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by commandar 12y ago
Getting people out of cars and onto bikes would save even more oil. We also have 30 years of data from Idaho which allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yields: "Idaho bicycle-collision statistics confirm that the Idaho law has result
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by commandar 12y ago
>We cross at those intersections, and bicyclists, in my experience, don't see us when they're focused on cutting a light (or a stop sign). Pedestrians crossing at a stop sign have to yield to vehicular traffic, no? And advocati
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by commandar 12y ago
>In Idaho, bicyclists are not required to stop at stop signs. Which, personally, I think is completely reasonable. Constantly stopping and pushing off again adds a huge amount of effort to a ride, and a cyclist has plenty of incentive to
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by commandar 12y ago
"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux."
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by commandar 12y ago
>I've talked to a couple health-care startups on the East Coast that have started by tackling one small aspect of healthcare and built off of that. Prescription drug tracking. OR procedures and checklists. There are tons of companie
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by commandar 12y ago
Also in the industry, but on the HL7 interface side. I think you've hit the nail on the head. I've seen studies that suggest, for example, a 75-90% reduction in med error rates in hospitals that have gone to computerized barcode s
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by commandar 12y ago
Earlier rumors were that the Moto 360 will use Qi charging. Qi still usually requires per-device charging positions and semi-precise placement to work, though. It's just a "just dump it in this general direction" technology,
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by commandar 12y ago
1.8in is about 45.7mm. It's on the larger side, sure, but 46mm is a pretty common diameter for fashion watches these days.
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by commandar 12y ago
The calendar in particular is a complete disaster: http://cdn1.appleinsider.com/13.06.17-Calendar-2.jpg The navigation bar in general just looks like a mass of text to me most of the time, especially if there are more than
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by commandar 12y ago
The problem with the Pebble (speaking as a Pebble owner) is that it's very, very limited in what it can do. It works okay as a display, but that's about it. I bought mine to basically use in lieu of a bike computer while cycling,
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by commandar 12y ago
>In addition, I don't understand the pivot towards elevation. The industry has been moving towards flat design. I like flat. It's simple. Less design is often better than more deisgn. I was absolutely relieved to see the elevat
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by commandar 12y ago
Not all drones are small. I had the chance to get a glimpse of an RQ-4 Global Hawk being refurbished for a museum recently. The thing's practically a full size plane. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ve69jkhqxtpppv0/
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by commandar 12y ago
It's built by Boeing. It was designed jointly by McDonnel Douglas and Northrop and is an evolution of the earlier Northrop YF-17 which competed against the F-16 in the Lightweight Fighter Program. The YF-17, in turn, was actually an
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by commandar 12y ago
It was fixed quickly and that's been the only major complaint I've seen. Further, the bug would cause reboots, but wasn't outright destructive. This is about the same time Sandforce based drives were failing left and right. t
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by commandar 12y ago
This would be true if not for the second half of the program: >or can save even more transit costs by putting our free storage appliances in or near their network. They don't have to interconnect to anyone. Netflix is even offerin
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by commandar 12y ago
T-mobile's strategy has generally been a higher quality network over a limited footprint. If your within their limited coverage area, coverage tends to be quite good. Wander outside it and it degrades rapidly. Sprint coverage tends t
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by commandar 12y ago
It really is a ripe market. The MBA is nice and all, but has an absolutely godawful screen compared to everything else in its price segment, especially if you bump up above base specs. PC laptops with decent displays don't seem to exis
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by commandar 12y ago
>The power are way lower. In more ways than TDP.
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by commandar 12y ago
The Windows XP start button is not equivalent to the NT6.0/6.1 start button. Personally, I found the Start button in Vista to be a far better app launcher than Spotlight at the time.
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by commandar 12y ago
>In programming, the internet is the great equalizer. Have your work speak for itself, have your reviews speak for themselves, and this may be a faster vector for advancement than at a job. The problem is that it shouldn't require a
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by commandar 12y ago
>It really boggles the imagination... where do these guys come up with this shit? I touch on this in my comment upthread and you mention it as well, but I really feel like insularity has a strong causative effect here.
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by commandar 12y ago
>Because we have a motto that says “you’re not your code” that all of us stick to and it works in many ways. This struck a chord with me. I work in the healthcare sector, so I deal with what is, for IT, an unusually high proportion of wo
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by commandar 12y ago
It's somewhat ironic in that one of the Microsoft's aims has been to solve the problem of having some features that were only GUI-accessible, meaning they were difficult/impossible to automate. So PSh gets treated as the fi
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by commandar 12y ago
>(by copying, rivet-for-rivet, some interned B-29s) Not quite. The Tu-4 was a very close copy of the B-29, but the sheet metal the Soviets had available was slightly thicker (and thus heavier)than American sheet metal, which required s
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by commandar 12y ago
Similar experiences for me in terms of shampoo use (or lack thereof).
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by commandar 12y ago
I, too, had extremely greasy hair. I'm talking shower and shampoo in the morning and it would start becoming visibly greasy by the end of work that day. I stopped using shampoo about a year ago. It was bad for about a week. After that,
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by commandar 12y ago
Pick up Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe that's mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Form goes a lot farther when you understand the why rather than just trying to replicate it. The book does an extremely good job of explaining the bi
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by commandar 12y ago
People complaining that deadlifts are dangerous generlaly think it's going to irreversibly destroy your back, not result in a pulled muscle that will heal in a week or two. That's what I was addressing.
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by commandar 12y ago
>Crossfit looks to be a kind of sports conditioning training, and as such of course it's going to involve higher intensity, shorter rests and higher reps. That's kind of the problem, though. Because Crossfit is somewhat randomi
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by commandar 12y ago
> * I personally, like the author of this post, don't do deadlifts and rarely do kettlebell swings. I am not a professional athlete or trainer, but I really primarily only heard of people getting hurt with these workouts, so I chos

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