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by dschuler 8y ago
Any disk older than 2003 or so was measured in MiB, even though it was labeled as MB. The point of a 1.45MiB file was that it would not fit on a "1.44MB" floppy. RAM is still labeled in 2^30 byte sizes instead of 10^9, because add
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by dschuler 8y ago
I wouldn't go as far as calling the Lauda Air anecdote "evidence of something", but there appears to have been a pattern whereby Boeing writes the rule book for test procedures, which are then adopted by the FAA as the standa
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by dschuler 8y ago
People seem to think this is a political move by the China, which may be true, but this is actually what they're supposed to do. According to the article, 96 737 MAX jets are operated by Chinese airlines, and the aircraft appears to be
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by dschuler 8y ago
Android development is similar, unfortunately. I received an email yesterday that a bug I filed in 2013 in the Android Google maps SDK has been assigned to someone. Might as well just not fix it now. Additionally, something will work with t
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by dschuler 8y ago
I got an NDIR CO2 sensor on AliExpress for $20. Do you think one of those would just have low accuracy or be uncalibrated?
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by dschuler 8y ago
Apple’s latest annual report [0] for fiscal year ending Sep 29, 2017 shows a slight sales increase for China compared to 2017. Is the recent Apple memo re. iPhone sales reflected in this annual report, or are Apple sales in China more recen
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by dschuler 8y ago
Could be, but how does that relate to Apple? Has Apple’s reputation changed in China as an American company in the last year?
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by dschuler 8y ago
I had the same experience with the new MacBooks - tired fingers. Ended up switching to a Dell XPS. That might not be an option for many, but I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the keyboard feels. I would've gladly paid Apple for an
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by dschuler 8y ago
This is so cool. I mean, I would've futzed around with HyperCard for 100 hours before getting half of this to work. Good job! For all the posters that are going on about MP3 decoding, yes, we remember how decoding MP3s used to take up
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by dschuler 8y ago
"it's about the scale that Amazon does it at" "it's just they do it on a massive scale" "This is something that Amazon is great at" "Target is doing the same...but they just don't have the m
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by dschuler 8y ago
I think the MacBook charge controller (probably not all model years) will reduce the max charge to below 100% if it detects prolonged AC use to reduce wear. Of course, this means you won't actually get 100% when you may need it for the
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by dschuler 8y ago
I believe a cycle is considered a cumulative discharge/charge of 100%, so discharging to 50% twice and back to 100% is one cycle.
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by dschuler 8y ago
I hear this so often without any other evidence to refute an argument.. Causation requires correlation. It's certainly not enough to prove causation, but it's actually a necessary starting point. Speaking of driving and marijuana,
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by dschuler 8y ago
I know you're saying this in jest, but the (US) government wrote code to fly to the moon and back, control robots on Mars, and model the earth (e.g. DoD's WGS 84, all the work by NIST, etc.). Sure, healthcare.gov was not a smooth
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by dschuler 8y ago
This is interesting - I like looking at corner cases of a tool to understand it better. For people having difficulty with git, I recommend going through the official book [0] on a couple of topics with a toy repo and play with the tool a li
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by dschuler 8y ago
In Europe, you pay to call a cell phone, but receiving a call is free (for pre-paid voice anyway). Problem solved - except that in the US we like to charge both sides for having a phone call, so we end up here. On the other hand, legit comp
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by dschuler 8y ago
I've always felt quite a bit of emotion contained in German, in a way that falls flat for me in English. Most American English writing has this simple form like "Fact. Fact. Fact. The end.". So much for emotional impact or nu
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by dschuler 8y ago
What made Toyota's solution brilliant? Interesting history about Honda, thanks for sharing!
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by dschuler 8y ago
By one developer you mean Yandex or that most commits are made by a couple of users? Being backed by a large company (the Russian Google apparently) that has an independent revenue stream seems like a large plus, but maybe not enough to can
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by dschuler 8y ago
Scrolling the list of emails is very choppy on Safari, and works on Chrome and Firefox. How annoying. We're entering a new browser monoculture where something only has to work on Chrome :/ I think it's a good time to test out
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by dschuler 8y ago
When I interviewed at Nest a few years ago, people kept telling me what Tony said or believes. You know, Tony. It's just an awkward way to refer to a 3rd party, unless they're in the discussion.
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by dschuler 8y ago
I thought you were referring to another post with "Mark". It's ok to call him Mr. Zuckerberg, since most of us don't know him personally.
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by dschuler 8y ago
This works the other way - you get to prove your assertion that inertial navigation could work with cheap miniaturized sensors. Anyone can cast a doubt without proof. If your acceleration sensor is off by 1 part per million, 9.8 m/s^2
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by dschuler 8y ago
SF has a municipal code that forbids buildings over four stories downtown, but I'm sure you've noticed there are many tall buildings there. This is used as a tool by the city to extract concessions from developers, requiring the c
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by dschuler 8y ago
I was wondering about the debt involved to pull off this deal, thanks for the link.
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by dschuler 8y ago
That makes sense. Thanks for the insight.
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by dschuler 8y ago
It's interesting that the Trump administration was eager to block this deal (Trump has made statements in favor of preventing this merger), while enthusiastically repealing net neutrality. Maybe expecting consistency here is reading to
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by dschuler 8y ago
The problem is that people just don't buy a lot of tablets compared to smartphones. This is true of iPhones and iPads also. If you take a look at the most recent annual SEC report for Apple [0], you can see that Apple sold 5 iPhones fo
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by dschuler 8y ago
"also true" is a phrase that really means "is the case as well" (as in the previous sentence). The first sentence says that "journalists and activists" claim that if a post is written by a "50c party"
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by dschuler 8y ago
Is that if the price is constant over that time? Couldn't you just price the product to reflect roughly constant value, giving you linear return over time?

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