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by pbh101 8y ago
http://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/MIT-SAT-scores-GPA (First google result, I didn’t verify further) It is admittedly only a proxy, but the entrance SAT math scores for MIT students are 770 for the 25t
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by pbh101 8y ago
Two years of camera improvement are the biggest thing for me, low light and the 2x lens specifically are two big improvements from the 7 to the XS, letting me capture moments I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise. In addition the OLED scre
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by pbh101 8y ago
Its remarkable if its the only one on the block, or in the whole city: I was walking down a quiet residential street in Europe once and was surprised to see a giant red pickup sitting in the driveway. Looked incredibly out of place.
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by pbh101 8y ago
This is also suboptimal. I’d rather each commit be an atomic unit: no larger and no smaller than it needs to be. Edit: in other words, concurring with TFA.
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by pbh101 8y ago
The way I read it, it’s not on every save, but on every time you try running the tests.
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by pbh101 8y ago
On mobile, 1Blocker for iOS can do this and remember your settings per-domain (‘Hide Page Element’). My primary use for this feature is Medium
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by pbh101 8y ago
IMC Financial Markets | Build Engineer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE VISA | Full-time | http://www.imc.com Our trading system encompasses more technology stacks than ever before as we continue to deliver low-latency solutions for our t
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by pbh101 8y ago
I was around some people who did this growing up. In outlier cases like this it tends to get extremely obvious to anyone nearby, and then usually the onus is on the parents to push this process forward, keeping in mind what is best for the
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by pbh101 8y ago
Apple going for bigger screens on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus resulted in significantly more sales.
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by pbh101 8y ago
At some retailers lights will flash around both the swipe slot and the chip slot on the machine when it is time to pay, but I’ve experimented with swiping a chip-enabled card and every time the machine immediately says ‘Insert Chip’. I thin
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by pbh101 8y ago
I’ve inferred that the newer ATMs I’ve encountered use chips: the card stays in the machine for the entire transaction and is released to you right before the cash is dispensed.
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by pbh101 8y ago
The US largely migrated to chip and signature in 2015. I think a large majority of credit card uses today are chip in the US because the issuers quickly sent out chip cards, most terminals got updated to use them, and swipe is rejected ofte
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by pbh101 8y ago
I’ve facetiously pronounced it as ‘cicada’ in the past :) I’ve only ever heard it pronounced ‘see eye see dee’ which is pretty quick to say while still being intelligible.
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by pbh101 9y ago
Dan Luu wrote a good post on this back in 2016: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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by pbh101 9y ago
We used to: the ‘liberal arts’ originally referred to the ‘quadrivium:’ arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy; and the ‘trivium:’ grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
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by pbh101 9y ago
It was a bit before that, iirc. LWN article summarizing the changes at [1], which are mostly delaylog, if we are referring to the same thing. Was default-enabled in 2011 on Linux 3.3. ... I’ve happened to spend much of the last three weeks
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by pbh101 9y ago
You're right: nothing in that article mentions the UI. I learned about the incident in my computer ethics class in college (along with Therac-25, etc). Quickly-skimming, it looks like Cracked has a decent writeup of the UI issue specif
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by pbh101 9y ago
UI flaws have hit the Navy before, with even worse consequences [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vincennes_(CG-49)#Iran_Air...
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by pbh101 9y ago
Small nitpick: Touch ID was introduced in the 5s.
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by pbh101 9y ago
Pressing 'q' still 'works,' but doesn't actually interpret the data you input, and instead just makes an event at the current time and day. Also left feedback.
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by pbh101 9y ago
Am I just missing it, or did they get rid of the 'Quick Add' natural language parsing option (e.g. "Meeting with Fred tomorrow at 5p")? That has easily been the most valuable feature of Google Calendar since day one.
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by pbh101 9y ago
1. There is more than one way to measure 'price,' and 2. 'willing to buy' and trades executed are two different things. If you are measuring the price of bitcoin by looking at the price of the last trade that occurred, t
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by pbh101 9y ago
The price of a traded item can go up, even with no investment: people do not have to trade for the price to increase or decrease. Sometimes price movements coincide with lots of actual trades occurring, and sometimes they coincide with ve
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by pbh101 9y ago
If wind farms are going to contribute significantly, then there will be a lot of them. In terms of replacing fossil fuels they will likely still be a net benefit, but unless the Audubon Society has been captured by Big Oil etc (which I doub
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by pbh101 9y ago
The ones I'm referring to are in large installations in the last 10 years in the US Midwest. Each rotor blade is transported individually on the back of a flatbed semi-truck. As pointed out elsewhere in the thread: indeed the RPM can b
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by pbh101 9y ago
(Not OP, and) Not sure about aquatic life, but if those turbines are anything like the ones on land, then the rotors are definitely NOT spinning slowly! And they look even bigger, which would imply a faster speed at the rotor tip for the sa
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by pbh101 9y ago
My guess is that the test referred to is the 'StrengthsFinder' which you need to buy, but can take online [1]. Probably more info available by Googling that term. What frequently happens is companies buy this and then Gallup consu
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by pbh101 9y ago
To my knowledge there is one of these in Chicago on State street and (I believe) Jackson. It is near a college campus which I think is the reason for the special treatment for that intersection.
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by pbh101 9y ago
Since it can be disabled at the command line on JVM startup, I don't think the breakage will be that painful.
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by pbh101 9y ago
No, no, and no. ETA: That being said, I think those who campaigned the hardest against Jigsaw with technical arguments were wrongheaded (e.g. "Just do it like OSGi, it works fine.")

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