bradleyland

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by bradleyland 8y ago
Well, yes and no. Yes, when a single-source strategy is adopted, the spec is written for that supplier, but that does not mean that all cases where the spec is written with a specific supplier in mind are single-source bids. Sometimes it&#x
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by bradleyland 8y ago
Single-sourcing is a procurement strategy, not an outcome of RFP manipulation. When a purchase is put forth, the end-user[1] writes the specifications, and procurement staff[2] determines the procurement strategy. If the end-user can convin
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by bradleyland 8y ago
> The problem is, in the current system, it's impossible to figure out who's doing it. No, the problem is who is responsible for paying the fines. If the terminating carrier were responsible for paying robocall fines, this prob
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by bradleyland 8y ago
> The authentication info is bigger than the call data required to set up a call. That's not a counter-argument, it's a cop out. SSL negotiation uses more bandwidth than a vanilla HTTP GET request too, but sometimes a secure ch
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by bradleyland 8y ago
In the US, voice time is rarely metered for domestic calls. Even discount providers offer unlimited domestic calling. The only case where you see metered calls is for pre-paid SIMs, which aren't very popular here, because you can get u
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by bradleyland 8y ago
This is hard to explain to anyone who hasn't done business with the Federal government, but your visions of national security letters are very much on one end of a broad spectrum. At the other end of the spectrum is the mundane. The mu
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by bradleyland 8y ago
Heh. Seems everyone has decided to shoot the messenger. You may disagree with the policy, but ryaymercer isn't wrong. Living in startup land where everything is light, you move fast, and things get broken, it's very easy to overlo
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by bradleyland 8y ago
I haven't commented in over 3 years, but you're the first person I've seen mention Vero Beach on HN in the 8 years I've participated. As a Vero native, your comment resonates.
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Hacking Your Gems for Debugging(bradlanders.com)
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by bradleyland 11y ago
Why would online cloud backup providers suffer because of a drop in SSD prices?
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by bradleyland 11y ago
> Even with Time Machine backups, you still spend many hours setting configs after a restore. But how many hours do you spend establishing, testing, and maintaining a backup plan that mitigates the risk of spending a few hours getting ba
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by bradleyland 11y ago
In the README, this description is given of the process: "When the list of repositories has been compiled, it proceeds to gather all the filenames in each repository and runs them through a series of observers that will flag the files,
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by bradleyland 11y ago
The phrase "sector defining" is commonly used to say that a car defines the target parameters of the sector at the time it is present. Not necessarily that that it was the first in the segment.
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by bradleyland 11y ago
G.K Chesterton, All Things Considered Light, but full of pragmatism.
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by bradleyland 11y ago
The debate over whether mid-engine is superior to rear-engine is not an open and shut case. Although proponents of either camp would have you believe otherwise. The advantages of mid-engine are en vogue, so I won't repeat them here, bu
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by bradleyland 11y ago
Good thing you checked Wikipedia :) I was just about to point out that VW Beetle motors had a smallish oil cooler in (or near) the fan shroud at the front of the engine.
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by bradleyland 11y ago
That's true, but there are hard limits to the heat conversion efficiency of an otto-cycle internal combustion engine [1]. Given two engines, both optimally designed to approach those limits, air-cooling is not as practical or as effici
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by bradleyland 11y ago
No need. You can recover the public key from a private key using ssh-keygen's 'y' option: -y This option will read a private OpenSSH format file and print an OpenSSH public key to stdout. For example: ssh-keygen -y -f id_rsa
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by bradleyland 11y ago
> Was it necessary to make the point as he did when he did? I don't think so. Feynman was deliberate in his means of communication. Was it necessary? That's a tough one to answer. As crazy as it sounds, causing your listener to
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by bradleyland 11y ago
Congrats on the 1.0 release guys! We've been using Tabula since the days before the app packaging. It's been really cool to observe development progress, and especially to see you guys tackle the problem of distributing as an appl
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by bradleyland 11y ago
The first time I visited the site, I really had no idea what I was doing. I'm going to write up my experience here for the benefit of the author. I'll admit that I did not read the blurb on the landing page carefully. While that&#
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by bradleyland 11y ago
This doesn't alleviate the walled garden concern entirely, but I've been kind of held up in my desire to try iOS development because I always felt the $99 ADC subscription was a silly requirement just to test an app on my own devi
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by bradleyland 11y ago
If you have speakers attached to your computer, be sure to turn them down (or put on headphones) before choosing an item. You'll get a breathy, lusty sounding "Oh, yeah" when you click an item.
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by bradleyland 11y ago
This is a great collection, but any listing of microbenchmarks needs a caveat. Consider the first example, parallel assignment vs sequential assignment. As we can see by the results, parallel assignment is 2.25x slower, which seems like a m
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by bradleyland 11y ago
Your car is insured and is easily replaceable. Car theft has declined precipitously in recent years. According to the NY Times [1], in 1990 there were 147,000 cars reported stolen in NYC. In 2013, that number had dropped to 7,400. On a per
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by bradleyland 11y ago
Sometimes the character limit delivers on its promise. Other times, it's as useless as posting a 30 MPH (50 KPH) speed limit on a six-lane interstate highway.
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by bradleyland 11y ago
Hand washing dishes consumes massive amounts of water because people tend to leave the tap running while they wash. Laundry is typically done in a basin with a fixed amount of water for wash and rinse. I wouldn't place any bets that it
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by bradleyland 11y ago
The land fill presumption is still the safest bet. The author said that he doesn't wash his clothes. By this we can infer that he brings his dirty laundry — for who knows how long — to a donation facility. I've volunteered at enou
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by bradleyland 11y ago
Precisely. They might as well have asked them if they use TCP/IP. What percentage would answer yes to that?
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by bradleyland 11y ago
At 1:56, it appears that the old motor suffered from the infamous valve-in-piston design flaw :) If you enjoy hacking, do yourself a favor and get your hands on a small engine with a horizontal crank. They're harder to find than vertic

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