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by e_y_ 3y ago
I think the OP's statement is perfectly fine. We don't really care which of those trillions of sewer bacteria carries the pre-existing genes that resist an anti-biotic; we care when a new strain starts becoming prevalent and decre
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I can't speak for ActiveX since I avoided IE like the plague, but Java applets were sandboxed. Just that the sandbox had a lot of holes.
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by e_y_ 3y ago
On paper, Google's throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks strategy (that has lead to a substantial Google Graveyard) seems like it was intended to allow for some parts of the company to innovate while keeping the core product
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Normally I'd consider it an acquihire when a company acquires a startup / smaller company and immediately announces the discontinuation of the product. Less so if there's an attempt to continue developing the product, even if
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I had to double check the date to make sure it wasn't an old article. Also, this is inexcusable for an $11B company.
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Or a malt liquor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUwID1I5nXc
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by e_y_ 3y ago
> Polyfills that don’t polyfill This is what's sometimes called a "ponyfill". The idea is to avoid messing with global scope (monkeypatching), which could be problematic if you have multiple polyfills for the same API or p
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I generally prefer to make the regex rule look for the hash signature, e g. `/\.[0-9a-f]{6}\./` rather than solely by file extension. That way if there's any files that didn't get fingerprinted it won't cache it ind
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by e_y_ 3y ago
In science fiction it's common to have species that are so far advanced that humans are like ants to them. For all we know, our reality could be a petri dish sitting under the couch of an alien dorm room.
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I would call a chat bot a specialized application. And I dispute that a chat bot was ever considered the end goal of AGI. The idea is that if we had AGI, we could build a chat bot with it to test/demonstrate its general reasoning cap
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by e_y_ 3y ago
As I understand it, Rust originally had support for garbage collected objects. It was removed because the community avoided it as a general practice to ensure that libraries could work without the optional GC runtime, due to its popularity
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I think it's more that residential areas are 1hr+ commutes from offices/downtowns. You could build an office next to a residential area, and some do, but many of the job applicants will be in a different residential area -- ofte
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by e_y_ 3y ago
The basic principle of the greenhouse effect is that light from the sun hits the earth. Some of it is reflected out into space (because the atmosphere mostly lets it, some of it is absorbed and converted into heat. The heat can be radiated
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Recycled water is usually considered non-potable, so while it can be reused it's usually not available for drinking water and needs separate pipes.
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by e_y_ 3y ago
The UX for client certificates is horrible and practically an afterthought, so it's no surprise.
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Interesting concept, but it feels like a distillation of the "insanity" difficulty mode of a roguelike where the only way to get a high (or low) score is to win the lottery. Repeatedly. I'd echo liquidise's comment; some
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by e_y_ 3y ago
204 No Content is not supposed to actually include any content https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/26
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by e_y_ 3y ago
The elevator itself would need to extend past LEO into geostationary orbit, but you should be able to get off the elevator in LEO space. As you're going up the space elevator, you would also be picking up horizontal velocity as you asc
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by e_y_ 3y ago
This would probably be something closer to actors ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model ) rather than programs since programs are traditionally implemented as OS processes which are relatively expensive to spin up
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by e_y_ 3y ago
"Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail" - Eliot Spitzer to CNN Money, an updated version of a much older saying by Martin Lomasney
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by e_y_ 3y ago
There are CEOs that get paid a lot more than $5M/year in stock. Arguably that's also ridiculous, but it's certainly possible that paying a team of 20 highly skilled engineers $5M/year each brings more value to the compan
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by e_y_ 4y ago
What's the value of the reputation risk of a major, very high profile failure? Sometimes businesses end up on the wrong side of that bet. They see only the costs but not the benefits of preparedness (by the time it fails, there will pr
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by e_y_ 4y ago
Last couple times I went this year, it was a $5 fee at the box office, which was still considerably less than the $18 in fees online (for a $35 ticket). After I paid, they asked for my number and texted me a Ticketmaster link.
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by e_y_ 4y ago
I've written multiple IMAP clients, and I agree it's a huge pain to work with. But the real issue is the API design and the fact that more advanced searching, synchronization, etc, is only available via extensions that are not gua
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by e_y_ 4y ago
Maybe they're the AOL dial-up of satellite phones? Surviving off legacy customers with minimal requirements who don't want to switch to something new.
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by e_y_ 4y ago
React JSX mostly uses JS DOM property naming (className, style, tabIndex) but converts a few HTML-style attributes (data- , aria- )
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by e_y_ 4y ago
I'm not a graphics programmer, but I found this article helpful for understanding the history and background behind mesh shaders: https://blog.siggraph.org/2021/04/mesh-shaders-release-the-i...
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by e_y_ 4y ago
At least it's just a library and not a standard, but yes similar logic applies.
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by e_y_ 4y ago
The most infamous recall was the Ford Pinto, and it was particularly bad because they knew about the problem before the car ever shipped, and once the problem was known didn't fix it for years even though the cost would have been $11&#
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by e_y_ 4y ago
I mean, I hope they'd at least vouch for you in a GoFundMe

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