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swhitt

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About swhitt

software developer in Houston, TX, USA.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48714167

    I love this, and I wanted to use it when I was suffering from a bit of sleeplessness in the past month or so. Unfortunately, my brain gets stuck in a loop trying to figure out when…

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    Comment #45960664

    I’m pretty sure this is because they don’t want Gemini saying things like, “based on my stored context from our previous chat, you said you were highly proficient in Alembic.” It’s…

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    Comment #29430618

    There's typically a button to toggle it on/off somewhere near the steering wheel. I got a new car a couple of months ago that has this, and was experiencing similar issues on rural…

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    Comment #20923774

    New internal email from President Reif: To the members of the MIT community, After recent events centered on the Media Lab, I know there is a tremendous sense of pain, sadness and …

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    Comment #20156710

    All services except for AWS.

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    Comment #20151458

    The main rumor these days (well, it's been a rumor for quite a few years) is that they'll be dropping Intel and switching to house-designed ARM chips across the board.

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    Comment #19577793

    https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/stabilizer-trim-loads-and-ra... does a pretty good job of summarizing it I think. It sounds incredibly difficult to do.

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    Comment #19577541

    Manual Stabilizer Trim Excessive airloads on the stabilizer may require effort by both pilots to correct the mis-trim. In extreme cases it may be necessary to aerodynamically relie…

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    Comment #17941158

    Unfortunately they no longer offer a free month of Prime for a late delivery - I believe too many people were taking advantage of that perk. The last few times I've bothered to com…

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    Comment #13885220

    Here's the scene from Selena, it's pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5bA8cVF-E

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    Comment #13179047

    His real name is Leonard so probably not.

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    Comment #9519138

    http://typedrummer.com/6haxm2

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    Comment #9370686

    > 1 second launch window Why is it so precise?

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    Comment #9154982

    Now we just need ShareX for OS X (and have it deal with the damn hidpi screenshots correctly).

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    Comment #8530101

    You don't have permission to access /ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-flightmanual.pdf on this server.

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    Comment #7817921

    Can you print your own cheques? All you need to know is your account and routing numbers.

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    Comment #7330796

    Oh great. I have the TetriNET theme song midi stuck in my head now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j02bbkyuYw#t=6

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    Comment #5680504

    When this was posted on reddit there was a bit of confusion as the title lead people to believe this was about an alternate cryptocurrency (like litecoin, feathercoin, etc). It's a…

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    Comment #5410452

    Didn't GitHub's progress-bar screen while you were waiting for a fork used to say "Hardcore forking action!" or something like that? I think I have a shirt that says something alon…

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    Comment #5361835

    It was great to see in action, but given the way the system is right now it wasn't that incredible. The maintainers of the biggest pools are all very active in the community; it wo…

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    Comment #5361822

    The choice was made for backwards compatibility. People are still running version 0.3-0.7 of bitcoind and up to this point that was not a problem. If we decided the 0.8 fork was ca…

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    Comment #5361810

    Most pools don't distribute funds to their users until 120 confirmations have been reached so none of the coin that they mined will show up in their users' accounts. The only way t…