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by cjensen 8y ago
Configuring with iOS settings sends unencrypted DNS requests to 1.1.1.1 and, as a result, the sites you access can be seen in your internet traffic by people like your Mobile provider (when using mobile internet) or the local cafe (when usi
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by cjensen 8y ago
Regulating where hotels and other business may be located is a pretty standard thing to regulate. If you turn an apartment block into a factory or hotel without a permit, you are going to have a bad time in pretty much any city.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Note that much of the background on this issue appears to be provided by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). They are an organization which frequently promotes their agenda through scaremongering scientific claims which are frequently fl
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by cjensen 8y ago
Move semantics are nice, but they aren't critical or even fundamental to understanding C++. I would bet most C++ programmers do not fully understand them. As a veteran of three decades of C++, I've seen a lot of new hotness turn i
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by cjensen 8y ago
A thing can be a design goal and minutiae at the same time. The design goal was to reduce accidental errors in code, particularly by the incautious and by learners. But for a practitioner who clearly understands the concept, the exact way i
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by cjensen 8y ago
So in the first question, they test to make sure the candidate knows the minutia that std::unique_ptr<> has no copy constructor. And in the followup, they assume the candidate will just assume that "SearchQuery", whose heade
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by cjensen 8y ago
That's a silly dispute. Any change in access and any change to a coastal property has to be approved by the Coastal Commission under California Law. And under California Law, the Coastal Commission is required to force the land-own
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A mixed record? He has literally lost every single argument he's made, most of which had already been thoroughly litigated in prior. The very few novel arguments he's made were just legal fanfic like "well I have rights becau
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by cjensen 8y ago
You're nitpicking. I say end of the road, while you say he must do one thing first before he can fight further. He has no remaining arguments that he can litigate further.
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Close. Every time they improve the measurement, the effect decreases. Realistically, this is exactly what you would expect for a device that does not actually work.
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by cjensen 8y ago
No, it's end of the road for him. His appeals are pretty much done and the prosecutor in the case has already expressed a willingness to lock him up.
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The "principle" he's fighting for had already been fully vetted by the justice system. He didn't have a leg to stand on, and any competent lawyer would have told him so. His position is literally "your laws don&#x27
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by cjensen 8y ago
The Moon also has far better solar energy potential. If you're going to have to live underground, better to do it someplace with lots of energy and close to help.
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Dropbox is extremely reliable, and has not given customers a real reason to switch imho. Evernote is famously unreliable with a "quirky" interface that often behaves strangely. The pain of Evernote was enough to make me switch. Dr
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by cjensen 8y ago
I love the SE because of the form factor. Would have bought the next one. But I have to imagine a lot of SE buyers were doing so based on price rather than because it has an awesome form factor. Apple is now serving the cheap side of the ma
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by cjensen 8y ago
Worth pointing out: good manufacturers like Micron/Crucial publish endurance figures for their drives. Endurance is the number of bytes you can write before the drive is officially worn out. Endurance numbers can vary by two orders of
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by cjensen 8y ago
Surely those questions are just a reading comprehension test? I.e. can you read some difficult and somewhat abstract sentences and see if they have any rational (metaphorical or whatev) meaning? They correlate because the root cause of iden
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by cjensen 8y ago
The article says they can go 30mph. The law in most US states says that speed makes it a motorcycle. In your home province of Ontario, it also makes it a motorcycle. [1] In California, for example, that means helmet is required and the oper
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by cjensen 8y ago
That's a no. He literally does not say it did not disengage. Given the sloppiness of the story, there's no way to infer whether or not he saw zero disengagements or twenty. All I know is there reporter was impressed, but I don&#x2
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by cjensen 8y ago
Did I miss a thing? I didn't see the reporter say it drove without human assistance. It's frankly sloppy that the reporter doesn't mention it. He also incorrectly reports that Waymo only tests in places like Arizona.
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by cjensen 8y ago
Self-driving is a software problem, not a hardware problem. Investing in someone with zero useful ideas and zero ethics is not a symptom of good investment skills. (Yes, tricking experts into talking to you is unethical)
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by cjensen 8y ago
The parent comment explicitly says the "$35K model coming later this year ". Your comment would be more helpful if you provided a critique of why it is not coming rather than just asserting it in an overly-combative way.
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Ender's Game But if you just want light fun, the Expanse Series
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by cjensen 8y ago
For me Snow Leopard was significantly more buggy than Leopard. The lesson here, if there is one: in sufficiently complicated software, every release is worse for someone.
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The wikipedia page for Carcross Desert says 50cm. That's almost 20 in.
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They call it a "desert" because there are sand dunes, not because it is actually a desert[1]. Receives more rain than the Silicon Valley. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcross_Desert
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by cjensen 8y ago
Base-12 is nice because, like Seximal it is divisible by both the first and second prime number (2 and 3). But it is also divisible by the first prime (2) twice, and doesn't immediately overflow into extra digits. So 10 in base 12 can
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by cjensen 8y ago
The second push has nothing to do with atmosphere. It's because orbits repeat. As soon as the push is done, you are in the initial orbit heading away from the surface. In other words, your initial orbit intersects the ground and it wou
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by cjensen 8y ago
There is no shortage of new ideas for video encoding. The post is welcoming both new ideas and encouraging more new ideas rather than being any kind of summary of current tech.
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by cjensen 8y ago
I'm far less progressive than most HN commenters. For me, his columns were well-written and well-reasoned. I disagreed with half of them. What I liked most is that he made me think.

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