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by goalieca 3y ago
> Fleet operators don’t see any significant difference in tire wear. Larger vehicles have larger tires. The size of a tire on a Tesla is a lot bigger than on my small sedan. They may both go 150,000km but one surely pollutes more.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Any research into the matter is complicated by the fact he was on the wrong side of the iron curtain. The USSR was no friend to honest inquiry.
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by goalieca 3y ago
You jest but this is a computationally slow algorithm that only works for right angle triangles in a Cartesian space. There’s very reasonable and fast trigonometric approximations. The general form would be the cosine law which applies to a
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by goalieca 3y ago
English has so many accents that spelling would still have to be memorized to be used as a universal writing system.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Where I’m from, the f in plural œufs is silent. Also, note the correct spelling of œuf
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by goalieca 3y ago
Lego uses high quality plastic that last generations. I’ve handed down boxes to my kids and it will probably be handed down to theirs. Recycled plastic is lower quality.
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by goalieca 3y ago
> Pale dust rose around them as they worked. Many went without masks. Some had water spurting from their machines, but others had nothing to tamp down the powder rising in the air. Safety regulations need to be put in place with the chea
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by goalieca 3y ago
Logging is essential for security. I think tracing is wonderful and so are metrics. I see these as more of a triad for observability.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Steam shipped a version of counterstrike that glitched a lot less in windows whereas the cd version I got from ATI with my graphics card didn’t even work reliably. That was the gateway game for me.
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by goalieca 3y ago
The scanner combos now have broken scanners on latest macOS.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Apple does not have a tracking pixel on half the popular web. Apple's main source of income is through luxury hardware and subscription services. Facebook sells your information and attention to willing buyers.
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by goalieca 3y ago
We don’t need technology, this is entirely a legal problem.
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by goalieca 3y ago
We’ve also decided as a society, through laws and constitutions, that governments maintain a monopoly on use of force (violence).
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by goalieca 3y ago
> Does that sound familiar? It should, you could use that same description for containers The reminds me of java but with native web browser support instead of applets.
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by goalieca 3y ago
To be pedantic, noise removal works great if you know the signal, but still works great if you model it as a statistical distribution.
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by goalieca 3y ago
I’ve been chasing security as a pseudo specialty. Being able to design a secure “thing” or service is becoming increasingly important. Not many security engineers actually have a software engineering background.
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by goalieca 3y ago
5000 lines is silly, but all managers love that coder who closes tickets faster than anyone.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Removing carriers from the phone turned out to be one of the biggest innovations alongside having a real web browser. Edit: for context, carriers wanted control of revenue and obviously fought against net neutrality. At the time, they made
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by goalieca 3y ago
There’s a million and one offline open source solutions that are higher quality than wordpad.
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by goalieca 3y ago
> Looking at Canada's population distribution, you could win an election with just 82% of the votes in Quebec and Ontario or 67% of those + British Columbia. The governing party got 33% of the votes country wide. They govern like a
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by goalieca 3y ago
1) fewer people know how the machine and network works. This includes infrastructure experts. 2) there’s too much to learn and everyone wants to be a generalist. I’ve spent my entire career levelling up and I still don’t know enough most da
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by goalieca 3y ago
> Frankly I expect the days of being able to install our own trusted certificates are numbered on the few devices that do currently allow it. For iot security reasons, namely trying to stop persistence of exploits, secure boot features
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by goalieca 3y ago
Agreed. The worst kind of government is one that tries to control what people think and say. Approved narratives and facts are the way of dictatorships.
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by goalieca 3y ago
> Prior to Agile delivery, updates came once every 3 or 4 years and software languished in-between releases. If software shipped with a bug, that bug stayed around for a long time, unless it was lucky enough to get fixed in a service pac
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by goalieca 3y ago
> Everyone that owns a car or has lived with some that owns a car knows that tires and brakes wear down and need replacing. When I was a kid, I just assumed it all fell on the road. Let’s be honest, adults never consider the full lifecyc
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by goalieca 3y ago
> I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube, nor why anyone would not just pay the very small fee for YouTube Premium and do away with all the ads. Much of the “fantastic” content I do watch
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by goalieca 3y ago
Banks shouldn’t care to authenticate the browser, they should care to authenticate the user. WebauthN is the solution there and is w3c
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by goalieca 3y ago
Not for cryptographically useful group like elliptic curves. Multiplication is defined as additions and can be made fast by repeatedly doubling and add. The inverse function, division, is incomputable for large curves.
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by goalieca 3y ago
I’ve seen projects DOA and entire product lines and services slowly die once the engineering talent leaves. Cheap talent can be used for maintenance but new products and major revisions need a certain creative drive to envision the future a
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by goalieca 3y ago
Over easy is easy on cast iron. I tend to put a spoon of butter, spread it a little, and crack the egg into it. The butter should sizzle but not brown too quickly. You should be able to slide the egg in the pan like on a nonstick.

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