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by dbcurtis 7y ago
How do you see that working? Rust and Python come from very different philosophies. I like them both, but they are a strange mix. Python extensions in Rust? That could be a good thing. Much easier to write a reliable Python extension. I ima
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Back in the day, a woman on my dorm floor would check a different box every quarter during registration, just to see what would happen. The main thing that would happen is that one quarter she would get a lot of mailings from the black stu
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Prop 13 was a reaction against confiscatory taxes that broke an important social contract. The contract: If you save, invest, and pay off your home mortgage so that you own it free and clear, later in life when you are retired and living on
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The Fine Article
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> iRobot (the Roomba company, where Brooks works today) That was two companies ago, AFAIK Edit: And, indeed, TFA says as much.
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Wow, can you still get rotary dial service? I thought all that CO equipment was gone, except for a few tiny independent rural telco's.
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That is a pretty daft dog.
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Amazingly, they understand property boundaries as well as a surveyor. I was always astounded at the farm dogs I knew that would run up to the property line and bark at whatever, but not cross. They have an amazing sense for picking up terri
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How much of this could be solved by a simple "know your supplier" law? As a consumer, I should be able to ask any retailer: "From whom did you source the actual item that you sold me?" Amazon should not be able to get
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Inlining especially is call-site dependent. Little of the benefit of inlining comes from eliminating the call overhead on a modern processor. But quite often, functions are called with one or more parameters constant. So that enables a b
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Well, my father-in-law had a dairy farm and bred pedigreed Holsteins. He always had a lot of frozen semen in stock. So.... a business application, but also home :)
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It only got used for short experiments. More of just one-shot use.
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> 1. I’ve seen people overclock using liquid nitrogen Heck, when I was at Intel we used to do that in the lab. A copper cup full of liquid N is a great heat sink!
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The decision of when and how to use attributes is the thing that is most often done wrong or clumsily in an XML file. That is my point.
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Attributes are XML’s foot-gun.
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Any time the semantics represented by the XML is non-trivial, the schema design is likely to be obtuse and/or broken, even when done by smart people. XML is just hard to get right, and hard to evolve gracefully. When you add verbosity
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500k to 1M IIRC. Originally indended for audio assets.
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> I think a fascinating experiment here would be to invest some time in an unencumbered scalable design that could be implemented very inexpensively (say less than 10K gates). Would these manufacturers pick up that design and run with it
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These have their uses. A friend who frequently does contract development in the toy space has (or at least used to have) a favorite go-to MCU that costs under $0.06 in bare die. It is essentially a 6502 with 100 bytes of RAM and a metric b
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That looks very exciting for some research environments, and for some prototyping. But a 12mm wafer is certainly going to limit what you can do, and they make no mention of feature size. In the end, what you can accomplish is determined b
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> other commoners Ummmm..... the Magna Carta was not about protecting the commoners from the king. It was about protecting the peerage from the king. "Jury of peers" is a jury of other members of the peerage trying a peer. C
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Don't confuse margins with prices. I can't speak for the grocery stores, but at the producer level organic growing practices are higher cost. The farmer may get a higher price and yet also have a lower margin. That is certainly
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> 'organic' does not mean sustainable Certainly true. There is a particular sustainability problem I have been thinking about for some time: the "organic" versus "low till" conundrum. Reducing chemical usa
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Traditionally, each film frame is projected 3 times. The psycho-perceptual reason is that the phi-phenomenon (“light chaser effect”) kicks in about 12–15 Hz, so camera frame rate must exceed that to give a perception of smooth motion. The c
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Wow! Way faster than I remembered! It was a while back. I spent some time trying to design a payload for a slow application with connectivity challenges once upon a time.
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LoRa can be as low a 4 bytes per second IIRC. Yes, bytes per second. I’m not sure where it tops out. 10’s of byres per second maybe?
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> I only read the first paragraph and couldn’t read anymore. Indeed. I got about that far before I quit reading and started fantasizing about the unspeaking things I would do to the idiot that wrote this if I ever met him. Things invol
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How so? What is the mechanism?
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SSG rocks! Unix needs a modern equivalent.
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This. In the Bad Old Days, the US had the habit of over-institutionalizing people. The pendulum has now swung. We replaced a system that was inhumane and lacking in nuance with a system that is inhumane and lacking in nuance.

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