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Your comment makes it seem like you're commenting on the article, but you're not. I'll admit to being rather confused as to why a top level comment has nothing to do with the artic…

To make the costs more comparable, in the report he mentions, they estimate 2.5% per year of the installed battery capacity cost as the ongoing maintenance costs. And, the batterie…

Why not just make a simple script to do that? I wrote one in Python ages ago to add up's to the firewall that tried various names, failed # of logins etc... Nothing a few hours of …

Just because you think it's worth 45, doesn't mean everyone else agrees. You'd ideally want to stop out somewhat close to your open and reassess your trade, and maybe even reverse …

On the homepage of the OED it says "More than 600,000 words, over a thousand years". Who's right? Who knows anymore.

looks good. I made something similar just for my own use that includes short summaries of the articles using a text analyzer. How come you don't have Reuters and the AP?

I know how that feels. I wrote a little c++ program to fetch data in Unicode from a dB and then normalize it to ascii to be used for analytic purposes. A lot faster to do it on asc…

I'll just toss into the fray the OED entry for Facile: facile, a. (ˈfæsaɪl, -ɪl) Forms: 5–6 facyl(l)e, 6–8 facil(l, 5– facile. [a. Fr. facile, ad. L. facil-is easy to do; also of p…

You don't. You can still run local accounts.

I've ran into weird issues like that before. After so many updates, I'm guessing something gets broken somewhere, somehow. Back up your extension settings and bookmarks, and do a f…

Inhabitable actually means "Capable of being inhabited, occupied, or tenanted." and "Not habitable, not adapted to human habitation, uninhabitable." The joys of english.

If you just need a simple script to download youtube videos, here's a very basic one I made as a wrapper to youtube-dl. You'll need to edit the option string to the path you want i…

Couldn't you just make your own off the tick data you're streaming?

Not to mention that it's always just a hairsbreadth away from being obliterated by Governments if they ever choose to.

What purpose is that? To project power and bully people, sure. If everyone has a gun, no one has a gun. If no one has a gun, everyone has a gun. If one person has a gun, he calls t…

Haha true enough. I'm sure the truth in this case in somewhere in the middle. Reading any marketing material should always be done with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Unless that company is well-noted for their malice.

I don't think converting is slow by itself depending on what you need done. I have a function in my code I wrote to convert strings of floats/doubles to a rounded string of however…

Agreed. I deal with financial data which is in well-defined formats for the various asset classes. You can save a lot of time by just writing some parsing functions to deal with yo…

That's extremely difficult to explain for many, many reasons. Ignoring a great deal, basically that debt either needs to be paid off when it matures or rolled over into bonds e.g. …

I'm honestly a bit confused. This is the second comment I've seen regarding the lack of this feature. It's not one I ever use purposefully, so maybe I just don't understand what's …

On mobile? Because it works fine on my Samsung phone. Although, I very rarely use it, so take that for what it's worth.

Not to mention the sheer difference in performance between the two. I've found regexes to be magnitudes faster than parsers, for extracting data, that is.

I'd also recommend The science of good cooking by Guy Crosby. I found it to be a more enjoyable read than McGee's. Not as technical which was a boon for me since as a home cook the…

I found CLRS to be far too verbose for my liking. Skiena was as you said. My favourite is Sedgewick. More terse than CLRS; doesn't drone on and on and on.