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by TkTech 7y ago
And most major airports have systems like RFEye or AIRPORT-SHIELD. You would be _immediately_ pinpointed with a remarkable level of accuracy from 3-6 sensors. Especially near major metro areas, unintentional interference is a daily issue. T
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by TkTech 7y ago
These aren't gas powered or industrial drones, they're used against things like the DJI Phantom. The Eagle's claws are far, far stronger then the blades and the low torq. They can also be given titanium talons like police dog
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by TkTech 7y ago
Remember there was a lot less to the Linux kernel at the time. Wasn't too bad. The single-threaded compile time for Linux has stayed fairly consistent for awhile, since the tree grows about as fast as the average desktop improves. The
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by TkTech 7y ago
Likely using the TokenVault[1] extension for StandardNotes. [1]: https://standardnotes.org/extensions/tokenvault
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by TkTech 7y ago
I agree with you (Someone from France doesn't have to worry about the modern version of China's 9 generation purge[1]), but as a Canadian it's very common to see the Chinese students here wildly supportive of the CCP, includi
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by TkTech 7y ago
Like you said, it would unfortunately be unmaintainable, requiring a fork of CPython. Aggressive optimizations like this could go into pypy, but IMO CPython is still trying to be a "reasonably readable" reference implementation. I
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by TkTech 7y ago
This is the main bottleneck in pysimdjson[1]. 95-99%[2] of the time is spent creating Python objects rather than parsing the documents. There was no trick I could find (although treating all strings as bytes instead of using PyUnicode_Decod
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The generator isn't dependency free, the parser it generates is.
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Switzerland has universal[1] medical services and compulsory insurance for all residents with strict limits to prevent the private sector from price gouging. All insurers must offer a basic plan with no limitations on age or conditions, and
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by TkTech 7y ago
For #1, there's a well-sourced Stack Overflow post https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/377514 .
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The government still uses a majority mix of Windows and some OSX for the upper classes. For anyone else it's very much mandatory, and you need to be on a national registry just to legally own a computer, which is also how they ensure y
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by TkTech 7y ago
Do you recall which story that was? Sounds like a fun read.
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I imagine it's not much different from a regular residential greenhouse, in which case the plan is to throw a sufficient number of cats in there.
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That comment refers to JingWang not the OS. If you were an individual forced to install it you are added to a registry. If you live in a particular city, it is mandatory. If you are part of a particular minority, it is mandatory. Refusing t
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by TkTech 7y ago
China has used its own FreeBSD (kylin) and then ubuntu-based (neokylin) since 2001. Nearly half of all laptops are sold with it. Likewise, North Korea has Red Star since 2008 which is mandatory or risk forced labor. While kylin isn't t
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by TkTech 7y ago
A well-written Python app using the respective platform's native events through say, watchdog[1] performs perfectly fine for huge numbers of files[t]. The language used isn't at all the problem with Dropbox's performance whic
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by TkTech 7y ago
Windows Vista to Windows 10 as an overall platform made many bad decisions, but these are mostly from terrible product planning and UX. The internals (kernel, comprehensive HAL and huge driver library) are the only existing, solid alternati
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The only English-speaking countries left that still occasionally use the long-scale are Canada, Mauritius, Seychelles and Vanuatu. This is because they are bilingual nations that also speak French, where the long-scale is still used. Trying
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by TkTech 7y ago
For #1, it looks like that's coming? The documentation[1] has been updated for project sponsor buttons to include up to 4 github-sponsor enabled users. I can't find a project using it yet, but I imagine this divides your donation
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by TkTech 8y ago
From that site: 1+: $9.87257 10+: $9.31375 100+: $8.78655 500+: $8.28920 1000+: $7.82000 That is absurdly cheap, and you can be sure with million-unit orders they're probably getting half that price and working direct with the man
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That is not true, Amtrak used to run a service called Mail & Express. One of the trains was indeed mixed passenger and freight. That said, Amtrak engines are also often leased to other freight companies so you can frequently see freight
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by TkTech 8y ago
I guess this[1] image from the F5 article gives an idea of where nginx fits from their perspective. F5 is a huge company (4000~ employees) that already likely has thousands of boxes running nginx. If you're going to continue using ngin
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by TkTech 8y ago
It depends on the government entity using the software. Madrid validates identities using your census data. Estonia would use their national ID cards and card reader.
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by TkTech 8y ago
I agree that it's unfortunate they didn't pick a more unique name, but why would the government of Madrid (the developers of Consul) care about a US trademark? Hashicorp Consul has an EU trademark[1] but they only applied in late
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by TkTech 8y ago
It's a small world, most #mcdevs regulars are still very active on HN.
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That's exactly what q (the linked tool) and almost all other tools like it do - it loads into an sqlite database and provides some handy wrappers, that's it.
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The space race was a one-time oddity. During it's peek NASA used nearly 4.5% of the federal budget[1]. The Soviets poured so much into it, it practically bankrupt them. The military wanted better ICBMs, the government wanted to win the
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by TkTech 9y ago
If you're interested in roll-your-own things like this, stop by #mcdevs on Freenode and take a look at our documentation at http://wiki.vg , where we've been RE'ing the protocol and game internals for 8+ years.
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by TkTech 9y ago
Headers on the JPGs say Pixelmator 2, so looks like they were done at least partly by hand.
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To compare, in Canada where medical coverage is socialized but dentistry is [usually] not , the cost of a set of x-rays (2 or 4 shots) maxes out at $100-$200 when uninsured.

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