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reacocard

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About reacocard

I am a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. All opinions expressed here are my own and not those of my employer.

Email: reacocard@gmail.com

Web: http://www.reacocard.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/reacocard; my proof: https://keybase.io/reacocard/sigs/58J-fdzvRNkpTYOuimzEjF8YASNMFLsenkcmtC7aKas ]

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    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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    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 r…

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    Comment #8428019

    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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    Comment #8123442

    Yes, it has auto-upload: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1647509

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    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 …

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    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.…

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    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 …

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    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…

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    Comment #3632386

    Wrench menu -> Settings -> Under the Hood -> Content Settings -> Block third-party cookies and site data

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    Comment #3287937

    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 th…

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    Comment #3212673

    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 o…

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    Comment #3211551

    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 m…

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    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 t…

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    Comment #2737756

    Yes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0i8gUK1cVw