letitbeirie

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by letitbeirie 4y ago
That's as American as Uncle Sam himself.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
The dot com crash shook a lot of (then-)younger people out of the industry too.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
It was the pinto that caught fire when rear-ended but the corvair had plenty of problems its own. Stability through corners, for starters.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
> some settings where you should only ask questions if you are already sure of the answer you will get "In open court" is one of those settings that springs to mind
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
Now I want to cry too.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
You took it after they switched to Java, which abstracts away the mechanics of collections. Linked lists were much more fundamental (and covered much earlier) when they were using C++.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
Jaywalking isn't a felony in 33 states.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
If you found someone else on, say, your college network, you could download songs from them faster than you could read their titles.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
By refusing to have to prove themselves to "some damn machine" and demanding to see its manager.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
Not entirely surprising - the biggest change in car technology over the past few years has been the inclusion of driver assistance features and liability is the most expensive component of auto insurance.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
I could see gas being less efficient at heating a pan since it's using convection in an uncontained space. What I was getting at was the fact that with electric, you're burning the gas inside a heat engine to generate power first,
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
If you're burning fuel for power that's one thing, but you don't get any conversion losses at all if you're burning it for heat underneath/inside the thing you want to be hot.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
My college fight song has a call-and-response section where the band drops out and the crowd spells out the name of the mascot. The crowd hears their own section yell in time to the band and then everything else just kind of seems like an e
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
Some tech debt behaves like a payday loan with usurious compounding interest. The more insidious kind behaves more like a completely unhedged call option - fine, until it very suddenly isn't.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
There are some great web frameworks out there (gin, mux, echo, etc) but one of Go's strengths is that it's just as easy to stand up a server without them.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
Ideally, but what if those representatives and all of their credible opponents are doing a bad job and have been for years?
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
I've done this setup and so long as your communication and expectations are lined up it's brilliant.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
A few years ago I was showing someone how many calls a request to Spotify makes and I noticed they were getting 429s from Sentry. An amusing little insight into what is surely a thorn in some Spotify engineer's side.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
It brings up a valid concern. If the media (acting as the experts' proxy to the public) continually fail to distinguish between actual experts and political hacks is it really reasonable to expect other non-experts to do better?
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
I once had a boss who measured productivity in terms of number of commits each dev made per day. Guess when I found out you can set cron jobs to run every minute?
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
> "powerful yet mystifying magic" I find in Rails Django might avoid this to some extent but Django rest framework has you covered.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
What's really staggering going back to an antenna is just how many channels there are to choose from now. Sure most of it comes off like they gave an AM radio station a TV studio, but a lot of it is great and all of it is free.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
I wonder how many companies kite ideas like that out through the USPTO first to see how much blowback they get.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
> you're trying to return nature to a previous state before humans interfered "Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponi
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
The honor system isn't the problem, it's the total lack of any effective enforcement of it. In other cities (and countries) you can be fined and/or detained for skipping your fare; in Seattle (according to the article at leas
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
It's s long way up to the top of mt. Jnco but we're on our way
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
There was a brief period of time, say from the 60s to the early 10s, where offensive takes in public were slightly more tolerated, but that's what's in a lot of peoples memory. I'm sure it waxes and wanes. Either way it'
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
And here I was expecting to see how the power station is wired. https://www.piping-designer.com/images/disciplines/electrica...
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
I've seriously thought about going hiking with a raspi running something that really wants to get friendly with any Bluetooth devices in range.
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by letitbeirie 4y ago
Lack of zoning is one element of the equation but having developed before the car is pretty crucial too. Houston, TX has no zoning laws to speak of but because most of its growth happened in the last century, it grew outwards instead of upw

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