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I drive a Ford Focus Electric. All of the non-drivetrain parts are standard focus stuff, and are fine. The same mostly-physical-controls UI that non-electric focus has. The usual w…

The federal tax incentive is a refundable tax credit. So it doesn't interact with deductions. It's regressive in the sense that you need to be buying a new car to get it. But it pa…

When you have a long list of numbered filenames with no padding, pipe the list through "sort -V" for "version number" ordering. Edit: Glitchmr has a better solution below, "ls -v".…

For flash devices, power consumption / thermal dissipation is usually a small constant for the control logic, plus a very small amount per read, plus a small amount per (page) writ…

The last time I was looking for work, LinkedIn was useful. I heard of a company that sounded like a good match. LinkedIn found a 2nd-level connection working there, and an intervie…

I prefer the correlary, as motivation: "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"

This is the paragraph where the research is described as a significant step in fighting terror, curing cancer, or solving world hunger.

Very pretty, fun to play with. The rollovers are getting chopped off for most of the right side of the map -- they run off the right edge of the page. Can they be pulled in? At lea…

At the lowest level, you don't need to double-up, you can use an error correcting code. If the memories and registers on a chip use a multiple-error correcting code, then the under…

The Netezza database appliance essentially works like this -- each disk is paired with an FPGA and a CPU core. The disk-local CPU takes care of caching directory information for th…

I will often do this when I am drawing a blank. Write psuedo-code, or code that is how you would like it to be, if your language / macros / libraries supported it. Then you can wor…

Gatto uncovers the underlying intention for public schools to produce docile factory workers. Once you make your goals clear and explicit, much of the argument over how to educate …