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by benjaminl 9y ago
If you want to connect all your hosts together in a mesh I suggest ZeroTier. It is an easy to setup network designed for this use case.
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The reason why the steering wheel is there is due to these cars being modified Chrysler Pacifica minivans. It is easier all around just to leave the wheel as it. There is no need for a passenger to take manual control. If the car or the sel
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by benjaminl 9y ago
Like the rest of Xamarin's platforms, you can use modern XAML with MVVM patterns or you can use XCode's Interface Builder to create your views. Xamarin.Forms has no relationship to WinForms.
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It is amazing that React and friends work as well as they do, and for certain applications they make a lot of sense. But there is a fundamental disconnect using web technologies for native apps. The solution I am pursuing right now is Micro
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To be truly fair the claim is "truly native", not just "native". If the claim was, native GUI, that would work, but "truly native" is a huge stretch. These apps are about as native as the Java based Eclipse IDE
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by benjaminl 9y ago
Meltdown didn't exclusivly effect Intel, Apple has stated that some iOS and tvOS devices were affected by Meltdown. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394
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Yes, that is correct but since the US had until recently the highest corporate tax in the OECD, the US corporation will would almost always pay more taxes on German income than a German corporation would on German it’s German income. Giving
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This discussion is missing context. The whole reason that Apple has to pay taxes on foreign income is because unlike almost every other developed nation the US has a worldwide tax system. Almost every other nation has a territorial tax syst
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> and AMD supports x86-64 I am sure you didn’t mean it this way, but it struck me as funny saying AMD supports x86-64. Of course AMD supports x86-64, they invented it. That is why Microsoft and Linux refer to that architecture as AMD64.
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The actual quote is: > Intel has already issued updates for the majority of processor products introduced within the past five years. By the end of next week, Intel expects to have issued updates for more than 90 percent of processor pro
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Almost all of that is the battery. Even though batteries are coming down in price, they are still very expensive. For example GM’s list price for the Bolt battery is $15,734. Now this is the replacement cost Bolt owners pay for a new batter
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One of the things that I have increasingly come to realize is that one of my daughter's core values is beauty. She loves to make beautiful things and have beauty around her. Yes, her favorite colors are pink and purple. So when we adde
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by benjaminl 9y ago
> I'm also reasonably sure that referring to women professionals as "girls" is also one of those things you shouldn't do. Agreed. But this site doesn't do that. It consistently refers to women as women. For examp
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If that is the case, then the GGP is asking for something that would be a huge privacy leak.
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by benjaminl 9y ago
Then you will greatly relieved to hear that as of 2010 all major browsers cache content delivered over HTTPS. https://stackoverflow.com/a/174485/262789
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by benjaminl 9y ago
Each NAND chip on an SSD is actually relatively slow. To get high read and write speeds, the access is multiplexed across all of the chips in the drive. Small capacity drives have a smaller number of NAND chips. This reduces the performance
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by benjaminl 9y ago
The amount of space used by he ZIL on a SLOG is very modest. Typically less than a gigabyte. So a SSD used as a SLOG will be practically empty it's entire life. The reason one would use a large capacity SSD for this purpose is to take
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by benjaminl 9y ago
So you lost your special interest deductions and now have to pay taxes on your actual income? Doesn't sound unfair to me.
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Yes exactly. I was just pointing out that Tesla has already managed to make a car that had acceleration times equal to stopping times. With this purpose built performance car I would expect nothing less. The Model S will of course not match
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I always wondered why engine torque was put on the spec sheet. Since geering can turn that engine torque into any number you want at the wheels. Wheel torque seems much more relevant.
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The Tesla Model S P100D has the exact same 0-60 and 60-0 times. So Tesla has already achieved that, but with a much heavier car.
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The larger point still stands. China needs a high rate of grow just to be able to catch up and afford things taken for granted in the developed world. In an example related to the parent, China's cold chains while rapidly improving are
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by benjaminl 9y ago
That is interesting. The examples show this limitation. > Invalid: Range filter and first orderBy on different fields But I can’t find any documentation on what exactly the limitations on orderBy are. The reference docs on queries don’t
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Firebase Cloud Firestore is new product from Firebas and is much more flexible than Firebase Realtime Databse. It can do accomplish that query. From the docs a similar query: citiesRef .where("population", ">"
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by benjaminl 9y ago
I don't understand why people are so quick to dismiss SpaceX's ambitions as unrealistic. They were the first to achieve re-usability of the first stage of an orbital class rocket, the first to prove out supersonic retro-propulsion
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The Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures used this philosophy. The most famous of which is Intel's Itanium ISA. It turns out that it is really hard to create a compiler to effectively take advantage of instruction level para
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by benjaminl 9y ago
This is exactly what it is. 1.08 million liters of water, sounds like a lot, but needs to be put into context of other uses of water. Agriculture is one of the biggest uses of water. The average US irrigated farm uses 1.6 [0] acre-feet of w
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Windows Side-by-Side assemblies (WinSxS) are similar to this. Each assembly or .dll contains a manifest that list its dependencies by version and token id. The OS dynamically loads the dependencies based on the manifest. https://
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You could be sitting on the ground minding your own business, not hear a hive and one will climb on you and start bitting. Does that count for causing torment for no reason? That is one of the many reasons why it is unusual to sit directly
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> However long it takes to get to AGI, when we're (say) half way there, the amount of societal upheaval will be enormous. Could you unpack this a bit more? Are you referring to the disruption in jobs caused by the effectiveness of n

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