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by Dylan16807 8d ago
But there's no bug in isOdd. You're sending the number 36028797018963970 into it, which is clearly even. Putting extra code between the parentheses of the function call doesn't make it the function's responsibility. As
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
> Ut oh, your code is now broken because isOdd(2^55+1) returns true now... I think you messed up this example. Whether I literally use "2^55" with XOR or replace it with "2*55", that version of isOdd returns false. F
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
Don't you mean yes bluetooth controllers have audio offload? "similarly competent design" means you do the exact same thing in the other direction. Instead of rarely waking up the CPU to coordinate sending, you rarely wak
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
Playing audio over bluetooth also wakes things periodically, but it uses almost no power. With a similarly competent design photo transfer should be very battery efficient.
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
Yeah yeah I know about 3-2-1. But when I put data on normal S3, isn't my money supposedly paying for triple redundancy? Look, here's the documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguid
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
That issue happens when the repo is corrupted? That's not the cause of the failure then. Also you must have been unaware of Backblaze B2? It doesn't have a proprietary client, and it launched 11 years ago only a couple months
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
Sounds like the "or such" wins, but even with bluetooth speeds that means you're backing up 1-5 photos per minute and that helps a lot.
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
I would say you didn't get quite the right lesson from the fourth one. Rewritable devices are fine, but have (at least) one backup completely unplugged while you update another backup.
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
If you have servers on multiple continents that's enough to become immune to attacks like this. You don't need missile defense.
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
Aren't they supposed to have 3 copies of everything? If so, two datacenters going offline at the same time should mean almost zero data loss.
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by Dylan16807 9d ago
> At best, we can say that if you run the same code generated by the same compiler targeting the same hardware, you'll get identical results. But nothing else is guaranteed. Basic arithmetic operations of the same size have had guar
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
I dunno, people seem to accept most kinds of tool being fussy or flaky. But the special thing about security flaws is that they turn a one in a billion error into a guaranteed attack. It's moderately hard to make something that doesn&
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
They have other stuff to do that's not bottlenecked on push/pull/CI. 1% github downtime should reduce productivity by a lot less than 1%.
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
That's not really an old versus new thing. The water company isn't going to consider 230ms an outage either. With tech, like, it's crazily difficult to make sure every http request succeeds, so you build in retry, and look a
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
Now do that again without careless work or spoiled ingredients. Do you still want them punished or facing so much regulation they can't exist? Because you'll definitely get that with software; even really good development will
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
So that's all valid but those are pretty much all reasons to not want a smart watch, or it failing to do its basic job. When you talked about not wanting two watches, I thought you meant that even if you had a smart watch you liked,
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
Those streaming services don't have free options for the same content. You're not primarily paying to get rid of ads, you're paying for access. So for that and other reasons I'll say again I'm not talking about t
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
The background level of software copyright legal actions is significant enough. If plane attacks happened that much then it would give us solid evidence of TSA effectiveness even if they never caught anyone directly.
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
Saying you won't believe it's effective at all until someone sues and loses isn't the most compelling argument. If nobody sues then yes that is some evidence of effectiveness. It's not an absence of evidence, you'
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
When you say "case" does that mean you're rejecting the evidence of Phoenix technologies not getting sued along with all the other BIOS clones?
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
If you're going to make some kind of argument about the benefits of copyright for preserving software jobs, keep in mind this is a driver for hardware apple sells. Everyone would be better off if drivers were mandatory open source.
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
The point of a clean-room implementation is that the only thing passing from A to B is a detailed specification written from scratch, because functional details cannot be copyrighted. Which I think you know, so I don't understand you
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
Oh sure, I'd encourage the manufacturer paying whenever possible. This is just a fallback for no-name trash.
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
They said VC, not all investors. Let's say the investor part doesn't apply to public companies, to make it simple.
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
What appeals to you about a normal watch that a smart watch fails to satisfy? And what specifically do you mean by normal?
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
If you said automated instead of AI that would make sense to me. But why would you want to use AI to control planes?
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
You replied to someone comparing it to e-readers; you do not get to complain they say more about e-readers.
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
When we're looking at whether the company is "insolvent" then they definitely could stop training and it's worth checking if they would survive in that situation, at least for a while.
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
I already addressed that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718446 My request for better wording stands. The context was not enough to make things clear.
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by Dylan16807 10d ago
Well they don't ban repeat offenders. Trying to directly regulate the banning of repeat offenders seems more difficult and less fruitful than giving the store fallback responsibility for the warranty. Australia gives the store primary

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