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by tropo 10y ago
Too often the word "premature" is forgotten, and too often "optimization" is understood to be "any care about performance whatsoever, either low-level or high-level". The comment comes from a time when people w
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by tropo 10y ago
I'm not seeing sympathy for meth, and that's largely white people. It's seldom prescribed in ways that addict people, unlike opiates. There exist white crack addicts. They also don't get sympathy. The key question: can w
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by tropo 10y ago
The crack/opiate empathy difference isn't about race. The opiate users mostly got addicted under the care of a doctor. Doctors don't normally prescribe anything like crack. So there is a sense that crack users sought reckless
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by tropo 10y ago
Some don't mind moving... to another rural place. That doesn't really change things of course. Rural people really are different from urban people. There are probably brain differences here, both conditioned and genetic. When you
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by tropo 10y ago
There are at least two problems with this idea that "The urban areas are financially funding the rural areas." First, in terms of taxes and benefits, urban areas vote for that stuff. It's only fair that they pay. The rural ar
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by tropo 10y ago
You complain about taxes supporting rural people, and then you complain that rural people vote against the social services. There is a connection between social services and taxes. Since non-rural people are voting for the social services,
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by tropo 10y ago
Oh you web people. That code has aged like a fine wine. Consider the emacs developer. He works on legacy code dating back 41 years, to 1976. Consider the BRL-CAD developer. He works on legacy code dating back 33 years, to 1983. Consider the
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by tropo 10y ago
fish product: 1. the result of multiplying fishes, as done by Jesus 2. a type of multiplication indicated by the fish symbol (see also: dot product, cross product) 3. a product intended for use by fish 4. the yearly economic value produced
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by tropo 10y ago
I'd like all formats for both IMG and VIDEO tags. The gif animations are really video. They play in IMG tags; they are silent and do not have video controls. Put them in VIDEO tags and they ought to get video controls. Putting a proper
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by tropo 10y ago
It may be "rare", but one doesn't normally take risks with a house. For most people, the financial loss alone would be devastating. There is also the matter of a house being a home, a familiar place to feel somewhat secure an
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by tropo 10y ago
Here in the USA, you have to kick them out. If you don't, your house can be taken via civil asset forfeiture laws. Landlords also have to kick out renters. Kick them out ASAP or risk the loss of your property. You can't even let t
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by tropo 10y ago
It's funny how the left is all about living wages except when illegal aliens are involved. Evidently, near-slavery is acceptable for these people. If we didn't have them, wages would rise, and Americans would in fact perform these
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by tropo 10y ago
Here: You get the entire Los Angeles basin. You get most of the Bay Area: the area served by BART, Berkeley, things west of Berkeley, and Marin County. You also get everything in the middle. Generally the border runs along the ridge of the
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by tropo 10y ago
This is what decibels are for.
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by tropo 10y ago
Difficulty on hills is just a matter of going cheap. Putting a motor on each axle or wheel normally solves the problem. For more extreme situations: cable car, cog railway, linear motor... all of which can actually go vertical but then we c
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by tropo 10y ago
This is "guilty until proven innocent". That isn't how law is supposed to work. We are supposed to assume that the force was appropriate. Of course, this doesn't mean we don't bother investigating, but the proper as
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by tropo 10y ago
The LEOs you've dealt with are clearly not Florida sheriffs from non-urban counties. Brevard County sheriff Wayne Ivey is well-loved for his stance on the matter: good people should be prepared to shoot bad people. His department offer
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by tropo 10y ago
Another interesting way to consider the gender issue is to imagine that Carly Fiorina (or perhaps Sarah Palin) and Bernie Sanders had faced off. So many people expressed horror that America supposedly just wouldn't vote for a woman...
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by tropo 10y ago
There is nothing incorrect. It's just old technology. This is how things were, and full compatibility -- if you want it -- demands that you make things match. SNES and Genesis artwork was designed for the old hardware. The monitors loo
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by tropo 10y ago
Japan is and will remain Japanese. The same can not be said of Sweden. I think I see a bias here: culture is valuable, unless it is western. In the future, it will not be possible to go visit Swedish culture.
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by tropo 10y ago
Internet connectivity means they only need one person on duty at the central office. If this weren't immigration law enforcement, they could even outsource it. :-)
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by tropo 10y ago
Go ahead and be serious. That might work decently well. We could upgrade it and cover more ground: eat a bacon cheeseburger to get a visa, and then another upon arrival in the USA. If somebody doesn't mind this too much, they are proba
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by tropo 10y ago
Here is how it works: 1. start with moderate regulations in the USA 2. switch to tough regulations in the USA 3. industry moves to a place with lax regulations 4. pollution blows across the ocean 5. the USA gets smog It seems we went wrong
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by tropo 10y ago
Composite would get you a different amount of horizontal blur for different colors. In an analog sort of way, it's like resolution is reduced for each color component, but the red-green color axis is done differently from the blue-yell
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by tropo 10y ago
Absolutely yes. I can read quickly and accurately. I'm terrible at guessing and remembering pictograms. Maybe if I were an ancient Egyptian... but I'm not. I like my alphabet; it's a very good invention. This goes for other t
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by tropo 10y ago
That is just plain dangerous. There have been times that I needed the defroster, couldn't safely stop, and had to keep looking out of my rapidly-fogging window. This probably doesn't happen where Tesla's engineering is locate
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by tropo 10y ago
Genetic variants are correlated. If you have thing 1, then we can somewhat predict thing 2 and thing 3 and so on. Thus the effects are not really tiny. The direct effect of a genetic variant may be tiny, but it is associated with many genet
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by tropo 10y ago
There are upsides. We all die. The more healthcare technology we invent, the more we can spend. If you are willing to spend unlimited money to save a life, then you will... except that every system finds a way to stop you. Traditional all-o
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by tropo 10y ago
I've gotten the "pleurisy" diagnosis, twice even, and I don't believe it. Pleurisy seems to be the catch-all default diagnosis for when they can't find anything wrong and just want you to go away. There isn't a
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by tropo 10y ago
If I understand it right, this bug involves code pulling in old buggy libraries, sometimes indirectly via other libraries. It seems that there is a reference to a specific bad version, not the actual inclusion of cut-and-paste code. Eh, why

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