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by tbabb 9y ago
Using tabs has the opposite of your intended effect: If there is any text which is vertically aligned beyond the first indent, then this alignment will break for anyone who doesn't have your tab width preference. They're then forc
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by tbabb 9y ago
And they accomplished that, by designing symbols that convey no meaning whatsoever.
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by tbabb 9y ago
IANA security researcher, but isn't it a bad idea to publicly post a list of known-good passwords associated with accounts on your own site? I raised an eyebrow at the hash/salt table alone.
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by tbabb 9y ago
Also interesting/telling: all of a sudden the republicans are against "free market" trade here.
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by tbabb 9y ago
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. That's on of the harder problems in vehicle autonomy.
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by tbabb 9y ago
[citation needed]. - I am very skeptical that even a cinema camera can exceed the dynamic range of the human eye in one exposure. It is probably more important that features never saturate or go black when the image is properly exposed than
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by tbabb 9y ago
I hope it wasn't on purpose that the "bomb" tile crashed my browser when it exploded...
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by tbabb 9y ago
16% false positive is hilariously bad, especially given how rare actual handguns will be. This headline shouldn't be tolerated here.
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by tbabb 9y ago
So? Hipster is one of many "uniforms" a person can choose to put on. It's a big symbolic difference when the person chooses it themselves versus when they're told how to look by their employer. Wearing a suit to work gen
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by tbabb 9y ago
I feel like the author of this article hasn't worked in silicon valley, because it doesn't touch at all on what I feel is the cultural significance of casual attire: Wearing what you want says that your employer values you for you
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by tbabb 9y ago
I think there should be a word for the particular kind of bikeshedding that happens when the first task undertaken is to make a name and logo, which is, at the start of a project, literally the least important thing. I think it's some
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by tbabb 9y ago
- Facebook I think does more harm to the world on the whole (basically a chain-letter conveyor belt for a majority of the public), but slight good to me personally (able to keep in touch with people that would otherwise have disappeared fro
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by tbabb 9y ago
The machines have surpassed us. No human could come up with paint names this good.
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by tbabb 9y ago
Part of the expected cost reduction is in reduced cross sectional area, so a train won't fit into the 12 ft tunnels they're planning to make.
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by tbabb 9y ago
Land is expensive? A desert solar farm's value is what the panels built on it can produce. The value of your home property is that you can live on it. Adding solar panels just increases the value of property you already own (assuming y
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by tbabb 9y ago
Once upon a time there was a public pool. Everyone used the pool and enjoyed it, but very soon it became apparent that a few of the pool-goers were relieving themselves in it. The pool quickly turned yellow and smelly. So the community got
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by tbabb 9y ago
As is the fate of all human endeavors, the task of writing fizzbuzz has been taken over by automation: https://github.com/trbabb/StackFizzBuzz [NOAA HUMOR WARNING: Conditions extremely arid]
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by tbabb 9y ago
Pretty sure that's a cutaway view.
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by tbabb 9y ago
It's no joke. The pit for a TBM in the SpaceX parking lot is real. Whether it will be successful is another question.
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by tbabb 10y ago
I think there's intentional irony in the use of those brogrammer terms which is going over the heads of those offended here-- further reinforcing the "square" diagnosis. It's humor. Lighthearted humor, and it's pret
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by tbabb 10y ago
True, though if the reaction time / interest level is different from the reaction to a real (non-threatening) cat, it can still tell you something. (In my experience they're pretty clearly different).
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by tbabb 10y ago
There are a lot of steps not related to self-awareness involved in investigating oneself in a mirror. For example, with the "spot" test, the animal has to: 1) Be interested enough in the reflection to watch it long enough to see t
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by tbabb 10y ago
Useless. http://i.imgur.com/NmpdbT2.png
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by tbabb 10y ago
> Design Beautiful Websites Quicker * "...More Quickly". Quicker is an adjective, used to describe nouns. You could say "design quicker websites", "quicker" in that case describing an aspect of the website.
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by tbabb 10y ago
They improved it noticeably from the first iteration: https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/model-3-release...
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by tbabb 10y ago
> How is this different than tabloid celebrity citing? How is it even similar? One is about shallow celebrity worship, and this is about new, upcoming technology. Would a leak of any other anticipated technology (Apple product, game cons
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by tbabb 10y ago
Right. And so my point is the expense and inconvenience of parking in cities is incentive for you to either (a) not buy a car, and instead use an on-demand (self-driving) rideshare service, or (b) buy a car, and recoup costs at little incon
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by tbabb 10y ago
If your parking spot isn't included as part of the building where you live, then you're going to have to either buy some more property (however small or far away) to keep your car, or pay someone to let you park your car on theirs
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by tbabb 10y ago
> The "mobility" market will be about the size of the taxi, bus, and train market. - A personal, individual vehicle which comes to pick you up where you are and take you to exactly where you want to go is a much MUCH higher val
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by tbabb 10y ago
"We" in a context like this refers to the speaker and the reader/viewer together, to me.

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