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by kodis 1y ago
Very interesting, and a classy move by DR, although the original text files would have been much more interesting to play with.
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by kodis 3y ago
I occasionally use words that I have trouble spelling as part of a password. I learn 'em fast, let me tell you!
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by kodis 7y ago
Not always. Timex also recently released a reissue of their 1965 Marlin for $200 which is a manual wind watch, this time using a Seagull movement rather than what the original used.
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by kodis 7y ago
They already are. Their web site claims that they're using a Swiss movement. They're silent on where the case and other parts are being manufactured, but I'd guess that the movement accounts for a good portion of the produc
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by kodis 7y ago
I think that the work-around for this problem is an online tax filing service like that offered by Credit Karma, which like their credit score reporting service is supported by ad revenue rather than by charging a fee for the service.
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by kodis 8y ago
This looks like Sokol version 2.0. A bunch of hoax papers designed to demonstrate the lack of rigor in what some of the Social Science journals accept.
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by kodis 8y ago
I suspect that's just the server being suddenly overloaded. For me they load, but take a few minutes to due so. As always, try back later.
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by kodis 8y ago
I'd say "Stop using C and C++ already" or "Stop using null terminated strings already", but I recognize that those are not always practical solutions. I do have some maintainability concerns though about the promulg
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by kodis 8y ago
What a wonderful series of articles! It does seem very heavily geared toward film photography, and while many of the subjects -- lighting, composition, and the like -- are timeless I suspect that today's beginning to intermediate leve
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by kodis 8y ago
As far as software related patents go, yes, there are so many patents granted on trivial or obvious techniques that the system seems to benefit lawyers and patent trolls to a much greater extent than it benefits the actual inventors. I do s
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How Much Safer Should Self-Driving Cars Be? Try 0%(forbes.com)
1 points by kodis 8y ago|0 comments
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by kodis 8y ago
I had a similar experience: I could buy a steel water bottle cage for $12, or a nearly identical model made of titanium for a savings of a few dozen grams at the cost of an extra $60 or so. This seems like an exceptionally silly expense for
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by kodis 8y ago
It's Tesla's first step. Just as SpaceX first showed that they could launch a payload to orbit, then showed that they could do it repeatedly; just as they first showed that they could land a booster, then showed they could do so d
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by kodis 8y ago
So, MugShots.com posts mug shots, which are a matter of public record, but will remove them for a small fee. That's extortion. But, the government posts judicial proceedings, which are a matter of public record, but for minor crimes w
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by kodis 8y ago
Deep breathing. That's covered my the meditation recommendation, but since a lot of people won't try the whole meditation approach I wanted to call it out separately. No training is required, just breath slowly and deeply while
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by kodis 8y ago
I think that another factor may be something I recently learned about called "the Ikea effect": the idea that a part of the attraction that people have for Ikea furniture, above and beyond the low cost, is that because they'r
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by kodis 8y ago
Again, from what I've seen and read, it doesn't matter what the driver does with his hands and arms, only that he keep his eyes on the road.
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by kodis 8y ago
From what I've read, GM is less confident about their system's ability to operate under as wide a variety of situations as Tesla's does. Yes, it operates in a hands-free manner, but does so only on well mapped uninterrupted
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by kodis 8y ago
The article is a bit light on specifics, but I hope that this (or something like it) comes to pass. I'm not convinced of the security of the current batch of biometric authentication schemes, but I have some confidence that the organi
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by kodis 8y ago
I wonder why a SpaceX Falcon-9 was singled out. Wouldn't any sufficiently large rocket have the same effect? And if so, wouldn't the Falcon heavy cause an even more dramatic effect?
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by kodis 8y ago
I sure couldn't have reacted quickly enough to have prevented this collision. I'd expect the car to have better reflexes then I do, but given the little time from when the pedestrian first showed up on camera and the time when th
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by kodis 9y ago
Not the OP, but I suspect that it's less about bikers and cyclists in particular and more a matter of coming into contact with other people who share an interest. Taking up golf or tennis would likely have the same effect.
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by kodis 9y ago
Also, Spanish, so much so that our cable TV provider offers several 'all Spanish all the time' cable stations.
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by kodis 9y ago
I don't really see it as a winner-takes-all situation. Here in the US my wife and I both enjoy many of the BBC productions, the 'Brit-com' comedy shows, and have noticed that a significant percentage to the actors even in US
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by kodis 9y ago
I suspect that at least some of this is due to confusing cause with effect: people see that most highly successful people have a collage degree, and wrongly conclude that anyone with a collage degree will be highly successful. A few of the
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by kodis 9y ago
Lighten up guy, it's an opinion, not a wikipedia entry.
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by kodis 9y ago
I really love the work that Tesla is doing in this area, and wish them all the luck in the world, but if the estimates in the article are even close ($57K for a Tesla roof, $41K for a tile roof with a small solar panel, $22K for a conventio
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by kodis 9y ago
> I find it disappointing, however, that a worthy scientific payload isn't being launched. It would also be disappointing if a worthy scientific payload were to be blown up on launch, an event which Musk seems to think is quite like
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Trump signs new space policy directive to send Americans to Moon, Mars(cbsnews.com)
6 points by kodis 9y ago|1 comments
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by kodis 9y ago
It would sure play better with the corporate types than what they went with: "BAMF Performance".

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