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by dpwm 8y ago
1555013 is pretty damning in telling how the airlines treated the MAX as the same type as the 737-800: "I had my first flight on the Max [to] ZZZ1. We found out we were scheduled to fly the aircraft on the way to the airport in the lim
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by dpwm 8y ago
regex? I just grepped "B737 max" and found 11 entries. "737.{0,20}max" (case insensitive) yields 20. [0] [0] CSV output: https://pastebin.com/87N023cx
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by dpwm 8y ago
> investing $150,000 in exchange for 7 percent of each company The article makes this sound like these are unfavourable terms that come back to bite founders. But surely at the stage YC invests these are higher-risk startups – where 7% f
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by dpwm 8y ago
It appears that Ingres Corporation is still around, under the name Actian. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actian
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by dpwm 8y ago
> is docker even useful for most projects or is it just a preparation for solving imaginary scaling issues that most won't even reach? I use docker for a small server at work, where I know there will only ever be one container per i
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by dpwm 8y ago
Surely it would have been more suspicious if she had offered alibis without having been told when the incidents happened?
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by dpwm 8y ago
"said to be traced from either her computer — based off a unique identifier, known as a MAC address — and the network she allegedly used, either the campus’s wireless network or her off-campus residence. When her grades went up, someti
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by dpwm 8y ago
It's worth noting the following facts: - There were a chain of human and technical vulnerabilities exploited - MAC addresses can be changed – nearly all ethernet controllers and some wireless chipsets support changing the MAC address;
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by dpwm 8y ago
Well, US Agency for International Development is one of them. Whilst I have no doubt it has done some good stuff, it's also been directly involved in funding attempts at regime change. This usually done under the guise of promoting dem
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by dpwm 8y ago
> are we looking for something else here? No. But some people, myself included, are interested in this sort of thing. It's also interesting to see the timescales of the fix. Posts like this demonstrate that the system worked, albeit
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by dpwm 8y ago
> you can build your own around the ESP8266. Having just done this with something that required an element of reliability, I can confirm that this is quite easy. Micropython is great, but I did have some reliability issues – it's qu
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by dpwm 8y ago
There's still time to oppose this. > Yet another reason why I'm glad for Brexit. If you think that Brexit will stop this, I hope you are right – but I very much fear you are massively underestimating the UK government's ap
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by dpwm 8y ago
Came here to ask the same thing. G.722 springs to mind as the simplest to implement that could reasonably be called "HD".
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by dpwm 8y ago
> Imagine if Apple and Google made full frame cameras. I did – briefly – and am still recoiling from the horror. > Currently we have great hardware with terrible software and vice-versa. The software on even older DSLRs isn't te
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by dpwm 8y ago
Google Wave shut down without a replacement google service. [0] Google code shut down without a replacement google service. [1] Google plus is shutting down too. [2] [0] https://support.google.com/answer/1083134?hl=en
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by dpwm 8y ago
> I would like to say that it rebranded as RadioShack towards the end, but I cant find any evidence of that. So that's probably just my failing memory. Many of them became Carphone Warehouse circa 2000 [0]. By 2001 the brand had bee
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by dpwm 8y ago
Not sure this always holds. The worst bulbs I've personally seen for flicker were dimmable ones. The non-dimmable variant from the same range had no noticable flicker. Price paid also seems to be no indicator of quality – I've had
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by dpwm 8y ago
You can have information that is public domain but still secret. Open source falls under copyright; secrecy falls under whatever national security laws are in place. The UK government's cabinet papers fall under this: they won't b
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by dpwm 8y ago
I wonder what happens if a customer tips more than what Instacart would have paid? I read through the blog post on Medium and the article, but couldn't find any case where the customer had tipped more. Is $0.80 the minimum payment they
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by dpwm 8y ago
> During globalization we've had the fastest and greatest reduction of poverty on earth. Really? I've seen this claimed but I've never seen it substantiated.
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by dpwm 8y ago
Given that podman is in Arch Linux's aur[0] – and on their home page they refer to installing it with apt-get (debian) – then I imagine everything is handled in the podman tool, its userspace dependencies and the kernel. I personally l
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by dpwm 8y ago
> Written in Go I have a fairly simple web-app written in go – no websockets, just net/http. I just checked and the binary size is 6.8 megabytes. There's a lot in there. For starters, there's the go runtime. Then there&#x2
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by dpwm 8y ago
Well, unless it's doing something exceedingly clever, it looks like it will be launching one process per connection. For communication servers, this could prove a challenge – you'll probably want to use some kind of pub-sub archit
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by dpwm 8y ago
IIRC Nvidia have dropped support for entire chipsets during seemingly minor updates to their Linux driver. This happened to me with an older card. I think I ended up bisecting the changelogs to find that they had dropped support two version
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by dpwm 8y ago
October 2016 I built an AMD-based desktop with integrated GPU. I was seriously impressed at the out-the-box support in Linux compared with the support for their earlier chipsets. I seem to remember at around the same time that the Intel ope
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by dpwm 8y ago
OCaml has had the pipe operator |> since 4.01 [0] It actually somewhat changes the way you write code, because it enables chaining of calls. It's worth noting there's nothing preventing this being done before the pipe operator
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by dpwm 8y ago
Even back then it was inconsistent. Some things were in the start menu under a hierarchy of company name -> program name. Others went just by the program name. Some were (company name) (program name). Some were just a start menu entry, n
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by dpwm 8y ago
They also called out those who were claiming a trump win at < 2%.
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by dpwm 8y ago
> though apparently their reporting is factual. One of the most effective forms of misleading reporting involves cherry-picking facts that support your narrative. You can also conveniently ignore stories where it is obvious that facts ma
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by dpwm 8y ago
Lichess uses interesting frontend technologies. The web client used to use mithril, then moved to snabbdom. The lead developer of Lichess, Thibault Duplessis, gave an excellent talk the other year if you're interested in the story behi

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