me2i81

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by me2i81 4y ago
Adobe went through a period where they laid people off every November. They seemed quite addicted to it.
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by me2i81 6y ago
The most common error I've seen in this area is that most GIS systems use (Lat, Lng) but most systems written by non-GIS people use (Lng, Lat), which they think of as (x, y).
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by me2i81 6y ago
In my first job I used Ingres/Quel. Probably because of that, I still find SQL hideous. Quel was a lot more orthogonal and clean, but by now SQL has so many more features that they're not really comparable. The first version of In
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by me2i81 6y ago
That used to be his house. The construction technique was interesting: make a pile of dirt, pour/spread concrete over it. When the concrete cures dig out the dirt.
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by me2i81 7y ago
Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals by John Day. There's not a lot of criticism of technology at this level.
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by me2i81 8y ago
I have been using 39dollarglasses for quite a few years, good service, and I've gotten quite a few unsolicited compliments on the frames.
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by me2i81 10y ago
The maximum Pell grant plus the maximum Stafford loan will not even cover UC tuition, let alone housing or other expenses.
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by me2i81 10y ago
An instructor told me around 1977 that there was not going to be much need for programmers in the future, because every piece of software that was needed had already been written.
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by me2i81 10y ago
Take a look at The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones et. al. ISBN-13 is 978-1420082791.
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by me2i81 10y ago
Right, so you get an effective rate of 1.2% of FMV for class 1, 5.8% of FMV for class 2. So the rate is just a bit higher than California for class 1, which might explain why brownstones are so expensive in NYC relative to larger buildings.
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by me2i81 10y ago
I've had attempted scams at the Rome central train station at least three times. "Meter is broken."
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by me2i81 10y ago
I have Cree recessed modules in my kitchen, and they're fine when not dimmed. They don't change color temperature when they dim, which incandescents do.
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by me2i81 10y ago
Yeah, there are fluorescent lights with very high CRIs (for example those in professional light booths) but they cost more because of the phosphor sets.
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by me2i81 10y ago
Early lute music was mostly written in tablature FWIW. A lot of the renaissance repertoire is still published that way. It uses letters rather than numbers to represent the frets, which takes getting used to, and puts separate timing marks
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28 Years of Data Shows Link Between Employee Satisfaction and Long-Term Value(hbr.org)
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by me2i81 11y ago
Most imaging for offset printing is done in PostScript, which can render EPS directly, so there's no format conversion. For web publishing that's not the case, and either is probably fine depending on the workflow.
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by me2i81 11y ago
I assume there are property taxes (and capital gain taxes?) in Boston...
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by me2i81 11y ago
This makes no sense as a comparison. All of the top 10 schools get many more applications than they have spaces, and that's true of many of the "party" schools as well.
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by me2i81 11y ago
Depends how you define "working", I guess. There are at least a couple of research prototypes, ProtoRINA and IRATI, neither of which are anywhere near production quality, but they do exist.
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by me2i81 11y ago
Six characters! Luxury. I worked on a system where we only had five.
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by me2i81 11y ago
Oberon is an already-built system designed by Niklaus Wirth, one of the giants of the field. The goal of Elements of Computing Systems is to have you build a more limited but still functional system yourself, so get busy!
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by me2i81 11y ago
The point is that water falls from the sky, in varying amounts, every year, and California has a huge amount of infrastructure to collect and use it, and a bunch of people who manage it. If agriculture and ranching stopped in California the
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by me2i81 11y ago
Sure, there is huge water infrastructure with dams, canals, pumps, etc., but the principle is the same: water that used to flow to the ocean gets diverted for other use. Is the allocation between ag and urban/commercial use the correct
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by me2i81 11y ago
The battles over water rights have been going on in the west for at least a century, so I'm not all that optimistic that you're going to radically change how it works. But I still don't see what you're hoping to accompli
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by me2i81 11y ago
It is helpful to look at how water is actually used in CA. I thought this blog post was a decent attempt: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-do...
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by me2i81 11y ago
Yeah, we have a common government that sometimes builds things, which is maybe more efficient than farmers shooting at each other over who diverted the river. Water rights are considered property, and you can't just go take them withou
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by me2i81 11y ago
People have been growing food in dry valleys with rivers that bring water down from the mountains since the dawn of civilization. California is no exception. Calling it "unsustainable" in the context of agriculture is a bit simpli
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by me2i81 11y ago
If the user enters the bottom of the ocean as their destination, it would be bad for a self-driving car to take them there. "The user is an idiot and so we killed him" is not going to be such a great defense in court...
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by me2i81 11y ago
I have a Gaggia full-auto and use it multiple times a day. The first one I bought lasted 10 years before I replaced it and pulled something like 30,000 shots. (Yes, that's an average of 8 shots/day, but I use two shots per cafe la
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by me2i81 11y ago
Because out-of-town visitors don't vote in local elections, so they are easily soaked.

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