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901.
by jdsully 7y ago
FAR 25.173 says nothing about electrical failure. Indeed at the sizes of aircraft we’re taking about the pilot is just not going to be strong enough without hydraulic or electric assistance.
902.
by jdsully 7y ago
Your phrasing implies Word has a shared code base like BSD and Unix do. The connection of Bravo with Word is that Charles Simonyi was involved with both. You see that with a lot of Xerox PARC projects - the researches frustrated with Xer
903.
by jdsully 7y ago
Its a bit like IE6. A big upgrade over C but the next update took so long that it was hated at the end of its life. Which coincidentally is exactly why C++ now does timed releases.
904.
by jdsully 7y ago
Careful with that if it's not the only thing happening in the statement. It might be a while between the 'new' and the unique_ptr ctor. If an exception happens in between the object will leak. e.g. foo(unique_ptr<X>(n
905.
by jdsully 7y ago
Which features are painful? Aside from exceptions (Can't use them safely if RAII is not universal) and shared pointers, most new language features are pretty localized in effect. E.g. using a lambda in a function originally written in
906.
by jdsully 7y ago
There seems to be a more modern trend of wanting all code to look the same. I've worked in large projects that have existed over many eras (including as far back as K&R C). The "Refactor when it becomes a problem" seems
907.
by jdsully 7y ago
Value investing as Graham and Dodd described it is a very specific strategy. Future earnings are hard to predict or calculate - but factories, land, and cash exist and have real value that is computable. Right now the market is saying one
908.
by jdsully 7y ago
Python is likely the best example of this working, however even in Python the boundaries between high and low performance sections are very formal. It's a lot simpler to go in and optimize a piece of code the profiler has pointed out
909.
by jdsully 7y ago
The C++ philosophy is not about protecting you from yourself. Its about allowing you to express your idea in as low or high level terms as you require. This lets you write a highly optimized tight loop and then abstractly describe less perf
910.
by jdsully 7y ago
Ford is hovering around a 1.0 price/book ratio and has dropped below that as early as 2018. Value is still out there. Then as now there are many reasons why people won’t pay more at the present time for these stocks.
911.
by jdsully 7y ago
I could consent to it using AI to answer. But how could I consent to it recording me when I was never informed?
912.
by jdsully 7y ago
They are only listening locally - no data is sent until the control word is said. However I don't really mind sending the data to Google either, the trouble is with the undisclosed recording.
913.
by jdsully 7y ago
Since I only see them at friend's houses - I'm not a party to any of those contracts.
914.
by jdsully 7y ago
I don’t recall any google home device informing me that conversations may be recorded. Informing the user is the difference - not the actual recording.
915.
by jdsully 7y ago
A move constructor is supposed to leave the donor object in a valid state. All STL objects with one will do so. If you write a poor move constructor that doesn’t do this you will get exactly what you asked for. However the compiler has no w
916.
by jdsully 7y ago
Because its still a legal and valid object according to the standard. A moved from vector might get reused to store new things for example.
917.
by jdsully 7y ago
When Zappos was acquired they made a big deal about keeping their unique culture.
918.
by jdsully 7y ago
The polish was in the fluidity of the interface. To make touch easy the interface couldn’t jump around just as you touched the screen. Its not that the iPhone was fast - but when it couldn’t render it showed a square pattern and still scrol
919.
by jdsully 7y ago
I’ve been gone 2 years but last I was there it was a few million LOC of C++ and maybe a tiny bit of js in non core ares. I can’t imagine it was rewritten in JS since I left.
920.
by jdsully 7y ago
They can get up to 50-60mph but only outside of built up areas with long straight track (e.g. in the Great Planes). They mostly go slow for fuel efficiency (it takes a lot of power and distance to build up speed). Here's one going 7
921.
by jdsully 7y ago
There is continuum and a point where the low quality of the product/presentation makes it extremely unlikely you will find market fit. A needed investor may see that only 1 in 1,000 of people talked to will buy it and conclude the mar
922.
by jdsully 7y ago
Consider a hypothetical low quality situation with this product. A guy running up to you on the street offering yellow colored baldness pills in a baggie. Sure they might work, but you’re not going to be the one to find out. The inventor,
923.
by jdsully 7y ago
The part I’ve always had trouble with is you need a certain amount of polish before the idea is acceptable. The quality of delivery heavily influences people’s perceptions. So this is a very fine balance.
924.
by jdsully 7y ago
Do groups of people have a right to free speech or just individuals acting alone?
925.
by jdsully 7y ago
KeyDB: a multi-threaded fork of Redis. https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB It seemed crazy to me Redis was still single threaded in 2019. Sometimes the rationale was one thread was enough to saturate a machine (it is n
926.
by jdsully 7y ago
The government is still bound by law, and unless he formally removes them from the restricted entity list there isn't much choice on how to proceed. It is not legal to special case Huawei, they must act fairly within the entire class
927.
by jdsully 7y ago
To be fair he did say you could compare with the leaked versions.
928.
by jdsully 7y ago
A decade of source control is an understatement. If you weren’t using it in the 2000s you were woefully behind. In the 90s it was exotic and terrible though. Even Microsoft had a horrendous system called SLM (or slime for short).
929.
by jdsully 7y ago
> One day, the wafer (the thing that the server chip is produced with and is extremely valuable, multi billions in the case of a server chip) went missing. I assume you mean the mask set...
930.
by jdsully 7y ago
Lotus was my introduction to “programming”. It opened my eyes to what a computer could do. I don’t think it was turing complete and certainly wasn’t intended to be. But spreadsheets are the one program that exposes the power of these wonder

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