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by biot 10y ago
It's clearly a combination of GPS and accelerometer. When it detects you've gone 50m, the waterproof seal opens up and allows the water in, frying the delicate electronics. :)
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by biot 10y ago
It's such an incorrect way to state the specification that I had to ask.
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by biot 10y ago
By "swim up to 50 meters" does this mean you can only do a single lap of a swimming pool, or is this a measure of diving depth?
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by biot 10y ago
I can agree with that assessment... they're typically fairly trashy. I've submitted content from them before when it was an AP article (so the text was identical on all sites that carried it) but they had additional relevant, high
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by biot 10y ago
> (the Daily Mail? Seriously?) Reporting quality seems to be good with a lot of images. If the message is good, why criticize the messenger?
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by biot 10y ago
Migrate the DB in a backwards compatible way. So both version n and n-1 can use it. The next update (n+1) can then remove support for n-1.
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by biot 10y ago
Is Phytium owned by the Chinese government? Otherwise, why call it China's chip? It's like saying America's Xeon.
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by biot 10y ago
"people have casted more than 38 million times from Chrome, watching and listening to more than 50 million hours of content." So Google is monitoring your watching habits. What other information do they collect as pa
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by biot 10y ago
Scores are available via the API... you should use that.
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by biot 10y ago
Given that E=mc^2, how do we know that there isn't simply a form of energy which is overly abundant? If the energy and mass are interchangeable, could it be that a massive amount of energy could be undetectable yet still have the same
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by biot 10y ago
There's a difference between Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's dying child and an organized crew which makes a living from robbing houses. The former is a great candidate for a job program. The latter alre
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by biot 10y ago
From the article: "The kit appears to persist even when the device software is updated and can update itself to easily replace exploits if they become obsolete."
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by biot 10y ago
I get that it doesn't actually say that, but it has that vibe. Compare "All profits from the sale of these models help fund R&D of the model 3, which will be smaller and more affordable" to "We can't produce a
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by biot 10y ago
I was about to quote that myself. While it's true that their luxury models help fund newer models, it's rather odd to state that in a press release. It comes across as: "Please pay too much for this vehicle and help subsidize
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Elaborately tattooed mummy brings archeologists to tears(cbc.ca)
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by biot 10y ago
This was discussed before [0] and I'll reproduce a comment of mine. TL;DR: downvoting promotes social standards thus it's neither antisocial nor pointless: If nobody downvoted, then the author of the comment would be unable to dis
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by biot 10y ago
You could setup a complicated series of plausibly deniable encryption, steganography, and so on and I suppose that might work. But you need to maintain perfect opsec as well as hope they don't already have sufficient evidence that you
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by biot 10y ago
It's much simpler than that. A judge orders you to give police access to your account. Regardless of whatever labyrinthian setup you use to unlock the actual credentials, and barring a stay of the order pending appeal, if you do not gi
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by biot 10y ago
Unsurprising; one of the key benefits of Erlang is its robust pattern matching [0]. When you're dealing with protocols, the ability to match specific cases and automatically assign matching variables without convoluted nested spaghetti
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by biot 10y ago
I'm not sure. It might even have been an idea I had years ago and am misremembering as an actual thing. Either way, I'd buy those kinds of books, so someone please start writing them. :)
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by biot 10y ago
A hack for learning Japanese, or a hack for getting inadvertent upvotes? :) I seem to recall there were books that used that style of progressive foreign language learning, where they started out replacing a single word and then kept replac
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by biot 10y ago
This is found at the very end of the Vice article, still on the front page of HN: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/72-hours-of-pwnage-a-paran...
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by biot 10y ago
Is there a difference?
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by biot 10y ago
Additionally, being laid off usually results in at least a respectable severance package. Being fired generally means you only get the minimum legally owed to you.
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by biot 10y ago
Yeah, I'd say this is more of a service stack. If someone asks you what you do for email, it would be odd to say "my tech stack is Gmail". Is Gmail's tech stack Gmail?
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by biot 10y ago
Agreed... I was looking for the magic words "uses the Signal protocol" or something along those lines.
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by biot 10y ago
Excessively long? Ah, millennials... perhaps you could abbreviate it down like Fabrice Bellard's site: http://bellard.org/ -- it shouldn't take more than one line to explain things like inventing ffmpeg, qemu, jsl
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by biot 10y ago
Rephrased: given the same hardware, has anyone found a technique that results in greater throughput?
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by biot 10y ago
It seems to me that the Connection Machine is somewhat analogous to massive-core GPUs, and that with the right tooling one could use it for general purpose apps.
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by biot 10y ago
> there obviously is value in [...] > the pre-built binaries Yet you object to having to pay for that value? If it's of no value, compile it yourself at no cost.

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