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by pcl 7y ago
I believe that as long as we have a huge worldwide oil / diesel / gasoline infrastructure in place, from transport to refining to distribution to combustion, it makes a lot of sense to build reasonably-efficient carbon-neutral mec
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by pcl 7y ago
Last time I bought a new car, this was actually a pretty important factor for me -- one car was nominally cheaper, but had a number of optional safety features (like rear passenger pillar airbags, IIRC), and they brought the price to parity
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by pcl 7y ago
The general rule is that of the time you spend with code, 90% is reading and 10% is writing. This does not mean that 90% of your time is spend reading code. There are other tasks that programmers do during their day. I would say that the 90
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by pcl 8y ago
I frequently find myself in the same boat. Growing up, my mom always told me that sarcasm is the weakest form of humor. When I'm about to say something sarcastic, I try to remember that advice and come up with a better turn of phrase.
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by pcl 8y ago
On the software side of things, I find that Safari treats my laptop a lot better than Chrome. I get maybe 3x better battery life when running with a bunch of active tabs in Safari. Not sure what they're doing to throttle things, but it
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by pcl 8y ago
I wirelessly deploy from Xcode regularly. It’s slower than cable-based deploys, but not much, and the convenience is worth it for me. (Apple’s wireless deploys replace the cable, but I assume they do not happen over the cloud — both devices
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by pcl 8y ago
EDIT: oops, missed the Alzheimer’s reference. Nonetheless, the title appears wrong, unless her husband had both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. --- I suspect that’s just a mistake in the headline. The article doesn’t say anything about Alzheim
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by pcl 8y ago
This article strongly evokes the Primer in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age . I wonder to what extent the Element Care folks think about that when designing their avatars and their interaction policies. It's stunning how prescie
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Bring Back the Stick Shift(nytimes.com)
76 points by pcl 8y ago|127 comments
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Virgin Galactic Sends a Rocket Plane into Space for a Second Time(nytimes.com)
1 points by pcl 8y ago|0 comments
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by pcl 8y ago
I really appreciate systems that allow me to rotate passwords without invalidating existing sessions — essentially, treating passwords more like tokens (as in OAuth, or Google app-specific passwords). Of course, it’s critical to have a “r
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Facebook has declared sovereignty(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by pcl 8y ago|0 comments
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by pcl 8y ago
That's from 2013. I wonder how successful the font has been in Hollywood over the last 6 years.
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Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds(nytimes.com)
448 points by pcl 8y ago|169 comments
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by pcl 8y ago
Can you expand on that a bit? I'm a US citizen living in Norway (a member of the EEA but not the EU). I know that I can use the EEA immigration lines at many (but not necessarily all) checkpoints in EEA countries if I present them with
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by pcl 8y ago
> That with a tmuxp yml file to set up a tmux session for developing can pretty much outline both how the product is released and how it's developed for anyone coming into the project. Would you mind sharing more about your team u
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by pcl 8y ago
No such security measures exist in the iOS or Android app stores. I’m not sure whether or not a publisher could opt into providing such assurances, either. You could imagine that with a deterministic build regime, something might be possibl
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by pcl 8y ago
As discussed in the article, two men are independently making the attempt, at the same time. The grammar works out, but it catches your eye, which is often a goal of a headline writer.
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by pcl 8y ago
Mods: please add [2017] to the title
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by pcl 8y ago
Bear in mind that this is an Australian law, so the 5th Amendment isn't involved. I don't know much about Australian law, so I don't know if they have an equivalent right within their legal system.
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by pcl 8y ago
From the article: > geologists say the river disappearance is due to large cracks in the karstic riverbed, which empty the river underground like a siphon. It is perhaps the important spring floods that washed away the sediment patches
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by pcl 8y ago
I've got a similar python script in my collection of scripts: $ curl <url> | pipe-checksum <expected> | bash https://gist.github.com/pcl/64bd2f56695fcf8e1fad51443aab1f1e
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by pcl 8y ago
It looks like tech.instacart.com is hosted on Medium. The redirect is part of the auth flow. If you have a Medium account, you would have logged in to medium.com, not tech.instacart.com. If you don't have a Medium account, Medium still
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by pcl 8y ago
This was around 20 years ago (!), and yes, he was a fully-grown person. But he probably hadn’t slept in a few days — exam week and all. And he definitely spent more time with a keyboard than a pen.
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by pcl 8y ago
> I've seen children accustomed to using touch interfaces blurring the line between physical and virtual, i.e swiping at physical objects A friend of mine in college once wrote date on a sheet of paper during an exam, expecting
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by pcl 8y ago
This is off-topic, but the Atlantic's GDPR click-through is probably the best-put-together and most-understandable one I've seen.
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by pcl 9y ago
Bear in mind that Google might be correctly identifying your IP address as a botnet source. If you start seeing lots of CAPTCHAs, it's worth it to take a look around your network for open ports or weak ssh passwords etc., or just look
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by pcl 9y ago
Going a bit deeper, the earthquake took out most of the water supply to the fire hydrants in the city, and so the fire department couldn't put out the fires that started during the quake. As a result, SF now has a backup hydrant system
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by pcl 9y ago
$16,000 / 365 = $44 / day. And wealth and income are non-linear [1], so 70% of the population could easily be below the mean. [1] citation needed
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by pcl 9y ago
My favorite phrase from the making-of video: "time sphube"

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