motardo

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by motardo 4y ago
Nice suggestions. I would also add: disable javascript
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by motardo 5y ago
> The first thing hitting the concrete when falling is your palms Yes, if you're young and have good reflexes, you can break your wrists. If you're old with slower reflexes, you can't get your arms out in time so you break
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by motardo 5y ago
I would have thought these structures move air up and out by the [chimney effect]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_effect ) instead of funneling air down as the article describes. I love my old house's double hu
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by motardo 5y ago
For the record, it was Volkswagen that cheated the emissions test, not Volvo
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by motardo 5y ago
I always get tripped up with ld failing unless the object files are listed in the right order on the command line. I was curious if this simple linker would overcome this historic limitation, and was happy to see it does. > Another dow
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by motardo 5y ago
I'm an Amazon warehouse worker in North Carolina. As far as health insurance, I pay 100% of the first $1500, then 10% of the next $15,000 (so $3000 total), then 0% of anything over $16,500. I wouldn't call that astonishing, but it
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Amazon Ranks #2 on Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies List(youtube.com)
1 points by motardo 5y ago|0 comments
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by motardo 6y ago
For the last ten years, my spouse and I always split an entree when we eat out. We order one entree and ask for an extra plate. The portions are perfect, and eating out is much more affordable.
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by motardo 6y ago
For example, a new election was ordered for the 2018 NC 9th district congressional race. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-candida...
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by motardo 8y ago
Exactly this! Voting by mail just means my grandfather gets two votes and my grandmother gets zero.
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by motardo 9y ago
The gender of the name "Sabine" is not obvious to me. I wish English had a good gender neutral pronoun. "He or she" is too formal sounding. "They/their/them" is too informal sounding.
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by motardo 9y ago
How can I use this to help me eat locally? I put in my zip code for Raleigh, NC (27601), and it gives me a result of: Cabbage in Pasquotank County, but there is no contact information. How can I get some of that cabbage?
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by motardo 9y ago
> what does "wfm" mean? "works for me" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wfm
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by motardo 9y ago
Exactly, advertisers are the customer, you are the product
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by motardo 9y ago
I went there to apply for a job, and at first I thought the design was a joke, but apparently it is serious.
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by motardo 9y ago
If Papa John's calls in thousands of fake pizza delivery orders to Donimos, are they doing research on response times and how many drivers their competitor has, or are they committing a crime?
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by motardo 9y ago
When MOSFETs get hot, that usually means the gate voltage is too low. It looks like your driving the MOSFET gate through a resistor voltage divider. It would be better to drive the gate straight from the PI's GPIO pin. Also a flyback p
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by motardo 9y ago
When I read the headline, my first impression was great! But digging deeper: - The name woebot - is this a joke? - The company is made up of 5 cs engeneers, only 1 clinical psycologist, and 1 ceo/doctor (of what?) - It's a
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by motardo 10y ago
Could the person who submitted a pull request with 1000 commits please squash your commits (jk :D).
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How I made 1000 commits to GitHub in one day(github.com)
2 points by motardo 10y ago|1 comments
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by motardo 10y ago
This is a very cool idea, but the search terms were too simplistic. For example the word "wrong" in "If the commit was to the wrong branch..." should probably not be interpreted as an angry comment.
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by motardo 10y ago
The sample size was 242. If you click the link to the paper, then click the supplementary material link, you get [this pdf]( https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1007%2Fs111... ) that explains the methods.
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by motardo 10y ago
I've never heard of this guy or this website before, but I just spent an hour getting slammed with more truth and reason than I've read in the last two years combined. Mind blown!
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by motardo 10y ago
Yes. With paper ballots, cheating is at least detectable because there is literally a paper trail. With touch screens, maybe the results are correct, maybe the machine miscounted. There is no way to really know.
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by motardo 10y ago
Just what I'd expect: Kit Kat, Snickers, Twix, and Reese's Cups are at the top of the list.
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The Candy Hierarchy for 2016(boingboing.net)
1 points by motardo 10y ago|2 comments
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by motardo 10y ago
The pokeman locations where crowd-sourced, and unsurprisingly the crowd was skewed white.
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There are fewer Pokemon Go locations in black neighborhoods, but why?(bnd.com)
1 points by motardo 10y ago|2 comments
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by motardo 10y ago
People who think philandering is a flaw are not as enlightened as Einstein was.
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Coder automates own job, gets fired(boingboing.net)
2 points by motardo 10y ago|1 comments

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