mmagin

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   by mmagin 10y ago

   Darn, was hoping it was Paris Hilton.
2. 242.▲
   by mmagin 10y ago

   I believe in most places that have actually faced this there is an obligation to disclose the relationship on the part of the promoted individual and an obligation on the company to shuffle people around so the one person isn't reporti
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   by mmagin 10y ago

   "NaN and Infinity" Yeah. And I learned this the hard way with the Perl module JSON::XS. It successfully encodes a Perl NaN, but its decoder will choke on that JSON. (Reported it to the maintainer who insists that is consistent
4. 244.▲
   by mmagin 10y ago

   Do you want to crack the display the first time you bang the corner against something hard? It takes some space to protect such a big piece of LCD.
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   by mmagin 10y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolts_in_the_United_...
6. 246.▲
   by mmagin 10y ago

   Uh, it looks like it's supposed to when it's finished.
7. 247.▲
   by mmagin 10y ago

   Well, you don't need to charge your laptop and listen to headphones at the same time, do you?
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   by mmagin 10y ago

   One little trick I've found: Once you select something a couple levels down the tree of categories, then the "Seller" is a filter available on the left side of the screen. There are some searches where I just filter to what&
9. 249.▲
   by mmagin 10y ago

   Why bother getting into a PhD program?
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    This is being operated at distances where you could just as easily hit the device directly with a hammer. To scale the distance up to just a couple of meters (say about 50 times the distance), you'd need to scale up the power by about
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    I know that attitude well, but really this is a problem that's persisted for years and they have basically acted like it's not their problem, which leaves me unimpressed.
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    This is the important part, I think: "But one part of medical school culture has been especially hard to overcome: the stigma of mental illness. When they need help most, medical students in anguish rarely reach out. Students attribute
13. 253.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    Also you don't really want customers hearing every ill-thought-out thing that comes out of developers mouths.
14. 254.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    And yet after all these years, they've never bothered to roll functionality like that into the base install.
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    Short of a private office, this would be my top choice. But the big thing, I think -- Put a wall between the hallway and the work area. Too many irrelevant people have irrelevant conversations when they're walking by and it's dis
16. 256.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    There's a reason why I've put in commercial-grade LED fixtures in my kitchen and garage. I'm willing to pay a premium for something that'll possibly last the next 20+ years with how few hours a day I use it. Unfortunate
17. 257.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    Me too.
18. 258.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    Lithium ion batteries do not contain significant amounts of elemental Lithium.
19. 259.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    I've been using IPv6 on a consumer-grade cable modem connection with a Cisco DPC3008 modem and a previous-generation Apple Airport extreme since 2012. There weren't even any difficulties getting it working.
20. 260.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    By full computer, you mean something of 'low-end chromebook' spec. Usable mobile power management and thermal design isn't really going to achieve what you get with a good laptop or desktop.
21. 261.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    Would you be comfortable living in a place where such a simplified means to capital punishment was legally practical?
22. 262.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    Wat. We weren't spending $50k/each on servers before Amazon AWS.
23. 263.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    I don't think the larger society has glamorized Asperger's at all.
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    Only the Kansas City, MO one looks like it might be within a reasonable commute of good jobs. The one near Palm Springs may be a close second, but I can't image what the commute from there to to some job in the LA or SD area is.
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    They've been slow about releasing new Mac products, no doubt the much larger cash cow has been a distraction, but I think they'd have to do a huge amount to make the ipad something that would satisfy all their app developers. I am
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    Same age here, pretty much same experience.
27. 267.▲
    by mmagin 10y ago

    Hey, I remember WAP!
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    Doesn't this have some relation to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    I've observed a lot of ground loop problems in cars with a smartphone connected to a stereo line input and also to a USB charger. Some of the USB supply return currents pass through the shield of the audio cable and nastiness ensues.
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    by mmagin 10y ago

    Perl actually has a 'compilation' phase where some types of syntax errors are actually detected before it goes executing the code.