logfromblammo

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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   I respectfully disagree. Smartphones do not come in a single standard size. Using them as comparisons will end up with the same problem as using coins or banknotes--it is only helpful for those already familiar with the specific compariso
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   Please don't use an iPhone X "for scale". The dual-ruled calipers used in the next photo would be an acceptable substitute for just using a plain old ruler.
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   Or ditch the cardboard, and use 5 square HVAC filters to make a true "box fan".
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   In 2005, when I started working there, the Epic codebase was MUMPS and Visual Basic 6, which left mainstream support before I was even allowed to touch it. There was no migration plan for expiration of extended support in 2008. As for the
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   If you think Google can break into the healthcare software space just by being technically better at it, you haven't worked in the healthcare software space. Google could develop the best electronic medical record the world has ever se
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   > "This is not us mining somebody’s records to sell ads, to learn from it, to do machine learning, to develop products. We developed this on de-identified data." "De-identified data" is "somebody's recor
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   What applications in the Apple store are able to function as the default SMS app or the default web browser engine? On Android, I can use Signal for SMS and Firefox for browser engine. On my spouse's iPhone, the iOS applications with
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   I once heard my spouse complaining about Signal, and how they only had it loaded on their iPhone so they could talk to me. I asked why Signal was not their default SMS application, like it is on my Android phone. And that's when I di
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   A surveillance company can have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Methinks they doth protest too much.
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I find it more interesting that they are threatening journalists with civil lawsuits and criminal penalties for disclosing the contents of their advertising brochure than the actual contents of that brochure.
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Exactly my complaint about UBI. You can't push money around; it's tougher than you, and will push back. But you can push a sack or potatoes. If a domestic potato farmer tries to raise prices, a foreign farmer will be all too hap
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Let us consider the ethics of filtering out the news channels at the building level and injecting 24-7 Bob Ross Joy of Painting reruns in their stead.
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Thank you. Could you box up my discounted dopamine hit for carry-out, please? I might need some smug satisfaction later, possibly while driving, when it's not so easy to go online.
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    If you take a factual data set and apply the visualization rules for "pie chart", the result will present similarly to the result of someone else applying the visualization rules for "pie chart" to the same data. The vis
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Mathematical nitpick. A vacancy rate of 10% is an occupancy rate of 90%. To house everyone with a 90% occupancy rate, you need to have 100 / 90 in available housing stock, which is 111.1% of occupation requirements. If you only build
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    The roads, pipes, cables, buses, firefighters, and cops have to go past the empty house to reach the occupied houses on the other side of it. Even if the empty home consumes no water, electricity, classroom capacity, bus seats, etc., it sti
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    The artist's map is based on the facts of MTA subway service and station locations, and common principles of data visualization. If the artist gleaned facts from the official MTA map, and re-represented them on his own map, that does n
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    So what would the unintended consequences be for changing property tax to be a percentage of the actual annual rent for leased or pay-to-stay properties, assume a statutory minimum rent for vacant properties, and stay with assessed valuatio
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I think most apple varieties intended for mass orchard production are clone cuttings grafted onto dwarfing rootstock. The clone produces consistent fruit, and the dwarfing rootstock produces easily harvested trees.
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    It seems odd to want to preserve the ordering among the surviving letters while still involving alphabetical order somehow. Those motives are usually mutually exclusive in the real world. As an engineer, before starting to code, I'd f
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I agree completely. Saying "vegan X" for a complex vegan recipe intended to approach the experience of eating X seems like a naming failure when considering the sometimes heroic effort that went into researching the recipe. Callin
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Indeed. Far more reasonable to lick platypus mammary "sweat". If you think too hard about any kind of food, it can start to get weird. Like coffee. You're taking the fruit of some tropical plant, ripping off the berry-flesh
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    You could probably achieve the same effect by adding powdered milk to liquid milk.
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Defined benefit means that the employer buys a perpetuity from the insurer on behalf of the pensioner. The insurer requires the employer to pay the cost of the benefit divided by the average rate of return after operating and profit margin
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I thought it was more of a screed.... Living on the square mile is the hyperbole non-option. Most people can't live on their own square mile with effectively no neighbors, so they have to find some way to get along with the neighbor
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    The individual parts have been getting more reliable, but they keep adding more points of failure. Like airbags. First, there was an airbag on the steering column. Then, there was one added to the passenger-side dashboard. Then they adde
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I am strongly against land covenants, and support the Jeffersonian maxim that the Earth should belong in usufruct to the living. If you want to control how a property is used in perpetuity, the proper way (in my opinion) to do so is to ne
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    The mechanical lawn mower was invented in 1830-something, if I'm not mistaken. It would have taken a generation or so to become cheaper, at about 1850-ish for the earliest widely-available, manure-free, close-cropped grass lawns. So
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    The original purpose of lawns was to provide sight lines for castle defense. The forest was cut down, and native ground cover dominated the cleared regions. It was kept short by grazing animals. It was our old pal Louis and his Versailles
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Yes. It is particularly unreasonable to want to surround yourself with individuals who think grass lawns, kept cut to a uniform length between 4" and 8", are a good idea, and a worthy goal for landscaping. That's a 1946 idea