chawco

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by chawco 10mo ago
As a Canadian with kids who recently bought Monopoly, I can you tell you that American money objectively feels much more like Monopoly money...
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by chawco 10mo ago
Yeah, it's not a historical quirk, really. In talking to many Americans it seems like they don't really cover loyalists at all, or what happened after the Revolutionary War. Much of what became Canada was settled by former colonis
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by chawco 2y ago
While I agree as a whole, there are parts that are easily captured even with some small false positive rate, like credit card numbers. I do think it's acceptable to do PII detection probabilistically for some classes of identifiers&#x2
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by chawco 2y ago
I’ve only been sailing a few years, but I racked up about 500nm of racing this summer. I’ve only been in these situations a few times, but had a ton of confidence in the boat and the skipper. It’s honestly a ton of fun, and feels more dange
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by chawco 2y ago
From what I understand, leaving the keel up would be reasonable enough if a boat was rigged as designed. Typically the boat would be ballasted differently if you have a retractable keel/centreboard. Sounds like converting the rig from
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by chawco 2y ago
It's pretty shocking that a boat with no sail area could get knocked over bad enough to sink that quickly. Something had to be seriously wrong with the design. I'm not particularly salty, but I've sailed in 25-30kts with the
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by chawco 6y ago
I’m going to assume I wasn’t part of their target audience, given what I’m about to say, but the whole thing looks like a bunch of amateurs with a ton of money. First off you’re spot on with the name — what a terrible decision. Secondly be
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by chawco 6y ago
Everyone is focusing on the aircraft, but the pilots are also super important here. They need to maintain a certain number of hours every 90 days, IIRC, in order to be flight ready. If not, they need to do a refresher in a simulator. As I’m
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by chawco 7y ago
The design predates broad availability of jetways at airports. The concept, in the 1960s, was that by being able to use stairs they'd be able to service many smaller airports. By the 1970s this was clearly the wrong choice -- smaller a
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by chawco 7y ago
I think one additional factor here is that storage isn't the only option. Once a larger amount of waste needs to be managed the attractiveness of fast breeder reactors starts to increase. These reactors can then extract more energy fro
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by chawco 7y ago
Even more than that, you pick up speed due to the nose down configuration. This means the forces on the control surfaces are so great that you can no longer manually trim via the trim wheels. This was, apparently, a well known handling char
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by chawco 7y ago
But doesn't it seem like that, as total ownership of the market shifts towards passives, higher returns would be driven by funds running active strategies such as these, thus making them more attractive investments? It seems like this
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by chawco 7y ago
This article seems to get Numidia screwed up twice — once calling it Mumidia, and once referring to it as Nubia! It was a really important region politically, especially in the lead up to the fall of the republic. Come on, Nat Geo...
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by chawco 7y ago
Even a replacement is unnecessary — silphium was a commercially important plant traded in antiquity. It had well known uses in antiquity, was sought after (considered worth its weight in silver), was mentioned in literature of all sorts and
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by chawco 7y ago
On the one hand, sure, this is true. On a deeper level this is just a criticism that the methods may not apply across the whole population -- that they may not be able to reduce the rate to 0. Fair enough. But given that more than 80% of Ca
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by chawco 10y ago
A couple of factors -- I'm not a recently out of school grad, I got my first job working as an engineer at a startup at 17, and worked at some other startups while in school (full time, not co-op), so I've got at least 12 years of
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by chawco 10y ago
I'm Canadian, so obviously there's some inherent bias. Part of it is the annoyance of visa, permanent resident, and citizenship shenanigans necessary to get into the US (TN visas are non-residency track). Part of it is cultural --
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by chawco 10y ago
I spent a good deal of time in New York when I was younger -- in Manhattan working for an investment bank in technology. I didn't really explore the other boroughs much, but I did stay in the city for an extended period of time (~6 mon
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by chawco 10y ago
I did. Toronto is a great city. I've traveled a good deal in Canada, and the US, and while I can't compare it to cities outside of those two, I will say that I still consider the best city I've ever experienced. While the tec
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by chawco 12y ago
These different kernels do not use the same libc. In particular, BSD derivatives are using a BSD libc, while Linux and friends are using glibc (or some cousin). I'm not certain which libc the others are using, but they are likely separ
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by chawco 13y ago
I toured Kennedy back in 2011 while STS-134 was sitting on the pad. I didn't quite have the impression that NASA of today was a shadow its former self, but I sure walked away from the tour thinking it was. Learning that the giant VAB s
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by chawco 13y ago
I'm not sure it's completely practical, but this would have some interesting interactions with obviousness -- if you need to sue half the industry, it may say something about the obviousness of the patent itself.
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by chawco 14y ago
I don't think raganwald is right here, or rather he's only right about a subset of DSLs -- the subset of DSLs which attempt to map a specific domain to english. I think most good DSLs eschew mapping domains to english in favour of mapping t
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by chawco 14y ago
Not only does it encourage faking, but it defeats the purpose of any learning institution. The first step to learning something is admitting that you don't know something, both to yourself and to others. Frankly, someone saying they don't k
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by chawco 14y ago
Indeed, there are lessons here, especially from people like PHK and projects like Varnish. Understanding the underlying system is critical for these sorts of projects. For 99% of users the OS will do a much better job of handling your resou
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by chawco 14y ago
He needed to reframe the discussion -- he was controlling the discussion, and was completely at liberty to define success however he pleased. He could've said, as others have pointed out, we're going to be #1 at X, where X is some subset of
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by chawco 14y ago
1250kcal is unhealthily low for an adult male. My weight loss intake is between 2000 and 2500. BMR in a healthy adult male is 2500ish alone, tack on any sort of activity and it's easy to get your TDEE well past 3000. A deficit of ~1000 a da
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by chawco 14y ago
This entire book is a really good into to CL.
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by chawco 14y ago
That's pretty shocking, given Stroustrup's propensity to just dump everything into C++. It's also a bit of a shame it didn't get a chance to see the wider audience C++ would've brought.
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by chawco 14y ago
This was my assessment as well -- it's just a cleaner way to use errno. I do think a language got this system right -- conditions and restarts in Common Lisp solve this problem very well. I'm a bit perplexed that I haven't seen this model a

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