jumpingmice

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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Using the real-time clock makes your test impossible to reproduce. Using a mock clock leads to reproducible tests. Same with calls to PRNGs: these should be injected so your test failures can be reproduced.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
We must also throw off the shackles of our near-perfect source code revision management system, so we can gloriously adopt the incredibly slow and notoriously unusable industry standard!
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
This is often overlooked by people with superficial understanding of American geography. Ohio has the same population density as Spain, and a higher per-capita GSP, but none of Ohio’s cities enjoys rail service of any kind.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Normalization on a per-mile basis misses the point. You build dense, transit-oriented cities specifically to reduce that denominator. Moving a person one mile has no intrinsic value whatsoever.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Imagine all the problems that would be solved if someone invented a car with metal wheels, maybe one that can hold hundreds of people, goes really fast, is quiet and efficient....
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Because of leaded fuel and the principle of conservation of species and mass. Every atom of lead that ever passed through an American gas pump is currently laying around on American soil.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Sounds like you’re just a little older than me :-)
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Google has been "looking at" AMD for decades, including rolling out an enormous fleet of AMD machines spanning several generations. They have a big platforms group and plenty of engineers to dedicate to trying to make the TCO penc
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
I think he means relevant buyers, like Google and Apple etc. People who order their CPUs by the cubic meter.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
IBM was locked in a brutal fight with HP and Dell to take share in the early x86 server market. Their chipsets were neat but they looked silly next to an HP Opteron box. Integrated memory control ended the chipset race. Still their chipsets
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Data sheet culture at these old-line semiconductor companies - ADI, TI, Linear - descends from the fact that you used to hold it in your hand and read it on paper. When I was in that field we went to the company library to read datasheets b
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
It's because you have your zone player(s) set to automatically update. I've ignored updates for months on end and never had the first trouble with doing so.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
It used to be the case that your phone showed up as a source if you were using the Sonos app on that phone. You could play podcasts or any files that were stored on your device. Now you can't. They added AirPlay to newer hardware but
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
FWIW it seems that it is Apple, not Sonos, who killed off the ability to stream to Sonos directly from an iOS device.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
They do not require you to install updates to play music. Updates are never mandatory, except that if you update a zone player then you must update the controller to control it. If your controller is ahead of the ZP that works fine.
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by jumpingmice 7y ago
Why do people say that highly populous areas are “not typical”?