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by kctess5 11y ago
I'm pretty impressed how the rotors always stayed away from the ropes. There must be some very interesting pathing algorithms in those.
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by kctess5 11y ago
Why not use PGP?
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by kctess5 11y ago
This sort of strategy has worked quite well for me over the years. It takes a bit of practice to get right, and probably isn't for everyone. For me, it's mostly about knowing the things that I have to do, and just doing them whene
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by kctess5 11y ago
Fair enough, there are some real benefits, but sometimes people do things just because they like doing them that way. The original person says "the setup I present here is simply what works well for me personally..." Seems kinda
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by kctess5 11y ago
Seriously. "My way is better than your way because I think it's easier" pat yourself on the back.
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by kctess5 11y ago
Those actually look almost exactly like my pens of choice from the Google supply cabinets. They are very nice, I like them better than the more common G2 because the ink doesn't glob up as badly.
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by kctess5 11y ago
I think your analogy is pretty good. I usually have a few loose g2s with me in case I run out of fountain pen ink in class. I find that gel pens sometimes make globs of ink, and that the lines aren't as nice as my FPs, but the writing
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by kctess5 11y ago
I've almost exclusively used fountain pens for about 5 years now, and it's been amazing. Modern fountain pens don't generally leak much, and they are SO much better to write with than a basic Bic/generic ballpoint. The p
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by kctess5 11y ago
I can recommend the Pilot Metropolitan [1]! I have two and they are better than some "very nice" fountain pens I've used/had. Very smooth, very little issues with leaking, pretty cheap at <$20. [1] http://w
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by kctess5 11y ago
It is excellent to see how onboard the government is with this tech. They don't seem the be getting too in the way.
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Video: Introduction to Quantum Computers and How to Grow Diamonds(youtube.com)
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by kctess5 11y ago
I think this person might be a bot, most of his comments are borderline non-sensical.
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by kctess5 11y ago
Well, we already have one of the worlds most extensive road systems. Building the same with rails would be a monumental undertaking, but putting smarter trucks on the road would be almost free. So there's that...
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by kctess5 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you deal with not having some of the things that IDEs support? I too am firmly in a text editor camp, but I've recently been basically forced to use Eclipse while writing Java (ick) at work. The fact that it kn
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by kctess5 11y ago
Solid points - especially the left turn thing and neighborhood lights. Half my commute is caused by waiting on a major road for one car to pull out of a tiny street. This is a slightly more nuclear option, but a fleet of self-driving cars o
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by kctess5 11y ago
While drones colliding with aircraft is not a good thing, aren't most aircraft rated for bird strikes? It seems like most hobby level drones are approximately the same size and weight.
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by kctess5 11y ago
"We want to hire you, but we see here that you improved the digital systems affecting the lives of millions, so I'm afraid we won't be moving your application forward at this time" Right...
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by kctess5 11y ago
Honestly, that's much better than I was expecting. Two years working to improve our shitty government systems in exchange for a quarter of a million? Sounds like a fair short-term deal, even if higher comp is available elsewhere...
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by kctess5 11y ago
Of course, if you're a student, they have no problem pulling you out of the classes that you might be paying several hundred a day to attend, without comp...
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by kctess5 11y ago
I'd imagine this doesn't sound crazy to many of those Bay Area folks. Making a large salary isn't nearly as much fun when you throw it all into rent/mortgage payments. I've heard that Austin TX is a good city for
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by kctess5 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034883
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by kctess5 11y ago
So... Don't use a search engine.
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by kctess5 11y ago
I just want to point out how terrible the wording is on that paragraph. While I understand what the author means , that is different from what they wrote . I wouldn't bring it up if it was something casual, but come on... this is on
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by kctess5 11y ago
Think about this... If more things forced auto-updates, we might not have been forced to support ie6 for so damn long. It's a trade off. Instant security patches, instant support for new standards, etc, all without having to worry abo
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by kctess5 11y ago
Which is, IMO, a part of the reason why Java isn't great for that. A serious pro can make it go like a race horse, but beginners and even long time users may fall into traps. If a language has less things to be mindful of, it's us
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by kctess5 11y ago
If this is match, what might the implications be?
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by kctess5 11y ago
Disclaimer I haven't watched the presentation, though I do have first hand experience refactoring large systems that grew slowly over time. Based off of your edit's description, this technique feels like a patch that inevitably fa
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by kctess5 11y ago
"the solar neighborhood within 33 light-years" How tragic, that even if humanity were to receive signal from another intelligent species, we couldn't even close to possibly reach them with current technology. Intelligent spec
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by kctess5 11y ago
I just made a comment here, I might suggest that you do something like what I did. A solid understanding of parsers, lexers, and syntax trees would be an excellent place to start if you're interested in writing your own language. Start
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by kctess5 11y ago
Great read - concise yet decently in-depth. Something cool about parsers is how many practical uses there are, and how easy they are to play with. I decided to learn Go recently, so I first wrote a little parser combinator library (which al

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