sitharus

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by sitharus 13y ago
The hop between two major cities where I live (~800km apart) takes around 50 minutes on a plane. For 15 minutes you can't get up, and for the remainder low altitudes keep the seatbelt sign on due to turbulence. For the advantage of a s
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by sitharus 13y ago
I really doubt the steam tank will be inside the pressurised volume. If they fail they would vent overboard. While an explosive failure would probably cause problems it wouldn't expose the passengers to high pressure steam. The failure
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by sitharus 13y ago
Well, that's an interesting question. Much like music, uptake is strongly dependant on price and it's a fallacy to infer that the quantity consumed would be equal if the cost changed. If there was a higher price due to patents I w
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by sitharus 13y ago
I'm really hoping that it's a euphemism for the press. Unfortunately this will keep people thinking blood can be blue :/
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by sitharus 13y ago
Or could've gone, which is closer to speech and still correct.
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by sitharus 13y ago
I once got an SMS to the tone of "This is <my bank>, you have to call us urgently on <some 0800 number> and quote reference <blah>". So the first thing I did was ring the number printed on my card and have a nice
937.
by sitharus 13y ago
Well yes. As the article says they didn't want to charge because they don't want that obligation. I'm assuming that someone who has gone to the trouble of accepting payments and all that entails is likely to stick around a bi
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by sitharus 13y ago
I don't understand why they don't want to charge for it. It will slow down signups and give them funding to scale up. They could also use invite-style signups like LiveJournal did back in the day. I didn't sign up for the old
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by sitharus 13y ago
I've been actively looking for alternatives recently after all their "improvements" kept breaking my flow. Unfortunately there isn't much out there :/
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by sitharus 13y ago
Yeah, been through that before. We just standardised on using overloads for external APIs, it's cleaner externally. The real issue is if you have DoSomething(string what, autoRetry=true) and you change to DoSomething(string what, autoR
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by sitharus 13y ago
Even worse, optional parameters are implemented backwards. That is: public void DoSomething(string required, string optional = null) is actually DoSomething(string, string), but at compile time a call to DoSomething("foo") is comp
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by sitharus 13y ago
Last year I spent NZ$40 on ordering an album from an artist who isn't well known, but I found on Pandora. Pandora is radio, and radio is marketing. Much like the FM radio I listen to the artists don't make much money, but I'l
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by sitharus 13y ago
I've always viewed Pandora, Spotify and services like that as discovery services. They let me hear the music before parting with a more money. If I find an artist that I really like I'll buy their album or some merchandise. Given
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by sitharus 13y ago
I separate high security passwords in to their own keychain with a different password. Every time I start chrome it prompts for access. Out of all the things Chrome does this is one of the most annoying.
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by sitharus 13y ago
I wouldn't call it degraded security, it's just more appropriate to the risk vs convenience tradeoff.
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by sitharus 13y ago
Rounding will happen eventually, but it's a slow change. Initially I'd expect everything to be in the old units but labelled metric. As an example, here in New Zealand most bars sell beer in 500ml glasses, but the one I go to sells 568 ml g
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by sitharus 13y ago
Interesting, thanks for the details
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by sitharus 13y ago
The file size isn't too bad, but in Safari the rendering time is terrible. You can see it render each block, and it takes about 10 seconds to render the whole thing. I assume this is because it's not a commonly used feature, so the code pat
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by sitharus 13y ago
I also think this is a good idea. If I was asked to spend an afternoon solving problems that aren't theoretical 'how do you sort an array of a billion integers' type then I wouldn't want to do it for free. If it gains traction it might redu
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by sitharus 13y ago
Not really. If I'm in a probation period then I'm employed by that company. If it doesn't work out then I'm back on the job market. What this is talking about is compensating you for doing a trial as part of the pre-employment process, in a
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by sitharus 13y ago
That's a nasty one, but such an easy law to avoid. Use direct downloads or download movies, since the movie companies are protesting paying costs by not filing complaints. I'd rather it didn't exist though.
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by sitharus 13y ago
Craig Foss probably wouldn't understand FOSS if you hit him with it. That's how the SOP got in there in the first place. Alas it's not a case of nominative determinism.
953.
by sitharus 13y ago
Interesting. I picked them up in 2003, the 0.05RMB were the most obvious ones, the larger denominations were definitely more coin-like.
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by sitharus 13y ago
I visited China 10 years ago, and the extend of cash use surprised me even then. Nobody trusts banks. Coming from a country where I visit an ATM maybe half a dozen times a year and a bank branch even less it was quite a shock. Fortunately I
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by sitharus 13y ago
As someone who works with a fairly large number of committers with many branches, I prefer merges to rebases. The reason is simple, you always know _why_ something happened, which is quite important when looking for clues in the history. Wh
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by sitharus 14y ago
I'd have to agree, the photos all looked undersaturated and flat. Good enough for your average holiday snap I suppose, but nothing compared to what a good photographer can get with a DSLR.
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by sitharus 14y ago
A DSLR on auto is a sad thing to behold. I'm an amateur photographer. My DSLR is almost 7 years old now and my iPhone can keep up with it as a point-and-shoot, but nothing on the iPhone can compare to setting up the shot properly. Switching
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by sitharus 14y ago
All of the EV series were developed by external companies, so they never had that expertise in-house. That said, I probably would have bought an iPad/iPhone version.
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by sitharus 14y ago
I hope this isn't true. I spend so many hours as a teenager in the Ambrosia community, and I beta tested a decent handful of their products. I still remember the hours spent downloading Escape Velocity: Nova over dialup. However, 20 years i
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by sitharus 14y ago
Having spent many hours on IRC in the late 90s arguing with him... I agree. But I'm filthy liberal scum, so what do I know :P

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