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by lake99 12y ago
Indians generally use Fahrenheit only for body temperature... to know if we're running a fever. But off-hand, I'd have no idea what an air temperature of 113 degrees Fahrenheit would feel like. I understand 45C quite easily. Surel
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by lake99 12y ago
> What is it about init systems that causes this outrage? I like systemd. It has shaven quite a few seconds off my boot time. I get that its modularity simplifies things for the developer. However, I understand some of that outrage. Linu
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by lake99 12y ago
> there is most likely Ada underneath I have worked for quite a few real-time safety-critical systems, including one of the domains you mentioned. I have ex-colleagues who now work for other such domains. I assure you, that Ada is rarely
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by lake99 12y ago
I use both Okular and Google Chrome for filling PDF forms.
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Exploring GM Foods (Part I)(newslaundry.com)
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by lake99 12y ago
> Why can't I disable the desktop search? After some hours googling I managed to kill most of Akonadi and Desktop search ... That's not the way to do it. Maybe there are some GUI ways to disable it, but in effect, your ~/.
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by lake99 12y ago
You're probably right, but for the wrong reasons. Racism leads to positive and negative expectations [1]. And do explain how you'd control for expectations based on race in your study. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by lake99 12y ago
I am surprised by all the down votes you got. To add to what you wrote, if someone is really hell-bent on recording surreptitiously in public, they have long had (cheaper) options such as these: http://www.spybase.com/Body-W
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by lake99 12y ago
You're doing it wrong, apparently. Humans are not meant to swallow corn whole. Cook, chew. Eat popcorn, corn-on-the-cob, tortilla chips, corn-flakes.
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by lake99 13y ago
I could just leave it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman . After all, this is what most people who are talking about "capitalism" are doing: strawmanning it. I guess the problem is that many of us, neo-
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by lake99 13y ago
Though the government is pretty corrupt, you seem to be paranoid in your criticism of it. > "Use iodized salt in food else your children will be born retarded". "In India, the entire population is prone to IDD due to defic
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by lake99 13y ago
So far, I have come across government actions against expressing anti-religious, anti-national, iconoclastic sentiments: all thought-crimes. Given how common jingoism is among my own colleagues, all engineers, I'm convinced that the ab
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by lake99 13y ago
Using the Win key often on my Linux laptop gave me an achy left thumb. This fixed my thumb: localectl set-x11-keymap us pc104 altgr-intl lv3:ralt_alt,caps:super,lv3:lwin_switch So, US-International, LAlt=Ralt, Caps->Win, Win-&gt
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by lake99 13y ago
Some people [1] [2], have coined "Citation Nazi" , analogous to Grammar Nazi. [1] http://www.bigbible.org/blog/2008/05/citation-nazis-get-u2_0... [2] http://wikipediareview.com/inde
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by lake99 13y ago
You're right about that. Though my name itself is quite short, being one of the vast majority of South Indians who don't have a last name, quite like Srinivasa Ramanujan, I was quite annoyed that my login id was based on my father
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by lake99 13y ago
> Second, if the LED fails to a short your camera won't get any power. One never puts an LED on the power line directly. That will certainly blow up most LEDs. Power rails are typically 5V or 3.3V. LED drop is about 1V (+/- 0.3
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by lake99 13y ago
Huh? Come to India. You won't have too much trouble finding government-run or government-authorized cannabis (bhang [1]) shops. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang
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by lake99 13y ago
Just below Andromeda. Find Mirach, the brightest star below the plane of Andromeda, then go the same distance further south.
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by lake99 13y ago
> I don't see how access to medicine makes any difference That's not quite what I said. > but the first two alone provided the lion's share of life-expectancy gains in England and the US. Longer lives => contributi
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by lake99 13y ago
I don't see how access to medicine makes any difference to climate change policies. I'll leave that aside. I don't quite get what you mean by "during their period of industrialization". Industrial progress does not
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by lake99 13y ago
There is no consensus among libertarians about BTC. The mistake that Gary North makes here is in assuming there is one. He is entitled to voice his opinions, and he does come across as being prescriptivist. However, as long as he does not c
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by lake99 13y ago
While the idea of "strong government" has many vague interpretations, one doesn't need a nanny state to enforce property rights. This is a good starting point for looking at what Benelux countries do: https://en.wi
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by lake99 13y ago
Disclaimer: I do not have much of an expertise in web technologies, and I do not have bitcoins. But when I look at http://www.getferro.com/#security , I see: Ferro does not transmit your personal information to nor
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by lake99 13y ago
As an HTC-Android phone user, I'd buy a mug titled "<MS logo> keep calm while we steal your money". Not if MS is selling it, though.
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by lake99 13y ago
Sorry, Mayank. The company does hire freshers, but only through campus interviews. These interviews are typically at some universities in the four southern states. I have not come across a case where a fresh engineer joined us by any other
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by lake99 13y ago
I believe the word "racist" is used only with a negative connotation, so I don't think that applies to your comment. But some of your colleagues seem to have a positive prejudice towards Indians. I have had European colleague
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by lake99 13y ago
Smart interviewing helps filter-out bad engineers. I don't know the situation in other countries. At my work (India), 3 days of back-to-back interviews typically yield one or two employable engineers. And our code is on-par with code f
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by lake99 13y ago
> claiming that they may have better NLP algorithms than Google is absolutely unbelievable. That's why I did not make that claim. The NLP talent at Google is likely better than that at any other company or university. My claim is th
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by lake99 13y ago
The spam/troll filter on Youtube really is egregious. "Nigger "*85 was just one such example. Obvious spam such as "my stay-at-home mother earned $X last month from Y job. Visit Z to find out more" are way too commo
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by lake99 13y ago
> "Well, what's the problem? if you don't like it just delete all your youtube videos and discard the years of investment you've made into your youtube identity" No, you don't have to delete or discard anyt

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