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by bgorman 6y ago
Aren't Opera, Edge and Brave pretty much drop-in de-googled replacements for Google Chrome?
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by bgorman 6y ago
Having a managed database is the sweet spot for productivity/efficiency between maintaining a full time database administrator and having engineers learn how to do it themselves. How can a serious company using a relational database ge
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by bgorman 6y ago
Top speed of 78 miles per hour and a maximum range of 140 miles. This car is not really acceptable for freeway driving.
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by bgorman 6y ago
What is your opinion of the 737 Max scandal? It doesn't seem like engineer's input is valued very much at the industry leading company (by market cap).
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by bgorman 6y ago
It would be interesting if this technique could be adapted towards treating visual snow.
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by bgorman 6y ago
I don't think German is the poster child for cohesion. Swiss German, Bavarian German, Swabian German, Low German and High German sound completely different and use different vocabulary. The differences are much greater than the differe
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by bgorman 6y ago
Basic microeconomics teaches that demand is a schedule of what customers are willing to pay at various price points, and that businesses need to apply "marginal" analysis aka calculus to optimize profit. There is nothing about the
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by bgorman 6y ago
This is pretty interesting, from the description I would much rather program in Cyclone than C++. It would be great if gcc/clang supported cyclone, then most programs could gradually migrate to using Cyclone instead of C.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Embedded systems generally do not allow you to flash custom firmware to them these days, especially for printers as there is money at stake (you could write firmware to support non-vendors Ink/Toner cartridges), or to enable disabled f
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by bgorman 6y ago
Say what you want about HP, but they have open source Linux drivers for all of their printers https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing Everything works perfectly.
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by bgorman 6y ago
In two ways, America is fundentally different than most advanced economies. 1. We have essentially absolute free speech 2. We have the absolute right to gun ownership If those values appeal to you, America is unrivaled.
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by bgorman 6y ago
There is a lot of circumstantial evidence here. Why would Hunter biden be paid thousands of dollars a month to work at a random Ukrainian energy company other than to provide access to Joe Biden. Hunter Biden has no expertise running a ener
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by bgorman 6y ago
The fact that this article is flagged is alarming. This is a relevant news story directly related to how technology companies influence public perception. Like it or not, the New York Post is a widely distributed newspaper in the US. Once t
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Facebook Censors the New York Post(nypost.com)
5 points by bgorman 6y ago|0 comments
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by bgorman 6y ago
And then you will be charged a 30 dollar mandatory activation fee once you attempt to use your phone. Wheras on T-Mobile you pay 729, and then do not have an activation fee. It is basically a scam, much like how hotels are allowed to charge
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by bgorman 6y ago
OLED's have vastly superior picture quality and are easier on the eyes. I would say this is kind of the "4.7 inch iPhone" moment where Apple is finally giving iPhone users an acceptable screen at an "affordable" pri
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by bgorman 6y ago
Intel, a US company provided ASML the funds to develop their latest technology (EUV). ( https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-and-asml-reac... ) In retrospect, Intel should have insisted on much more onerous ter
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by bgorman 6y ago
Please report back in February after experiencing a -40 day :)
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by bgorman 6y ago
President Obama, was a fan of the show "Homeland", created by the makers of 24. The plot of homeland concerns a stereotypical arab terrorist organization infiltrating the US government and the cia's attempts to stop it. I har
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by bgorman 6y ago
Literally every modern pistol, including Glocks are semi-automatic.
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by bgorman 6y ago
F# and OCaml have mutable arrays.
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California ties Covid-19 reopening to equity requirements(reason.com)
2 points by bgorman 6y ago|0 comments
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by bgorman 6y ago
Apple has dominated high margin consumer electronics for at least 15 years now. iPod, Macbook, iPhone, iPad, Watch, Airpods... No one has the budget to compete
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by bgorman 6y ago
I completed the make a lisp project in Reason (alternative syntax for OCaml) a few months ago. I used the PCRE library, which has pretty much all the features you expect, and it is actively maintained. Note: the heavy lifting is done by C l
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by bgorman 6y ago
The make a lisp tutorial provides a PCRE regular expression to generate the tokens that are later fed into the reader.
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by bgorman 6y ago
If you use a powerful type system like Ocamls's, your can make many error states unrepresentable. This is basically impossible to do in Java. Moreover, in OCaml it is idiomatic to use type inference everywhere except for interface file
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by bgorman 6y ago
However, as soon as you sell any amount of those plants you are committing a felony... No one in the US is free to do whatever they want with cannabis.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Intel's US employees are mostly in Arizona and Oregon, which are much lower cost of living locations than the Bay Area and Seattle. I would be curious to know which companies pay more for process engineers than Intel in the US. My best
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by bgorman 6y ago
99.9% of embedded Linux devices.
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San Francisco's only cat cafe struggles to stay open(sfgate.com)
19 points by bgorman 6y ago|10 comments

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