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by jws 10y ago
Did swift gain 32 bit runtime support, or did the orphaned hardware models include the last of the 32 bit CPUs?
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by jws 10y ago
I want my blender to be smart enough to soft start the motor and to notice that it's stuck on an ice cube and not blow it's internal fuse. Fuse blowing = Insufficiently Smart Blender. You can avoid this by oversizing electrical co
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by jws 10y ago
The denardis 40cc 7hp engine says it burns 610g of fuel per kilometer driving a pocket bike. That is around 3 mpg for those of us with strange units. It's safe to say they traded away efficiency.
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by jws 10y ago
Once Waze integrates that law into their dataset the problem is solved. No sign required. I suppose they can't crowdsource that information or people would lie. There must be a system for getting traffic information from municipalities
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by jws 10y ago
Deer strikes are going to be ugly.
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by jws 10y ago
The gate area overcrowding is odd. The airport administrators know how many people go on an airplane, then put about 80-90% of the required seating in place. It seems to be a deliberate failure. I suppose you can multiplex seats between adj
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by jws 10y ago
They tell you the names of many registers. What more do you want? (I really miss the old days when you got a document that explained everything about your processor. I have an ARM port of an experimental OS waiting for a new board with a
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by jws 10y ago
Depends where you live and when you drive. Stay out of the evening rush hour in certain areas of town and you can count on 65mph to your destination. If you are popping across the river in the middle of the day there is no problem. Some peo
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by jws 10y ago
St. Louis City also has a problem with its beloved "earnings tax". At one point as our office space lease renewal was approaching I plotted all of our 100+ employees at the time on a map, almost all software engineers, about 2&#x2
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by jws 10y ago
Heavens no. There are 88,000 farms and something like 130,000 "farm operators" in Iowa.† That 2129 of them are doing very poorly shouldn't come as much of a surprise. I'd be surprised if at least 3% of them aren't a
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by jws 10y ago
Article is from 2013. Is anyone familiar enough with flight trackers to see if it is still in use? The tail number is N927NA.
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by jws 10y ago
I would use it as an extension language for a larger system. These commonly are used in games, databases, web servers, and text editors. You might: • Link Wren (or Lua or a little scheme interpreter) into your larger system. • Add some func
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by jws 10y ago
I could read that as either evidence that the CAD computations were wrong, or evidence that something completely different happened. For example, someone might have taken a shortcut in manufacturing.
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by jws 10y ago
How about the SpaceX tank struts? These were presumably designed with the aid of a computer , and were not as strong as they were needed to be. The news stories focused on testing, but testing is kind of the emergency fail safe of prod
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by jws 11y ago
Lets not forget we could change the frequency. Running at 400Hz like aircraft do lets you shrink the capacitors, inductors, and transformers of your power supplies and your electric motors can make 10 times the power for the same weight. Go
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by jws 11y ago
The amplifier in the headphones can be designed specifically for those headphones. It may well be that a transducer with a bizarre frequency response and an amp/EQ that compensates is a better solution in the end. Where we are now, hea
707.
by jws 11y ago
US here… my pharmacy, grocery, gasoline station, and computer hardware store all take it. It's not like I spend money anywhere else. (Also three of those four have negligently compromised my credit card numbers in the past, so I apprec
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by jws 11y ago
Wait around for it to stop rolling?
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by jws 11y ago
What does Rust promise if I infinitely recursively call a function which can not be tail optimized? Eventually the stack will exceed either available memory or available address space, what then?
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by jws 11y ago
I find that pixels are appropriate at both the "small code" end and the "perfect display" end of user interface rendering. In between the "I have lots of CPU but I can't afford the mental time to get this perfe
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by jws 11y ago
I'll add one: "But surely each place only has one DST each year…" Nope. Troll Station in Antarctica has four different settings through the year. Personally since there are only 40 people there I think they should just suck
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by jws 11y ago
The list of areas they are required to obfuscate?
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by jws 11y ago
excess fertilizer causes algae blooms I was just hearing an Ohio farmer complain that they won't let him spray manure on his fields while the ground is frozen anymore, and he doesn't have sufficient storage to hold all the manur
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by jws 11y ago
The simple POSIX write/read works nicely enough for IO – where simple includes the loop to check the return code and then errno for cases that should be retried, ( EINTR, EAGAIN, EWOULDBLOCK, depending on what you are doing and you
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by jws 11y ago
The first Apple iSight cameras, back in the days of Firewire, had this nifty mechanical iris that covered the lens. A twist of the bezel ring and it opened, another and it closed. Granted, just that feature was 6 times the volume of a moder
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by jws 11y ago
Paper fins on the eraser end and waiting for a snowy day would be easier.
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by jws 11y ago
I wonder: Why primes? Why not just crack off 4 bits at each level?
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by jws 11y ago
The FlexSC paper from 2010. They observe the cache damage from traditional system calls and propose batch queueing them and ideally using a different core to service them. This is not the traditional Unix programming model, so they create a
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by jws 11y ago
I wiped and installed Linux directly. Booting was annoying because it always wanted to recover. Then one day it failed to sleep, ran the battery dos, and lost the "legacy boot" setting leaving me with only the option to recover, w
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by jws 11y ago
Be aware: some of the ARM boards with SATA have it as a USB to SATA adapter.

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