xsmasher

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by xsmasher 9y ago
Are you saying zooming in on the sun makes damage more likely? Wouldn't zooming in spread the sun's energy across more of the sensor? Same energy, larger area = less intensity.
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Getting commuters out of cars and onto these will have a net positive effect. They're for getting around, not exercising.
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Data point: I bought a used mandolin on craigslist for my first instrument; it had such a high action that it was literally unplayable unless you were a robot with clamps for hands, but I didn't know know that because I was a newbie.
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by xsmasher 9y ago
I disagree with the "People began to stop being [creators/hacker]" part - the existing people didn't change, the market OPENED UP to allow people who were not hackers and computer experts to be computer users. This is a
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Generic advice for being a landlord. Screen your tenants. Better to be vacant for months than let a bad tenant trash the place. Make your money when you buy. Don't overpay and rely on appreciation. The property should cash flow from da
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Circa 2014: https://www.net.princeton.edu/apple-ios/ipad-iphoneos32-stop...
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by xsmasher 9y ago
"We are launching soon" "Leave your email to use the service as soon as it's available"
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by xsmasher 9y ago
I feel like there's a cycle where parents who struggled want their children to have practical careers; parents who had success in practical careers want their children to "follow their dreams;" then the cycle repeats.
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Those calculations also assume he'll use all of the energy it produces, every day, with no loss; it's a back-of-envelope best-case calculation, at best.
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Users redeem codes from inside the App Store app on their phone. You can generate codes to give you app away for free, or to grant a free in-app purchase, but that is all. There's no callbacks from the app store to your app to intercep
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Tim Gurner's comments on 60 Minutes Australia triggered a strong online response and turned the "avocado toast vs. a house" comparison into a meme. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may&#
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by xsmasher 9y ago
"Such-and-such is (not) idiomatic C++"
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Refactoring without a clear and stated purpose is bad. Refactoring WITH a clear and stated purpose may also be bad, if the purpose is bad; "Support some use cases we don't care about," etc. There's a checklist in the &qu
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by xsmasher 9y ago
I thought the file theft by Levandowsky was first uncovered when a supplier was found to be working on an Uber circuitboard that was copied from a Waymo circuitboard. Not so?
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by xsmasher 9y ago
You're reducing some pretty vile behavior - "groped women who sought out advice or pitched him for investments, sent them lurid texts late at night and harassed them with unwanted sexual propositions" down to its least object
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Retail sales has "shrinkage" too; I wonder if the rate is higher or lower than package theft.
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Aside from both being distressed, they are not similar. Trader Joe's uses a serif font, this is sans serif. The colors are similar.
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by xsmasher 9y ago
I read this as "some devices don't correctly signal what amperage they want, so the anker pack ramps up until it detects some change that indicates the device is charging at full speed."
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by xsmasher 9y ago
Freeing memory at program exit may be unnecessary, but being unable to free memory while the program is running is terrible. On iOS and android you are expected to free whatever unused memory you can when you are notified of a low memory si
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by xsmasher 10y ago
If you're interested in more behind-the-scenes on DL's Dune, this book has a lot of information on the filming and set construction, with some actor anecdotes on the side. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Dune-Ed-Naha
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Puma golf pants are in the $50-60 range and look a lot like casual slacks; but they are made of wicking fabric and cut so you can crouch/run/stretch easily. I wear them to bike and roller blade and other workouts.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
When crop X comes in from the field / comes in on the ship, you only have so much time to get it cleaned, cooked, and canned. The law seems archaic when applied to the year-round, forced-fertilization, industrialized dairy industry.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
No - the comment was full of intentional errors. "matter in fact" "For all intensive purposes" "peaked my interest" "by in large" "deep ceded"
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Yes, but it has not been widely enforced.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
There's already a more efficient way to turn energy and matter into food - plants. Running it through animals before we eat it is the inefficiency.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
That version with commercial breaks is almost four hours, which probably feeds the rumors. I've seen that version on television.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
It may have been months of thinking and two weeks of coding. Once the stars align things can happen very quickly!
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by xsmasher 10y ago
The spillway was (in theory) designed for much more than 50,000 cubic feet per second; I'll try to find a citation. In reality, it failed well before the stated tolerance and developed holes. Once that happened all bets were off. Wikip
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by xsmasher 10y ago
It's "blueprint blue" - a reference to the cheap printing process used to make the posters for pornographic films, and also the reason they got the nickname "blue movies."
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by xsmasher 10y ago
AKA "Blueprint blue," source of the term "blue movie" and "working blue."

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