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by jdsully 7y ago
I'd be worried about what happens to the GPS headlights when the map data gets out of date. On my car the out of date maps are now quite noticeable.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Its quite possible for even fused circuits to cause fires. If there is a high resistance short then it will heat up without drawing enough current to trip the fuse or breaker. I don't know how common this is in cars, but it is quite c
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by jdsully 7y ago
I don't think that's an accurate description of why Yondr exists. The impetus for solutions like that were to allow for things like phone free concerts. You don't have to be rich to be annoyed with someone blocking your vie
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by jdsully 7y ago
Virtual 8086 mode was gone, but they could have just emulated it. The real reason 16-bit apps don't run is Microsoft didn't think it was worth the effort.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Firefox and Netscape before it go through weird phases of “we have to do a rewrite!” And then for the next 3 years they fall horribly behind and lose a huge chunk of market share. After the rewrite they become quite good again but you can’t
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by jdsully 7y ago
Have make suppress error messages for the .o including it. You can have another file implement any missing symbols with a weak attribute so the linker will not complain if your evil object file fails to be built. If you go with C++ then yo
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by jdsully 7y ago
I always found linear algebra much easier than calculus. Odd to hear it talked about as something more advanced.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Curl is suspicious, people might wonder what exactly its doing. Whereas nobody has the time to read and understand C/C++ code.
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by jdsully 7y ago
People compile unread code all the time. Having them send the binary back is a little unusual though. But nothing says the resulting binary can’t open its own socket when its first run. There are lots of exfiltration options. Getting them
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by jdsully 7y ago
> Let's start by requiring then that chip vendors sell and support their chips for at least that long? You should make laws as close to the desired effect as possible. The market will sort out the most efficient way to accomplish t
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by jdsully 7y ago
Champagne is the name of a region, and the grapes and finally the wine inherit the name from that region. Because the taste of grapes are affected by weather the actual region of production makes a difference. I don't consider it qui
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by jdsully 7y ago
There's a parallel issue with traditional meat farmers banding together to prevent labelling this as "meat". I agree with them when it comes to plant based meat imitators but cultured meat is a harder sell for me. This is a
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by jdsully 7y ago
I actually thought LibreOffice/OpenOffice/etc was a bit newer but it seems the timeframes are very similar to MS Office around 1985ish. Excel which is the product I worked on dated to 1987 but Word is older being first launched i
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by jdsully 7y ago
Very odd they feature earthquakes so prominently on their map of supposed climate change effects. There is very little evidence to suggest climate change has any affect on the frequency of earthquakes humans can feel. “We’re simply not in
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by jdsully 7y ago
If they have an SLA then that is straight up fraud.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Why is accelerated networking opt in? It seems like making it default would improve these comparisons a lot and would help a lot of your customers who likely haven't found this setting either.
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by jdsully 7y ago
You brought back memories of my time working on render code for MS Office.
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by jdsully 7y ago
You were definitely living in the future with NT 4.0. But the memory requirements were way too high for the average home user to afford it. Win95 was a bridge into this modern new world of applications protected from each other.
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by jdsully 7y ago
At the time 1GB was a ton of memory and few applications would use anywhere near that. A 64-bit kernel took on fairly quickly but actually compiling 64-bit applications took a lot longer. Consensus at the time was the memory overhead of l
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by jdsully 7y ago
It seems like focus on developer ergonomics over actual users has been monotonically increasing since I started my career. It may be great for the OS developers that they don't have to care about back compat but it is terrible for the
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by jdsully 7y ago
There may be regulatory technicalities that must be sorted out. But there isn't any reason this couldn't be handled in exactly the same way as street name shares are today. Voting rights would be interesting.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Even with full shares they are held in street name - that is the brokerages name. So the story isn't much different than it is today.
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by jdsully 7y ago
I remember being an early adopter of 64-bit Linux with my Athlon64 back in the day. Lots of stuff was broken and I got a lot of debate on whether it was any faster or worthwhile at all. It's really cool to see the technology curve go
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by jdsully 7y ago
My 2011 macbook is already not supported by new versions and Mac hardware are not backwards compatible with older OS versions. It's extremely likely that they can't even run newer versions even if they wanted to. If not now then
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by jdsully 7y ago
In older cars with worse tolerances and bad oil this was a major issue. Newer cars without carburetors ensure the proper fuel mixture even when cold. And multi viscosity oils ensure lubrication even when cold. Performance will still be wors
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by jdsully 7y ago
I hear this a lot but never with any actual quantification of the risk. The population still running 10.9 has to be so low its just not worth attacking.
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by jdsully 7y ago
The FAA estimated the 737 Max would crash roughly once every 2-3 years. That is 8x more often than the rest of Boeing’s fleet. This apparently was still within FAA guidelines. I gurantee the flying public’s risk tolerance is lower than th
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by jdsully 7y ago
Chip power networks are very complicated RC circuits. By modulating both the workload and the voltage it should be possible to create localized brownouts only in portions of the chip. This would bypass normal voltage monitoring. This sort
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by jdsully 7y ago
Its pretty clear reading the article that the public now has a much higher safety standard than the FAA did internally. Flying has become so safe that the public no longer considers it risky, but the FAA never updated its targets. So when B
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by jdsully 7y ago
No the shareholders own the company so they “own” the cash either way. Buybacks and dividends return control of the cash back to shareholders so they can allocate it elsewhere.

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