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by jzl 10y ago
Important to note from the filing: this all went down in September of 2015. I wouldn't be surprised if they had trouble with their growth numbers at that time, but in 2016 they seem to have exploded growth-wise. Not saying his lawsuit
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by jzl 10y ago
I didn't word my post very well (I posted the "infinitely old" comment), but what I meant was that it should be more likely to be a Boltzmann Brain in an infinitely old universe than a human standing on Earth in a ~14 Billion
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by jzl 10y ago
I don't think people care about thickness specifically, but about weight. And weight is (for the most part) correlated to thickness.
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by jzl 10y ago
One of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes is from a typical hilarious character of his pondering the nature of the universe: "Then there was the question of why the sun came out during the day instead of at night when it would be more
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by jzl 10y ago
Also relevant: Boltzmann Brains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain A Boltzmann Brain is (very roughly) a "brain", i.e. self-aware entity, that appears spontaneously in the middle of the universe du
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by jzl 10y ago
Both Unity and Unreal Engine (UE4) supports Metal, so any games created in Unity/UE4 for Mac & iOS might possibly use it. If the game doesn't need anything beyond GL 3 support then the creator might choose to not enable Metal
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by jzl 10y ago
Spoofed brilliantly in this skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ
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by jzl 10y ago
... a disjoint ridge where the bottom panel ... THIS! I was checking out the new MBP's at the apple store and this was one of the first things I noticed when I picked it up by the sides. There is a huge gap along each bottom towards
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by jzl 10y ago
"GLIntercept has existed since 2003 and was mainly designed as an OpenGL 1.0-2.1 debugger. So while basic function logging should work on all OpenGL versions, the more advanced features listed below may or may not work in OpenGL 3.0+.
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by jzl 10y ago
Yeah, birken is right, that $400 million is to a fund they are helping to manage. The fund money is not theirs and is not a direct factor in AL's valuation.
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by jzl 10y ago
This is a great pair of videos that intuitively explain Diffie-Helman key exchange and then the RSA algorithm in a way that requires no previous knowledge of cryptography: "Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange" h
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by jzl 10y ago
Scott Chacon's videos are priceless. (He's the co-author of the git book.) They explain exactly how git works internally in the simplest terms possible. Either or both of these: Introduction to Git - talk by Scott Chacon https:&#
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by jzl 10y ago
Food for thought: will USB-C be the "last" standard connector? Speaking in terms of the physical connector, not the data protocol. I'm sure it will eventually prove not to be, but it's got a lot going for it and I suspec
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by jzl 10y ago
It's even worse: getting consistent 10Gb on Cat 6 depends on cable length and electrical interference. Cat 6A and 7 also start coming into play for long cable runs and make the situation even more complicated.
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by jzl 10y ago
Start getting involved with 10Gb Ethernet and it is no longer trivial. You've got Cat 6, 6A, and 7, and all sorts of different length and shielding considerations and often don't get anywhere close to 10Gb.
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by jzl 10y ago
Best explanation I found was from the following forum post which was discussing why the 4K LG only has USB2 ports on the back. Will quote it here. http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-teams-up-with-lg-f... With t
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by jzl 10y ago
"I liked when we just had USB2 and all you had to do was try to plug it in once, flip it over, try to plug it in again, flip it over once more, now it plugs in, and now you're reasonably sure it'll work." Ah yes, the old
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by jzl 10y ago
Read the article. That's crux of the complaint -- that there isn't just one type of cable for USB-C. Heck, the USB-C power cable that comes with the the new MBPs can only do power and USB2 data. See for yourself: http:/&#x
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by jzl 10y ago
But displays have advanced rapidly as well and have constantly increasing data requirements. The new MBP can drive a 5K monitor at 60Hz (two, even!), and that much bandwith requires TB3.
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by jzl 10y ago
And here's the original patent. I never knew until now that Sergey Brin wasn't on it. Will expire in about a year and three months! https://www.google.com/patents/US6285999
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by jzl 10y ago
No excuse, sorry, especially since it's not at all clear that he's not lying. I'm not saying he is but it can't be ruled out. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt, if it's true that he did innocently help out a
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by jzl 10y ago
Completely, 100% agree with galacticpony. This whole story sounds suspect and I'm falling square on Apple's side here. Kapeli set up a relative with a developer account AND that relative was involved in fraudulent activity that be
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by jzl 10y ago
One of my favorite albums of all time. I would be really weirded out if that was the building I went to work in every day. It's a pretty dark and melancholy album. I only like listening to it or thinking about it when embracing that
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by jzl 10y ago
Yep, same here, but to make them more "phone call friendly" rather than random pronounceable passwords I generate random two or three word phrases via sites like this: http://watchout4snakes.com/wo4snakes/Rand
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by jzl 10y ago
A lot more details in this new article: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sinking-Millenniu... Including comparisons to neighboring buildings with a very well done chart. And this frightening statistic:
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The city has stated that water and sewage connections to the building might soon fail depending on how much more sinking there is.
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A lot of the "landfill" in that part of SF is rubble from the 1906 quake, which there was a lot of. They disposed of it by making the city bigger!