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by tesseract 3y ago
Yeah the advice to "use trimmings!" seems very based in a restaurant situation where (a) lots of vegetables are getting prepped regularly and (b) cutting techniques are based on the goals of speed and uniform product, so you'
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by tesseract 3y ago
So much peripheral functionality has been pushed inside the CPU that a modern desktop motherboard is from one point of view essentially a fancy DC-DC converter that happens to also handle I/O port breakout. The motherboard has to trans
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by tesseract 3y ago
There were/are a couple of aerospace surplus shops in the area. Apex and Norton are the ones I'm familiar with. The supply comes from the SoCal aerospace industrial base and a lot of the demand is indeed for movie props. It's
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by tesseract 3y ago
Singular "pant" has recently-ish become accepted fashion industry jargon: "Our spring collection includes a khaki pant and a capri pant". I've started to see it creep from there into everyday language.
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by tesseract 3y ago
'Don't call me an arsonist, I'm a black-hat climate researcher.'
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by tesseract 3y ago
Yeah I'm a little surprised not to see the article touch on keyboard layouts (e.g. DEC, Sun) that had Ctrl in the home row where Caps Lock is on a PC keyboard. While Emacs may have been initially developed on the "space cadet&quot
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by tesseract 3y ago
> The idea was that you didn't want young kids opening the driver side door and stepping out into traffic. I always heard that was sort of a retroactive justification, and the real reason is that a driver's side sliding door wo
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by tesseract 3y ago
In the Palo Alto/Mountain View/Sunnyvale area I see Waymo, Nuro, and unmarked-but-we-all-know-it's-Apple autonomous vehicles quite frequently. A few times a week at least. Cruise specifically operated in SF where I agree they
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by tesseract 3y ago
> That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way Often that kind of language is employed when the actual transaction was structured as an a
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by tesseract 3y ago
Good ergonomics for Perl-style quick and dirty text processing were part of the original design goals for Ruby. Those parts of the language are still there. You can write code that feels more concise than Python yet, IMO, tends to be more r
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by tesseract 3y ago
... Electrolytic capacitor manufacturers have to publish Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) just like everyone else, disclosing exactly what's in there (with CAS numbers and everything), what the health and safety risks are, and giving
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by tesseract 3y ago
A big usecase for C is embedded systems projects where wrangling cross-compilers, debug dongles, etc. can become a big headache especially when trying to keep multiple developers' local toolchains in sync or when managing multiple proj
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by tesseract 3y ago
The key dimension for refracting astronomical telescopes is the diameter of the primary lens, which is 36 inches at Lick and 40 inches at Yerkes. However, my understanding is that the Yerkes lens has suffered cracks around its perimeter and
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by tesseract 3y ago
> Naively, I assumed that it must take more power to transmit than to receive, which is true on an instantaneous basis, but false on an average basis. Even that is not necessarily always the case in low-power systems, since often receive
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by tesseract 3y ago
I mean, what did you expect from a product category that was basically born of the question "how can we use modern food science to create a product that appeals to vodka-soda drinkers, but falls under the tax regime of a beer?"
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by tesseract 3y ago
I'm more familiar with the world of spirits but it's much the same situation - there is certainly unpalatable swill on the very bottom shelf, but at some fairly low price point you hit a perfectly adequate level of quality and pro
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by tesseract 3y ago
I've never really seen this explicitly stated anywhere, so maybe this is some super idiosyncratic idea on my part, but it's always seemed to me that one of the key pieces of OO is the use of polymorphism as a sort of syntactic&#x2
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by tesseract 3y ago
For binary software licenses, historically a lot of them have been premised on the idea that it is impossible to use the software without copying it from installation media onto local storage and/or from storage into RAM for executio
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by tesseract 3y ago
Yeah this is great for plants that need or can tolerate some shade, but the vast majority of common food crops need or grow best in full sun.
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by tesseract 3y ago
In "The X Act" X is usually a politician who sponsored it, but in "X's Law" X is very often a crime or accident victim being honored/memorialized.
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by tesseract 3y ago
I once saw a CS student ask for homework help on Reddit, with a question premised on the course material's attempted formalization of "high level" and "low level" programming languages as a partial ordering based on
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by tesseract 3y ago
By far the most memorable college class I took was an advanced electronics lab where I ended up as the "unofficial TA". I was by no means an expert but I guess I got a reputation for picking the material up quickly and being able
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by tesseract 3y ago
A practicing musician owning multiple instruments, some of which may be used only rarely, is a different situation from a non-musician collecting instruments for their decorative or monetary value. (Sometimes, collectors who own valuable in
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by tesseract 3y ago
I had been under the impression it was relatively common knowledge that the reason Reddit had been keeping both the API and old.reddit alive was that power users - both moderators and the most prolific content submitters - disproportionatel
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by tesseract 3y ago
I feel like it used to be (I'm thinking 1990s or so) the norm that basically everyone reclined starting from the first in-flight announcement, except for mealtimes. Come to think of it, didn't those announcements from the pilot of
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by tesseract 3y ago
And for what it's worth today's Broadcom is actually Avago - which got its start as HP's semiconductor division - after having acquired Broadcom and adopting its name.
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by tesseract 3y ago
Typically mathematical treatment of DSP is based on the discrete-time Fourier transform and the Z transform, which differ from respectively the Fourier transform and the Laplace transform not in using square waves, but in using an infinite
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by tesseract 3y ago
Employer policy most likely
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by tesseract 3y ago
Sublime Text 2 (its first cross-platform version) came on the scene around that time and I think drew away a lot of the crowd that had been waiting for TextMate 2.
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by tesseract 3y ago
Holy dogcow, even!

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