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811.
by sk5t 8y ago
Do you think searching Key West for rabid wolverines to be a very dangerous job, because, like, wolverines are pretty dangerous?
812.
by sk5t 8y ago
Just think in the subtractive color model, rather than computer-screen-additive...
813.
by sk5t 8y ago
Fortunately for Toyota, Honda lost their firm hold on the youth market by dropping the Integra and suckifying the Civic and Accord at exactly the right moment.
814.
by sk5t 8y ago
One wonders how it is going to work out with the Toyota service department and parts counter. "Uhhh, got to order that high-pressure fuel pump from Germany... no, the Prius and Tacoma don't use anything interchangeable."
815.
by sk5t 8y ago
Likely that a lot of folks (y.t. included) won't want to own a Tesla until it's really clear that the company is set up to service broken stuff over the long run. It'll be interesting to see how the Taycan does, and go from
816.
by sk5t 8y ago
The Mk3/Mk4 Supra was the beneficiary of Japan's golden age--and solid overengineering--in the 1990s. Stout iron block, strong transmission, not too many electrical doodads. Sort of like 1980s German cars, before the Germans got
817.
by sk5t 8y ago
Very puzzling styling--like a more swoopy 370Z with some Z4/M-coupe haunches and ugly modern BMW interior. Which is a strange way to go, after the iconic smooth lines, workmanlike cockpit, and basket handle spoiler of the Mk4. I think
818.
by sk5t 8y ago
Let's be magnanimous and say that the outcome of contract disputes is nondeterministic, and might take into account such factors as the relative powers of the parties, who drafted the contact's provisions, interpretation of judici
819.
by sk5t 8y ago
I think this comment hits the mark; making a voice assistant to help a nonagenarian who thinks it's time to get ready for school, or to send out invitations for a long-ago child's birthday party, is a distinct challenge.
820.
by sk5t 8y ago
"Gosh, I must have slept through the whole thing!"
821.
by sk5t 8y ago
The monarch is simply one of the more noticeable affected species. Before long it may be apparent that (micro)plastics and emissions have royally screwed the organisms and systems underlying everything else.
822.
by sk5t 8y ago
This article is long on words relative to any thoughtful contribution. IMHO "he/him" remains the grammatically correct gender-unspecified singular pronoun, although the "they/them" enthusiasts seem to be gainin
823.
by sk5t 8y ago
The very notion that GoDaddy could be in a position to "clean" websites of malicious code is--what's the word?--stupefying? profoundly unsettling? mystifying?
824.
by sk5t 8y ago
It stands to reason that the premium is based on providing the only opportunity for the would-be investors to buy a piece of the companies at any cost.
825.
by sk5t 8y ago
How about: Doctors Without Borders? Docs who enter general practice in underserved areas rather than metropolitan dermatology? Legal pro bono work, or most prosecutors?
826.
by sk5t 8y ago
What would be the scientific usefulness of a control group? It's my understanding that the effect could not reasonably be confused with placebo. There are plenty of other studies on treatment of depression; although, there is always
827.
by sk5t 8y ago
I suppose you could hitch your wagon to the Marshall Islands economy and see how that goes.
828.
by sk5t 8y ago
Over what period of time did you write 1.5 _million_ lines of code for this one project?
829.
by sk5t 8y ago
Also note that landing a 737 with a full load of fuel is... not normal.
830.
by sk5t 8y ago
It could be a ground loop hum, not USB's fault really, but you do get electrical isolation with toslink.
831.
by sk5t 8y ago
In what way do you find the number of air disasters surprising? What number would be unsurprising?
832.
by sk5t 8y ago
In any event, what would be the use of inertia-based calculations, when airspeed (through an atmosphere always changing) is the important more bit to keep the plane in the air?
833.
by sk5t 8y ago
Scala, like, enables and encourages immutability, while making regular Java stuff and practices also entirely available (excepting a few Java varargs situations that perplex Scala's notion of arity). This article is, sort of, related t
834.
by sk5t 8y ago
I like working in Scala quite a bit, but always wince at the "instead of using threading primitives consider this 10x more exotic immutable approach" lead-in. Does anyone here really work that way?
835.
by sk5t 8y ago
Well reasoned; and perhaps we should mobilize the U.S. Army to protect the concepts and themes central to the next Lil' Wayne single.
836.
by sk5t 8y ago
And Dropbox is trivially replaceable with rsync, yes?
837.
by sk5t 8y ago
C# with the good old .NET BCL has excellent support for multithreading, even if some language features could make it even better, there's no need for smugness.
838.
by sk5t 8y ago
Disagree with validating that sort of input in code you (the non-framework/BCL author) write; let the operators, functions, etc., do their own work of deciding if their operands are acceptable. Otherwise, where does it end--do you pre
839.
by sk5t 8y ago
Really puzzled that you have conflated exceptions ("'x' went wrong, here's the stack") with undefined behavior, crashes and memory corruption. It seems as though you're describing how the world ought to be, and
840.
by sk5t 8y ago
> If you're not spending at least half your time on so-called 'error handling', you're probably doing something wrong, like using a language feature (like exceptions) to defer that technical debt to later -- and you&#

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