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by mbell 12y ago
> Murder has always been illegal, in every society, Only if you allow for a highly variable definition of 'murder', at which point there isn't much value in comparison.
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by mbell 12y ago
> Frankly, I can't see any reason for the Hackintosh middle ground other than people who can't cope without the OS but can't afford the hardware. I have several Mac laptops that cost more than most desktops (from apple or
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by mbell 12y ago
Personally, I can't get into the 'proper' position when sitting at all, my arms are too long. I'm 6'2" ~190lb and when sitting in an ergonomic chair with proper posture, my elbows are within an inch of the top
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by mbell 12y ago
There is a rather large technical divide between 'no logs left behind' and relying on DNS lookup to provide that guarantee.
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by mbell 12y ago
> I agree that a news website does not need to have JS-required pages for 99.999%+ of their content. I've seen this idea a number of times in this thread, it's far from true. The majority of advertising systems require JS. Wit
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by mbell 12y ago
All the addon cards I've seen are PCIe-2.0 x4 cards, thats 2GB/sec each direction. A single thunderbolt 2 ports would need ~2.5GB/sec each direction to 'max out', a pair would need 5GB/sec. They seem to be assu
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by mbell 12y ago
What's up with the line 'We like sex.' on page 12 under Arithmetic?
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by mbell 12y ago
I'd argue that we already have military hardware distributed around the country with local people regularly trained to use it: The National Guard. I really don't see a need for police to have access to any equipment of this nature
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by mbell 12y ago
The USB spec identifies different types of charging ports based on the resistance / voltage connected to the data pins. Here's a chart with the USB spec (on the ends) and a couple manufacturer variants: http://i.stack.i
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by mbell 12y ago
> And how is this 'difficult'? It seems like it's a trivial software I co-founded a traffic sensing startup circa 2008. At the time, very few cities had centralized control over their lighting systems (LA mostly did for e
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by mbell 12y ago
I would think in low volume a supermicro chassis would be more cost effective, they have many 4U models that support 36+ 3.5" drives.
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by mbell 12y ago
Fun article, but I don't completely buy the conclusion. The propagation speed of cat-5, coax and fiber optic cable all fall in the neighborhood of ~60-70% the speed of light in vacuum. Also it's very unlikeliness to have anything
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by mbell 12y ago
You have this backwards, the shield is there to prevent RF noise radiating _from_ the USB signal pairs, not to prevent outside noise coupling onto the signal pairs.
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by mbell 12y ago
I'd start with the question of 'why so much ACKing?'. In TCP you don't normally ACK every packet. You really only need one ACK per receive window, not one ACK per packet which is what the op's code appears to be try
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by mbell 12y ago
I'm curious what your definition of atheism is. I consider myself an atheist but I don't in absolute terms claim that god(s) don't or can't exist, I simply reject the concept of 'belief' at large. i.e. if you c
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by mbell 12y ago
Every social media employee? I would guess most have separate personal accounts and accounts used to manage their company's pages.
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by mbell 12y ago
> Probably not exploded I don't know about that: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/488718649515986944 Even with minimal fuel, the tanks are still highly pressurized, a loss in hull integrity would result
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by mbell 12y ago
Rails-api is a gem that configures rails in a more lean and mean fashion for API usage, it doesn't handle the json serialization. Mostly rails-api disables a lot of default rails features/middlewares that aren't needed when y
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by mbell 12y ago
Great write up! I wrote a bit[0] awhile back about setting html5mode routing with rails and angular using a similar setup which may be a useful addon to this article. [0] http://mbell697.github.io/2014/02/04/y
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by mbell 12y ago
> How did you handle getting your browser to talk to a server running on a different port? (Cross-origin requests). He's using grunt-connect-proxy to proxy the API requests through the grunt server so there are no CORS requests in t
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by mbell 12y ago
I think we should just do away with the term 'programmer'. It doesn't really mean much anymore. A 'programmer' could be anything from someone deep into the algorithmic side of thing to someone who spends most of th
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by mbell 12y ago
I looked over mediacru.sh and unless I'm missing something it doesn't serve the same purpose as gfycat. The point of gfycat is to upload a gif, it converts it to webm then it gives you a bit of embed code that will try to use the
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by mbell 12y ago
> no one has yet, it appears, made the <video> element work for this use case. Gfycat seems to be getting more and more popular or at least I'm personally starting to see a lot more of their links in place of imgur gif links.
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by mbell 12y ago
If you have this type of situation, Java EE was built for it. Distributed transactions across applications including messaging (JMS) is part of the spec. This is really the (possibly only) domain where you should consider using Java EE, it&
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by mbell 12y ago
Launch webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbHnSu-DLR4
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by mbell 12y ago
It's not the concept that can be confusing, it's the syntax python chose. In most of the languages I'm familiar with, there are very clear syntax differences when working with class attributes. For example, in many languages
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by mbell 12y ago
The other scoping issue in python that always struck me as strange is that loop variables aren't scoped to the loop, they continue to exist after the loop completes. I can see the logic for this feature even if I don't agree with
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by mbell 12y ago
> The key is object mutability. A list type is mutable and a tuple type is immutable. I don't think the question has much to do with mutability, it isn't surprising to me nor would I imagine most programmers that a list is muta
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by mbell 12y ago
> I just want to mention that beat is talking about phase alignment between identical signals, which our perceptual network is incredibly sensitive to. I wouldn't go that far. If you have two signals emitting from physically separat
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by mbell 12y ago
This comment covers much of what is wrong with common interpretations of acoustics. > the human ear is largely insensitive to moderate variations in volume/frequency... but it's incredibly sensitive to phase. No, it's not

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