johncalvinyoung

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by johncalvinyoung 8y ago
My interpretation of a similar scenario (my girlfriend and I both followed & listened to each other's Discover Weekly) was that Spotify noticed that traffic and started assuming our tastes were converging (they were).
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by johncalvinyoung 8y ago
> If you buy Intel, you know beforehand you won't be able to upgrade the CPU, since the socket is changed (intentionally, of course) every generation. But the CPU isn't the issue for e.g. gaming, and upgrading every generation
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by johncalvinyoung 8y ago
Fascinating read, even though I'm no compiler nerd. Explains some of the significance of vector extensions and support for them in surprisingly approachable language. And as others have mentioned, the glimpse of internal Intel politics
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
This is an interesting article hampered by a tenuously related clickbait title. Please change it.
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Definitely has been on HN before. Cool read though, once again.
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Note: not available now. `Kerbal Space Program: Making History Expansion is still in development and will be released as a paid expansion. Pricing and availability details will be announced at a later date.`
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Years ago, my father was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, and given a 55% chance of surviving six months. The immediacy pushed him and my mother into writing out the book they'd been thinking about for years, a book on manhood for their
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Not too surprising. Definitely happened to me on the summit of a 14er in the Colorado Rockies last year. I was glad I had my DSLR as well as my iPhone 7...the Canon had no problems (it was only about 30F).
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Definitely. I find myself using Waze primarily for that sort of hotspot detection, when I know all/almost all potential routes, but want to know how bad the best/worst case travel times are. If Waze reroutes me onto surface street
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
I'd be more inclined to believe 'hoax' if that's what the chip contacts said. But a 'refuse to confirm'? No telling.
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Triangle resident here, and we don't have anywhere near the density to actually make general-purpose light rail work, economically. That said, I do think we're somewhat competitive for this, even though I don't want to see Am
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Me too. Measured in lines of code output, my optimal distribution of interaction probably looks like a Laffer curve. Too little and I distract myself often, too much and I spend all my time interacting and not much on code. Put me on a job
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Also from the P0 blog post: Variant 1: bounds check bypass (CVE-2017-5753) Variant 2: branch target injection (CVE-2017-5715) Variant 3: rogue data cache load (CVE-2017-5754) My checking doesn't show any of those three explicitly liste
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerabi... https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi... Seems that Google/Project Zero felt the need to go ah
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
I do contract design as well and for some things there really is no competitor. I haven't heard of anybody seriously competing with InDesign since Quark XPress became not-a-thing-anymore.
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
Seriously? Some of their apps are rock-solid professional apps with good UX and (occasionally) no serious competitors. InDesign alone is a huge win.
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
A primary reason for this is that ALDI products (at least here in the US, I don't remember whether this was true shopping in Europe a few years ago) typically have 4-6 barcodes per package--a box will often have a bar code on every fac
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by johncalvinyoung 9y ago
How is this a legal copy?
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by johncalvinyoung 10y ago
DISTINCT ON if I recall correctly is a Postgres-specific extension, and is rather like a shortcut to an OVER WINDOW query selecting where RANK() = 1. And I love it, but I wouldn't be expecting it to show up in MSSQL.
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by johncalvinyoung 10y ago
Pretty much an insta-buy. I'm capable with Illustrator and Photoshop, but the results of the algorithm are lovely.
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by johncalvinyoung 10y ago
I was trained as a developer under some of those early masters in Agile/XP. Including frequent references to that wiki. I sure hope we can reconstruct it and get it back online as soon as possible!
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by johncalvinyoung 10y ago
My father's comment, upon reading the article: "And if they had a barge lent by a friend, they could tie their cables fore and aft and gird her all around ... and hit the air and then take up the strain ... etc."
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by johncalvinyoung 10y ago
Signal to noise ratio, in comments and in content both. I was a loyal Slashdot reader (and comment lurker) for many years before coworkers introduced me to HN. I was stunned with the high-signal qualities of the main page results--I almost
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by johncalvinyoung 10y ago
Not just in theory--that's precisely how I got mine (I KSed it, and got my pair at least two months ago) booted up and configured for the first time. Super easy, in fact--way easier to bootstrap than a RPi (I ordered a RPi 3 some time
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by johncalvinyoung 11y ago
So much nope.