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871.
by caf 6y ago
His Australian media properties have been losing money for years, long before the recent collapse of advertising revenues. He only runs them as a vanity project, because he enjoys the political power it gives him in his former homeland.
872.
by caf 6y ago
Register allocation in compilers can be solved by graph colouring, which can be reduced to SAT and fed to a SAT solver.
873.
by caf 6y ago
Kona and Ioniq are Hyundai models.
874.
by caf 6y ago
It reminds me of a quote from Teller: "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
875.
by caf 6y ago
Those pop production teams have been around for a while - eg. Stock Aitken Waterman, Cheiron Studios.
876.
by caf 6y ago
One is a much smaller full global routing table.
877.
by caf 6y ago
On one of their other pages they have a note that The Beatles is a notable artist that isn't in Spotify (or wasn't, at the time), so that is probably why.
878.
by caf 6y ago
Biggie is in that list, as Notorious B.I.G.
879.
by caf 6y ago
Custom allocators are (or were) common enough that Valgrind includes an API for them to use to tell the analysis engine where the valid memory blocks are: https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.m
880.
by caf 6y ago
Not only that, but the testing on oddball platforms can be a good way to reveal latent bugs.
881.
by caf 6y ago
It has also been adopted for all municipal elections in New York City.
882.
by caf 6y ago
In Australia, where metrication is 50 years old, hardware stores typically stock both imperial and metric fasteners. It's not an issue in practice.
883.
by caf 6y ago
If you were willing to wait until the month that the final episode aired, you could watch every episode for $15 (by subscribing to Foxtel Go for that month, then cancelling).
884.
by caf 6y ago
Do any programs get confused when they call getsockname() and the result is an AF_UNIX they weren't expecting?
885.
by caf 6y ago
I would think it's actually Google and Apple's constitutional rights that would be at issue, since they're the ones hypothetically being restrained from publishing certain apps.
886.
by caf 6y ago
A fair point. Do the lithium cells have the protruding button on the positive end?
887.
by caf 6y ago
Regression tests get around a lot of these drawbacks: they cover edge cases that have already been shown to have been overlooked in the past; and they're not unnecessarily brittle or testing things that might legitimately change becaus
888.
by caf 6y ago
Most tests aren't intended to prove correctness - that is a very high bar. They're instead intended to offer some evidence that increases our level of confidence in correctness. Techniques that are intended to prove correctne
889.
by caf 6y ago
Elder's Law: when journalists lapse into the passive voice, they are up to no good.
890.
by caf 6y ago
Even electric vehicles use the AA style battery metaphor in their UI.
891.
by caf 6y ago
Saboteur is another simpler traitor-mechanic game with a quick play time.
892.
by caf 6y ago
I won't be surprised if Facebook launches a news & opinion channel / outlet in the next few years.
893.
by caf 6y ago
You should really get around to finishing those pages that link to http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/expo/unfinished.html any decade now.
894.
by caf 6y ago
Does the $26/TB for hard drives include the cost of the JBOD chassis you'll need to to have them all online at once, in order to get those speeds?
895.
by caf 6y ago
Measure the voltage at the 12V accessory socket. If the alternator is running it'll be somewhere in the 13.5 - 14V range. If it's just the battery, it'll be more like 12-12.5V.
896.
by caf 6y ago
At least for the last you can go into Settings->Location and either revoke location permissions entirely or at least make sure they're set to "Allowed only while in use".
897.
by caf 6y ago
It's useful to consider the extremes. If your car was somehow supported only by party balloons on the rims, then their stiffness would contribute nothing and the calculation would be spot on. On the other hand, if you had hollow steel
898.
by caf 6y ago
Ordinary sound waves don't have an amplitude defined by a spatial displacement either - they're pressure waves, where the amplitude is a measure of the change in a scalar that is defined for each position in the volume of interest
899.
by caf 6y ago
Thankyou for the correction.
900.
by caf 6y ago
I quibble with the description of the shapes bounded by 10 degrees of longitude and latitude as "rectangles" - they're not even planar shapes, and their adjacent sides certainly aren't at right angles. Some of them don&

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