been true for years, and probably was never true at least since the public release of their app store.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
There is a real parallel between this mistake and the or() mistake. As a native English speaker I glossed over both of them at the first reading.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
You can only seek within a gzip file if you write it with some number of Z_FULL_FLUSH points which are resumable. The command line gzip program does not support this, but it's easy using zlib. For example you might do a Z_FULL_FLUSH ro
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by jzwinck 5y ago
If a loan is so risky that it requires greater than 36% interest, it should not be made. Loans with gigantic interest ruin lives.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Your projectile idea is unlikely to be the reason, because I am allowed to have a book in my hands during takeoff and landing, and I am allowed to have a Kindle in my hands so long as it is "off." But I am not allowed to have it &
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Are the speakers farther from the corner of the room in your new place? Proximity to the corners is an old trick for increasing bass output.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
In Rajasthan I saw "Horn Please" everywhere, usually without "OK". And that's the title of a book about the colourful trucks of the subcontinent: http://www.hornpleaseindia.com/
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by jzwinck 5y ago
The freehub was not invented for another 30 years. But I see that the Cambio Corsa did have a freewheel (similar idea). I was wrong to think it used four fixed gears. So indeed it could have used a chain tensioner! Video showing it in actio
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by jzwinck 5y ago
It's because there was no freewheel. A chain tensioner only works well when there is driving force applied in one direction, not the other. Put any force backward into the pedals (e.g. to slow down) and the tensioner will be forced to
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by jzwinck 5y ago
If your regular bank account is in USD that thinking is reasonable. But if your bank account is in another currency you might hold tether to protect yourself against hyperinflation or other things you can't control in your home currenc
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by jzwinck 5y ago
I used Windy when planning a bicycle tour. It told me the wind would be mostly from the east, so I began my trip in the east and enjoyed 1300 km with a tailwind. The same idea could apply to long distance running or hiking, canoeing, and ot
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Why do these hubs (or the chips they're made with) want to send PAUSE frames in the first place? What's the potential advantage vs just behaving as a switch with no other devices connected?
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Instead of a symlink to true you could have made an empty script.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
It happened to me in the US and I asked a friend who was a practicing medical doctor at the time, plus another person who worked at a major insurance company. They both confirmed it can be done.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
Thanks I edited my comment to say it's called coinsurance. But the point is the same, and in my experience it is not always based on the final negotiated amount actually paid to the healthcare provider.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
250k not 2.5M. But yes I agree the practice seems fraudulent.
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by jzwinck 5y ago
A quarter million US dollars. Of course the hospital never expects to receive this amount of money. Either they will negotiate it down for uninsured patients, or they will accept a lesser amount from the insurance company. Insurance compani
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What Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?(practical.engineering)
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