Tloewald

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by Tloewald 10y ago
The SUV would have spun if it didn't hit the crash barrier.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The SUV was pushed into the crash barrier and small car wasn't, so it's a highly unfair comparison. We did a lot of safety research before buying our current round of cars, and you need to not generalize about cars based on classi
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I think you underestimate the ability of the trucking industry to poorly maintain automatic pilot systems.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The only thing that truly protects open source from corruption is the fact that it's open source . We can look at the code and we can fork it or choose not to use it or, as most of us do, rely on other people looking at it. Surely if
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by Tloewald 10y ago
If you're going to replace CSV then why not use the ASCII record and field delimiter characters and avoid using characters like tab and new line which are in band and actually useful? And if you're using tabs as field delimiters t
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Unencrypted?
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The idea of fractal dimension being significant at galactic scale is intriguing and based on my totally naive reading of the article might resemble this insofar as the guy is arguing that gravity is an emergent property from quantum interac
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The use of Keplerian simply refers to the inverse square law, and if you think the inverse square law isn't involved then maybe I should take that bridge off your hands. You seriously think these guys don't know high school physic
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The Federation has the problem of being completely undefined; it has a president but no elections, politics, news? Does it have money or not? If not how does that work? We haven't really seen how normal people live inside the Federatio
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Good call on Excession. I love the Culture books but can see why folks wouldn't, but Excession is the best in my opinion because it reveals the Culture's flaws and limitations. The rest of the time it's just invincible good g
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by Tloewald 10y ago
We switched from the wirecutter's recommended AC router back to an older AirPort Extreme and everything got better immediately. I won't miss Apple's monitors because they cost way too much for what they offered, but Apple has
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The energy in the system seems to be coming from ATP which is used to move energy around in both animals and plants, so it could presumably be wired to photosynthesis (which I assume is what the researchers had in mind — take the process pl
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by Tloewald 10y ago
So they'll be able to get awesome bandwidth (by today's standards, anyway), but the monthly plan is might be a little pricey.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Well, there's going to be 800 of the suckers. There are only about 33 GPS satellites. Although 700 miles is lowish orbit, it's still above the horizon over 2000 miles away.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
This reminds me of a New Yorker article on the same topic (covering an even greater injustice, also in Texas -- in fact referred to in this article) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-f
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by Tloewald 10y ago
They have calculated a falsifiable prediction for the nature of dark matter based on an extension to the standard model which addresses a known issue. Not clickbaity at all.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I don't use vim and consider myself highly biased towards guis despite being a long time programmer. I am also an Apple user since the Apple II, and owned the original inside Mac and Human Interface Guidelines books. Even for me, losin
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Surely their business model always involved something like this. If they were as good as claimed, Google, Amazon, or Apple would buy them, if only defensively. Samsung, with its wannabe status in software platforms seems to me like the best
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by Tloewald 10y ago
She is also thin, good looking, eventually blond, charismatic, and connected. What I see is a cult leader who happens to be recruiting in Silicon Valley rather than (say) Hollywood.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I think that someone coming to the field cold is going to be sucked into the vortex of enthusiasm surrounding one or more frameworks and, eventually either become a die-hard fan of some specific stack or jaded by the phenomenon. I'm a
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It's not clear to me how tough this plane would be (especially relative to the A-10).
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The anti JavaScript ranting is tedious and redundant, however he points out that virtually no React Native code uses Flow, etc., so it's an unused solution. The point about React having hundreds of dependencies is also well taken. Whil
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I think the "looks for wins" attribute is just a desireable trait period (like "tries to write good code"), but the ability to weigh trade offs comes with experience and changes how one looks for wins. In the end, you&#x
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The interesting takeaway from this, in my opinion, is that modern browsers offer three fairly independent rendering paths (perhaps more): vanilla, 2d CSS transform, and 3D CSS transform. A project I worked on had a truly bizarre chrome-only
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by Tloewald 10y ago
If you're using React but not LESS or SASS then you have a strange attitude to "tool of the month" but it does explain antipathy towards DRY.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The article is saying that intel should be worried because Ax chips are competitive with their chips. Whether iOS is a good replacement for Mac OS is irrelevant. Mac OS can run on Ax chips with no significant effort from Apple and not much
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by Tloewald 10y ago
What does this have to do with anything? Mac OS is totally portable (at one point. OpenStep provided transparent support for four CPU architectures), and server-side software even more so. Similarly, Apple could presumably port whatever sub
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by Tloewald 10y ago
No, he provides a simple example of loading a page depending on a sequence of json operations -- code after the first await is stalled until they all finish. await import just makes problems worse and, probably, almost unavoidable.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The only thing better than bikeshedding about minor language features is bikeshedding about the language evolution process...
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Also: it sounds less horrible than pumping sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere.

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