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by paledot 4y ago
The aisle width and/or chair clearance probably changed as well. Indeed, if only 26 cm was required to add another seat to each row, there must have been substantial wasted space with four-abreast seating.
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by paledot 4y ago
In Canada we call that $1.50/s down, $0.75/s up.
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by paledot 4y ago
Even that understates the situation, I think. Most players I know just aren't that particular about what system they play. (Sometimes they are particular about what system they don't play.) So if the DM says "I'm going
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by paledot 4y ago
I remember a time when websites like AltaVista and Lycos would have column after column of checkboxes in the user settings, requesting that you check which categories of ads interested you.
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by paledot 4y ago
LinkedIn, too. I get a bunch of recruiter spam addressed to my old LinkedIn email that was probably compromised in the big hack/scraping incident from a few years back. Good way to flag the sketchiest recruiters.
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by paledot 4y ago
Trivial to a human looking at the data set, but it's something the algorithm would have to be trained to recognize.
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by paledot 4y ago
I stopped doing this after I encountered a website that accepted + in the registration form but not the email confirmation.
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by paledot 4y ago
But my understanding is that the plane was taxiing. At this point, the problem isn't just the lack of red lights: the pilot took a wrong turn. There are reasons other than the possibility of crossing an active runway why you follow dir
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by paledot 4y ago
On some level maybe, but at this point no amount of marketing is going to change Google's reputation.
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by paledot 4y ago
This is how I feel about the whole argument against minimum wage increases. Can't figure out a way to pay your employees a living wage and stay in business? Close your business and good riddance, I don't care if you employ 10 peop
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by paledot 4y ago
> The null hypothesis here is that your rent controlled (or stabilized) landlord is worse than your average New York landlord, which is debatable! It's not. The problem is that if you have a market-rate apartment and your landlord i
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by paledot 4y ago
Right, but if I walk out my front door and shoot the first person I see, I'm not going to dodge prison time because I didn't know the person. Someone is still dead.
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by paledot 4y ago
My background is similar to GP's. I would say that my first inkling that something was wrong was working alongside someone more egregious than me. I also spent half of my career supporting a product built by someone who sold his compan
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by paledot 4y ago
This came up a lot in my criminology program in university. Criminologists (especially students) spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how to kill people and get away with it. General consensus is with a car. The crazy part is t
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by paledot 4y ago
I'm not sure `make` is any less of a mess, to be fair. Especially when you're trying to use `make` for general project automation rather than the standard set of build tasks.
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by paledot 4y ago
I disagree. I would say when I get an unbalanced paren compiler error, it's more common for the omission to not be at the end of the line. Having the compiler silently swallow the error would lead to serious bugs very quickly.
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by paledot 4y ago
I appreciate the correction. I'm not sure where I heard that particular piece of information, nor in that case what material was being examined. Perhaps that one was steel.
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by paledot 4y ago
I mean, that's a fair point. The total volume of the elevator cable would be greater than that of the Earth. The mass might still be less since we're not building it out of iron here, but effectively we'd have a binary planet
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by paledot 4y ago
The physics works for Earth too. In all cases, you make the top of the cable bigger than the bottom to support all of the weight hanging from it. From what I've read, in the case of Earth and with current materials technology, we end u
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by paledot 4y ago
"If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere." —Robert Heinlein
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by paledot 4y ago
I wasn't commenting on the security implications. My point was that bleeding implementation details like .php in your URLs is silly because that URL might end up being served by a Node app one day. But on the security point, a URL endi
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by paledot 4y ago
Fair point. Hopefully that was just me jumping to an uncharitable conclusion, and if so I apologize.
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by paledot 4y ago
> your customers/end users will be sorry So will you, because your database is now bleeding red-hot PII across every query and foreign key. Chances are you'll now end up with a web interface that uses SSNs in its URLs. Holy hel
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by paledot 4y ago
Obviously, it's to prevent people with chronic medical conditions from pursuing citizenship so they can access free health ca- oh wait.
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by paledot 4y ago
Indeed, made worse/better by the need to fetch my Yubikey to sign in. Likewise how Firefox Focus helped me to kick my Facebook habit.
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by paledot 4y ago
No, of course not. If it were easy, why would it take six payments of $24.95+S/H to teach you how to do it?
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by paledot 4y ago
Which is why you shouldn't include implementation details in your URL.
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by paledot 4y ago
Criticism is very different from propaganda. I am a former Tesla fan and remain a SpaceX fan. I hold Tesla stock and I would buy SpaceX stock in a hot minute if I could. And I credit Musk in no small part with making both companies what the
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by paledot 4y ago
I mean, I'll agree that it's slightly better in absolute terms. "Infinitely" is a strong word choice for a case where 95% of users will still be in the dark, unless you insist on using the term in a pedantic mathematical
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by paledot 4y ago
Which works about as well as the IRS Free File program in the US.

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