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by jwatte 10y ago
Blind tests suggest that most of the brilliance today comes from the brain knowing it's a Strad, because great modern violins sound just as good or better. (The other brilliance was being 200 years or more ahead of everyone else at the
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by jwatte 10y ago
How about achievable raw performance?
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Yes, and those totally do not get resold on eBay... ;-) Electric AC induction motors have very few breaking parts. The things that can break are more along the inverter/controller (capacitors, FET avalanche wear, etc) and auxiliary sys
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Yes, and that's a problem if you believe Crown Victorias are less sustainable for the Earth we all have to share and that our market does not price in sustainability externalities.
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The trade off is that the mere option to have higher range up front actually increases the rate of degradation! So, would you rather have high range first and low range after six years, or a motte even range that degrades more slowly and is
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by jwatte 10y ago
There are many lithium chemistries, and variations within chemistries. My Nissan has over 30% loss after four and a half years. They clearly use lithium ion/polymer, the lightest but least durable chemistry. Meanwhile, I have a lithium
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by jwatte 10y ago
Yes, let's combine open office plans with voice interfaces! Especially when entering account numbers, passwords, or email addresses to mistresses. Best interface ever!
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by jwatte 10y ago
Actually, our "dexterous" robots are below human beings among many axes. Weight being high is one of them, but also sensors for present pose, present load, anything touching the armature, flexing, .... Humans are much better at th
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by jwatte 10y ago
If salaries go up, shortages go down (both on silly and demand side)
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Yes, this is typical.
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I am passionate about code. But, most of my github is little hacks to solve some particular need or scratch some particular itch, without any need for overarching design or maintainability. The good stuff (including libraries and frameworks
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by jwatte 10y ago
Teamwork exercises actually do work to gel a new team, despite everyone rolling their eyes!
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When that happens, ratio of educated workforce goes down. If we assume initial conditions for education are approximately equal, then outcome ratios do measure (the result of) brain drain.
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That also requires an appetite for public education. Which had to be tax funded (yuck) and can't be Christian (double yuck) and requires equal race and gender access (triple yuck.) Old America hasn't done that, for a reason. That&
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by jwatte 10y ago
Unless there is actual political will to curb the very powerful in the interest of the less powerful, any scheme like this is unlikely to result in much. One of the make reasons the federal government is sometimes less effective than we wan
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by jwatte 10y ago
No, but there are libertarians who believe that risk mitigation skills never be required up front, no matter how unable the party at fault would be to restore whatever was lost. (Note: Some things cannot be restored at all; lives and disabi
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by jwatte 10y ago
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The real problem with modulo is at the end of the integer range. Add one and overflow and suddenly jump to a totally different index in the array! BTW: read and write pointers, power of two, did that in BeOS (1998) and many sound drivers di
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by jwatte 10y ago
Natural Motion has done learned animation for ten years and shipped in many AAA games. Maybe he was really disgusted that the internal team couldn't reproduce that existing art? (Actually, I don't think that's it, but that mi
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by jwatte 10y ago
Yeah, that's common for large companies, intentional or not. They have a large set of stakeholders who need to sign off, and they work on different timelines, and they have whole departments of people whose job it is to develop and pro
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If they want to by it, that offer will not go away just because you ask about terms. That being said, there are many reasons why a large company may not have the ability to partner with a very small side business (having to do with transact
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by jwatte 10y ago
Windows has all of those implemented in the windows store world, yet everybody is yelling how anticompetitive Microsoft is for wanting people to switch to that model. If we had Linux on the desktop, we'd have Linux ransomware.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Yes, and the user would have to whitelist them. However, how much software do you really have that rewrites even 1/10th of all your documents?
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by jwatte 10y ago
Yes, the creators of the malware could also run the network. But they would spread wider by paying a bounty for each ransom, based on through whom the targeted system got infected. The benefits are that the creators get more people to hero
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by jwatte 10y ago
OSes will have to start detecting processes that do a lot of disk read/write, and perhaps network upload, and quarantine them. Also, checkpoint/log based file systems like nilfs2 can let you roll back to any point before infection
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by jwatte 10y ago
If you use the existing affiliate systems, yes. But building a darknet (or just distributed) affiliate program is not exactly rocket science. Note: the point of the affiliate marketing is to make your an affiliate of /spreading the inf
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Same here, one plus one.
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Also, Haskell has both useful and safe STM, and a runtime with built in concurrency and parallelism. (Mentioning Erlang and Haskell because I've shipped solid production systems using both of those, and they work well!)
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Erlang CSP is also commercially deployed and safe.
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Erlang systems have been immutable, parallel, and concurrent for > 20 years.

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