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by jdsully 6y ago
You need a license to stream video from space, they got in trouble for leaving their launch stream on too long once. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/5/17197742/spacex-falcon-9-r...
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Their margins are much tighter than Apple’s. This outcome is far better than having a ton of unsold stock depreciating in dealer yards. That quickly leads to bankruptcy as it did in ‘08. Limiting their downside risk was the right call giv
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Sure it would be great if the whole piece could be exciting, but sometimes a bit of background knowledge is necessary to understand the remaining content. A great writer could no doubt make it exciting on its own, but most of these article
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The work well in dryer sections like historical background or technical explanations to indicate "Hey! More Exciting Stuff Below".
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Not sure what you mean by “no free documentation” but even when I worked there we just used MSDN’s free online website like everyone else. VS did cost $$ but not sure it was overpriced, I’m still less productive on Linux than I was with the
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It says natural gas in the article. If it were something as specific as biogas I imagine it would have been mentioned.
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Crazy they were able to label natural gas as “sustainable” but nuclear just barely squeaked in.
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We had similar thoughts with KeyDB. Particularly about the RAM is scarce bit. We started as an in memory cache but we've been adding in better persistence support. It's a lot easier to add persistence to a cache design than to t
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The “free software” requirement as defined by Stallman doesn’t require it sure. My argument is that it’s not a logically consistent position. It would be wrong for EA to take a GPL game and modify the code without keeping it GPL. But someho
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If gnome desktop shipped without any icons or assets would we still consider it free software? I just don't understand how releasing only a subset of the code, or code not in its preferred editing format is "not free", but f
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Keeping the art which is necessary to actually play the game proprietary is not respecting freedom. Its the equivalent of releasing just the compiled binary and keeping the source closed. The GPL game code is useless without the art asset
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10G switches are old hat and can do full x-bar switching at 10G, unless your using very old tech got off ebay you shouldn't have issues. Trunk lines of 100G and higher are pretty common in core networks now, if your big enough to span
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178MB/s is under 1.5 gb/s. It’s only because we’ve been stuck with slow gigabit Ethernet for 20 years that we think this is a hard problem. 10G ethernet can do it no problem and fractional speed like the 2.5 and 5 gigabit standard
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Regardless of whether Doritos are more profitable we still have millions of acres of staple crops grown each year. There is no shortage of good writing but it may not come in microwaveable packets. If the majority of the people don't
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20A plugs look different, they have a prong rotated 90 degrees.
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I joined around 2010, the transition was in full swing at that time. Microsoft seemed like a much more aggressive work environment in the 90s/2000s. Around when I joined I didn't know anyone who got to senior without sleeping in
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The point is you didn't need to be redirected.
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I think there's a strong argument an implied term of the sale was it would only be sold once. The law should protect the buyer here, and if it does not the market could adjust by adding a small contract to the sale stating the seller
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He did not have a management role. PMs write specs and talk to the customers. That time was also very much the "cowboy coding" era so part of the job was convincing devs they should implement it how he spec'd because he cou
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He never managed the Excel team and he didn't write code for the product. He was a PM and wrote the spec for VBA. An accomplishment to be sure but not much different than all the other great individual contributors Excel has had over
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The Hanford site is a WWII era nuclear weapons facility and is not at all comparable with nuclear reactors for power generation.
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It partially is, the biggest issue with parallel busses like that of DRAM is skew between the bit lanes. You need the electrical pulses to physically arrive at the same time. It's more difficult to layout 71 bits of exactly equal len
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It stood for logical AND, so really your search term would be read as: foo AND bar AND baz. It would be more accurate to type it as foo + bar + baz.
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KeyDB (YC S20) | ( https://keydb.dev ) | C++ | On-Site (Toronto) | Full Time With KeyDB we're building a high performance database that pushes the limits of what's possible with current technology. If you love low level
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It's easier in some ways but harder in a lot of others. For starters the definition of an "OS" has greatly expanded over time. In the CP/M and even DOS days it was a very primitive shell and some disk I/O routines
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Intel would do that if they could shrink their transistors. But because they are still at 14NM they are heavily constrained. It's actually amazing they are competitive at all given they are now 3 generations behind in manufacturing
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The book was written without mentioning the internet at all. He famously had to go back and add in the internet parts after it was already a sure thing. '95 was still early, but back then techies weren't ready to give BillG the
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If you wrongly classify an employee as a contractor the IRS will go after you for back payroll taxes. It's not extortion, its collecting taxes you illegally avoided.
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PSA: Always turn off your watermain if you're leaving for any appreciable amount of time. Especially if its due to freezing cold. Even in northern climates a lot of people forget this with unfortunate consequences, a frozen pipe will
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The debt was trading at nearly $0.50 on the dollar because it was questionable whether Revlon could pay. So the funds got a very nice payday.

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