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541.
by gvb 9y ago
It was never a good idea. What it is is better than some really horrible alternatives. The horrible alternatives are having users pick their own weak passwords and use the same password for every site they log into. This is an especially ba
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by gvb 9y ago
Physics is a harsh mistress. Back of the envelope numbers: Tesla uses 75KWh batteries at 400vDC to go 250 miles. Trying to refill that in 5 minutes is going to be dumping some serious power into the battery in a very short time. To rechar
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by gvb 9y ago
Waymo says they have proof of #1 and #2. We found that six weeks before his resignation this former employee, Anthony Levandowski, downloaded over 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary design files for Waymo’s various hardware systems
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by gvb 9y ago
...and all the supervillains are human. My first rule of debugging: Always fix the known bugs before trying to fix the unknown bugs.
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User privacy is Not preserved in aggregated mobility data(blog.acolyer.org)
2 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 9y ago
"[T]ax information, health records, etc." would likely be stored in SQL Server databases. It looks like SQL Server import and export file formats are defined, but I am not aware that the native format is standardized.
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by gvb 9y ago
* Optimizer bugs. Thankfully these are less common nowadays. It the "good old days" of new compilers this happened quite a bit. Embedded code: * Missing "volatiles" which allow the optimizer to optimize out "unused&
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by gvb 9y ago
Please :-) Here are the documentation links to get you started: Hardware: https://github.com/madcowswe/ODriveHardware/ v3.2 schematic: https://github.com/madcowswe/ODriveHardware/blob&#x2
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by gvb 9y ago
Plus $2.8 billion to buy market share. The $999 price tag is a modern day Pyrrhic victory. http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/technology/uber-financials/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by gvb 9y ago
First sentence of paragraph two states the premise of the article: "...the company has a monopoly on not just MacOS but even more importantly iOS." The article does not assert that Apple has a monopoly on smartphones.
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by gvb 9y ago
It isn't. Illegal is illegal no matter the scale[1]. The scale, however, is substantially different between you with a radar detector and Uber's behavior. If you use a radar detector illegally and are caught, you will be fined may
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Efficient memory disaggregation with Infiniswap(blog.acolyer.org)
3 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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Still Blogging in 2017(tbray.org)
3 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
554.
by gvb 9y ago
This explains CSS escaping pretty well: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-escapes \37 is the escaped hexadecimal number 0x37 == the ASCII character '7' The whitespace after the escaped character is "eat
555.
by gvb 9y ago
This is a deposition, not the trial. Lawyers ask as many questions as possible in the deposition and drill in on all problem areas looking for contradictions and undisclosed information. That's how the Waymo lawyers found out about Spi
556.
by gvb 9y ago
The only thing that money changes is the size of your bills. — Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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Dramatic Rescue at Sea: U.S. Air Force Pararescue Makes Night Jump at Sea(theaviationist.com)
1 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
558.
by gvb 9y ago
The problems are economical and priorities. The cost per pound to put satellites into orbit is large. There are lots of arguments on how large, but there is no question that it is large.[1] The priority problem is that unlimited comms a
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Bringing IoT to sports analytics(blog.acolyer.org)
63 points by gvb 9y ago|13 comments
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by gvb 9y ago
503 is "Service unavailable" where the service is related to the web server, not DNS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#5xx_...
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by gvb 10y ago
Its the "unix toaster" of the 21st century although, to be fair to the unix toaster, at least DRM was not one of its requirements. http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt
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by gvb 10y ago
Static data on a flash device (e.g. SSD) is subject to wear leveling, which is a regular re-writing process. This is counter intuitive, but makes sense. If your flash device never moved the static data, the only flash blocks that would get
563.
by gvb 10y ago
Definition: Your "Facebook ____" is the lowest ____ of any of your "friends" that has a Facebook account. Where ___ is any applicable attribute such as intelligence, privacy, etc. Corollary 1: You will be surprised at wh
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by gvb 10y ago
You will get the number of instructions in parallel that is the minimum of (a) the number of instructions that can be handled by the hardware simultaneously and (b) the number of instructions that don't have inter-dependencies. My ex
565.
by gvb 10y ago
I thought between modern compilers and supporting 4 op/cycle with out-of-order execution, a new Kaby Lake cpu would get more than 1 cycle overall. Or are the branch delays just killing the performance? The problem at the level of how
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by gvb 10y ago
The abstraction layer has only remained the same visually, and only for a loose definition of "visually." In the "good old days" the user interface was 640px x 480px (original VGA[1], skipping past the original MDA, CG
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Firefox gets complaint for labeling unencrypted login page insecure(arstechnica.com)
18 points by gvb 10y ago|10 comments
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Deconstructing Xen(blog.acolyer.org)
4 points by gvb 10y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 10y ago
I've given (area code) 555-1212 and don't recall it ever being questioned. Technically I've given them my phone number, but with one indirection. ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_assistance
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Instacart is playing games with its workers’ pay(recode.net)
2 points by gvb 10y ago|0 comments

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