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by gvb 7y ago
My bet is that the reason is the license. Bash is licensed GPL3, zsh is "MIT like". https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master&#x2
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by gvb 7y ago
He has several mixed up metaphors. Another one is "the term “corporate governance” is as foreign as that thing that came out of Sigourney Weaver’s stomach." The alien came out of Executive Officer Kane's stomach (John Hurt).
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by gvb 7y ago
China has a long and very bad history of adulterated food and drugs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_China
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by gvb 7y ago
The standard solar panel has an input rate of around 1000 Watts per square meter, however on the solar panels available at present you will only gain roughly 15-20% efficiency at best. Therefore if your solar panel was 1 square meter in si
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by gvb 7y ago
You picked a good example with Ford that illustrates the parent's point, probably in a way not intended by the parent post. Soon Ford will no longer be an automobile manufacturer - they will only be building trucks and SUVs (aka fake t
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by gvb 7y ago
[T]hey slipped in a layer of graphene next to the MoS2. Graphene is capable of capturing some of the conducting electrons and storing them. If the transistor ends up in the "on" state, enough of these electrons will spill over in
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by gvb 7y ago
At 5:03 [1] he talks about how the laser links give good connectivity east-west but not as good north-south. [1] https://youtu.be/QEIUdMiColU?t=303
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by gvb 7y ago
Yes but the path to the solution is inverted. Previously attempts: 1. We need global internet. 2. Satellites!!!! 3. We need inexpensive rockets to launch our satellites. 4. Fail. SpaceX / Starlink: 1. We have have excess satellite laun
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by gvb 7y ago
Likely it is due to violating US sanctions on sales to Iran. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/01/08/further-in... For comparison, that is what ZTE was accused of as well and received very
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by gvb 7y ago
Alternate quote from the judge: “Qualcomm’s licensing practices have strangled competition” in certain modem chip markets “for years, and harmed rivals, OEMs and end consumers in the process”. Strangling competition and harming rivals is ho
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by gvb 7y ago
That was the Lear Siegler -> Bell & Howell -> Litton -> Dematic Mailmobile. It followed a fluorescent path using a blacklight sensor to guide it. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mailmobiles-mail-robot
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by gvb 7y ago
I don't believe the physical antenna itself is difficult or expensive. The expensive part is all the digital phase control circuits that are needed to actively steer the antenna beam. A electronically scanned array antenna is actually
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by gvb 7y ago
> But surely they could provide a large demonstration battery? They have: "Pie in the sky? Heard it all before? Perhaps. The part that separates Innolith from all the others who claim to have invented the latest and greatest next ne
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by gvb 7y ago
A passenger cannot cause deaths as a passenger cannot drive. The Tesla autopilot controls the throttle, brake, and steering. That meets my definition of "driving."
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by gvb 7y ago
(2016)
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by gvb 7y ago
The above video doesn't show it changing gears... I was wondering how it did it. It is (sort of) covered in the "fully explained" YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9gQ1KRhesM Explanation: very c
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by gvb 7y ago
It's going towards not dying. The autonomy pitch (IMHO) was showmanship to distract investors from focusing on the real problem: not dying due to running out of funds. If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke
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by gvb 7y ago
Per the article, you need a drone the size of a Robinson R44 to be effective. A R22 is too small.
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Stuff Elon Musk Said About Tesla Autonomous Cars on Monday, Ranked(gizmodo.com)
2 points by gvb 7y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 8y ago
WRT "out" parameters, it means that very literally. There the variable is only passed out, it is not passed "in." Steve's test never assigns "A" in Foo() so "A" is an uninitialized variable that
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by gvb 8y ago
"Qualcomm’s business model, which is either ingenious or diabolical depending on whom you talk to, is to allow any chip company to use its technology royalty-free. Phone manufacturers can choose to buy chips from Qualcomm or one of
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Microsoft “temporarily pauses” Office 365 sync unless Outlook is installed(zdnet.com)
3 points by gvb 8y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 8y ago
Video of training for runaway stabilizer trim: https://youtu.be/3pPRuFHR1co (time 2:45) * The clanking sound is the stabilizer trim "runaway". In the video, it starts while the video is zoomed in; when the video z
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by gvb 8y ago
(2013)
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Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gvb 8y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 8y ago
Details of how it is to return to earth: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/03/eom-spacex-crew-drag...
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Russia’s passive-aggressive reaction to SpaceX may mask a deeper truth(arstechnica.com)
9 points by gvb 8y ago|1 comments
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by gvb 8y ago
Since that day over four years ago and the time of writing, we have not had one customer ask to pay in Bitcoin, Dash or any other cryptocurrency. I viewed it as a useful summary of the article, quoting from the article, not editorializing
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by gvb 8y ago
Except... 1. OS/X is Unix[tm] and linux is a "Unix clone" so the operating system works the same and (for purposes of this debate) both run on the X86 ISA. 2. The first thing all the macbook developers do is install Homebrew
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by gvb 8y ago
Note that the problem was not missing curly braces, it was the missing line sock->sk = NULL; The curly braces were added as well because the single statement "if" turned into a two statement block.

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