tfinniga

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by tfinniga 11y ago
One thing that has changed between earlier umbrella designs and now is that high-precision manufacturing is now cheaper. My main problem with this umbrella design is just that it's longer than I like. I prefer compact umbrellas.
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by tfinniga 11y ago
Wikipedia says that we've had 26 leap seconds since 1972, or about 0.6 seconds per year.
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I imagine it's very frustrating for them. It also wastes quite a bit of other people's time. And, they're wrong, so the whole thing is a waste. Just take up fishing or something. Or if you really want to get into physics,
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by tfinniga 11y ago
was it a gravity battery?
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I'm a fan of teaching programming using block languages, but scratch has some serious issues. The runtime model of scratch is so much more complicated and divorced from the hardware that it can be hard to really understand what is goi
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I think student licenses of Maya are free. There used to be a PLE, but it looks like it's been discontinued.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
> that is the result of sociological rather than economic factors Economic and sociological factors aren't completely separable. Specifically, you can't assume that economic factors don't drive marriage rates. For example
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by tfinniga 12y ago
There is definitely a bias in the media to write the most interesting story, even if it is less plausible. Having a car in the works is more interesting than needing better batteries for existing/announced product lines. Much better b
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by tfinniga 12y ago
No, poaching is legal. Apple also got sued for no-poaching agreements with other tech companies. I think poaching is good in many cases, since hiring someone away from their current company usually means a higher price for their services.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
LaTeX is good if you wish you could program documents, include them in source control, use complex macros, etc. If you don't want to learn a new programming language to create documents then something wysiwyg is better.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
> More energy needs to be spent on preventing breaches Hard to argue against that. > not silly password requirements You don't think that password requirements help prevent breaches? Try this: hook up a server to the internet tha
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by tfinniga 12y ago
You could use it to create a password strength meter for your website, and enforce a certain strength. Let's say it is common to include a subset of the username in passwords. Doing so would decrease the password strength and be disal
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Vaccinations carry risks, but so does not vaccinating. If you just want to talk percentages, what is the chance that you will have an unusual or adverse reaction to a vaccination vs. what is the chance that you will contract and have an adv
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I'd love to see a version of the game that does this, for comparison.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I liked Joel Spolsky's essay on trello and excel. The basic idea is that excel is mostly used as a simple way to make tables. That it can do calculations is also useful. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012&#
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by tfinniga 12y ago
> Nobody is claiming that the bus system is anti-competitive to car manufacturers. Have you heard of the GM streetcar conspiracy?( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi... ) That doesn't
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by tfinniga 12y ago
There are lots of reasonable reasons to work for less than the value you create. - First, you can never actually reach 100% while working for someone else. If you reached 100%, then the employer would look at you and say "I can make e
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I bet some of it is also about expectations. If you just say AR, people think of low-poly characters in a webcam on top of a black and white checkerboard. They're not interested.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
PR push? This article doesn't seem like a PR push at all. It seems like someone scraping as much information out of as many sources as possible. If it was a PR piece, they'd have animations and pretty renders about how all the t
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I don't see how that follows. My understanding of net neutrality was that the source of the packet couldn't be allowed to affect the delivery of the packet. In this case, if the satellite connection is more expensive, the user wi
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Yeah, that bit of the article was not very good. Several paragraphs to say "Your cat can't figure out negative reinforcement - their brains just can't handle it! Change the environment instead." Then right next to that,
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Yes, you'd want to have some sort of sensors behind the car as well, so that if it's possible to avoid hitting the object and avoid being hit by the car that you would brake at that speed. If it's not possible, well, it&#x27
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by tfinniga 12y ago
In an emergency situation, just stop. Don't hit the ball or the kid. Let the human take over, or wait for the emergency to pass. The car will break faster than a human could. If the car can't drive itself safely in a given sit
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by tfinniga 12y ago
The conclusion about map generation is a bit naive. Yes, if google's self-driving car requires them, and google can't currently produce them at scale, then maybe google's current solution isn't going to explode onto the
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by tfinniga 12y ago
> I often wonder if this contributes to the count of members? Can anyone enlighten me? No, the baptisms for the dead are not included in the count of members. You have to be living and baptised to be counted, and either die or formally
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Gedcom is pretty much deprecated. The currently supported method is working directly on the common data, either using the web app or using their api.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
1. They take any information that is submitted, but it's not automatically merged into a single 'correct' version. The system keeps track of the original submissions and what the sources are, including reference information,
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Yeah, all that's been done for a long time, way before the Mormons. I think it's mostly been done by eager genealogists paid by rich noblemen and kings to trace their lineage back to Adam. If you can find your relationship to roy
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by tfinniga 12y ago
This reminds me of a comment from cockeyed.com's article about the price of an XBox One from the rent-to-own shop Aaron's [1]. The concept is the same, large payment up front is much cheaper than renting, if you can do it. > $
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by tfinniga 12y ago
This makes the most sense to me. They have their own chip and pin layer, which forwards the charge to the appropriate card account on the backend. They probably don't have to worry about fraud, since the barrier to entry is $155 and t

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