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by yason 10y ago
Facebook isn't helpful in following the stupid life updates either. Every now and then I try to use Facebook to check out what people are doing because I'm interested in their life updates but I don't really have a clue. I se
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by yason 10y ago
I've gradually come up with a way too elaborate system for maintaining and sharing bash histories locally. I run tmux with several long-running bash prompts and not only I want to append each shell's history into a log incremental
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by yason 10y ago
These points are all relevant in an environment where cars dominate. In a big and dense city you would most likely be jammed in traffic while you could just walk to the nearest underground station or tram/bus stop and take the next tra
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by yason 10y ago
Funny title. FIA has, for decades, been explicitly forcing the cars to not be the fastest racing cars with byzantine restrictions on the design of the cars and even how they can be designed. I gradually stopped watching F1 races through t
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by yason 10y ago
This just sounds sensible. I know how companies in general like to think about this but I just don't understand that. If I had a company, I'd ask my employees to solve problems and write software that the company needs to sell pro
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by yason 10y ago
I've been thinking about the same since 9/11. While they comb through small liquids and nail files in all cabin baggage I can walk into a plane with several Ampere-hours of tightly packed energy in my backpack.
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by yason 10y ago
When the actual behaviour of software diverges from its expected behaviour we call it a bug. The reason we have bugs is that we humans are very bad at reasoning about the expected behaviour and projecting the actual behaviour of a computer
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by yason 10y ago
I don't like the divisions, though, and all the analysis that comes with it. A way that is intuitively more robust would be to generate 23 or 52 random bits from an integer RNG for the mantissa (given you trust you integer RNG is unbia
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by yason 10y ago
I've had various dumbphones over the course of years. A few Xcover line bar phones from Samsung, those were the best, really, but they eventually broke down and were discontinued by that time. A couple of years ago I had Nokia 225 beca
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by yason 10y ago
Paraphrasing "as simple as possible but no simpler than that": ship as small diffs as you can but no smaller than that which makes sense. Individual commits don't necessarily make sense in the whole. Submit diffs which make u
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by yason 10y ago
Programmers are like art: you can't exactly pinpoint why a particular painting is good but you can usually still put different paintings in rough order of how good they are. It's never that one brush stroke that reveals the qualit
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by yason 10y ago
By the MAFIAA logick, wouldn't this count as derivative work of those copyrighted photographs?
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by yason 10y ago
Any city planned and developed before cars is generally considered very friendly, walkable, and desirable. Europe is full of such cities and they're loved for it. If only planners, politicians and citizens would realise what they have
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by yason 10y ago
You have proof of this as the bitcoin transactions are public. The taxman can verify that you bought your coins five years ago and sold them this year. Multiply those by the BTC exchange rate five years ago and now, and it should be obvious
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by yason 10y ago
Certainly. Of course, you should know how they work to the extent that you could write a (trivial) implementation if ever needed, but that very rarely happens. However, occasionally you do need to write specialised implementations tailored
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by yason 10y ago
I've generally considered out-of-hours checks to emanate from employees. There will always be employees who want to do a bit of extra, stay a bit longer, answer emails at 10pm, to help make progress in their career and get promotions.
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by yason 10y ago
C has no more real arrays than assembly: for the cpu, it's just differently indexed pointers in the end. But arrays in C have some notable differences from pointers in C however, please read a good detailed description here: http:&#x2
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by yason 10y ago
It would be interesting to see economic data from areas near the Katy Freeway in TX with a total of 26 lanes and see if the economic growth is abnormally high around there.
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by yason 10y ago
If you make more space for cars, and thus reduce congestion, the improved traffic conditions will attract more drivers until the congestion reaches some boundary threshold again where the majority of the remaining drivers are no longer will
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by yason 10y ago
The process of voting shall be observed by members of opposing parties and members of opposing interests and similarly to the process of counting the votes. Depending on your country you can most likely keep an eye on them yourself. Typical
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by yason 10y ago
One-way encryption to a private key which is kept overseas back home. None of the data can be decrypted on foreign ground no matter what the authorities demand. Automatically upload data home over a secure link when there's a connectio
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by yason 10y ago
For giving a guiding vote from the citizens to assist in parliamentary or local decisions, yes. For electing state officials, no. A voting scheme needs to be designed for the worst possible circumstances which practically means a bordering
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by yason 10y ago
So, how do you parse, read, and process JSON without additional instructions of how to interpret the data and what to look for? All right, maybe you do have a common tool that implements a query language so that you can filter out certain p
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by yason 10y ago
> If structured data was embraced we would have developed appropriate tooling to interact with it in the way that we prefer. What kind of tooling might work with ad-hoc structured data and still getting all the tools to talk with each
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by yason 10y ago
That's how life works anyway: what you get mirrors what you know about yourself, then you learn and move on.
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by yason 10y ago
The bad thing with bureaucracy and slow processes is that eventually you'll find yourself in a situation where you either 1) start working on something else while waiting on some process to complete and get your changes merged, and the
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by yason 10y ago
Never even heard about the dumper in Emacs. It sounds like a crazy idea that is prone to break at the slightest change. Any shelving-unshelving implementation for processes should come from the kernel which owns the virtual memory mappings:
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by yason 10y ago
How do they think they can map connection logs with specific persons using the connection? All they can see that from one physical address these particular websites were visited. Sometimes that can actually map to a single person but mostly
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by yason 10y ago
It's typical to omit locking while the transmission is cold, some transmissions may not lock the first gear, or may not lock at lower revs, or at slower speeds, but generally the lock is there and it's just software that controls
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by yason 10y ago
This used to be the case with fuel injected engines from 80's to 00's but because of new regulations current ECUs might, again, inject fuel while coasting just to keep the catalytic converter warm and operational. The amount is ob

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