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by huxley 9y ago
I wouldn't worry that much about it, the differences between Django 1.11 and Django 2.0 aren't major ones with the exception of dropping support for Python 2.x and the new simplified URL routing syntax. Django 1.11 is a LTS (Long
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by huxley 9y ago
It's going to be more than an annoyance in some case, but IMO, anything that has processor and access to the internet already needs to budget for ongoing updates to make sure it is secure.
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by huxley 9y ago
That was the way it was described in the Keynote
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by huxley 9y ago
I found that the 1978 BBC documentary series "Connections" by James Burke really spoke to that as well as the interrelatedness of inventions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
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by huxley 9y ago
Compared to most Silicon Valley founders he was, his adoptive parents were blue collar with no college education. His dad made most of his money as a repo man. Part of the agreement his biological mother made with the Jobs family to allow t
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by huxley 9y ago
FYI, Vuforia was sold off by Qualcomm about a year and half ago
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by huxley 9y ago
Tesla has pledged that the Gigafactory would be net zero: https://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/teslas-gigafacto... If this is accurate and comes to pass, then assuming like the Swedes did that the batteries woul
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by huxley 9y ago
Haha there a couple of books in the 1990s that gave plans for how to do this, here's one I remember taking out of the library at the time: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Electric-Vehicle/dp/08...
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by huxley 9y ago
Sigh. It's a representative democracy and a republic. The terms aren't incompatible. Just because the dichotomy was James Madison's hobby horse and he scribbled it down in Federalist No. 10, doesn't mean that it is gospe
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by huxley 9y ago
Most people have trouble naming more than 3 Apollo astronauts, I wouldn't hold out much hope for living in people's memories.
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by huxley 9y ago
Back in 2012, someone was asking $1 million for a 12'x23' space at 66 East 11th Street, NYC http://nypost.com/2012/05/20/the-1-million-parking-space/
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by huxley 9y ago
Does it matter if a platform does the inventing? The web browser was invented on a NeXT Cube but that didn't limit its eventual use.
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by huxley 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_(surname) It means Iron Hewer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewer
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by huxley 9y ago
I wonder if you'll still be able to set the Python version explicitly in the runtime.txt file
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by huxley 9y ago
It wasn't an empty shell, journalists got to use and listen to actual Homepods https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/06/ears-on-with-the-homepod/
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by huxley 9y ago
Arthur C Clarke wrote a funny little short story called "Travel by Wire!" 80 years ago that speculated about a form of commercial teleportation
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by huxley 9y ago
He mentions it: "The migration tool caused more issues than it automatically resolved, leaving a manual migration as the only sane path forward. How that migration tool ever made it through QA is beyond me, but I'd have felt bette
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by huxley 9y ago
I suppose building an "inner refuge" gives you something to do in the roughly half hour between an ICBM launch and its arrival on target.
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by huxley 9y ago
The rest of the reply seems to be an answer (as far as you can get with Apple) I don't think it's wild speculation to say Apple is looking for efficiencies they may not have been able to get with GPUs especially performance-per-wa
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by huxley 9y ago
We're at about 7.5 billion currently and we hit 1 billion in 1804. Population growth peaked in the 1960s and has been slowing ever since, we may not hit 9 billion until sometime between 2040 and 2050.
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by huxley 9y ago
While the article does say that ... eventually, the headline and the first two and a half paragraphs undermine your point. Since most people won't actually read and digest the full article, but instead go by the headline "That Fin
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by huxley 9y ago
I think you misremember. Apple started with the Core Solo and Core Duo chips (Yonah), which were fairly fast but weren't remarkably faster than the PowerPC G5. A single core G5 iMac held up quite well versus the two-core Core Duo and t
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by huxley 9y ago
I blew a thousand dollars (Canadian) to upgrade my new Mac Plus to 4 megabytes and the sales guy asked --slightly tongue in cheek but only slightly-- if I was doing CAD for NASA.
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by huxley 9y ago
They are rarer now than back in the 60s and 70s but PARC, Bell Labs, CERN etc might be good examples.
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by huxley 9y ago
Maybe it's true where you live, it is certainly not true in the English-speaking world. Fighting the Nazis was the primary way of describing the European war in contemporaneous popular and political writing. https://books.go
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by huxley 10y ago
Perhaps it was a Java espresso? Would explain the teensy cups, Java beans are normally middle of the road when it comes to caffeine content.
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by huxley 10y ago
Toshiba has been having a lot of trouble lately thanks to Westinghouse, so the Abe's government might consider foreign control to be a lesser evil than massive layoffs or a bailout. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a
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by huxley 10y ago
This is a zombie lie that never ever stops. You can't trust whatever psycho-website you got that misinformation from. DDT was NEVER banned for public health purposes in Africa or anywhere in the Developing World. It was restricted for
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by huxley 10y ago
Apparently it first appeared on July 1952 in a story called "Robots of the World! Arise!" by Mari Wolf published in "If" magazine.
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by huxley 10y ago
True, for some definitions of "a long time ago" Dorothy Vaughan and other "computers" were doing calculations by hand as a career into the early 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan

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