razorunreal

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by razorunreal 6y ago
If companies like Apple didn't try to make things as incompatible as possible, maybe software engineers wouldn't have to keep adding new layers of abstraction and things would run a bit faster. There's basically a never endin
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by razorunreal 6y ago
It seems very relevant because the military was apparently completely unprepared for biological warfare. Like in all their talk of terrorism they hadn't even considered the possibility. Sure, this virus wasn't an intentional attac
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by razorunreal 7y ago
Without being any kind of copyright expert, this argument doesn't make much sense. If you have the relevant indices into pi, I guess you could claim copyright. The index will be much larger than the original book though. Essentially yo
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by razorunreal 7y ago
Seems to me the real problem is people in the same row who don't board together, since frequently someone has to squeeze back into the isle and block things until their neighbor is seated. Airlines know who booked together, couldn&#x27
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by razorunreal 7y ago
That seems fair to me because it results in a tax based on how much the property is worth to you specifically. The "value" may be inflated from real market value, but as long as that is true for everyone it doesn't matter. Al
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by razorunreal 7y ago
I think our emotional responses exist to guide us towards good decisions. If you take a reinforcement learning system and you always give it positive reinforcement, it will not learn much of anything. I guess I'm saying your enlightenm
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by razorunreal 7y ago
It's a setting, you can keep the soft buttons if you like.
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by razorunreal 7y ago
I think people forgot that a 10 year old car means 2009. Newer cars are still safer, sure, but that's easily recent enough for good crumple zones, strong pillars and plenty of air bags, all for under 10k.
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by razorunreal 7y ago
This is actually weird to me. It seemed like it should be possible to stamp out bicycle frames like a car, so I researched it. Such a bike does exist, but is extremely expensive, which seems to defeat the purpose. Is it really not possible
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by razorunreal 7y ago
So binary search is not logn time because it only reads logn values from the input? To know which parts are not read you basically have to run the algorithm. I find your definition unhelpful.
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by razorunreal 7y ago
Internal combustion engines throw off heat whether you want them to or not, plus the total amount of energy stored in a gas tank is vastly greater than a battery, so wasting some of it as heat is less likely to strand you. EVs only get simi
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by razorunreal 7y ago
Funny you mention magsafe, because that was defective too. They settled a class action but didn't actually fix anything. It would slowly toast it's own cable (probably due to dust in the connection) until the insulation frayed and
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by razorunreal 8y ago
I think you are asking the wrong questions. Why not ask: Why are there so many men in tech? To answer that I would compare it to a field like finance, where people are well paid and over worked. I think the money comes first, then the men,
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by razorunreal 8y ago
Feel free, it exists to be read. And you just gained a subscriber.
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by razorunreal 8y ago
If anyone has a tougher path planning problem and needs a better heuristic, I wrote an article a few years ago that might help: http://razorcode.net/articles/vehicle-path-planning.html
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by razorunreal 8y ago
I tried finding data on insurance payout/refusal rate when I was considering switching to a cheaper but lesser known car insurance company. It doesn't seem to exist. So much for consumer choice.
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by razorunreal 8y ago
Look at big cities around the world and you'll find buildings with retail at the bottom and office space further up. I don't think it would be an issue, unless you stroll around the sky at night.
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by razorunreal 8y ago
Redistributing money from people who use more to people who use less is an incentive to use less. It can be an arbirarily large incentive depending on how much you decide to redistribute. It's not like the money is destroyed or somethi
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by razorunreal 9y ago
If that's true, then in Manhattan the cars should go. Even as a pedestrian it is frustrating to wait for cars at the end of every short block. I'm not sure how gridlock is helping anyone, they should just ban anything that isn&#x2
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by razorunreal 9y ago
If Grandma needs subsidized housing, that is something that should be separately agreed upon and implemented, presumably from tax revenue. The idea of forcing landlords to pay that subsidy basically at random seems ridiculous to me, the kin
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by razorunreal 9y ago
This is the kind of thing that needs an institution (government or not) because otherwise the money goes to the most convincingly miserable looking people, not the ones in need. It's hard to prove, but it seems like most of the "h
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by razorunreal 9y ago
I think they've got the evolutionary argument backwards. Rather than the older generation aging and dying because there is some evolutionary reason why they should, I think there is simply not a strong enough reason why they shouldn&#x
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by razorunreal 9y ago
24/7 "service". Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of a tunnel just so some middle manager can claim that the line is still running. I would prefer they closed the thing at night and put some serious effort in
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Some tips, just in case they help. When disabling apps, you can generally ignore the warning that other apps may break. Do not disable Google play services, though. Also, go into the account settings and make sure sync is turned off for eve
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by razorunreal 9y ago
That's intentionally misleading. If it's not largely accurate the disclaimer should be "inspired by".
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by razorunreal 9y ago
You don't have to tell anyone if your face is on the news.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
That's what they do in Hong Kong, a nice glass barrier. Solves the trash on the tracks problem, plus people can't fall down there. My guess is that requires a precise stopping position, which requires a proper control system, whic
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Having lived in both countries, Australia doesn't seem to have the inflating vehicle size problem to the same degree. Plus the attitude to welfare is very different in general. I don't think you can just transplant laws and argume
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Easy. "Don’t they make you proud to be British!" is incongruous because nobody is proud to be British! (I jest, please don't kill me)
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Have you asked them if they can just pay it out? It might mess with their budgeting slightly, but they'd be paying the same per hour worked so likely not be a big deal.

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