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by dpe82 7y ago
Actually, it's mostly a cost thing. US code allows very inexpensive building materials and practices relative to Europe. I suspect that is a result of different cultural expectations related to who should be able to afford to own their
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by dpe82 7y ago
How do you express "Why didn't you use <img src="xml_has_its_uses.png"> XML!?" with json?
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by dpe82 7y ago
To be more pedantic, he said " trying to take off". I think an F-15 pilot who somehow found himself on a carrier deck and had to (try to) take off wouldn't hold anything back in the power/noise department. :)
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by dpe82 7y ago
Designing a simple 64 bit CPU is not really more work than a simple 8 bit processor. 64 bit CPUs tend to have more features than just wider registers though.
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by dpe82 7y ago
If you'd already "learned it all" why did it require double all-nighters to complete the project while being so difficult a team member even gave up? Did they only give you 3 days to do it?
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by dpe82 7y ago
One could argue the essential medical equipment was missing due to lack of checklists ensuring its existence. That said, yeah, it would have been better to do 2 separate studies then: one on adding the equipment and then one on checklists.
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by dpe82 8y ago
That's an excellent question, and will likely be one of the conclusions of the accident investigations.
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by dpe82 8y ago
The meaning of the word has changed somewhat; it was mostly about curiosity and exploration in the 80s/90s. Less of the economy was reliant on computers so there wasn't much crime to commit beyond mere unauthorized access. Heck, &
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by dpe82 8y ago
General aviation is actually quite safety focused. The entire culture is centered around safety; a large amount of private pilot training time is dedicated to the subject; human factors in particular. Go to any fly-in breakfast and talk to
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by dpe82 8y ago
Not everyone follows best practices.
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by dpe82 8y ago
A lot of them get bought by liquidators who clean them up and list them on ebay. Search for "server" and you'll find lots of listings like "Supermicro 1U-Intel Quad Core 2.5GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 2x160GB" where there ar
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by dpe82 8y ago
Happens all the time, actually. It's called preemption.
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by dpe82 8y ago
The article makes it pretty clear it was intentional in order to avoid further political strife in the occupied country.
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by dpe82 8y ago
Google is externalizing a lot of tools used internally for years. Use them or don't, it's your choice, but lots of time and effort has gone into making them work well so there's value there being made available for free. To y
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by dpe82 8y ago
Along the same line, I think this is also a big part of why Perl was so popular back in the day. CPAN was to Perl what NPM is today. It made finding and installing modules in a local user project directory dead simple which made getting sta
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by dpe82 8y ago
These folks operate in the SF area and I've heard they're fantastic: https://www.fofc.com/
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by dpe82 8y ago
This can be quite effective. I know of a few people folks who took a lesson or two in order to overcome their fear of flying, and ended up not only overcoming their fear but loving the experience so much they're now private pilots. Oft
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by dpe82 8y ago
> I mean how do you transfer that amount of data at this long range without loss?! Is that even possible? Yes: https://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/october/nasa-laser-communica... Also of interest, we see 0.5-4
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by dpe82 8y ago
Yeah there's way more than 20. There are 10 just in the Mission.
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by dpe82 11y ago
YouTube uploads engineer here - AFAIK it wasn't us.
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by dpe82 11y ago
Heck if that's the metric anybody familiar with SQL or even basic unix command line operations can do it if they really want. It's sometimes easy to forget how much data we regularly move around without really thinking about it.
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by dpe82 11y ago
Part of the magic of working at Google is there are lots of projects that can make you feel that way.
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by dpe82 11y ago
Google is up 40% in the past year.
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by dpe82 11y ago
> Is there anything I can't do in Swift? You can't do nostalgia for the good ol' days in Swift.
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by dpe82 11y ago
I heard it from a couple lawyers (both ours and theirs) when our company was acquired and we had to do a license audit of all of our open source dependencies. It was enough of a problem that we had to remove a couple (fortunately small) WTF
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by dpe82 11y ago
One of the objections from the wikipedia article you mention: "Software licenses need to give a clear grant of rights to users to be effective, including the right to redistribute and create derivative works. "Do what the fuck you
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by dpe82 11y ago
Where in the document does it actually grant you copyright license to the source code or other IP in question? The only language that's close to a grant of license is: "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modi
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by dpe82 11y ago
Please don't; by using it you aren't actually granting a license to your code at all but rather only to the license file itself. Read it carefully.
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by dpe82 11y ago
Actually it isn't at all: WTFPL only gives you license to the license, not to the actual code. Read it carefully.
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by dpe82 11y ago
Are you thinking of this? https://github.com/youtube/vitess

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