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by kodis 11y ago
Interesting article, but it failed to make mention of to what extent GPS based navigation apps have made acquiring "The Knowledge" obsolete. I'd hate to have spent the months or years of study required only to find out that
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by kodis 11y ago
The chmod gotcha that I hit occasionally when I haven't used the chmod command for a while is the difference between "chmod -R <perm> <dir>" which recurses as would be expected and "chmod -r <perm> <
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by kodis 11y ago
Private industry has largely solved their pension problems by eliminating pensions and instead making contributions to an employee controlled 401(k) plan or similar. This eliminates some of the problems that come with pension plans, but at
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by kodis 11y ago
He's also done a similar piece explaining how rockets work using only the thousand most common words in English. The one detail that I remember is that apparently "thousand" is not one of the thousand most common words, as i
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by kodis 11y ago
So long as they are able to insure that the fallen fruit doesn't become a slip and fall hazard this sounds like a wonderful project. It seems odd that "her efforts were repeatedly thwarted by [...] San Francisco nonprofit Friends
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by kodis 11y ago
It's a very long article, and the closest it comes to answering the question of "is there a way to keep safe" are these two sentences: "Keep your elbows akimbo, to protect your chest and give yourself enough breathing ro
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by kodis 11y ago
There does seem to be considerable distaste for the suburbs on regular display in large parts of the media. This title captures that perfectly: while the housing stock remains the same, it magically transforms from tasteless when suburban
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by kodis 11y ago
I've also heard this line of reasoning referred to as "the soft bigotry of lowered expectations", due to its implication that not all groups of people can be held to the same standards of behavior as society as a whole.
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by kodis 11y ago
So can many of those in the US. Hypertension isn't something to be taken lightly, especially given how easy it is to test for.
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by kodis 11y ago
There are a couple of questions that I haven't seen addressed on this issue: why, if this is a feature of the software, is this expected to cost so much for VW to fix?; and how do they expect to get people to bring their cars in for th
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by kodis 11y ago
While immediately blocking all unknown numbers may well be excessive, I'd like a feature where all known good numbers (my "white list") go straight through, all known bad numbers (my "black list") don't even ca
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by kodis 11y ago
Maryland has recently eliminated the parallel parking test from their driver's exam. In my experience, this was the only part of the test that required any significant amount of practice.
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by kodis 11y ago
I'm unclear on the origin of these packages: are they all original works, or a vetting and repackaging of other packages? If the later, how are improvements being sent up stream?
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Will Tesla Batteries Force Home Wiring to Go Low Voltage?(cepro.com)
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by kodis 12y ago
I'd love to see this evolve into something production worthy, even if it can't be done in idiomatic go style. A good cross platform GUI library is, to my mind at least, the largest void in an otherwise excellent standard library.
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by kodis 12y ago
If all he needed to do was to show some movement of the tracker, he could have just duct-taped it to a Roomba. He'd get much more realistic motion with much less effort.
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by kodis 12y ago
While this will vary from country to country, at least here in the US there are several situations where the legal means are not more effective. The main one is scammers who just don't care, either because they're running a &quot
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by kodis 12y ago
It seems as though at least for smart phones this could be easily solved through technological means similar to those used for screening email, something along the lines of a spam classification system. I envision my phone having a white li
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by kodis 12y ago
I was really looking forward to watching the landing attempt. At this point, I'm hoping for another launch delay pushing the attempt back to the 20th.
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by kodis 12y ago
Funny stuff. What I find surprising is that these error pages are on the web site of Bloomberg news, a fairly serious and straight laced operation.
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by kodis 12y ago
Another, simpler explanation for a slowdown in innovation is that the innovators have harvested all of the low-hanging fruit.
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by kodis 12y ago
Yes, assuming that there remain any proofs which the model checkers and proof assistants haven't already discovered!