brigade

74 ms·

811.
by brigade 14y ago
There are certainly more than two facts in those 500 words. Some relevant ones: 1. chriszf wasn't aware of the guest list requirement at the gate 2. No one at Yelp told him of this in response to his inquiries 3. Yelp was provided with a gu
812.
by brigade 14y ago
I'm curious, why is everyone in the comments assuming (contrary to the article and chriszf's comments) that this student wasn't on the guest list?
813.
by brigade 14y ago
Not really, for most areas you cannot not join an HOA when you purchase a house, and there are no houses that are not covered by an HOA in said area.
814.
by brigade 14y ago
Theoretically, being able to try the product before purchase is another advantage. Particularly for me where it seems no one complains about terrible user interfaces or noise anywhere near enough in reviews. But in practice, outside of clot
815.
by brigade 14y ago
So annoying your users with constant updates, reboots, and breaking functionality is okay as long as you do it from the start? And the way to get people to accept you adding such annoyance to your product is to rebrand it? Okay then.
816.
by brigade 14y ago
I had assumed that they were 5-way binding posts, but further inspection says no. For popularity of interfaces, powered speaker outputs are obviously for completely different use-cases than anything else you listed. You aren't going to conn
817.
by brigade 14y ago
The subpoena wasn't just for the public contents of tweets; it was also for any and all user information for the account, including email address and an anything else twitter might have collected, including IP addresses, physical location
818.
by brigade 14y ago
Is it really 30% of your silicon even discounting caches? I'd love to see some analysis (and comparison against arm) of this from an expert; I've heard everything varying from "x86 instruction decoding is majority of the power drain" to "IS
819.
by brigade 14y ago
Hyperbole. It's weird, every time a blog post uses hyperbole or (even mild) dark humor someone on HN flat-out doesn't get it, spawning a large comment thread. I've not seen this elsewhere...
820.
by brigade 14y ago
I think there are defense contractors that develop and weaponize exploits, rootkits, and so on for the government and while I'm sure some of that work was used in Stuxnet, I think anything specific to Stuxnet was handled by actual governmen
821.
by brigade 14y ago
That's not actually any better speed-wise. And the CPU would still have to microcode the copy because of caches (think of what involvement the memory controller has in doing a cache to cache copy) The real gain in being able to have the mem
822.
by brigade 14y ago
Few mainstream services are going to accept data they can't recover for a user when they forget their password and their computer failed. Which pretty much precludes client-side encryption.
823.
by brigade 14y ago
> Also on the plus side, since Google insists on real identities on G+ then we can at least look forward to more civil comments on YouTube, which I think we all agree would be a net benefit. Most of the time I see facebook comments on a
824.
by brigade 15y ago
It's not documented (presumably) for that very reason. In fact, the opposite is implied by initWithBytesNoCopy:length:encoding:freeWhenDone: - it should be possible right now to have NSStrings with arbitrary internal representations, even
825.
by brigade 15y ago
OS X APIs generally use NSString/CFString, which hide the actual encoding of the string; they can be any encoding at all internally.
826.
by brigade 15y ago
We won't know if they do right now for another several decades. But even if they do, there are good arguments against them being able to break AES - AES is used by the government in contexts that require the information be kept secure for d
827.
by brigade 15y ago
const helps optimization in exactly one case: global data. Adding const there requires the value to be a compile-time constant, and guarantees the optimizer can inline the value rather than reading from memory. Though it still can inline th
828.
by brigade 15y ago
More sites need make good use of every publicly available record, as well as everything that can be inferred from them. Maybe if more people get creeped out, they'd understand how scary the modern age is and we'd get finally get some decent
829.
by brigade 15y ago
Or if your browser unloads the page to save memory (it helps that every additional page increases memory footprint!), or crashes, or you want to bookmark your place and come back later, or you're looking for a post by date, or a million oth
830.
by brigade 15y ago
To be fair, the System V document is AMD's convention and it was Microsoft that decided to design an incompatible (and worse) ABI.
831.
by brigade 15y ago
The disadvantage is that each scan takes about the same amount of computation to display as a whole baseline JPEG file would. This is only true if you're actually displaying each and every refinement level. If you only display the final i
832.
by brigade 15y ago
It was not a relocation; + and "" were not equivalent, and Google has made no effort to replace the functionality they removed.
833.
by brigade 15y ago
Google groups has a forced broken redirect to the top page of their mobile site... on an iPad. Seriously?
834.
by brigade 15y ago
I'd disagree, at least among the people I know: they all have cheap HTIB systems and the single biggest, most cost-effective improvement you can make from there is to buy better speakers. Then you can worry about your room.
835.
by brigade 15y ago
As he mentions, with 16-bit it's easy to significantly reduce the dynamic range or clip; you only get the full 120dB range of 16-bit with careful handling and calibration. You don't have to worry about all this with 24-bit - you'd almost ha
836.
by brigade 15y ago
I visit a couple twitter feeds daily (because I don't particularly want an account and their RSS is broken), so presumably I normally have a warm cache. It typically takes anywhere from 4-8 seconds before the first tweet appears, and anothe
837.
by brigade 15y ago
Presumably that's checksumming the decoded output, not the compressed bitstream.
838.
by brigade 15y ago
Another question is what percentage of that $60B actually funds TV content and how much is spent on producing ads and other advertising-specific overhead that would presumably vanish if we payed for completely ad-free TV.
839.
by brigade 15y ago
>have to manually change the aspect ratio because it wasn't able to figure it out on its own. For HDMI connections, this isn't the TV's fault (actually I think my TV doesn't even let you change the aspect ratio for HDMI inputs.) For SD
840.
by brigade 15y ago
Amazon's been annoying me lately because it somehow got convinced that I'm a 30 year old woman and won't stop showing me dresses and jewelry on the front page, neither of which I have ever bought. What can you even do when their core profil

More ›