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by taloft 6y ago
If no employer is willing to “put themselves at risk”, what choice do ex-convicts have but to commit more crimes? May as well give them a life sentence in prison for anything that makes them an employment risk.
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by taloft 6y ago
They’re going to be descending whether atc gives them permission or not. Keep in mind, Southwest has TCAS and already knows of nearby aircraft to a near certainty. The only real goals are get to breathable air and don’t hit anything. Passen
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by taloft 7y ago
I had two exceptional teachers in college, in history and philosophy. As a compsci major, I hated both subjects before taking their classes, but ended up loving both subjects due to the professor’s passion for their field and for teaching.
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by taloft 7y ago
All good points. Note that caffeine has a half life of 5 to 6 hours, rather than 12. I’d cite it, but a simple search makes this apparent.
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by taloft 7y ago
Saying it’s just a screen on your face is an oversimplification. While that may be a somewhat accurate physical description, it doesn’t capture the actual experience, anymore than saying a smart phone is just a phone in your pocket. I’ve ha
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by taloft 7y ago
This reads like someone who has had VR for a limited time. Yes, it’s very impressive at first, and people write posts like these. After a few years, many realize that the resolution is low, the headsets are uncomfortable, and the experience
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by taloft 7y ago
My Garmin 935 is waterproof, has an always on display, shows smartphone notifications, charges once a week, and has worked for over a year. If apple or Fitbit had this, I’d go back. Had multiple fit bits and they all broke in 6 months. Had
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by taloft 7y ago
That’s no moon.
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by taloft 7y ago
Too late.
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by taloft 7y ago
If racket is an acceptable python and python is an acceptable lisp, then racket must be an acceptable lisp?
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by taloft 8y ago
Fears aren’t rational. They are emotional. It will take a long time to address it with just your thoughts. A better way is to try to address the emotions and fix that. You have a lot of choices here. Some examples are a therapist, spiritual
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by taloft 9y ago
"The Universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
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by taloft 9y ago
The Boeing video says Clojure is used for maintenance systems, not control systems. That’s an important distinction. Maintenance systems can go offline and the aircraft still flies fine. The critical control software is not written in Clo
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by taloft 9y ago
And the remote sucks. The buttons are centered vertically, leaving equal empty space above and below. So I end up holding tne remote upside down half the time while my brain is trying to work out whether it is upside down and how that would
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by taloft 9y ago
Also have a Garmin 735xt for the same reasons. Another big issue is battery life. Garmin can go for a solid week or more between charges, while Apple Watch is about a day.
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by taloft 9y ago
Solar can save a lot of money over 30 years, but current homeowners have to pay the initial cost. Solar initial costs are much more than composite and homeowners may not stay long enough to make it worthwhile. Also, they may not recoup thei
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by taloft 9y ago
If the Apple Watch had week long battery life and was waterproof I'd get it over my garmin. When I had the original Apple Watch, I had to charge it every day and couldn't get it wet. Also my garmin always shows the time. None of
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by taloft 9y ago
According to Alan Kay, programming is a pop culture right now. So people want to preserve the investment in the language of their choice by maintaining or improving its pop status.
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by taloft 9y ago
The link is malware to my iPhone. Locks me into a full screen ad for winning something, then breaks the back button. Had to close the page.
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by taloft 9y ago
Airplane, single-engine land. It's a rating added on to a pilot certificate, and says what kind af aircraft you may fly. The "land" part means an airplane that lands on the ground, which is different from "sea", for
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by taloft 10y ago
More potent than adderall?
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by taloft 11y ago
The reason I go into Sears is they have the most open parking spots at the mall. Everywhere else is packed.
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by taloft 11y ago
Seems like intercepting secure communications with a bank would be a criminal activity and those responsible would be treated as such.
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by taloft 11y ago
Fascinating, but honestly you shouldn't be warning people off a game you haven't even played based on hearsay.
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by taloft 11y ago
Things have changed since I was in my 20s. What is obvious now wasn't so obvious then. Pensions have disappeared, medical benefits have shrunk, 401k's have been on the rise while company contributions to them have shrunk, and then
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by taloft 11y ago
Performance will be back if VR gets adopted. At 90 fps, you have around 11 milliseconds to update your game state and render views for each eye. That is not much time. C#/unity and scripting languages will have a noticeable penalty com
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by taloft 11y ago
I haven't had motion sickness in VR either. That said, everyone can get sick. Some people have a higher tolerance than others, but no one is immune.
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by taloft 12y ago
I missed the livestreams due to opposite timezones. Are there archives of the videos? Can't seem to find the button on hitbox.
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by taloft 13y ago
Ah jump lists. I used Win7 since it came out and never found those. Only discovered them since I've been on Win8 through some random mention and a video. They aren't intuitive or very we'll known. People at work now see me u
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by taloft 13y ago
Actually, they were low on fuel, because the company was forcing captains to carry only the company-approved minimum under threat of discipline.

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