Tloewald

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by Tloewald 8y ago
My previous had a monorepo for the website and backend (but not the mobile apps) which was insane to work with (as a coder I had a dedicated 128 core box to work on, some engineers had more than one, less intense engineers shared one) and a
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Can’t you create a branch and merge the two branches you are interested in into that?
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Are you talking about sensors or film? Kodak and Fuji dominated film, and today Sony and Canon dominate sensors (Samsung had a pretty solid go of it and simply gave up). Lots of other companies make sensors but they aren’t competitive with
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by Tloewald 8y ago
There’s no shortage of large sensors, they just don’t make sense in a phone unless you want it to be huge. In fact there’s a migration upwards in camera sensor sizes owing to the decreasing size of the support electronics, e.g. you can now
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by Tloewald 8y ago
It’s running the Mac and iPhone.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Here's a review from a dev who works at NASA: http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180712/ Maybe the key point is he isn't running Adobe Premiere. The thermal issues in modern laptops certainly concern me, but the
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by Tloewald 8y ago
For years I used windows and Mac side by side and my impressions was always that windows was less refined but perfectly solid and slightly faster at first with a tendency to slow down over time and much better for games and 3d. For the last
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Yes it’s nuts and it seems like a popular thing to fix electorally. I think that it’s a case of lack of political imagination.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Certainly trying to use Truth in Advertising was always my first thought, but Truth in advertising laws are pretty toothless and I imagine any attempt to do something like this using that mechanism would get tied up in the courts for a long
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by Tloewald 8y ago
The US system of local sales taxes doesn't look awesome ever. If there were one economic reform I would push in the US it would be advertised price is final price (i.e. if you say "I'm selling this for $9.99" then that&#
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Right but worse when batteries contain the “oxidizer”. If the battery uses atmospheric oxygen (e.g. as with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles) then it’s exactly like gasoline.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
They have everything to do with increasing power density. By definition power density is potential energy and when you release that energy you get waste heat.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
As someone living in the US with far better medical coverage than average I am awestruck by how wrong this statement is. Have you ever had to deal with a serious illness in the US?
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Right, they might well be basis vectors.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
The question is whether the real numbers (as a set) are real, not whether each specific real number is a thing. Transcendental — the numbers that make the real numbers distinct from the algebraic numbers — are not necessary for anything we
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by Tloewald 8y ago
> I don’t believe for a second that someone who would torture or abuse or kill someone on the orders of someone else was ever a ‘good person’. Fair enough. How about "not a monster"?
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by Tloewald 8y ago
One interesting thing about Milgram's experiment was that it was actually intended to detect a difference between the German and American psyche. This is a case of science working to falsify an incorrect belief. The argument being that
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by Tloewald 8y ago
The cost of crappy things that don't solve the problem described which leads to the mess we're complaining about is low, yes.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Let's take this article at its word, which is that right now we can bury carbon for $600/tonne (forget the speculative $100/tonne) which equates to $1.32/liter of gas (based on the speculative $0.22/liter). In Calif
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by Tloewald 8y ago
I believe that they axed the mac product, then ported the iOS implementation to the Mac -- which makes perfect sense even if it was effectively a regression for those folks who had been happily using the desktop version. The new version loo
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by Tloewald 8y ago
It would be pretty cool if someone devised a core set of meta-services (e.g. the feature branch / pull-request / review / commit that lived entirely on top of git and some simple command lines so that you could basically not
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by Tloewald 8y ago
To whom or what are you referring? If my suggestion that the commenter’s requirements seem quixotic — guilty as charged.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
More like: why are you making harsh language a crime since murder is legal?
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by Tloewald 8y ago
1. If cable tv providers can get away with disintermediating TV viewers from TV stations I don’t see how Apple is any worse, especially since I can still buy third party apps, but I can’t either set up or tune into an indie TV station. Amaz
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Presumably this is quite large relative to the expected number. I couldn’t find a statement as to what the expected number was.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Given the incompleteness of our fossil records, this makes the old joke about the astrophysicist and the black sheep seem apropos.
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Many years ago I was working on "electronic performance support" tools for call center operators at a large retail financial services organization, and someone proposed we install software on every worker's computer that meas
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by Tloewald 8y ago
It was quite obvious to us at the time that Apple was planning to provide a native SDK but hoped to mollify third-party developers with "web apps" while Apple got their house in order (having barely managed to get the phone done o
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by Tloewald 8y ago
In my opinion, folks who say they're being "honest" about something are kind of begging the question. That said, I doubt he did it to save money, although I'm surprised he allowed a dealer plate frame on the car. I think
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by Tloewald 8y ago
Problem is planes don't fly high for fun, they fly high because the air is thinner up high which improves fuel economy.

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