snerbles

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by snerbles 10y ago
Horizontal scrollbars are an immediate source of UI aggravation.
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by snerbles 10y ago
If the vehicle owner disables the emissions controls, the onus is on them - ethically this is no different than removing a catalytic converter or other physical hardware. Don't use this as an excuse to wage war on general purpose compu
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by snerbles 10y ago
Watching a past employer slowly drown itself in technical debt is simultaneously sad and satisfying.
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by snerbles 10y ago
I should probably have clarified that, where the focus is on physical performance and trainability. The focus on "sloped backs" among GSD breeders is a tragedy.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Clearances are run on the parent animals. In the case of hip displaysia, we have adult x-rays sent to OFA for grading - signs of the condition don't usually manifest until the dog is fully grown. For pups, we have a refund/buybac
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by snerbles 10y ago
To an extent, we can abstract dogs away as a thing we can categorize with detachment. To start categorizing humans in such a manner invites similar detachment, with the hazard of conclusions potentially being applied to people.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Genetic clearances are much more common in the world of working breeds, since there is a market pressure to have dogs that can actually function in their job. Demand for working titles (search/rescue, agility, hunting championships, e
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by snerbles 10y ago
My family trains and breeds hunting retrievers as a hobby. Hip displaysia, heart disease and eye disorders run rampant in the breed, particularly in show lines where the dogs are expected to be pretty and not be particularly athletic. Org
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by snerbles 10y ago
The counter-argument would be that "real" communism involves everyone deciding for the collective good. In practice it winds up as you describe, with strongmen at the top.
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by snerbles 10y ago
California is effectively a single-party state, Feinstein (and whoever replaces her) is secure enough in her position to not care about most of her constituents.
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by snerbles 10y ago
/b/ is still the most infamous board, nearly a decade after one Fox affiliate station called it the "Internet Hate Machine" in response to its antics. Even though the days of "old /b/" have long past
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by snerbles 10y ago
> Sure, it's anonymous. But the short-term nature means that the prime objective when posting something is to get replies. So you get some troll bait or other things sure to get replies. This can be traced to updates to 4chan'
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by snerbles 10y ago
Reminds me of the email suite from Netscape Communicator, which eventually evolved into Thunderbird. http://www.sabah.net.my/manuals/en/nscomm/images/messwin.gif
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by snerbles 10y ago
Referring the abbreviation of "TiB" versus "TB" for 1024^4.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Should be tebibytes (TiB) for the latter, though binary prefixes don't have much adoption outside of the software world. http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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by snerbles 10y ago
> How do you automatically shift everything over? I use a combination of a home NAS and Syncthing, both of which play nicely with the Windows/macOS/Debian systems I have deployed.
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by snerbles 10y ago
While you may not experience it, impostor syndrome is a documented phenomenon: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116369/ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s
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by snerbles 10y ago
I've encountered some newer systems running FreeDOS, which includes controllers, HMIs and along with some vendor-provided USB boot tools. In time these will become legacy systems. In new deployments these non-PLC industrial systems ar
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by snerbles 10y ago
The case of Michael Hastings comes to mind. http://nymag.com/news/features/michael-hastings-2013-11/
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by snerbles 10y ago
Better to say that The Economist is pro-globalism, right or left.
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by snerbles 10y ago
An ebonics-inspired slang form of "give me that" --> "gibsmedat" --> "gibs"
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by snerbles 10y ago
They couldn't feasibly attempt EEE on JS without Internet Explorer's dominant market share.
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by snerbles 10y ago
If it's in the center of your field of view, yes. Less so for those in your peripheral vision.
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by snerbles 10y ago
I don't have to practice wearing loafers.
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by snerbles 10y ago
If it's a truly adaptive branch predictor, one could naively believe it will yield good results for most inputs. Even if it's an absurdly deep pipeline with a cache miss penalty worse than the Pentium 4, it would be premature opt
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by snerbles 10y ago
Having been on the receiving end on that phrase numerous times, few genuinely felt sincere. It seems to have degenerated into a virtue signal more than anything else.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Chromium Portable will work as Google Ultron in a pinch, the blue icon really seals the deal.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Ag interests in California have consistently fought for more reservoirs and storage, only to be consistently denied by the state government in recent decades. http://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/31/california-d
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by snerbles 10y ago
Eventually we'll wind up with Slashdot-style scoring.
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by snerbles 10y ago
The Prussians also inspired modern military drill, goose-stepping in particular. They really were pioneers of assembly-line indoctrination.

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