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by markc 8y ago
No, undoubtedly optimum height is a major factor in his and other basketball players' success, and I don't know of any other factor that obviously dominates it. His mental talents may be even rarer however. I don't know h
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by markc 8y ago
No, largest standard deviation doesn't make it his greatest gift unless its weighted contribution to his overall skill (some combination of importance and rarity) was the greatest. There are certainly positive traits even rarer than
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by markc 8y ago
I also bike commute full time (even through Boston winters) and love it. I know I couldn't bike to music safely though. Are audiobooks different? Can you still hear approaching cars etc.? Or do you have an unusually safe route?
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by markc 8y ago
This post is a reasonable start, but has some errors and omissions - and is now out of date since the OWASP Top 10 update. A few suggested improvements: Update to use OWASP Top 10 2017 https://www.owasp.org/index.php/To
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by markc 8y ago
They're "socially liberal" often more liberal even than the US Democratic party on issues of personal freedom like sex and drugs.
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by markc 8y ago
As someone who's been reading Reason for 25 years, I agree they have an agenda, but it's not a right-wing agenda. Even though plenty of their positions do coincide with those of the right wing, they function more as a gadfly than
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by markc 8y ago
If you use Akamai's CDN you can get per-browser auto image optimization (size, quality, format) as an add-on service via Image Manager.
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by markc 8y ago
>things like counters were also brought with. Are you from the midwest? This construction seems to be regional. Say this in much of the country and they'll wait expectantly for you to finish your sentence.
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by markc 8y ago
The irony is someone intolerant of "liberals" whining about their intolerance of his intolerance.
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by markc 8y ago
I believe the reasoning would be that it's good for kids. Statistically it is - relative to divorced or unmarried parents. If the new norm were flexible open relationships however, that wouldn't necessarily correlate with worse
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by markc 8y ago
>On-Premise Ugh, NO! It's Premises . Get it right, Zulip! (and the countless people who screw this up every day.)
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by markc 8y ago
>Joining a CSA/farm share helped a lot too Seconded, including a winter CSA, which gave me new appreciation for several root veggies I'd neglected (e.g. parsnip, rutabega, turnip). It can be an engaging challenge to use it all
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by markc 9y ago
>which was a smart decision And a lucky one. I'm boggled that they found a 4 bedroom in Cambridge MA for $460k in 2012. I was very actively looking for real-estate in Cambridge that same year, and decent 3 bedroom condos started a
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by markc 9y ago
Watch the footage carefully and you'll see that the car actually tracks to the right immediately before impact. When centered there's about 20" between the sides of the car and the lane markers. (120" lane - 80" c
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by markc 9y ago
Thanks, really helpful! I have submitted a bug report.
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by markc 9y ago
This has so much potential but I'm finding it near unusable right now. I use the Clojure REPL, so some of these issues might be unique to it. 0. No docs. There's plenty of odd and unexplained behavior that needs documenting
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by markc 9y ago
Github renders .org files just fine. Example: https://github.com/josteink/csharp-mode/blob/master/README.o...
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by markc 9y ago
You'd need more "settings" too because some people want only foreign language subtitles turned on (language impaired) and others want subtitles for everything (hearing impaired). And what if you're multi-lingual but
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by markc 9y ago
You miss my point which has nothing to do with warm fuzzies or political correctness. I'm not accepting as fact that there are innate intelligence differences, but for the sake of argument let's postulate small differences betwe
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by markc 9y ago
>when you see a random black person and a white one and an asian, and a jew, your average racist will factually be right in guessing their relative intelligence Wrong. Individuals are not populations. The most you could say is that if so
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by markc 9y ago
>It's worth keeping in mind that riding a bike isn't necessarily better for climate change. Don't be absurd. Nobody should worry that they're hurting the planet by riding a bike. Your calculation omitted the impact of
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by markc 9y ago
Kreps and Kleppmann on stream processing, log abstraction, event sourcing: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/03/04/turning-
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by markc 9y ago
True, but there are many other ways people can lose control of their password other than the site being owned and TOTP helps in most of them, right? PW phished, shoulder surfed, socially engineered, etc.. I agree that separate devices is be
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by markc 9y ago
There are a few commercial container security products too - twistlock, aquasec, neuvector - for those who can't wait.
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by markc 9y ago
Had to try it! (Clojure) (frequencies (take 100 (map #(first (str (first %))) (iterate (fn [[x y]] [y (+' x y)]) [0 1])))) => {\0 1, \1 30, \2 18, \3 12, \4 9, \5 8, \6 6, \7 5, \8 7, \
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by markc 9y ago
Or use ClojureScript with core.async - which implements a go-like concurrency model. (Not saying that's fully or equivalent, or meant to denigrate this interesting work.)
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by markc 9y ago
The language used as an example in the article (and one that fulfills its criteria for a good REPL) is Clojure - which is compiled.
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by markc 9y ago
I do something similar, org in Dropbox, with todo list in one file and "engineering journal" in another. But I just create the journal entries as needed (often for meeting notes) with function that creates opens the journal buffer
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by markc 9y ago
I've used PGP Words - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list - "which are carefully chosen for their phonetic distinctiveness". There is also a "parity" feature to catch simple errors. My
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by markc 9y ago
A wise wife tagged and jagged and nagged Her aptitude had altitude to push the lush He bore the brunt with a grunt and tonic His music was ionic sonic Their topic too toxic to adapt And they, too adept to adopt

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