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by davemp 7y ago
I'm sure BBC News still has some sort of metrics that it presents to people for budgeting/promotions.
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by davemp 7y ago
Related, Dan Luu has a great article [1] where he looks at software hiring/organizations from the "market for lemons" angle. [1]: https://danluu.com/hiring-lemons/
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by davemp 7y ago
It looks like the app only sent song selections so there's no "communication" in general. > The alleged eavesdropping would deliver user information – including song selections . . . [GP's source] --- Honestly I think
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by davemp 7y ago
To a lesser extent there’s also an anti multilevel marketing movement. Groups whose soul purpose is to trash talk something are loathsome, even if the target deserves it.
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by davemp 7y ago
You can't down-vote posts on HN--only comments?
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by davemp 7y ago
> If you are operating a 100 kW machine in public, how you do it isn't a privacy concern. I'd be more likely to agree if traffic laws weren't already such an arbitrary garbage fire of selective enforcement. Though assuming
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by davemp 7y ago
This is just using different scales to mislead. 25GB/hr is about 7MB/s which isn't even the computing power of a cell phone.
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by davemp 7y ago
What's interesting is that this idea has (very loose) roots in antiquity. Many beliefs had deities of fate that controlled the destinies of mortals by weaving. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates
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Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [video](youtube.com)
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by davemp 7y ago
Ahh my fault. I'll have to let my high school chemistry teacher know to stop using that story lol.
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by davemp 7y ago
Subs keep their air at significantly lower oxygen concentrations for fire safety reasons which may contribute to the stress. I had a teacher tell stories about sailors putting bags over whatever emitted the oxygen and then breathing it dire
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by davemp 7y ago
Yeah the HN marketing worked on me and I almost never by non-fiction books.
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by davemp 7y ago
Client-side prediction does a very good job of hiding the network latency. Granted a lot of games run their servers at lowish ticks/sec (people do complain though) which is 30ms worst case at 32tps.
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by davemp 7y ago
I followed up on the wiki article. The citation was a just eurogamer article that had little to with human perception of latency. It did have this nugget: “Criterion said it was aiming for 50ms latency [for burnout paradise]” which agrees w
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by davemp 7y ago
It seems like all the major players are taking game streaming seriously. I'm still not very sure about the viability. There's the obvious DRM win. Accessibility will be higher with way lower or non-existent hardware costs. These p
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by davemp 7y ago
Code is copy-written by default. So unless the company has you specifically license the code in a way they can use, there's defiantly some room to go after them.
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by davemp 7y ago
Doubly linked lists are used all over for low level programming. For low access, large dynamic data they're a pretty good solution AFAIK.
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by davemp 7y ago
Judging from my family's group chat that also works really well.
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by davemp 7y ago
I'm not sure why you felt the need to respond with such a wall of text. It barely has a coherent point and condescends to explain details that are a given to anyone who works with FPGAs. FPGAs are a dead end, but your comment didn&#x27
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by davemp 7y ago
I work with FPGAs professionally. I'd tend to agree with OP that FPGAs are a dead end, considering that the trend is to bake in as much hard IP as possible and have a dual core CPU on every chip.
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by davemp 7y ago
Home automation is a great source of overly ambitious capstone ideas for ECE students!
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by davemp 7y ago
The trope "But there is no constitutional right to [blah]" is blatantly ignoring the 9th amendment. [1] [1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-9
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by davemp 7y ago
FB definitely deserves negative press, there are just a lot of other companies who should be getting blasted harder. IMO at least.
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by davemp 7y ago
I agree with other companies being worse influences than FB. Though I'd guess that FB is the target for these articles just because of brand recognition in the publisher's target demographics.
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by davemp 7y ago
Maybe because music labels don’t want to cede too much control or it could just be an artifact from the FM era.
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by davemp 7y ago
Micron and SK Hynix were/are apart of the DRAM cartel.
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by davemp 7y ago
I've seen '⎵' commonly used as an unambiguous space. Maybe that could work?
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by davemp 7y ago
My favorite is: C. The Pepsi Globe Dynamics Emotive forces shape the gestalt of the brand identity.
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by davemp 7y ago
> Removing symbols that have a dark history doesn’t erase past wrongs, but it does acknowledge those harms and open the door for a better future: concepts that are understood by our local middle schoolers who have pushed to remove the na
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by davemp 7y ago
> Windows 10 works great (and I seem to be the only person who actually appreciates their update policy). I had an annoying problem last weekend trying to get ray tracing enabled in a video game. After searching around I found out that a

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