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by haimez 4y ago
A “direct intercept” like you’re suggesting gives you very little time to take any measurements even if we had a vehicle standing by. For now it’s not the kind of mission NASA has chosen to fund just in case they got the opportunity to scra
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by haimez 4y ago
I’m not deeply familiar with swift, objective-C or the next-step APIs, but it seems like they’re describing the difference between a (virtual?) function call (ie: swift to swift) vs a “message passing operation” in objective C. If that asse
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by haimez 4y ago
Staff does have a negative intrinsic value- they are paid salaries. If (and only if) the business can deliver on some arbitrary stated goals, it’s more valuable if it can do so with fewer people on staff.
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by haimez 4y ago
I disagree, citing obvious sources for information should be a reminder that you can often actually find whatever information you’re looking for if you just to search for it.
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by haimez 4y ago
Fingers crossed for the answer to be “zeros” and not “zeros, timing variable if attempting to access the values” or “zeros, timing variable if read spans into unmapped region”. Certainly, “contents of unmapped region” wouldn’t be on the tab
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by haimez 4y ago
> I wish VLC had a better loudness processor, I don’t succeed to configure it to keep the whole movie at the same volume, whether they’re speaking or using automatic guns. Probably won’t help you if you’re using VLC, but most of the stre
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by haimez 4y ago
It’s a deflationary currency, which makes it a really bad fit for “fungible currency things”
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by haimez 4y ago
One persons problem is another persons… enormous stack of existing tooling. You’re not wrong, but the knife cuts both ways on that point.
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by haimez 4y ago
> It definitely saved memory, but it was slightly slower or the same speed. My guess is that 32-bit performance isn't prioritized on x86-64 by either compiler writers or chip designers, i.e. they optimize for the common case of 64 b
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by haimez 4y ago
It’s important to understand that in order to navigate the world we live in, sometimes you’ll need help from someone “on the inside” and often those people don’t have direct control over the outcome but can be very valuable allies. Taking y
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by haimez 4y ago
I recommend James Micken’s JavaScript talk on this matter: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=3m10s&v=D5xh0ZIEUOE (Time stamped to the beginning of the arrays section)
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by haimez 4y ago
I’m supposing that the problem is that the web browser is the universal platform for all applications. There’s a benefit for information consumption (web pages) being separate from functionality rich and infinitely fingerprintable “native c
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by haimez 4y ago
All of these APIs are going to be very reliable fingerprinting opportunities, especially in combination. Keep that in mind when you think it’s going to be great for your web browser to also be a full featured application runtime.
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by haimez 4y ago
This sounds really neat, from the layman’s perspective. Are they saying that the neighboring non coding genes are acting as a kind of entropy source for the coding genes? If so, are there other known examples?
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by haimez 4y ago
Thank you for your cons-cientious moderation!
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by haimez 4y ago
Network, and to a lesser extent: CPU (or more generally, compute) in large scale deployments as a result of possibilities enabled by networking. We’re calling this the cloud, but the first iteration of “the cloud” started with storage enabl
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by haimez 4y ago
While true, there’s also an asymmetry here in that a city can expand their landfill or sewer system capacity- orbital space has a fixed capacity
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by haimez 4y ago
They were non-public, at least all the ones that I recall being broken (from memory, but let me know if I’ve missed something important here: URLClassLoader, Base 64 classes (made public under a different name), unsafe: name implies the con
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by haimez 4y ago
With flags to recover the previous behavior, and the changes of which only broke code using non-public API surface, i.e.: code that should never have been using those APIs but which previously had no way to prevent usages.
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by haimez 4y ago
Technology does advance regardless of your ability to ban it, because bans only form a system that locally restricts research- but globally, research will march forward somewhere. Banning research on a topic is fundamentally like burning bo
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by haimez 4y ago
No, it hasn’t- the Olympics have never been a substitute for war. They have however been a great way for peaceful nations to promote themselves economically for tourism during and after the event- although not for a while with the IOCC and
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by haimez 4y ago
Agreed, priority is to ensure there’s oxygen to the brain- but in the process of ascertaining if they’re indeed unconscious, don’t start by grabbing their shoulders and shaking them violently. Touching their hands and face as pointed out in
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by haimez 4y ago
Maybe someday it’ll be rebranded as SQLFile or SQLPhile instead.
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by haimez 4y ago
Definitely don’t shake an unconscious person around unless you’re sure that they don’t have a spinal injury.
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by haimez 4y ago
Right. It was phased out in favor of something intending to seem friendlier.
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by haimez 4y ago
Right. A different _tool_ because they described paradigms aren’t language paradigms- they’re patterns or frameworks expressed more easily but also more commonly in some languages than others because of completely unrelated historical accid
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by haimez 4y ago
If rumors are to be believed, S3 glacier might be an interesting data point
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by haimez 4y ago
That’s how you feel about computers, but that’s not how the average windows user feels about their computer. I’m not saying the average Windows user considers their computing device to be their close personal friend- but there’s a reason t
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by haimez 4y ago
I’m personally pretty curious to see what those contribution statistics look like if you exclude starburst employees.
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by haimez 4y ago
Plus the guarantee that if your name is published, you’ll have a hell of a hard time getting another job in your industry (not that this should be true, but I suspect that it is anyway).

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