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by Laremere 4y ago
Pixel 7 Pro with Google Fi here: I couldn't find it in settings, but I found a setting in the Fi app to turn off.
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by Laremere 4y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2423/
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by Laremere 4y ago
Bank runs killing healthy banks hadn't happened in nearly living memory, but it used to be a thing. Before 1933, if you heard your bank was unhealthy, you'd run to the bank to take out all your money before it vanished. So even
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by Laremere 4y ago
As much as a concept can be translated from one programming language to the next, they're conceptually pretty much identical. However for Zig there are two important differences: 1. It's simpler syntax than reaching for a zip fun
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by Laremere 4y ago
Zig doesn't have variable length args. The .{} syntax is for an anonymous struct with no field names (which are named tuples in Zig.) Print takes the struct's type info at compile time to check the validity of the statement, and
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by Laremere 4y ago
My point was perhaps lost in the pursuit of brevity. It's not that the ethical people could stop Google from doing bad things. It's that there's bound to be people outspoken in the event that Google is secretly spying on yo
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by Laremere 4y ago
There are two aspects that discredit these types of claims: The banal explanation, and the extreme risk Google would be taking by doing this. The banal explanation is that life is really complicated, and a coincidence of this nature is uni
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by Laremere 4y ago
Amazon was likely to build out their own shipping network anyways. Their MO in all other spaces is to observe others doing it, then undercut by vertically integrating. Over expanding to fullfil a single large customer who isn't actual
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by Laremere 4y ago
I'm racking my brain trying to remember where I heard it, but I've heard it roughly summarized as: Companies are founded by people who are loyal to a vision, but tend to promote people who are loyal to the company. Eventually th
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by Laremere 4y ago
It depends on the purpose you are asking for their gender. If there's no purpose to guide what the options are, why ask?
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by Laremere 4y ago
The article/podcast mentions how quality hardware engineering was still valued, and used Nintendo as a specific example of success. Sony was mentioned as being outside the keiretsu system, and afaik Nintendo has never been involved wi
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by Laremere 4y ago
Not a physicist, but if you put one beam through each slit, it's no longer the double slit experiment. Instead it's just two single slits. So no interference pattern, just two spots of light.
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by Laremere 4y ago
See also the 2008 underhanded c contest: http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html Programs that appear to black out a section of image, but actually leak information.
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by Laremere 4y ago
This is something that seems really important, and is definitely a significant effort, but actually is inconsequential. Think about a section of lightly used suburban road. The amount of work that went into making it involved was immense.
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by Laremere 4y ago
What matters is the depth to your water table. This site seems like a good resource: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-i-find-depth-water-table-s... Note that the water table in that case would only fill the pond to
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by Laremere 4y ago
I was going to say the terminology comes from inside Google, where afaik go links were invented. However, yeah, that's straight up a trademark. You'd need a lawyer to know whether the trademark would survive litigation, and whet
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by Laremere 4y ago
WASM is platform agnostic, so it is one of the things you start with, along with the compiler source code. It is built on a different computer before the bootstrapping process begins.
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by Laremere 4y ago
I really felt that there was an overreaction and we needed time to see what changes actually happened under Musk. Lots of very confident and different guesses about what was going on. Then Musk started to say he'd name and shame adver
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by Laremere 4y ago
The high end gets expensive, but the low end is pretty cheap. Considering that a game can keep a child entertained for a hundred hours or more, the overall cost can easily drop below $1/hour. Compared to the cost of a movie or other
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by Laremere 4y ago
There are 2 causes of diffraction spikes: 1. The hexagonal mirrors. Trade off is larger mirrors, and the ability to fold the telescope. 2. The struts holding the secondary mirror. Basically can't get rid of this without a very differ
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by Laremere 4y ago
In this case, instead of, say, an int, you could have the field be a pointer to an int.
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by Laremere 4y ago
Relevant game based on that entry: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1593010/The_Store_is_Clos...
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by Laremere 4y ago
The whole idea of this is that the government won't pay for it. Jared Isaacman has already done one space tourism trip on the dragon capsule, and has ordered 2 more dragon missions, and one starship mission. It seems he wants to be m
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by Laremere 4y ago
Random assorted thoughts as someone who worked at Google at the time of launch (but not on Stadia), and now works in the game industry proper: Props to the engineers, the technical base was there. It really just worked. You could load a AAA
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by Laremere 4y ago
Also, Chromecast (Ultra) now shows a YouTube app when casting to it. This app puts recommendations on the screen. Even with premium, ads will show when I select one to watch. There's an option to sign in, but if I select it, it just
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by Laremere 4y ago
Not comparable. This is fueling tons of cryogenic propellant using systems which haven't been used many times end to end. Hydrogen in cars is compressed gas, and operations happen at a much higher frequency. A lot easier to work out t
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by Laremere 4y ago
The Ever Given was stranded not because of depth, but because it got caught by strong winds, plowing the front into the side of the canal. There's a simpler explanation that the Ever Given was a rare event that primed news to be more i
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by Laremere 4y ago
This is true, but I don't think your point entirely fair either. Zig's design lends itself to writing this style of code. In contrast the usual way(s) C++ is used encourages code that makes these types of optimizations hard&#x2F
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C has an enormous weight to it. If you've been carrying it for decades, you are likely somewhere between being so used to carrying it it's hard to notice the burden, and being so at ease with carrying it that it's not actual
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by Laremere 4y ago
Yes and no, with factors pushing both ways: There was a tremendous amount of r&d expense for James Webb. However I think that sibling comments are underestimating how much can be reduced by just expecting that the first few attempts wo

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