cjhopman

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by cjhopman 7y ago
> Pretty sure USB-C headphones shouldn't be charged with a USB-C Macbook Pro wall charger. That should be fine. There's a protocol for the charger and the device to communicate and decide what power to charge at.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Yeah, I suspect that this is mostly due to (1) the increase in samples that software (like Chrome) is receiving and (probably more importantly) (2) the improvements to the software that is capturing information about crashes.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> Maybe they're spending it on the same aggressive growth They have cut back drastically on capital expenditures.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Sure, and if you believe that the ACLU and edward snowden are fighting against democracy, then I'll admit that your position is quite possibly logically consistent.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> > Azerbaijan > This is a very wide definition of Europe... wtf? what definition of Europe doesn't include Azerbaijan? > As European I am pretty pissed off just by this affirmation. According to wikipedia, there are 50 cou
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Rarely are anti-trust measures needed to break up bad businesses. It's the good (well, good in the sense of effective, profitable, etc) businesses that tend to be the focus of those.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> This means at least one employee no longer thinks the interest of upper management and the workers align ... That's strange. I interpreted it to mean that there was a worker that thought that the media was greatly misrepresenting
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> I read it as Zuckerberg considering democracy an existential threat to FB I don't understand how a reasonable person can read it that way. Here's the full quote: > That doesn’t mean that, even if there’s anger and that you
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by cjhopman 7y ago
It's an incredibly arrogant position to believe that you can better evaluate how much value someone receives from some activity than they can.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
It sounds like you don't understand what the term "system libraries" means. It's impossible to tell what apps people are using by uploading system libraries. You could probably tell what type of phone they are using by d
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Yeah, here's an article from 2015 when they changed the definition: https://www.adweek.com/digital/monthly-active-users-definiti...
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by cjhopman 7y ago
I don't think that's true. Their old 10Q said this: > An active user is someone who visited Facebook.com and logged-in (or has been logged in) or who has taken an action with a Facebook feature (for example, clicked a ‘like but
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by cjhopman 7y ago
While you're correct about the two or more unrelated exceptions, Java will happily infer Err to RuntimeException and so the no errors case works just fine there. It's only work in a case where the type is only needed by inference,
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by cjhopman 7y ago
I don't know man, the surveillance conspiracy theory is kinda at least a smidge more believable than the treason conspiracy theory.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Wow, I didn't realize duckduckgo had gotten so good. I'm sure you remember a couple of these for examples that I could compare, right?
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> Air is too thin for helicopters That's not true. Helicopters have landed on Everest's summit.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> Nearly all of those pictures are not of begging, but rather of busking. Of the ten pictures, five of them were busking (and of the five, two to three were pretty damn half-assed).
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by cjhopman 7y ago
I agree. It's also why I can't understand people who root against Theranos. I, for one, am on the side of health.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> But in the end, looking at statistics, it's still safer to drive with AP indeed. There's no publicly shared statistics that show that. You may have been confused by Tesla's PR.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Right. It's just like how we consider lawyers sending certified mail totally unethical because it allows the sender to know that the receiver received it. Shame on them.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Some other appealing examples: Embedded youtube videos could support a navigation to the video page where the video just animated from the embed to its in-page position while continuing to play. Embedded twitter posts could be clicked on to
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Tesla seems to be able to do it just fine post-IPO.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
None of the tests in that reference were done at highway speeds. AIUI, handling stationary objects with radar is easier at slower speeds. Super interesting to see that Subaru is doing emergency breaking with cameras, though. Seems I'm
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by cjhopman 7y ago
4-5x federal median wage is new grad level at Google.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> it's a common luxury car feature Almost all luxury cars implement this feature the same way that Tesla does, with radar that ignores stationary objects. I'm not aware of another company that implements the steer towards obsta
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by cjhopman 7y ago
He also said "We'll be able to do a demonstration guide of full autonomy all the way from LA to New York. So basically from home in LA to Times Square in New York. And then have the car go and park itself by the end of next year&q
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> it's worked so well for SpaceX. The only thing that SpaceX has done so far is prove that the traditional space industry was correct that you couldn't cost-effectively reuse rockets.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Or, for that matter, the extensive loss in social connections/cohesion that results from such a move.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
It's too bad that you don't recognize the well established emotional connection that people make to the places where they live.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
This comment doesn't really seem to make sense in context. Maybe you didn't realize that Valve makes Steam?

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