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by Slartie 7y ago
> All of these problems are easily addressed by using smart switches instead of smart lights. This is so true. I really wonder about all the people installing these WiFi enabled light bulbs into lamps that end up being connected to some
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by Slartie 7y ago
But the whole point of synchronous I/O is to isolate the programmer from having to think about that spinning tape up takes a non-zero time. I have a feeling that this gets lost sometimes in all that "async I/O is the GREATEST
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by Slartie 7y ago
I started in 2013 to have a yearly trip to Miami for a cruise at the beginning of February. For a solo traveler, taxi had been rather expensive unless you managed to pool with someone right at the airport, so I was glad to find the shuttle
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by Slartie 7y ago
Isn't that more applicable to John Carmack? If I remember it correctly, Romero was the game designer type, while Carmack was clearly the technician at id.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Your b) was actually only ever true for the HTTP protocol, but URLs are not strictly limited to that protocol. They are not limited to any finite set of protocols at all. You could easily make up your own protocol which differentiates betwe
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by Slartie 7y ago
This is an entirely different question that has nothing to do with the original article, and nothing with the thread starter's comment. But for the sake of it: yes, in a time of practically full employment, I do indeed prefer less work
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by Slartie 7y ago
It's not like they can replace human personnel that easy. Ordering kiosks are the low-hanging fruit, and then comes a long, long stretch of nothing, because it turns out that developing McDonalds-compatible robots capable of preparing
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by Slartie 7y ago
One of the key aspects about LaTeX that made me very productive with it was that I could just dump lots and lots of text pretty much directly from my brain into the plaintext editor, without thinking much about the intricate details of the
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by Slartie 7y ago
When I don't want to haggle (which is often, as I hate it) I simply take the posted price and pay that or ignore the offer. I will never ask for a cheaper price if not interested in haggling. People with deliberately overblown prices w
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by Slartie 7y ago
Filled circle means "vent is blocked, so no air can pass". Empty circle is an unblocked vent through which air can pass.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Gets disabled by me immediately. I use a well-configured Logitech Harmony remote to orchestrate the various devices, hence no need for HDMI-CEC, which it's implemented differently by anyone anyway (and they mostly don't even consi
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by Slartie 7y ago
It's not that hard to display whatever is coming in on HDMI-1. They usually get that working correctly in whatever firmware version the TV is shipped with, and I don't need more than that. They can even fuck up audio, as that goes
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by Slartie 7y ago
If I remember the innards of my TI-83 correctly (I used it during school 15 years ago, added LED lighting to the display and tore it apart for that purpose) Texas Instruments already uses a shitty membrane keypad. At least I don't reme
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by Slartie 7y ago
These 80ms were just fine because game engines already employ a lot of nifty tricks to minimize the negative impact of latency. Tricks which mostly only work as well as they do because the engine has an inside view on the gamestate. 80ms of
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by Slartie 7y ago
I am one of those up to 100GB/day developers. Reason: handling huge codebases (Chromium, among others) and working with VMs, which also extensively increases the write volume. My top day saw multiple TB written on a single day. But eve
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by Slartie 7y ago
> Why would they lower prices? Wal-Mart could lower prices now for cash or debit card purchases but they don’t. You're from the US, right? Then you should be familiar with gas stations which have two sets of prices: an expensive one
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by Slartie 7y ago
I definitely saw Jurassic Park in that demo. It was specifically that scene in the kitchen with the velociraptors sneaking around, hunting the kids. But probably they had multiple variants of the demo.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Has this been the trick employed by those tiny Bose speakers that got popular in the 90s? I remember being in some kind of demo truck as a kid, where they were showing a scene of Jurassic Park (from a Laserdisc!) and they had these big spea
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by Slartie 7y ago
Let's use a blockchain for that!
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by Slartie 7y ago
Moving the argument, which has been about a user of a free software program having neither an actual nor a moral capability of demanding that the free software fits their particular needs (which in this case means to work as a critical part
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by Slartie 7y ago
It is a straw man because you are obviously dragging this into the realm of defending against malicious intent from Google, which clearly does not apply here. The near-monopolist argument by which you attempt to construct a "right&quot
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by Slartie 7y ago
That is a straw man argument. We are not talking about an incident that may in any way be covered by the rights you might have against Google even though you did only use a free piece of software - like for example the right to not be activ
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by Slartie 7y ago
I found this Chromium bug report, which seems to be the epicenter of all the debate and also the source of the citations from the linked article: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102483...
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by Slartie 7y ago
Of course it's not that simple. There are other ways to gain leverage over Google and the Chrome development process than money. But money is the easiest one for enterprises, especially if they boast their multi-million-dollar programs
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by Slartie 7y ago
Digging in the code also brought up that URL, and it appears as if the entire feature was disabled if Chromium is built without the "Google Chrome branding" flag (and can then be reenabled by specifying a seed URL yourself via com
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by Slartie 7y ago
Whoa, I just set out to find the way to disable them. I thought it was possible, but I seem to have confused that with Firefox. Firefox calls it "studies", and you can easily opt out of them in the browser's options. Chrome (
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by Slartie 7y ago
I chuckled at this: > "Do you see the impact you created for thousands of us without any warning or explanation? We are not your test subjects," said an angry sysadmin. "We are running professional services for multi milli
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by Slartie 7y ago
From what I gathered off of several HN comments of Uber insiders, the size of their engineering team is actually more likely to be one of the causes for bad engineering decisions. They seem to have too many engineers running around for too
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by Slartie 7y ago
Sure, handing over giant checks to Akamai is easy, but it becomes a lot harder if you do the CDN part yourself. Like all the really big streaming video providers do, because otherwise they wouldn't be competitive at scale.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Even if you are ultimately paid back, you first have to win the case. Until that happens, you have to foot the mounting legal bills. And there’s a plethora of possibilities for lawyers (especially in the US legal system, but others offer so

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