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by commandar 12y ago
Totally agreed. Funny thing, and similar story to yours -- and the guy that offered it to me didn't know this -- but one of my very first jobs while I was still in school was with this same agency. He was kind of surprised that I knew
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by commandar 12y ago
Sure, there's a market, but the question is whether there's a large enough market to justify building it. Either way, I'd say the high end computing market (which I'd say needing 16GB of RAM falls into, personally) i
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by commandar 12y ago
The MBP is a different class of machine. This thing is roughly the size of an 11 inch MBA.
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by commandar 12y ago
I don't think anyone's making machines in this class with that much RAM. They practically have to be built with on-board RAM to get this thin and there's just not enough demand to justify the logistics of building 16GB mother
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by commandar 12y ago
I recently got offered a sysadmin spot with a local agency by an acquaintance that had taken over their IT department. Fortunately, government jobs actually post their salary rates so I was able to decline before either of us wasted too muc
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by commandar 12y ago
Makerspaces are popping up all over, as non-profits more often from what I've seen. e.g., Freeside in Atlanta: https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Info
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by commandar 12y ago
>Also you will never be fully satiated on any meaningful caloric deficit My personal experience is quite the opposite. When I did the whole low carb thing, I was having to intentionally supplement my calorie intake because I was eating 8
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by commandar 12y ago
The thing is, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act defines model aircraft as being flown line of sight. The question still up in the air is regulation of common hobbyist use cases like FPV and automation.
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by commandar 12y ago
The minimalism is why I vastly prefer Vimium to e.g. Vimperator, personally.
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by commandar 12y ago
I use this constantly when I'm watching tutorials and how-tos. It makes picking up the info you need so much faster. I also recently discovered that the Crocodile Hunter at 1/2 speed is freaking hilarious . e.g., https:/&#x
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by commandar 12y ago
This is kind of what I mean. This seems like shifting goal posts to me. They had the whole harassment patrol thing on Twitter which I found sort of silly, personally, but I don't know how that would be described other than an effort
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by commandar 12y ago
>GamerGate has, as a movement, systematically refused to decry the harassment or take any kind of practical steps to curb it As somebody that has watched GG from the outside out of fascination, I don't think this point is true and I
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by commandar 12y ago
>particularly when it comes to mirroring a tab with a video playing. That has nothing to do with the processing power of the Chromecast and everything to do with the casting system. It's all just a video stream to the Chromecast.
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by commandar 12y ago
>Plus it's a fully Linux environment that I can fine tune as desired You are not the Chromecast's target audience.
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by commandar 12y ago
It sounds surprisingly like how I've traditionally viewed Microsoft. Microsoft has always had a lot of really great technologies, but they've traditionally struggled to leverage them in a cohesive way. You'd see them complete
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by commandar 12y ago
There was an early home gaming system called the Vectrex that was based entirely around this. They got around the lack of color with clear plastic screen overlays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijc6afTifqI We had one when
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by commandar 12y ago
>(The split is 1,100 native apps, 4,300 watch faces, and 100 apps that rely on a companion iOS or Android app, CEO Eric Migicovsky tells Fast Company.) Read: about 100 apps that actually do anything useful. I say that as someone that own
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by commandar 12y ago
That's exactly why that anecdote has gotten an incredulous reaction. If it's accurate that the position was for a contributing editor for a food blog, caring about a degree is completely nonsensical. It's certainly possible
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by commandar 12y ago
>But if you're looking to hire someone to actually run something then being famous isn't enough on its own. This is what I was touching on downthread and I guess wasn't entirely clear: a contributing editor doesn't r
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by commandar 12y ago
That's kind of the thing, though. Contributing editors are often brought in because of their notoriety. There's valuing a particular quality in an employee, and then there's being completely misguided in weighting that qual
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by commandar 12y ago
>Gwyneth Paltrow had created a best-selling cookbook and popular lifestyle blog A contributing editor job is essentially a writing position. That strongly indicates that she could do the job.
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by commandar 12y ago
I almost wonder if this was Amazon's end-game all along. I was somewhat surprised that they launched Instant Video in the way they did since installing apps within apps has been, AFAIK, non-kosher with the Play Store all along. I'
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by commandar 12y ago
The premise that access to duty firearms is a driving factor being logically followed by higher suicide rates among service members. If the suicides aren't being committed with duty weapons, then there isn't really a logical link
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by commandar 12y ago
For that to follow, you'd have to show that a significant proportion of the suicides by firearm by stateside service members involved government firearms. I sincerely doubt that's the case.
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by commandar 12y ago
You're asking the wrong question. Why would an AI and automation company be better equipped/able than a commodity hardware company to run a maps/routing service?
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by commandar 12y ago
I tend to get Google Now notifications for directions I've searched for on my desktop.
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by commandar 12y ago
>A major problem for the military is the availability of guns (and people who are effective at firing them). I think this is a bit misplaced in the context of the US military. Firearms are very tightly controlled on bases. The only peopl
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by commandar 12y ago
What do you want to do with Python? My personal experience is that "learn language X" is more difficult and less productive than "learn to do Y with language X." Figure out what you want to accomplish with the language
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How Britain Beat Germany’s Magnetic Sea Mines(medium.com)
83 points by commandar 12y ago|9 comments
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by commandar 12y ago
>What has never been shown is that consuming SFA raises serum SFA; instead, it's been an understood truism held in place by policy and demagoguery See also: cholesterol.

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