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by nwallin 5y ago
> In short: the equirectangular projection distorts things, making countries closer to the poles look bigger while countries closer to the equator look smaller; the azimuthal projection accounts for this. This isn't quite right. Eq
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by nwallin 5y ago
Yup. We're at the point where people optimize their passwords for how easy they are to type in. One of my coworkers' passwords is a number and a capital letter followed by asdfghjkl;' (the Enter key at the end of the home row
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by nwallin 5y ago
Puerto Ricans are natural born US citizens. They're eligible to be elected President, for instance, which is not a right granted to someone who petitions for and receives US citizenship, or a person born to a US citizen parent. Perhaps
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by nwallin 5y ago
> It's a generic term that is commonly synonymous with employee. It is not. It implies an entry level/unskilled/probationary position. You would call a person who works tier 1 support an associate, or works the cash regist
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by nwallin 5y ago
Those aren't new things though, and it's not the crux of what the X wing was. The rigid rotor, the pusher propeller, had all been done already in the 1967 AH-56.The X wing has more in common with the F-35B than the S-97 has in com
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by nwallin 5y ago
> There are many reasons why UTF-8 is a better encoding but UTF-16 does at least have the benefit of being simpler. Big endian or little endian?
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by nwallin 5y ago
Note that the asterisk in `UTF-16*` is a really big asterisk. I fixed a UCS-16 bug last week at my day job.
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by nwallin 5y ago
> Lat/Lon is really the standard. [...] That all said, I'm a total noob and I have no "geospatial" background (just writing some software to deal with rain data right now) So this isn't pro advice. The standard i
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by nwallin 5y ago
Healthcare is the most heavily regulated consumer oriented industry in the United States. This is a summary of the most heavily regulated consumer market in the country and a government abusing its regulatory authority to prevent workers fr
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by nwallin 5y ago
It's actually false. Ish. Well, sort of. There was a famous study that asked its test subjects to describe the wine that they were drinking. There are certain words that are typically associated with red wines and certain words that ar
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by nwallin 5y ago
It's the hospital's responsibility to ensure patients get adequate care, not the ex-employees of the hospital. The hospital can ensure patients get adequate care by attracting additional workers with sufficient compensation, retai
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by nwallin 5y ago
> They can just not show up, but then the hospital will fire them (with a strong position to deny them unemployment when they do). Hold on. They've quit. The hospital has taken them to court and obtained a legal injunction preventin
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by nwallin 5y ago
A collection of several falsehoods programmers believe lists, not just time: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
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by nwallin 5y ago
> The essential thing, and I mean really essential, is that modified gravity (MOND) uses fewer free parameters than cold dark matter (CDM), by a long shot. The only MOND formulations that actually work are ones that simply reduce cold da
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by nwallin 5y ago
This was one of the leading theories for what dark matter is for quite some time. The term is "MACHO" or Massive Compact Halo Object. MACHO doesn't include just black holes, but also a sea of objects small enough to be very d
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by nwallin 5y ago
That's why C++ requires you to explicitly list the stuff you want to capture, and whether you want to capture it by value or by reference, and the least-keystrokes way to capture is to capture by value. Capturing a reference to somethi
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by nwallin 5y ago
On youtube, on a 1080p display, 4K video is much better than the same video at 1080p. This is because youtube uses a different, higher quality set of codec settings and encodes video at a higher bitrate. In a less imperfect world, if you&#x
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by nwallin 5y ago
> not used as living accomodation, How is this defined? The purpose of this structure is to be used as an office; they'll presumably spend on the order of 40 hours a week in there. Is it only considered a living accommodation if you
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by nwallin 5y ago
constexpr and static_assert make this a ton easier in C++. If your "unit tests" are static_asserts, the IDE will just highlight the broken parts. C++17 made this minimally useful, and things got spectacularly better with C++20 and
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by nwallin 5y ago
There are more Pakistani citizens living in the UAE than there are UAE citizens. So if Pakistan has a problem with fake pilot licenses, then so does the UAE.
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by nwallin 5y ago
As a person who runs an email server, I have to jump through several different hoops to prove that the e-mail that I sent from my e-mail server comes from my e-mail server. This isn't the case for phone calls. Any phone call originatin
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by nwallin 5y ago
I do not use SQL in anger on a regular basis at my day job. So I'm no expert. But it seems to me that the footgun is still there, it just fails slowly instead of immediately. The "fail immediately on ambiguity" footgun will m
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by nwallin 5y ago
Ah yes, the "I didn't keep the money, I used it to buy a boat" defense.
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by nwallin 5y ago
Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.
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by nwallin 5y ago
I agree. Major's nudity in the movie feels like a person driving a robot that was human shaped. Her character felt, to me, like an AI trying to figure out what it meant to be human. Trying to figure out whether she/it is human or
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by nwallin 5y ago
> Aside: IMO std::optional in general is disappointing because it doesn't actually solve the worst problem with nullable pointers: dereferencing a null std::optional is still undefined behavior. I wish the standard had gone with a d
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by nwallin 5y ago
So -- ctrl-f "Dash" only produces four results and it's hidden away in the bottom of the page. It's false to claim that even 20% of the post mortem is addressing the failure of the dashboard. The problem is that the dash
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by nwallin 5y ago
Sure, but a tired/hungry/drunk/distracted human failure mode is "fuck it, it was 22 units 12 this morning, 22 units yesterday evening, 22 units yesterday morning, I'll just do 22 units." A tired/drunk&#x2F
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by nwallin 5y ago
While hovering, the tail rotor is pushing air into a dirty vortex. A small amount of speed, even just 20kt, will clear that vortex and give more authority. Even today helicopters will begin pitching nose down immediately on takeoff to get
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by nwallin 5y ago
> I'm a bit suspicious that the branches in the streaming log-exp-sum might cause a performance impact when executing, Since you're just checking whether the current sample is larger than the largest sample seen so far, you&#x2

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