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by alexbock 10y ago
Go through the CPSC to initiate a recall properly instead of trying to do a fly-by-night recall that confuses all of phone providers. Give people actual information about why, how, and when these batteries fail instead of just nebulously bl
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by alexbock 10y ago
Informally issuing a recall without going through proper government channels and accepting returns for a consumer product that poses a danger to life due to a design defect is basically the bare minimum you could possibly do in a case like
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by alexbock 10y ago
Are you using an older model that hasn't been cleaned in a while? I use an early 2013 15" MBP and the only time I ever hear the fans is when I'm doing compilation with 8 threads (100% CPU usage on all four cores).
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by alexbock 10y ago
Two individuals may be capable of breeding and reliably producing fertile offspring but still be considered different species if they would never mate "naturally". This may be due to geography, different mating seasons, different
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by alexbock 10y ago
The concept of "private prosecution" exists, but my understanding is that it's not usually practiced (anymore). Some states prohibit it completely, and of those that do allow it some judicial authority is still usually requir
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by alexbock 10y ago
In Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, the Supreme Court very unambiguously ruled that a state cannot force out-of-state companies that have no physical presence in that state to collect sales tax. If Netflix has agreed to collect sales tax in Pen
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by alexbock 10y ago
How do they plan to collect this tax? Virtually no-one pays the "use tax" for online purchases of physical goods from out of state unless the merchant is forced to collect sales tax. My understanding is that states can only compel
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by alexbock 10y ago
Elm inspiration is mentioned at the end of the "Extended error messages" section.
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by alexbock 10y ago
If you enjoy "Things I Won't Work With" and "Ignition!", I would also recommend the book "Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?". It can be found online rather easily but I&#x27
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by alexbock 10y ago
_Noreturn is a standard keyword in C11. C++11 has a standard attribute called [[noreturn]].
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by alexbock 10y ago
50 GHz is still significantly less energetic than visible light, which is in the hundreds of terahertz. The sun bombards us with a lot of visible light, but you have to get into the blue/violet/ultraviolet region before it's
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by alexbock 10y ago
> What happens if we let people modify their microwaves and a terrorist uses his to give kids cancer!?!? I know this was said in jest, but given the (generally unfounded) fears some people have about microwaves and cellphones I want to p
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by alexbock 10y ago
Looking in from the outside as someone with no involvement with Ethereum, I really don't understand how the people behind it can justify using their privileged position as developers and community leaders to try to undo this. They spen
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by alexbock 10y ago
The states I've checked all have a law against misrepresenting the origin of a political advertisement that advocates (even indirectly) for/against a candidate or party, and sometimes ballot measures are included too. Some of them
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by alexbock 10y ago
Let's ignore the topic of the video itself since gun control is quite a controversial issue. If you start producing political videos (and despite being a parody, it's certainly political) that contain libelous "paid for by&qu
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by alexbock 10y ago
The limit was quite small. There was a relationship between the number of distinct primes you allowed to appear and the number of registers the Turing machine it modeled had, but I don't remember the details. I don't recall the ch
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by alexbock 10y ago
Years ago I participated in a CTF where one of the challenges was to produce Fractran programs that met certain requirements. They were relatively simple-sounding things like computing the nth power of two, but even that is a bit of a pain
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by alexbock 10y ago
The most succinct quote from Jobs is: There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. The fu
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by alexbock 10y ago
The difference is that they were using film which was sensitive over the entire visible spectrum with color filters that allowed a broad range of wavelengths that are all perceived as the same color. If you had a smartphone camera filtered
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by alexbock 10y ago
You may get more feedback if you upload the Java source to GitHub and make it easy to compile and run locally. I wasn't able to run the applet with the default settings in Safari, Chrome, nor Firefox and asking people to make their bro
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by alexbock 10y ago
I'm not sure how much someone who wasn't already familiar with vectors could get out of this. This seems to be a common issue with informal lessons like this[1]. The article starts seemingly assuming you have no idea what a vector
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by alexbock 10y ago
Would it be possible for the baker to distribute bread to customers in such a way that the weight appears to follow a fair curve for any one customer, but is still unfair if all loaves for all customers were analyzed in aggregate? (somethin
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by alexbock 10y ago
You would have to be very confident in the accuracy of your measurements to throw away your margin of error like that. If you report values 13% lower to try to appeal to consumers and your lab numbers are off by 3%, now you're wrong by
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by alexbock 10y ago
If anyone can find a reference on the amount of CO2 produced during bread making it would be easy enough to calculate. I haven't been able to find any relevant sources except this old one [1] which mentions that the alcohol content in
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by alexbock 10y ago
Definitely. You might not even have to consider baking time or temperature to get a good enough number to cover the calorie difference from lost carbohydrates and produced ethanol to meet the level of accuracy required for food labels. I on
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by alexbock 10y ago
Pizza in particular is an interesting example because I would expect leavened bread products to be one of the cases where summing the components would cause more problems than usual (because you're going to lose sugar and other nutrien
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by alexbock 10y ago
The obvious next question then is how the protein and carbohydrate content is measured. That sounds like it would require more difficult analytical methods than bomb calorimetry and might not be worth the time and expense if it were not for
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by alexbock 10y ago
It gets even more fun when you have no choice but to use a poorly maintained closed-source third-party library (par for the course on Windows). If the library authors didn't use this trick themselves you can get stuck in situations whe
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by alexbock 10y ago
Trying to handle character encoding on Windows in multi-platform programs is a nightmare. In C++ you can almost always get away with treating C strings as UTF-8 for input/output and you only need special consideration for the encoding
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by alexbock 10y ago
Am I only the one that thinks the animation on that page of a woman having her face scanned and turning her head looks like something from a modern retelling of 1984? I don't like the idea of app developers getting people used to submi

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