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by gvb 11y ago
But the link is broken in his home page: If you're into that sort of thing, you could take a gander at my <a href="/resume.html">resume</a>.</p>
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by gvb 11y ago
Your lease is a debt with a three year term. To the extent that you lease a new car every three years, your debt is forever.
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Apple’s “Code = Speech” Mistake(technologyreview.com)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|2 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Even every laptop off the shelf doesn't have such a requirement. While Windows activation can be done offline, for all practical purposes it + Windows Update requires you to be online. I help an older lady with her technical struggle
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Heidi Roizen on How to Choose Your VC(techcrunch.com)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Note that, in the "Persistent Property" table, an "X" is bad behavior.
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All File Systems Are Not Created Equal – Crash Resiliance(blog.acolyer.org)
1 points by gvb 11y ago|1 comments
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Barcode recovery using a priori constraints(windytan.com)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|4 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
a) They implied it ran out of battery, they did not actually say it was out of battery: Tesla complained about a passage of Clarkson's commentary in which he said: "Although Tesla say it will do 200 miles, we worked out that on
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by gvb 11y ago
The skin has always been thin. This is the same company that had a three-year (losing) libel battle with Top Gear for a bad review. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/05/top-gear-tesla-...
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by gvb 11y ago
For FTDI, their battle is becoming (has become?) a Pyrrhic victory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
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by gvb 11y ago
Two quotes: The reasoning, explained at Aviation Week, was that Lockheed Martin couldn't put together enough units [F-35s - gvb] in that configuration to run the Block 2B OUE in time. The Block 2B tests were also impacted by restr
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by gvb 11y ago
Unless China follows the playbook laid out by Tom Clancy in Debt of Honor. :-O Facing an economic crisis, Japan's ruling corporate cabal, led by Yamata, decides to take military action against the U.S. Along with covert support from C
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by gvb 11y ago
Engineers at Rocketdyne, the manufacturer, estimate the total probability [of catastrophic failure] as 1/10,000. Engineers at Marshal estimate it as 1/300, while NASA management, to whom these engineers report, claims it is 1&#x2
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by gvb 11y ago
An imperfect solution might be to buy his laptop for enough money to allow him get a new laptop and the licensed software on the laptop that he purchased. Doing this at the time of dismissal would make it more likely to regain control of th
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What’s the Difference Between M.2 Modules?(electronicdesign.com)
1 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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A Peek Inside a Dead Football Player’s Brain(technologyreview.com)
1 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Inefficiency and effort involved. 1. Encoding and decoding the data takes time and code. 2. The encoding expands binary by 4/3 (three bytes are encoded into four) 3. Duplication - e.g. if the same image is included in N places it wil
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by gvb 11y ago
How about MIME? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME * ASCII encoded / support for other character sets * Mixed media * Standard * Battle tested
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Cloud Eventing(tbray.org)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
+1 for pointing out that it is actually a $491MM payout that you can choose to take as a $800MM annuity over 20(?) years. You also have to subtract taxes from the payout, which also eats into the payout. I would expect it would be 30% or hi
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by gvb 11y ago
It does if your target system properly zeros bss because, by the rules, array[10] will be placed in bss and bss is zeroed. If you replace the initializer with {1}, you force the compiler to file to a different rule that forces the compiler
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by gvb 11y ago
He covers that in the next section "Signedness" and more thoroughly in "System-Dependent Types" where he recommands (properly) using uintptr_t and intptr_t: The correct type for pointer math is uintptr_t defined in <
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Mobile Counter-Theses(tbray.org)
26 points by gvb 11y ago|1 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
MSE was absorbed into Windows Defender in Windows 8 & 10. I don't recall any publicity from Microsoft telling their users this - I only know because I did google searches on how to install MSE on Win8 which turned up the answer tha
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by gvb 11y ago
That makes even more sense. The waves would be slamming the ship onto the bottom which would be attempting to drive the rudder through the ship every time. This would threaten to break the ship up very rapidly. By cutting the rudder free, i
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by gvb 11y ago
That sentence as written is nonsensical. I think they meant "scuttle" (intentionally sink), not "scupper" (a hole in the side wall at deck level to drain water off the deck). The principle of scuttling the ship is to rem
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by gvb 11y ago
Could be a figment of my imagination - a normal flaring of the rocket flame + a light.
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by gvb 11y ago
Interesting - something flaming separated from the first stage as it landed. You can see it separate, hit the ground, and burn as the landing completes. https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=2518
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Android on the desktop: Not really “good,” but better than you’d think(arstechnica.com)
8 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments

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