reacocard

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by reacocard 11y ago
I had the terrible scroll when I first loaded the page 1-2 hours ago but can't reproduce it now on any of your posts including this one. Chrome 45.0.2454.85 64-bit linux.
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by reacocard 12y ago
MG1 can provide some resistance against the ICE's motion, causing part of the ICE's power to drive the ring gear instead. So in some cases, you have MG1 acting as generator (thus resisting the ICE) and driving MG2 electrically, AN
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It's 2015. Why do we still write insecure software?(jerf.org)
6 points by reacocard 12y ago|1 comments
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by reacocard 12y ago
Not quite - many ATMs I've seen size the slot so the raised numbers only go in one place so you can't insert the card the wrong way around.
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by reacocard 12y ago
Yes, it has auto-upload: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1647509
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I Want My Cheese(dilbert.com)
1 points by reacocard 14y ago|0 comments
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by reacocard 14y ago
At least back when I was doing mindstorms stuff (pre-NXT), there were a number of projects that would let you compile alternative languages into mindstorms bytecode, therby giving you a rather more capable environment than LEGO's. I used NQ
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by reacocard 14y ago
The theater in my hometown[1] took a different approach. About 3 years after its original closing in 2000 due to money issues, it was reopened as a nonprofit volunteer-run theater. Since then it has been successful enough to have been able
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by reacocard 14y ago
There's an option in the search settings to turn off instant results: https://www.google.com/preferences Other than that, there isn't any way to use I'm feeling lucky anymore. Not much point, as with instant results it's one click to get
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by reacocard 14y ago
Snappy is faster than gzip/zlib: "For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger." https://
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Command Line and User Friendliness(terminally-incoherent.com)
38 points by reacocard 14y ago|38 comments
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DRM-free physical media: dead in the water or the answer to art’s prayers?(arstechnica.com)
1 points by reacocard 14y ago|0 comments
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TCP Sucks(bramcohen.com)
137 points by reacocard 14y ago|56 comments
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Supermarket Scanner Recognizes Objects, Makes Barcodes Obsolete(diginfo.tv)
1 points by reacocard 15y ago|0 comments
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by reacocard 15y ago
Wrench menu -> Settings -> Under the Hood -> Content Settings -> Block third-party cookies and site data
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The man who hears colour(bbc.co.uk)
71 points by reacocard 15y ago|27 comments
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by reacocard 15y ago
Does it? If you can scroll further with the keyboard than the scrollbar can indicate, that would also make the scrollbar inaccurate. Perhaps instead we could add an indicator to the scrollbar (ala Chrome's text search indicators) that shows
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by reacocard 15y ago
Imagine a case like this: def example(input_data): l = list(input_data) # code that uses list-specific stuff and returns a result The function 'example' doesn't want to touch the original input data, so it needs to make a cop
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by reacocard 15y ago
From http://republicwireless.com/how : I have DSL at home. Will it work on that or will I have to upgrade to something faster? You need about 80kbps both ways to hold a call. The more bandwidth the better for improved call qual
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by reacocard 15y ago
Because copy won't necessarily work the same way on things that are not lists, which removes some of the flexibility afforded by python's duck typing. Unless you have good reason to require a list specifically, why should you?
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by reacocard 15y ago
Yes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0i8gUK1cVw