anarcticpuffin

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by anarcticpuffin 4y ago
I believe Perpar3D powers the Redbird simulators [1] some of which are accepted by the FAA as AATDs (Advanced Aviation Training Device), meaning they can be used for a portion of the training requirements for the Private Pilots Cerficate (o
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by anarcticpuffin 7y ago
I had my credit card scammed after using a full service gas station in New Jersey (by law there's no self-serve). They took my card inside the store to run it. There's no way to know they're going to do that when you pull i
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by anarcticpuffin 8y ago
This is why it's good practice to just never use MM/DD or DD/MM dates anywhere. 2-Mar or 2-MAR is nearly as terse but much less ambiguous. The only other date format I default to is YYYY-MM-DD (i.e. 2019-03-02). It sorts w
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by anarcticpuffin 8y ago
Possible difference: - Shipping charges are presented to the buyer in a visceral way before they commit to the transaction. - Menu prices (sans tip) are presented to a diner and then they commit to the transaction. Later on, the tip re
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by anarcticpuffin 10y ago
One of the arguments I see repeated here against hiring H1-B junior developers is that they: a) Aren't qualified as the best and brightest since they're still inexperienced b) Took a university seat from an American citizen
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by anarcticpuffin 10y ago
There are a few solutions sloshing around at the moment. This article covers some of the levers in play: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/fixing-...
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by anarcticpuffin 10y ago
In the UK they've actually fixed this. The whole process of switching is automated and requires very little work from you. The process is called the "Current Account Switch Guarantee" (Current Account is British for Checkin
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by anarcticpuffin 10y ago
TL;DR for those put off by the giant block of un-paragraphed text: The ancient Romans didn't have a 'U' letter, and used 'V' instead. 'U' didn't enter widespread use in English until the 18th century
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by anarcticpuffin 10y ago
Usually the orders are split much more fine-grained than that. This type of patent is around executing the very small slices specifically designed to scrape off what's available at the top of the market across all the various venues a
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by anarcticpuffin 11y ago
I was an American expat in England for 2 years and can vouch that culture was much more cycling friendly. However, you still got the occasional "white van man" and this was his favorite argument: http://ipayroadtax.com
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by anarcticpuffin 11y ago
I found a bit of an answer. According to this EPA document, it detected a test by sensing the position of the steering wheel, vehicle speed, duration of engine operation and barometric pressure. http://www3.epa.gov/otaq&#x2
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by anarcticpuffin 11y ago
I'm wondering how they detect that they're in an emissions test quickly enough to not emit too much early in the test. Do the testers connect their equipment to the OBD-II port of the car? Or I guess you could tell from the fact
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by anarcticpuffin 11y ago
I'm guessing since it's sitting on the memory bus it could intercept pointer modifications and synchronously update it's graph?
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by anarcticpuffin 11y ago
Azul have a similar concept with their Java co-processors. I think they originally went the co-processor route because up until recently (i.e. last few years) the CPU instructions they take advantage of didn't exist on commodity chips
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by anarcticpuffin 11y ago
This is very similar to Java's CMS collector[1]. Unfortunately, 10ms is still far too long for some applications. I have hopes for something like Azul's pauseless GC[2] eventually becoming a common GC strategy, but I'm not
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by anarcticpuffin 12y ago
I'm curious what the implications of that are. My emotional reaction is disappointment that "the old guard" is winning because of NASA's risk aversion. But is that really the case or am I just living in the Musk-worshi
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by anarcticpuffin 12y ago
I'd like to know how the 26ns wire-to-wire latency was measured. As far as I know, just handling the PHY layer on NIC takes at least ~300ns. Likely the authors are inferring latency by using 1/<throughput>, which is mista
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Tech stock sell-off spreads through world markets(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by anarcticpuffin 12y ago|0 comments
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Outrage Over Wall St. Pay, but Shrugs for Silicon Valley?(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by anarcticpuffin 13y ago|0 comments
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by anarcticpuffin 14y ago
My take on this is that the Microsoft's strategy for the Surface wasn't necessarily to sell a ton of Surface tablets and take out the iPad. I think it was to illustrate what Windows 8 brings to the table in terms of a hybrid tablet experie
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Samsung Presses Ahead on Android(online.wsj.com)
4 points by anarcticpuffin 15y ago|1 comments
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by anarcticpuffin 16y ago
There looks like a lot of content on there, but I'd go crazy before gleaning any of it with that pointer. Please make it stop! Was this a joke post, an example of poor design, or a serious link to some beefy content?
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by anarcticpuffin 16y ago
I agree. At these speeds it has less to with OS and/or language and has more to do with smart programming decisions. PS - Singapore Stock Exchange quotes a faster latency than Nasdaq and LSE: http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/voltaire-p
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by anarcticpuffin 16y ago
Unfortunately it may be latter. I think the combo of your idea and staunch's may work. I'll give him a pay-per-deliverable quick project as a trial run and see if he just needs structure to get into it. If not, it was a gift of some mone
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by anarcticpuffin 16y ago
I like the idea of that. This way I can make sure he's capable of focus and delivery.
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[How] Should I hire my brother-in-law?
6 points by anarcticpuffin 16y ago|5 comments
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by anarcticpuffin 16y ago
I agree with the general push of the article, that we should get back to admiring entrepreneurs rather than VCs, but I have to admit, NYC doesn't do a great job of welcoming entrepreneurship. NYC is an extremely expensive place for a compa
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by anarcticpuffin 17y ago
I agree that what the article misses is that Backblaze is spending the money on software rather than hardware, since the price difference is so huge (and the software solution is a fixed cost). What I'm more interested in is whether the low
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by anarcticpuffin 17y ago
My group at an investment bank in NYC is looking for a developer to join our high frequency order management system. The technology challenge is reducing latency for quantitative/algorithmic black box clients and the resulting arms race is
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Dark Flash Photography - UV/IR Flash Instead of Visible Light(cs.nyu.edu)
64 points by anarcticpuffin 17y ago|12 comments

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