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901.
by pacaro 10y ago
English has simply abandoned the letters thorn and eth (and others), which was largely the result of the rise of printing (IIRC). It's interesting to me that this happened far enough back that the only time we tend to consider 'th
902.
by pacaro 10y ago
Oops
903.
by pacaro 10y ago
My first thought was /^H\documentclass{screenplay} Edit: fixing my solidus direction.
904.
by pacaro 10y ago
So next time I buy a car, if I put a line through paragraphs that I don't agree with in the contract are they going to walk away from the deal? I'm sure that the dealership doesn't want this to happen, but the sales personnel
905.
by pacaro 10y ago
Ruhlman's "Ratio" is a good approach to this My peeve with the book is that he (IMHO correctly) tells the reader to use weights not volumes for dry ingredients, then in the entire rest of the book seems to promote/use vo
906.
by pacaro 10y ago
Tyvek would probably make more sense for a project like this. $30 will get you 10 yards on Amazon
907.
by pacaro 10y ago
IR was also used for syncing with phones, and printing. Some PDAs (I'm looking at you psion) could print over IR
908.
by pacaro 10y ago
Ha! This was my first thought too! An enjoyable read, the protagonist becomes progressively less sympathetic through the series
909.
by pacaro 10y ago
It's also powerful to think of these numbers in the context of complexity. You might not worry about a nanosecond here or there in an O(N) algorithm, but at O(N^3), when N is 100 each nanosecond in the inner loop is a millisecond of w
910.
by pacaro 10y ago
I've had my credit checked as part of background checks the last two times I've changed jobs. AFAICT they aren't interested in my (abysmally low) credit score, but are rather using it as a signal that I am who I claim to be -
911.
by pacaro 10y ago
Another way to look at this, is to ask yourself what your threat model is. For example, if your primary concern is losing your laptop while traveling, then writing down your pass phrase and keeping it with other important paperwork (tax ret
912.
by pacaro 10y ago
If your doing both fire-eating and fire-breathing in the same act, then it's important to do them strictly in that order. As for toxicity, you can fire breathe with pharmaceutical grade paraffin(kerosene), if you accidentally swallow s
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by pacaro 10y ago
I don't think we'll know the answer to the age question for a little while. The number of coders has been growing over time, so the potential pool of seriously older coders (60+ for sake of argument) is already small to start with
914.
by pacaro 10y ago
Good to know, I always just `ps aux | grep [j]ava`
915.
by pacaro 10y ago
Or two strokes and a dot in cursive. A principle that also applies in Chinese and Japanese
916.
by pacaro 10y ago
There are many ways to sort. Typically sorted first by radical, then by number of strokes. There's more than one ordering of the radicals, and choices to be made when characters have the same radical and the same number of strokes Pape
917.
by pacaro 10y ago
Next interview question should be: Write a simple calculator that uses Roman numerals as its only internal representation of a number
918.
by pacaro 10y ago
FYI known to Americans as "mono" or "infectious mononucleosis" - I've heard it called "kissing disease" but rarely
919.
by pacaro 10y ago
At my first job (94-97) we were writing a (16bit) Windows application that was a relatively slim EXE and several hundred DLLs. This wasn't necessarily the mainstream approach, but it was supported just fine by the tools. What didn&#x27
920.
by pacaro 10y ago
But Latin had a (or really many depending on era and style) written form and a spoken form (vulgate). My understanding is that the vulgate is quite similar to some Italian regional dialects, although not to standard Italian (itself a postwa
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by pacaro 10y ago
This is pretty well known in the UK. See, for example, the "Rothamsted Broadbalk and Geescroft Wilderness Experiment" [1] which was started in 1880. I suspect that the critical difference here is that the landscape was blighted by
922.
by pacaro 10y ago
The thing that always gets me about this is how incomplete it is (at least in most people's experience) What is the unit of mass smaller than an Ounce? Some people know that this is a Grain (7,000 in a pound, which means the awfully co
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Beware the UIKit Visitors – Quadratic Time Complexity Adding Subviews in UIKit(accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com)
1 points by pacaro 10y ago|0 comments
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by pacaro 10y ago
Another fun thing you can do is create a shell that only runs with the '-c' command line flag. If this is set as the default shell for a user, then you can use ssh as a simplistic rpc transport.
925.
by pacaro 10y ago
oops forgot the reference... [1] http://www.bearcave.com/misl/misl_tech/msdrm/darknet.htm
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by pacaro 10y ago
I thought twice about responding to this. I worked on Palladium from very early days in 2002 through renaming to NGSCB and the eventual shutdown/transition of the project to ship BitLocker in Vista The team never saw DRM as being an in
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by pacaro 10y ago
This clearly inspired the early part of "The Proof House" by K J Parker (part 3 of The Fencer Trilogy)
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by pacaro 10y ago
I have no idea about the economics, but making your own yogurt is extremely easy. You get rather more control of the contents at that point. Fresh yogurt is also naturally sweeter
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Talking with your hands: Microsoft researchers moving beyond keyboard and mouse(blogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by pacaro 10y ago|0 comments
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Efficient and Precise Interactive Hand Tracking(microsoft.com)
4 points by pacaro 10y ago|0 comments

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