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by rplst8 10y ago
I've heard people say that banning DDT caused more human death than all of our wars throughout history combined.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Couldn't this be thwarted by injecting random bytes into each page served to vary the file sizes?
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by rplst8 10y ago
It's likely that the cost savings was just due to the fact that natural gas is so much cheaper than electricity, unit for unit.
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by rplst8 10y ago
There also exists 120/208 three phase in the US. 120V phase to neutral, 208V phase to phase. It's very common in commercial buildings that don't have big loads.
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by rplst8 10y ago
The fact that this has to even be argued is appalling. The erosion of the difference between a tort and crime over the last few decades is very concerning. I think a lot of it started with the changing of copyright law into criminal law.
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by rplst8 10y ago
What's right with government spending continuously increasing, necessitating the increase in taxes such that people are forced to sell their possessions to pay for it?
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by rplst8 10y ago
A lot of the data buses on aircraft also use octal to identify the data words.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think the aversion that most engineers have to management, is that software development is already a very nebulous beast. Actually delivering a solution that is called a "success" is often a slippery moving target. Being the o
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by rplst8 10y ago
Isn't it a bit like the Jobs + Woz combination?
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Pittsburgh.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think people should stop trying to put others into categories to feel superior about themselves. People have a range of talents and shortcomings. No one is perfect.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Let's not forget, that revenue doesn't equal the value of a company either. Google's market cap is like $500B and their revenue is in the $70B range.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Do you think those people are sick of Facebook or sick of the "connected lifestyle". For me it's the latter, especially when you hear "what, your not on Facebook?" I've heard people be suspicious of other peop
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by rplst8 10y ago
Yeah, I think essentially Google used to be the only (or at least most popular) means to discoverability of something on the web. App stores have replaced that for many classes of searching.
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by rplst8 10y ago
>I was on a team once where my diagnostic skills put me near the top of the stack for being given hard-to-find bugs. What that meant was that sometimes I would ship one commit a week while tracking down several difficult issues. This. A
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think you are lumping things together where they don't belong. Processes and tools have places. As I've posted previously on the topic, some industries have strict quality standards, and the tools and processes are there to fi
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by rplst8 10y ago
Interestingly it says only one political party was hacked.
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by rplst8 10y ago
> People are on drugs because their lives lack meaning, and simply getting a government check won't change that. A man cannot provide for his family by simply being alive to cash a check. I think a lot of this has to do with percept
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by rplst8 10y ago
How does the saying go? The victors write the history books - the rest is just fake news.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Why do we need storage for nuclear? It has always on capacity. If surge capability is the need - this can mostly be fixed with demand scheduling or smaller more nimble power plants. Electricity storage is far from a "solved" pro
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by rplst8 10y ago
I've read some things about pumped hydro. The losses reduce efficiency and the amount of water you need to pump is pretty unbelievably large.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Look, if I make 15 commits, to my local repo, some with major functionality additions, some with bug fixes, and some with typo fixes - I shouldn't have to share that whole history with the remote. Nor would anyone want me to. The re-w
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by rplst8 10y ago
rebase uses the same merge logic as merge. What some people don't get is that if there were three commits pulled down form a remote, and you had three commits, and you had conflicts (different ones) on each of those commits, rebase ma
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by rplst8 10y ago
Cool. For me it is this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP56QJpDr4 I notice they are from the same publisher.
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by rplst8 10y ago
This is the right answer. I think for whatever reason, software programmers are afraid to learn how git works. They'll spend countless hours learning how their other tools work - but not the one that keeps and protects changes to the
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by rplst8 10y ago
I did this exact thing two weeks ago. I think the Precision adds the Premier Color display too.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Agree. Too many people are concerned with not missing their turn, and they will take extraordinary measures not to do so. If one misses a turn, too bad. Re-route. The number one concern of a driver on the road should not be getting to t
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by rplst8 10y ago
This is the crossing in question. https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2%B011'49.6%22N+119%C2... I don't think it was a situation where the driver couldn't get past the crossing. I think they are
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by rplst8 10y ago
> We have invented the most important tool in the history of humanity and it's being used by billions of people to look at Facebook instead of say, solving real problems like climate change. I think this is a mis-characterization.
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> The great thing from Microsoft's perspective is not needing to maintain two completely separate codebases... This is a great thing for customers too. The systems will work very similarly and less code means fewer bugs and security

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