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by brians 9y ago
Coded pulses: rather than emitting a uniform beam, they emit a pulse and listen for that back. You can think of it a little like a bar code, a sequence of short and long, on and off. Then select for that on receive.
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by brians 9y ago
You agreed not to get that when you got the card. And they agreed to pay you any money damages without arguing much. It's a good deal, but you can choose to use cash if you pref
423.
by brians 9y ago
Isn't the delay from mantle entry to volcanic exit much less than 100000 years?
424.
by brians 9y ago
Is this any different than advising 18 month depreciation for GPUs?
425.
by brians 9y ago
I remember being so confused by SF in its first years. Why would I want this, instead of CVS in AFS or over SSH? The idea that most software developers wouldn't have routable workstations, wouldn't have servers they controlled---t
426.
by brians 9y ago
A counter example: I've written some assembly, long ago. HRM was a taste of the fun bits. No, it wasn't hard---but it was a sequence of good tastes to remember.
427.
by brians 9y ago
Most of the USA, including Massachusetts (but not California).
428.
by brians 9y ago
If the estimator didn't offer to buy your house, what makes you think it's accurate?
429.
by brians 9y ago
Also, glyphosate. Probably, meat.
430.
by brians 9y ago
Organic: a ton of copper replacing a gram of glyphosate.
431.
by brians 9y ago
It makes grading easier, so you get better feedback---and more attention to substance. Every graduate math class I've taken has asked for typeset problem sets; some have required it.
432.
by brians 9y ago
It is missing the one crucial feature: resuming the last session after a while away!
433.
by brians 9y ago
That phrase is now the equivalent of "Password1!" for banks and registrars.
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by brians 9y ago
Miller? He advocated turning off Athena in the 90s, because NT had obviously won. Linux must have been a Hell of a surprise.
435.
by brians 10y ago
There's a parser on unauthentic input either way. Given the choice to do it online with NSS or OpenSSL or offline with the same library, I think it's a hair safer to do it offline---but this will be swamped by other factors partic
436.
by brians 10y ago
It would be surprising and novel if the DoL statisticians had produced an unambiguous correct analysis. They're working in a complex field, and under pressure and regulated to use the wrong tools in many cases---so I'm sure plenty
437.
by brians 10y ago
Yes. They live on laptops. They develop on Macbook Pros, with (Linux!) servers in a private cloud for heavy computational lifting. The key idea of the Macintosh and the NeXT---the personal computer---is no longer foremost. Maybe it'
438.
by brians 10y ago
Airlines do underinvest in their pilots and hospitals in their nurses. Management is shockingly short sighted about these things.
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by brians 10y ago
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440.
by brians 10y ago
Single payer is one of several good ways to insulate citizens from the costs of individual health events. Another approach removes even the shadow prices used by single payer, and provides health care as an infrastructure element. Imagine
441.
by brians 10y ago
They've had an auto-updater for many years. They've now separated it into a separate process, so the Dropbox sync daemon doesn't have to have privileges to self-modify.
442.
by brians 10y ago
It burns to CO2. Not enormously helpful?
443.
by brians 10y ago
It does have sharp objects, but ordinary truck balloon tires would handle those relatively well. But at night, the temperatures drop to -100 °C, and your rubber tires freeze and shatter. Also, rubber's much heavier, and they just coul
444.
by brians 10y ago
Durability is a problem here too: these things fly through hailstorms and thunderstorms, and it'd be nice to have power coming out the other side.
445.
by brians 10y ago
That's part of what I'm disappointed about today: no RAM bump for the 9.7 Pro, and not clear whether the plain iPad is at 1 GB or 2.
446.
by brians 10y ago
Of course not. It tracks your behavior, and adds the ads later. Why is that better, exactly?
447.
by brians 10y ago
The front has the airbag. Nothing personal, but I'll be up there.
448.
by brians 10y ago
Don't forget the airtight glove bag. If you can smell the SSD, you're inhaling the SSD.
449.
by brians 10y ago
I'm pretty sure fast.com, like Netflix, uses either UDP and its own congestion control or multiple TCP streams, depending on client details.
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by brians 10y ago
Lots more devices in your home. Think about how many Tvs some people have. Now consider that many 4K TVs each playing a couple streams.

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