lostapathy

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by lostapathy 10y ago
I agree, it's not really the language's fault. I'm involved with more than one application that's over a decade old, so I understand what happens. My point is that a lot of the things still running around in ColdFusion
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by lostapathy 10y ago
You wouldn't. I'm just observing that none of the CF I've had to deal with is healthy - it's all a mess they want to replace. Probably poor wording in my prior comment that was hard to parse as intended, apologies.
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by lostapathy 10y ago
All the ColdFusion code I've ran into still exists because it's too rotten of a mess to be replaced. It tends to be very procedural code with lots of "libraries" that rely on side-effects rather than abstraction. The
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by lostapathy 10y ago
Sadly there's more ColdFusion running around to this day than you'd like to think, managing more important data than it should be. It's frightening.
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by lostapathy 10y ago
Exactly this. I think dev shops are fairly stratified into quality levels. "fix it now and clean it up later" works in a certain class of shop, and that's great. But there's a huge swath of dev shops that never pay a
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by lostapathy 10y ago
The book is probably a case of somebody working on it to make a handful of copies to satisfy somebody's ego. Selling more copies is just gravy.
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by lostapathy 10y ago
Actually that kind of backlash isn't a problem in a machine built like this. The tension of the chain against the sprocket is always pulling in the same direction around the sprocket. Even when the sprocket reverses direction, the ch
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by lostapathy 10y ago
Mostly true but not quite. The forces on the chains are actually higher when the chains are "shorter" and the router is higher up. The farther from vertical the chains are, the more horizontal tension there is on top of the ver
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by lostapathy 10y ago
Most of the work done on CNC routers is 2-axis anyway. Or 2-axis with just a couple z-heights, which can be accommodated by changing the router depth by hand. Ultimately it's made to cut up plywood, not sculpt things. Like a sized-u
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by lostapathy 10y ago
They say 1/64in/0.4mm precision or better. I'm sure they can lift it up. This kind of mechanism isn't exactly new - but using it on a router is fairly new. There's a lot of projects with pen plotters built in this
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by lostapathy 10y ago
Not necessarily. Often, large commercial electric consumers pay less per kilowatt than you'd pay at home.
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by lostapathy 10y ago
Vote libertarian?
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by lostapathy 10y ago
There's also a lot to be said for having the gear to be able to coordinate with friends/family until normal comms are restored for non-responders. Just because you aren't coordinate the "real" help doesn't mean
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by lostapathy 10y ago
That'll all work great for the government workers, but there's always going to be a window between when those comms are available for the government and when cell service is restored to the point you can coordinate with family and
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by lostapathy 10y ago
The tests are not as hard as the study guide would make you believe. And frankly (at least when I took them a few years ago) were not put together very well. I wasn't working through practice test apps very long before I picked up a
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by lostapathy 10y ago
You're lucky if weather is the big topic in your area - usually all I hear are bowel problems.
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by lostapathy 10y ago
Are you running off the shelf temp sensors or something you built?
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by lostapathy 11y ago
Try reading the book. The author is a journalist who set out to build a case against guns and this book holds the facts he found. He came into it with a bias but still ended up with the opposite book from his intentions, due to honest rese
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by lostapathy 12y ago
ProxyCommand is simpler to setup if you have a new enough ssh that -W is available. You can do "ProxyCommand ssh gateway -W real_host:22" to go direct to real_host.
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by lostapathy 12y ago
Did you read the article? It's talking about the effect of wide lanes on urban and suburban streets. You're talking about what happens on open highway. Completely different animals. He acknowledges as much, and that wider highw
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by lostapathy 12y ago
I would encourage everyone thinking about depression go watch this TEDx talk. He's not the most traditional speaker, but his story made a huge difference in how I understand depression. http://www.ted.com/talks/an
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by lostapathy 13y ago
There's been a renewed interest in this lately among hams, actually. http://www.hsmm-mesh.org/ I'm a little disappointed, though, that at least local to me most of the interest centers around hacking the old WRT-
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by lostapathy 13y ago
You wouldn't necessarily have to run it in-kernel, as these are all configurable from /proc. With a sufficiently complete test environment, you could use machine learning to tune a lot of the params up safely, then just run the r
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by lostapathy 14y ago
I have a whole house humidifier like this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002U3654/ref=wms_ohs_prod... Took an hour or so to install myself and needs a new $10 pad every year, which takes all of 5 minutes to swap out, but is otherwise
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by lostapathy 14y ago
Have you read the Supreme Court's interpretation of what the 2nd amendment means and it's historical context, as laid out in the Heller and McDonald decisions? It's reasonably accessible reading (if long) but complete debunks your statement
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by lostapathy 14y ago
Caveat, though, is that this will force connections to break if you have a transient network outage that SSH could otherwise cope with. Which can be annoying if you're somewhere with a flaky connection. Putting it on the specific hosts yo
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by lostapathy 14y ago
I use Trello for this. I have a board with a few lists, each with a different category of idea on it. When I get a new idea, I add a card for it. As I develop the idea, I add to the card. At some point I either archive the card out, or I