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by ken 7y ago
So just make it an annual-only plan. Companies that charge subscriptions vastly prefer annual payments to monthly payments, anyway. It's not just the per-transaction percentage that credit card processors take. Cards get declined (e
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by ken 7y ago
No, I don’t think so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22082864 Coherent memories are the convergent result. > my memories are chronological and all feature me as the self I’m not sure exactly what you mean by this,
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by ken 7y ago
You can hide a lot behind "presumably mostly"! My memories aren't entirely internally consistent. Memories fade over time, too, so even if they formed perfectly, I certainly misremember many events. The earliest ones are fr
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by ken 7y ago
./configure is a generated file. It's not committed to the repository. If you download a release (like "guile-3.0.0.tar.gz"), it has the files you're looking for. Or you can learn autotools and do it yourself, but
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by ken 7y ago
And yet in software, the people in high-stakes domains who really care about quality (like the Lockheed shuttle group) don't use pair programming. Has any team using pair programming ever had a defect rate as low as 1 bug per half mil
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by ken 7y ago
First, they sometimes get very little. “Just 1% of Seattle Marathon money goes to charity” [1]. You’d do better to just go door to door. Second, often this “awareness” is completely absent, even among volunteers. I ran a race once where
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by ken 7y ago
You might be looking for the section "Pairing can be exhausting".
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by ken 7y ago
Last time I was doing web dev (maybe 2 years ago), I worked primarily in Firefox and Safari. Chrome presented more issues for me than Edge ever did. I don't think I ever had anything work in Chrome, and fail in Edge. I lived throug
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by ken 7y ago
CGP Grey addresses this in the video (commented elsewhere here). This strategy minimizes the Seat Shuffle, but it turns out that isn't the major slowdown when boarding, so overall this is only slightly faster than boarding in random o
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by ken 7y ago
> I feel like I was sold something in the interview process that is not accurate. I would say that's standard practice, on both sides of the table. Everyone tries to put their best foot forward in an interview. Anything not writte
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by ken 7y ago
An integrated circuit is also "just a black box made of plastic".
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by ken 7y ago
> “Games aren’t just an ordinary piece of software, they are a complex beast that require many different disciplines to successfully ship, and often on timelines that require sacrifices to be made,” said game developer ... Is this any di
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by ken 7y ago
Diesels don't require spark, but modern diesels use electronics for fuel injection, fuel pump, drive-by-wire throttle, engine monitoring, and so on. Since at least the ~2000 era, a VW diesel will run with no alternator (for a while) bu
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by ken 7y ago
> a pretty good argument against exceptions Every time there’s a subtle bug with 7 contributing factors, people pick the one which is caused by a design decision they happen to hate, and place all of the blame squarely on that one.
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by ken 7y ago
Then maybe the statement should have been "I believe it is basically impossible for Python to win back all that performance loss without adopting radical and jarring features like dropping the legacy C interface to Python objects.&quot
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by ken 7y ago
How’s that? We don’t agree on voltage. Japan alone uses two different frequencies!
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by ken 7y ago
Likewise, you make it seem like ISPs are competent enough to recognize an attacked modem, and repair or replace it on demand, and promptly. My experience is that when your internet connection goes down or becomes unusable, and you call and
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by ken 7y ago
Why stop at computers? Dewalt, Milwaukee, Makita, and every other power tool uses its own proprietary battery connector. Why stop at DC power? Last I checked, Germany, France, England, Italy, and many of the smaller countries all had thei
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by ken 7y ago
From the research I've seen, that's not a significant factor. People aren't dying in their compact cars sitting at intersections. Sure, sometimes it happens -- and sometimes a semi or train hits you and even an SUV won&
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by ken 7y ago
> It is, also, safer. I've seen what a minivan does to a Corolla, and I'd much rather be in something the size of a minivan. Looking at a crash between two vehicles of very different size isn't a fair test. Smaller cars a
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by ken 7y ago
It's not that crazy. In other fields, there are stores for "alternative ___". There's a record store a couple blocks from me which sells every physical medium except CD. There's a car dealer which sells cars fo
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by ken 7y ago
Googling those terms will turn up lots of hits, e.g., https://preshing.com/20120930/weak-vs-strong-memory-models/
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by ken 7y ago
I find it interesting that every Apple CPU transition has started at the top, but everyone and their dog seems to know that ARM will happen and this time start at the bottom. Apple rumors are half prediction and half wish. I don’t disagree
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by ken 7y ago
I looked up what "clinical validation" meant for blood pressure monitors -- apparently it's a real term with a (somewhat) specific meaning! Omron lists all their devices, and what they passed [1]. Interestingly, out of doze
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by ken 7y ago
I have average size arms. No human taking my BP has ever switched to a non-standard cuff size for me. And yet, when I tried a consumer-grade automatic arm band blood pressure test, we couldn't get it to read within 100 mmHg of what
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by ken 7y ago
I assume "clinically accurate" is a completely meaningless term, like "clinically tested" or "clinically proven" on half the items at the drug store.
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by ken 7y ago
There's some funky animation going on at the top. When I press space bar to scroll down, it skips over the Features section. > We use cookies to ensure that you have the best experience on our website. What does this mean? Why do
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by ken 7y ago
Someone at a big tech company once told me that they knew the one person (or maybe they were the one person) who used a particular product, and were thus the rationale for that product to put their company logo on the front page. It reall
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by ken 7y ago
If that’s so, it’s an even bigger USA-specific fact that was completely omitted from this analysis.
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by ken 7y ago
I skimmed this, and there's some good and interesting data and analysis here. The one aspect that seems to be missing, by its own admission, is how this fits in with the rest of the world. This is looking at the USA in a vacuum, whic

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