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by johntb86 4y ago
What sort of circumstances would they use this parachute? Engine failure? In a spin?
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by johntb86 4y ago
I've heard people warn that used gpus formerly used for mining might be a bad deal, since they've been run flat out 24/7. I don't know how true that is.
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by johntb86 4y ago
The android emulator supports Vulkan 1.1. I wonder if there's a way to use that to run a linux VM with GPU acceleration.
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by johntb86 4y ago
> You can't copyright cocktails or other recipes because copyright only protects the artistic expression, not the mechanical process. It's interesting that you can copyright a song (not just a performance of it, but the actual
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Uber Rewards is ending on November 1, 2022(help.uber.com)
64 points by johntb86 4y ago|41 comments
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by johntb86 4y ago
Rust is getting let-else to solve that problem: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3137-let-else.html
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by johntb86 4y ago
In most countries I expect the private sector to pay for fertilizer. In Sri Lanka, due to the currency peg the government was paying for fertilizer. It seems that they chose the wrong solution to that problem.
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by johntb86 4y ago
There's some variation even within North America. In my experience denser areas are more likely to have fences than rural areas. It even seems that in California people are more likely to have fences than on the east coast (given simil
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by johntb86 4y ago
It's $250k per per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category. So if you'd need to move your CD, savings, checking, etc. into separate ownership categories (e.g. one held in a single account, another held in
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by johntb86 4y ago
The evening news doesn't care about balance, it cares about stories. Taxes that aren't collected aren't stories (at any one time, everyone is not paying an infinite number of potential taxes). A person being forced to move fr
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by johntb86 4y ago
> The address marked as 3AC has a collateral position of 211,999.12aWETH (worth $235 million) on AAVE V2 and a total debt of $183 million in stablecoins USDC and USDT They picked the wrong stablecoins to have debt in.
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by johntb86 4y ago
It's the impossible trilemma - you can't have * a fixed foreign exchange rate * free capital movement (absence of capital controls) * an independent monetary policy As a stablecoin, they claimed to have * A fixed exchange rate wit
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by johntb86 4y ago
We used to have the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority and relatively universal radio/tv enforcement of https:
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by johntb86 4y ago
Most likely that would depend on what storeAction is set to: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/mtlrenderpas...
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by johntb86 4y ago
It seems more like a symbolic gesture.
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by johntb86 4y ago
> Why didn’t the car react to the aircraft? Did it not detect it, or did it fail to judge it’s location? According to https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/is_is/GUID-6B9A1AE... > Smart Summon may n
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by johntb86 4y ago
The OS is in charge of telling the CPU what to run. Literally the context switching code sets saves its old registers and reads in the registers of the program that's about to run (including the program counter that says what address t
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by johntb86 5y ago
Once the spooks find you you'd need to be very careful to avoid flights in or near the airspace of countries friendly to the US.
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by johntb86 5y ago
Generally (I don't know about amazon) a number of shares is agreed at start, and those shares are gradually vested over 4 years. So if the share price goes up in the 4 year term then the employees make more money.
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by johntb86 5y ago
And portions of the Windows registry.
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by johntb86 5y ago
The value is per thread, so if you're caching it to main memory (including in the stack) then you need one copy per thread and you need to somehow know which one to use based on what thread is running. You'd need to store that ind
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by johntb86 5y ago
I'm used to seeing markup languages (ab)used as configuration languages, but this is the first time I've seen markdown used that way. Though the input has a lot of links, so it makes sense in a way.
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by johntb86 5y ago
The laws still work (somewhat) until they're overturned by the courts. Texas's abortion rate dropped by half after S.B. 8 was passed [0]; both S.B. 8 and this law have similar enforcement mechanisms that are designed to make it di
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by johntb86 5y ago
The legislature made the decision that the supermarket is required to bargain (in good faith) with the union. Not doing so would be "unfair labor practices". This includes a lot of practices, including not being able to "Lock
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by johntb86 5y ago
Consumer reports does that. For example https://www.consumerreports.org/vacuum-cleaners/best-vacuums... has top picks, but https://www.consumerreports.org/products/vacuum-cleaners-289... doesn&#x2
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by johntb86 5y ago
The Z80 had deceptively-designed transistors designed to throw off reverse engineers: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1331425858268012545
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by johntb86 5y ago
How long does it take, on average, for someone to have the title of senior engineer?
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by johntb86 5y ago
Some std::list::splice(const_iterator pos, list& other, const_iterator first, const_iterator last) implementations used to be constant-time, since they could just change some pointers in the spliced nodes. Nowadays they take line
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FDA clears boosters for Moderna and J&J Covid-19 vaccines(theverge.com)
3 points by johntb86 5y ago|0 comments
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by johntb86 5y ago
I get the impression that it may have been. The upper-level management set goals that were both conservative and impractical (diesel cars that didn't use DEF but passed new emissions standards), and once it became clear they couldn&#x2

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