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by adamson 7y ago
That's terrifying. What agency was this?
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by adamson 8y ago
I imagine it’s a lot easier to integrate your storage service with devices when you have the freedom to change the storage APIs on said devices as you see fit
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by adamson 8y ago
Whoops, I totally ignored the trajectory aspect and was just thinking both would be affected by the rate of rotation of the earth
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by adamson 8y ago
Is that not also true of the plane's projection onto the Earth's surface?
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by adamson 8y ago
+1. I've fallen in love with NYC over the past few years in no small part due to the transit system working well enough for me to explore all around it comfortably.
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by adamson 8y ago
Interestingly enough, as you'll learn in that episode, the push for automobile safety was inspired by innovations in airplane safety!
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by adamson 8y ago
I’ve never really heard a claim like this. What regulations lead to higher prescription drug costs and higher healthcare costs generally?
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by adamson 8y ago
Sure, but how do you find a project like that to enter at a useful stage? I feel like with the Panama Papers, any semi-public plea for help sorting through that data would have thwarted the journalists
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by adamson 8y ago
I’ve used Flywheel ( https://flywaydb.org/ ) for this exact problem on personal projects before and been fairly happy with it. It’s intended for use in JVM-based projects, but ships with a CLI that gets you a long way.
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by adamson 8y ago
Are most of the images failing to load for anyone else? It's a delightful post, but so much of it refers to the images that I feel like I'm missing a lot
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by adamson 8y ago
> The infiltration of the ivy league by the CIA What does this even mean? I can't imagine many more wasteful uses of government revenue than approaching dull undergraduates and coercing them into starting clandestine programs that p
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by adamson 8y ago
I'm pretty out of the loop here. Are there existing, widely used workloads that are critical for storage for which FPGAs are competitive with CPUs?
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by adamson 8y ago
When it works, it's great, and in spite of so-called "statistics" to the contrary, it works pretty reliably for me during rush hour.
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by adamson 8y ago
psst, your personal website is returning a 502
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by adamson 8y ago
This might vary from OS to OS, but at least for many Unix-based systems, everything running in a kernel context shares the same address space, so shared libraries aren't that relevant. Shared libraries for user processes are still desi
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by adamson 8y ago
I feel like that'd be a lot more than just interesting
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by adamson 8y ago
Does your username reference the incident somehow?
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by adamson 8y ago
I don’t think the article made a value judgement about price protections
49.
by adamson 8y ago
Right, and that's why zoning boards should stop your neighbors from building poultry farms in their backyards.
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by adamson 8y ago
That's kind of the point of zoning. If you didn't know what people are allowed to build when you bought your condo, I don't know what to tell you.
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by adamson 8y ago
That's such a weird arrangement from a people perspective, but if that works out, it bodes pretty well for the longevity of Java
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by adamson 8y ago
> Build OpenJDK yourself. [...] I suspect this not a very realistic choice for most companies. Are they saying that most firms don't have the ability to build software themselves, or is this a situation particular to Java where they
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by adamson 8y ago
They do enforce it. My office is on one of the major feeders to the Holland Tunnel (Broome/Watts Street), so it gets extremely congested everyday from 4 to 6. Every light cycle, several cars block the box, and a small team of traffic c
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by adamson 8y ago
That construction is so weird that I'm going to assume it was a typo and that they meant "tens or hundreds"
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by adamson 8y ago
I guess the question is: do we trust any operator to know the specificities and limitations? I for one wouldn't trust Joe Cop to use something like this with the degree of discretion or understanding of statistical nuance called for he
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by adamson 8y ago
Ouch, that other benefit of narrowcasting (the relative secrecy of it) didn't really click with me until now.
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by adamson 8y ago
Huge public tech companies with strong revenue: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google
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by adamson 8y ago
My understanding was that WoW would do essentially what's described here for the player's character and entities in the immediate area (simulate them for the next few frames), but the server also maintained a view of the world. Th
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by adamson 8y ago
Ah yep, that makes sense. I wasn't thinking in terms of what had to happen for actual gameplay, just simulation state.
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by adamson 8y ago
> Part of the difficulty was conceptual -- programmers were not used to having to write code that used the same number of calls to random within the simulation Can anyone grok this? I can't see why this (each player's simulatio

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