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by cjensen 10y ago
If I say "I have found and understood the bug", we still have to re-test to verify that the bug is not still present. Assuming that we are looking for a bug which, based on a race condition, occurs 25% of the time...
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by cjensen 10y ago
From Tesla's statement: "contrasted against worldwide accident data, customers using Autopilot are statistically safer than those not using it at all" I think this is a foolish statement: fatal accidents in the US are 1.3 p
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by cjensen 10y ago
Yep. One of our tech support guys managed to get infected and it encrypted significant parts of our Synology NAS. Offsite backup ftw. We restored from Glacier.
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by cjensen 10y ago
Venezuela has a lot of overseas holdings [1] which, thanks to nationalization, are wholly-owned by the Venezuelan government. Those will be liquidated by creditors. I've seen arguments that say otherwise, but there is precedent for liq
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by cjensen 10y ago
In the US, shorebirds declined tremendously not because of habitat loss, but because of market hunting. [1] For example, in the South San Francisco Bay, market hunters killed everything in sight and shipped the birds to San Francisco for fo
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by cjensen 10y ago
PHC provides an archive[1]. I've used Audio Hijack [2] in the past to grab some of them, but that's a bit of a pain in the neck. [1] http://prairiehome.org/shows/ [2] https://rogueamoeba.com/a
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by cjensen 10y ago
It's long saddened me that you can't get Prairie Home Companion as a podcast: there's too many songs from too many authors so they don't even try to acquire the rights. Our copyright regime still needs to adapt to the mo
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by cjensen 10y ago
Yes. It depends on how old the kid is, and whether they can handle it.
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by cjensen 10y ago
One thing I'd suggest for employers: if your employee observes Ramadan and will be cooking for their family in the evening, make it easy for them to leave plenty early so they can get food ready by sundown so their kids don't have
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by cjensen 10y ago
Apple isn't preventing an Amazon app from existing! Amazon is just not willing to create one under the current terms-and-conditions. The terms are the same as iOS: if your app allows in-app purchase of digital goods, then you have to
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by cjensen 10y ago
The usability question with partial automation has always been this: Will humans mistake excellent automation for perfect automation and come to rely on it and fail to provide adequate oversight? Tesla's PR engine here makes a number o
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Changes to Evernote’s Pricing Plans(blog.evernote.com)
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by cjensen 10y ago
I was not stating an opinion on whether it is reasonable to subsidize HSR; rather I was just pointing out the discrepancy between the claim in the comment here versus the multiply-sourced claims in the article. Additionally, the HSR proposa
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by cjensen 10y ago
HSR makes a lot of sense to me in general, but... LA->SF is a terrible route because of geography. SF is northwest of LA, but the first thing the train does is head 50 miles East. The quoted fares were laughable. The proponents were cl
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by cjensen 10y ago
"last time I researched it, a few years ago, there wasn't an HSR line in existence that didn't net revenue for the state". The linked article says that only 3 of the 111 systems worldwide run without subsidies. That clai
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by cjensen 10y ago
Checksumming makes no sense on modern hardware. Hard Drives and SSDs use CRCs already. When a sector goes bad on a hard drive, the firmware will mess about retrying and altering the analog amplifiers to try to get the signal back. If it get
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by cjensen 10y ago
Most places are wildly uneconomic for geothermal. The Great Basin is composed of Horst and Graben [1] (i.e. Mountain ridges separating basins) geology. H&G happens when the Earth's crust is stretched. The stretching also makes the
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by cjensen 10y ago
BlueSeed is such a hilariously bad idea, it should be in some kind of hall of fame. (Of course, you're just pointing it out, not advocating it!) 1. A landlord who doesn't have to obey any laws regarding rent and terms? 2. The Fara
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by cjensen 10y ago
To protect the environment, commercial activities on the Bay are limited to things that cannot be done on land -- that's something the "Google Barge" learned the hard way.
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by cjensen 10y ago
Crimea. Georgia. Transnistria. It's become a pattern for Russia to use military force instead of diplomacy to resolve disputes. The notion that "Russia has done nothing that any other large country hasn't done" is entire
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by cjensen 10y ago
That would be the glib response I was afraid that line would provoke, but then I thought no one would go there. Slavery as told in the linked story is very different from the more limited abuses of capitalism in a modern country. Be better
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by cjensen 10y ago
The "bring immigrants in and make them slaves in my business" thing pretty much requires that the slave-owner be from a culture which tolerates taking abusive advantage of workers. In the US, those stories have usually been about
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by cjensen 10y ago
If the driver had used it off-highway 1,000 times in the past, but then the Tesla made an error off-highway, is it Tesla's fault or the driver's fault? This isn't even a Tesla issue: most car makers now ship cars with adaptiv
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by cjensen 10y ago
I'm not an owner, but even I know that the Adaptive Cruise control is for use on clear highways and can't cope with much. This was a situation where the driver plainly needed to take over, had plenty of time to take over, and the
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by cjensen 10y ago
Yep, that's what the cite is for. Eccentric and sometimes "crazy uncle", but has a reputation and isn't trying to murder your computer on purpose.
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by cjensen 10y ago
I got tired of being asked, so I used Never10 [1] which is freeware from a reputable developer [2]. Never10 can also undo the decision and let you upgrade if you change your mind. [1] https://www.grc.com/never10.htm [2] ht
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by cjensen 10y ago
Deflation means that rather than buy a car this year, maybe buy it next year when it's cheaper. It's a massive encouragement to buy nothing and save as much money as possible. Manufacturing capacity which was keeping up with deman
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by cjensen 10y ago
Nope. Initially, deflation is a symptom as you suggest. The problem is that deflation is a stable state within the economic system. Once in deflation, people say "I could invest this $100, and in the long run I'll get back $98. Or
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by cjensen 10y ago
EDIT: It looks like some people are not seeing the screenshots that really explain the ban. If they are not showing up for you, then I apologize for assuming you didn't read the post. If you'll RTFM, you'll see that the &quot
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by cjensen 10y ago
Odd coincidence that A9 is in Altavista's old building...

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