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by patrick5415 7y ago
You’ve asked for hard data, and then make a contrary assertion for which you have no data either. No, glancing at a website periodically doesn’t count.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Personally, I agree with the op. If we want to send a message that malware in our BIOSs is absolutely unacceptable, it makes zero sense to give Lenovo any business.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Thank you. Listing to people intone about how dumb slippery slopes are makes one wonder if they think the world is 100% stochastic without a trend in sight.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
As far as I can tell, a slippery slope is nothing more than a projection based on current and past data. I think it’s foolish to cast out such projection for the mere reason that they are projections. Rather, we ought to debate the quality
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Labview is one of these languages, which I’ve used for the last 5 years. It’s the only tool I use daily that makes me want to blow my brains out. I think diagrams like these are really useful as high level visualizations, but fail miserably
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Sure, but if the local grocer realizes he sold me stolen eggs, he doesn’t get to send his henchmen to my house in the middle of the night to steal them back. The amazon/Orwell fiasco was the moment I decided to never buy a kindle and s
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I disagree. If you have to understand the cause of undersires behaivor before a bug can be said to exist, then debugging is a prerequisite to a bug existing. If I write a program that computes 2+2 and it tells me the answer is 5, that’s a b
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Yes. Some of the best, most valuable questions and answers are closed for pedantic reasons.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
This is a perspective I’ve not heard before and helps me take a less dim view of the SO rules. While Im pretty sympathetic to the “RTFM” style rules, the one that really annoys me is the prohibition on question that will elicit answeres whi
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Seriously. It’s hard to understand why Microsoft has been getting so much fanfare from the OS community recently.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
The legitimacy of science is getting attacked because science is losing legitimacy. C.f. Every other thread on HN about science/acedemic publishing that’s not specific to climate change. If researchers would lose the sales tactics and
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I agree. Also common is what basically amounts to lies through omission. They showed X, but it actually only holds in a very limited set of circumstances. And the manuscript is worded in a very clever way to dance around this fact.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I disagree that statisticians should adjust their definitions to fit common usage. I can put any probably on anything I want. That doesn’t imply those numbers mean anything usefu or that what I’m doing is backed by any established theory.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Agree. I wish the entire internet looked like GNU documentation page.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I’d prefer legitimate api usage be broken than suffer through all the abuses.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Honestly? Because I see self driving cars as expensive toys for rich people[1], and I don’t feel like spending tax dollars or making other concessions to subsidize that. I think the analogy to railroads is a bit tenuous. There are immediate
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by patrick5415 7y ago
>- lidar at night works just fine at night Yes, let’s rely on a single sensor. > - plenty of cities with no or very little snow But plenty of city have plenty of snow. So perhaps not a deal breaker in a limited set of circumstances. &
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Once produced, viewing a hard copy has zero environmental impact. Every time you open a pdf or or whatever your iPad saves your notes as, (let alone sync it with Dropbox) a coal plant groans a tiny bit and a penguin dies.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
If this is the “correct” way to shop Amazon, then the ops point is only stronger. It makes perfect sense to take your business elsewhere when these kind of shenanigans are required.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I disagree that worrying about timing is not a value add, at least for real time [1] applications. Worrying about the timing is absolutely crucial for applications like servo loops. Making timing guarantees seems a lot more straightforward
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I’ve been buzzed by 120 quite a few times. Never 220 though. I also got shocked by about 800 volts from a tube radio once, which lit me up pretty good. Fortunately that was pretty low amperage I think.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Saying safety is important or repairablity is important are both subjective value judgements. I see zero reason why your estimation of the value of a safe car should force me to subsidize that safety when I buy a car, any more than me v
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by patrick5415 7y ago
And here I thought the story was about the endless stream of “me too” comments in the bug report. Hard to find much signal in there.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I’m with you. Im not that old but new cars really have no appeal to me. Will be interesting to see how it goes hanging onto a 2010 for 50 years
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by patrick5415 7y ago
That’s interesting about the mm. Most carpenters (having been one) will measure to the 1/16th of inch, rather than the 1/8th. If you’re cutting trim, sometimes you need a bit more precision. There’s a lingo for that, “11 and 5&#x2
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I think the units just don’t make physical sense. Three orders of magnitude between canonical units is just way too much. You always end with either too much precision or too little.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I compute in metric in the lab, and imperial in the garage. Seems to work out just fine. I don’t really see what the big deal is about switching to metric. Adding fractions of an inch is really not that hard. And until they can get time in
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Mine is 21, which makes this whole discussion rather humorous to me.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Not really. I used to drive an Saab turbo from the 80s that got close to 30mpg. Old civics pushed 40. 34 mpg isn’t really an improvement over that.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Guess I must be a weirdo. Given a set of stairs next to an escalator, I always the stairs.

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