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by Merad 10y ago
I am the only one who thinks this is an extraordinary step? Does this mean that they've identified the problem and believe that it's beyond repair? Or do they think that the Note 7 name has been so tarnished now that they just w
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by Merad 10y ago
The problem with Twitter, IMO, is that it's a fire hose. Let's say that I decide to follow John Carmack. I'm interested in his thoughts on technical topics and especially articles or posts that he may have written. Instead, I
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by Merad 10y ago
With Xamarin now being free you can target mobile with C#/XAML as well.
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by Merad 10y ago
> And this year or next year Tesla covers basically all of North America and Europe with their chargers. We must have very different definitions of "covered". Looking at the supercharger map on Tesla's website, I'm
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by Merad 10y ago
It always annoys me that we don't have better solutions for building C and C++ projects by now. My own take on the generic drop-in makefile[1] has over 1000 stars on github, which says pretty loudly to me that this is a common pain po
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by Merad 10y ago
Didn't Project Orion determine that it's theoretically feasible to accelerate to not-insignificant fractions of c using NPP? If your journey could average even 0.05 c , you can potentially make it within a human lifespan.
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by Merad 10y ago
I can beat that one. My school was in the mountains and had cold winters (temps < 10F/-12C not being unusual, dropped below 0F/-18C several times while I was there), but also fairly warm summers (> 90F/30C) due to bein
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by Merad 10y ago
> There is also the problem that a lot of healthy food is ridiculously overpriced, catering to the upper middle class population who wants to "eat healthy" and believes some nice "feel good" marketing material instead
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by Merad 10y ago
Cache on modern processors is so insanely fast it's already essentially an extension of the register file. IIRC, under ideal circumstances a L1 cache hit on Core i7 can take as little as 2-3 cycles, and averages about 4 cycles.
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by Merad 10y ago
Cheap quality food (quality food in general, for that matter) requires preparation, and food prep requires time and energy, and to a lesser extent cooking utensils, spices, etc. that people who don't already cook probably don't ha
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by Merad 10y ago
> have they been supplanted with evolving A.I.? Not to my knowledge. In fact, the AI of F.E.A.R. is still more or less looked at as a benchmark of good FPS AI. I'm really struggling to think of any game that has surpassed it. The
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by Merad 10y ago
I believe I read that many phone spammers are based outside the US now and so have no concern with US law compliance. They just spoof US based caller ID numbers.
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by Merad 10y ago
A few years ago in grad school I spent about a month designing a 3D printed case for a Raspberry Pi + Camera [0]. We used a Makergear M2 (a $2000 printer at the time). The process had some frustrating moments, but overall it was an amazing
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by Merad 10y ago
It's practically impossible to have a pleasant moving experience. Even in college when you don't really have any possessions except a bed, sofa and some clothes it's unpleasant. As you gain possessions (and family members) it
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by Merad 10y ago
Win32 uses messages for everything. While Windows does include signals[0], only three are actually used (SIGABRT, SIGFPE, SIGTERM), and in practice I don't think I've ever seen a Win32 program implement signal handlers. [0]: h
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by Merad 10y ago
TBH I'd blame Apple for that more than Google. Apple desperately needs to modernize iOS to match the reality that tablets (and even phones, for many people) are multi user devices.
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by Merad 10y ago
I've never written a line of Ruby in my life and I know what that code does, because it's essentially identical to what you'd write in C# LINQ to query with Entity Framework, LINQ2SQL, etc. var users = Users.Where(u =&g
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by Merad 10y ago
I imagine he/she is referring to how most "security questions" use info that we typically don't hesitate to give out in casual conversation, even with total strangers.
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by Merad 10y ago
You won't get very far with one pot or pan. I live alone and cook for myself, and my kitchen probably has a dozen. For anything beyond the very basics you'll need a variety of mixing bowls, mixing spoons, measuring cups/spoon
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by Merad 10y ago
Most people don't have a moral backbone nearly as string as they think they do. There was an article last week, posted here IIRC, about a an adware company in the northeast that was apparently a pretty good employer other than morally
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by Merad 10y ago
Getting out of the solar system is incredibly difficult. Well, not necessarily difficult, but expensive. So far we've launched a grand total of five spacecraft that will leave our solar system, with a combined mass of just over 250
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by Merad 10y ago
My rental company charges a 3% fee for online payments, so I mail them a check every month. Looking at my checkbook I've written about 175 checks since opening my account in 2002, mostly (but not all) for rent.
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by Merad 10y ago
I used to work for the largest provider of bank bill pay in the US (contracted with ~80% of banks, IIRC). I would say that 95% of customers using the service had no clue how it actually works. In fact, the default payment method of bank
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by Merad 10y ago
On AVR 8 bit microcontrollers, at least: yes. Pointers are 16 bits, and there are a handful of instructions specifically for 16 bit integer and pointer operations (which operate on pairs of 8 bit registers). For everything else, operations
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by Merad 10y ago
Having been a TA for CS1 classes, I can understand the rationale behind it to some degree. It's ridiculous how many students go online and ask for someone to do their homework or even copy chunks of code off of stack overflow. Forcing
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by Merad 10y ago
The problem in general aviation is the cost. As the article mentions, even a simple Cessna purchased new costs as much as a house. The result is that there are a LOT of planes flying that date back to the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
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by Merad 10y ago
Fun story, but to my knowledge most military computer systems have always been radiation hardened in the nuclear age. Enrico Fermi correctly predicted EMP prior to the first nuclear tests all the way back in 1945, and made sure that the tes
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by Merad 10y ago
Siri learns your voice if you activate the "Hey Siri" option. AFAIK it doesn't affect normal [manual] commands.
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by Merad 10y ago
As a former Ting customer who was happy with their service, their prices aren't really that great. It's just that most people aren't heavy users, especially on minutes and texts, so your bill looks a lot better because you
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by Merad 10y ago
The difference is that running in an unknown/broken state is the default when using error codes. Getting into such a state with exception handling typically requires explicit programmer action, such as the "catch everything and

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