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kisstheblade
9y ago
Doesn't the assist just cut off at that speed? So you can cycle it like a regular bike faster. So what's the problem? Wouldn't it be stupid to have "bikes" which can go eg. 100km/h?
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10y ago
Why can't they (the "workers") just listen on postgres? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-notify.html
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10y ago
I never understood what the problem is. This page http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/ has great information about nuclear energy. The gist is that there are no problems, just "stupid" people ("rad
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10y ago
Always when I see haskell demonstrations eveyrthing looks like just interface declarations. You can do beautiful interfaces with eg. java also. But where is the meat where anything actually happens? I rarely see that in these posts. Yes I c
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10y ago
As I said, "unless they do something about this that he can agree with (like fire the CEO". There are no calls for action in his sad whiny blog post. Do you think travis is in any way affected by some polite words in a blog?
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10y ago
Ok so I have been downwoted for "not understanding" that he just can't pull his investment. Of course I understand that. But if you are a billionaire then you can do what you want. Put pressure on the board and threaten with
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10y ago
Yes but jeesus here we are discussing an algorithm that I first heard about in literally my first CS course on algorithms in my first year at the university, some 20 years ago. And I had to manipulate red black threes on the blackboard. Ha
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10y ago
"For the past decade, Facebook has focused on connecting friends and families." --> you have been focused on selling ads, not changing the world. People would still be "connected" to each other without facebook becaus
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10y ago
Not exactly, kids are different. Speaking from experience.
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10y ago
I think we will laugh at this "AI threat" in 30 years after yet another long "AI winter". I mean I haven't been convinced of any "AI" displayed. All just seems to be glorified pattern matching with little
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10y ago
Twitter is only useful because "normal" media makes news about notable tweets. I surely don't get my information from twitter. Would seem silly to get all my information (or "important" information from "powerf
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10y ago
One thing I wonder is why Top Gear (the old one) / Grand Tour never has the tesla in it's episodes or drag races? Especially the latest episode of Grand Tour did some kind of road test with a hybrid car and made a laughing stock o
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10y ago
What, you don't have electrical sockets on trains? In normal 1st world countries we have sockets in all train seats and even on inter city buses.
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10y ago
I don't know if it just this article or am I getting tired of these "startup heavens". "you probably dream of working in a start-up" no "awesome platform and changing the world" Oh yes, changing the world
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10y ago
You had a search engine and rendering the search results was the bottleneck? That's really weird. Don't know a lot about JSF but other templating languages are usually really not ever the bottleneck. Maybe if you have some giant
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10y ago
It's possible to live with that amount (because schools and health care are basically free), but it wouldn't be nice of course. Note that this doesn't really "cost" anything as the people in the program are already
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10y ago
Does Linux have a comprehensive test suite (comparable eg. to SQLite)? I'm wondering because it seems to be quite bug free, and is a large project, and a kernel seems to be quite suitable for unit testing (compared to your typical CRUD
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10y ago
Yes and good luck writing those passwords like "between sepia book sweat lemma saint" without typos :) I just watched a friend using some kind of long password and it took about a minute to get the password correctly entered. Easy
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10y ago
Well if they come from a web design background they know the css selectors which work with jquery. Unlike your example, which doesn't work as written.
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10y ago
You My car was stolen LawBot Sorry, could you try to explain that in a different way? Maybe be more specific about the incident? ---- I may not be a native English speaker but come on, isn't that wording pretty clear?
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10y ago
"A lot of CA people explicitly treat their home equity as their retirement fund, planning to "cash it out" when they retire. " And where do they move then? To an equally expensive (per sq.ft.) but smaller apartment? Wher
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10y ago
Any experiences where the landlord is black? Do they have any preferences as to who they want to use their home?
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10y ago
No, the "dogma" is just that scary cellphone RADIATION! is no more harmful than the radiation from lightbulbs, flashlights, candles etc. And probably a couple of orders of magnitudes less so. But hey, radiation, you know, nucular,
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10y ago
Jsonpath, eg. https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath
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10y ago
But isn't trading a zero sum game? Somebody's wins are another's losses.
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11y ago
" I wonder how well "sometimes we break things" scales with users of smaller services" --- Writing "business software" I have noticed that this doesn't scale at all. I mean when you have a couple of thousa
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11y ago
Well that's a whole another issue than "running jdk on docker is breaking teh law!!1!", now isn't it? If you run "photoshop on docker" that doesn't magically make it ok to distribute your image willy-nilly
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11y ago
Or just download the jdk normally, accept license, create your own docker image with the jdk fully installed and you are ready to go. Not breaking any laws here (or even licence agreements, there's a difference you know!), so please c
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11y ago
Serious question; where does all the money come from to run these operations (eg. the miners)? I mean I haven't seen any legitimate use of bitcoin advertised for consumers. So who is using bitcoins for transactions? Is this like with t
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11y ago
Also the corners at the bottom do nothing. I never understood why the dock just floats stupidly in the middle, rendering stuff to the left and right of it unusable for anything, especialy the corners of the screen. Form over function, I gue
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