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by tmd 8y ago
Also not an expert on the topic but here are some examples of space-ready cameras with pictures and specs: http://www.msss.com/space-cameras/ Obviously radiation, extreme temperatures, vibration, and vacuum are at leas
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by tmd 10y ago
> But – and here is the great sleight of hand – the Bank has seen fit not to include house prices in its measures of inflation. So, throughout the 90s and 00s, they could then “prove” inflation was low or moderate and interest rates mean
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by tmd 11y ago
A lot of old-school financial advice seems to focus on the importance of saving and avoidance of debt. It seems reasonable but I always wonder how applicable that is in the modern times with our record-low interest rates. Short look at the
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by tmd 11y ago
Docker storage engines remember all the layers by storing incremental differences so it makes little sense to have a layer that only removes things (like the last RUN in https://github.com/iron-io/dockers/blob&#x2F
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by tmd 11y ago
> IPv6 has massively increased the number of available IPs, allowing every sensor and relay within a system to be addressable from the public internet That's a really scary idea from the security point of view and something that bot
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by tmd 11y ago
You're right but I wouldn't like that even as an employee (which I am). Imagine your that your team triples in size and everyone is in some kind of part-time arrangement that makes it difficult to synchronize any kind of real-time
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by tmd 11y ago
Number of hours worked per week is not everything. I suspect that Americans do work less over the whole lifetime -- the retirement age has decreased (at least for men, see [1]) while life expectancy is increasing. The problem is that it&#x2
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by tmd 11y ago
I think that there might be huge value in neurobiofeedback but it's a mistake to brand these devices as an aid to what essentially is a religious practice for many people. Just studying the comments in this thread shows that the sole i
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by tmd 11y ago
It's not just the US doing it. I always read newspapers from both sides of the pond and it was especially entertaining during the big financial crisis. Many European publications acted as if the US is collapsing but Europe will be larg
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by tmd 11y ago
After having lived 4+ years in Germany and struggling to learn German, I would say that the only way you can learn truly by pure immersion is from your parents. In any other case you need at least some theoretical basis because no one else
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by tmd 11y ago
It responds "No" to (10000000000000000, 10000000000000001, 10000000000000002) so the rule is not so simple after all :)
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by tmd 12y ago
Take no offense, I sympathize with the general idea, but aren't you overselling this a little bit? I've had no contact with Adderal but I highly doubt a dietary supplement essentially equivalent to ~10 cups of black tea could be a
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by tmd 15y ago
I have always suspected that I need more sleep than other people. When I tried to live without alarm clock I slept for 9-10 hours every night. It seems to be an enormous waste of time so I usually schedule an alarm after 8 hours. It never o
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by tmd 16y ago
It's really good to show some sense of humor but the number of easter eggs in Wolfram Alpha is starting to surpass the number of potential helpful use scenarios. It's still more like an advanced calculator than a "computational knowledge en
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by tmd 17y ago
> country of origin is NOT a reason why some people remain poor. Carlos Slim Helu is SOLID PROOF. This is probably obvious to everyone here but I'd like to point out that one case out of a 100-million population is statistically complet
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by tmd 17y ago
This is so far my favorite feature of the English language. Formal forms in the grammar are a relict of feudal type of thinking and in modern times they are not only redundant but also harmful. Need to choose between formal 'you' and inform
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by tmd 17y ago
This is actually closer to the reverse of visual programming -- we create diagrams by providing their textual representation. I really like the idea. Every time I need to deal with some UML or diagram application I have an impression that