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by kec 11y ago
The same way they're currently competing with the model S at the mid to high end: they provide a more luxurious experience at the same price point.
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by kec 11y ago
I visit far more websites in a day than I use strange new apps. Apps also don't suffer from XSS.
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by kec 11y ago
I haven't ascended (came close years ago, but life happened and I wasn't able to make another run with things still fresh in my mind), but to answer your question: trial & error, passing familiarity with mythology / fanta
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by kec 11y ago
That doesn't actually help the "py3k was a good idea" argument. 3.3 came out 4 years after 3.0. 4 years to become a reasonable choice is kind of pathetic, especially given the fact that python2 was put into bugfix-only mode 2
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by kec 11y ago
Well 1) it took us 5 years to get those features, 3.0 just broke shit and ran slowly for no discernible benefit to the end user. And 2) I know of no reason those features couldn't be implemented in Python2 other than "we don'
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by kec 11y ago
On the other hand, React is from the same Facebook which determined that the same technologies which Apple uses to write, build and debug an entire OS aren't powerful enough to write a social media app which runs on that OS.
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by kec 11y ago
The users passcode is entangled with a key unique to the hardware of the phone to generate the actual key used to encrypt the device. The hardware key is implemented such that it's impossible to read out via software.
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by kec 11y ago
On the other hand, if iOS were open source / the iPhone was able to run unsigned code there would be nothing stopping the FBI from just doing what they've asked apple to do themselves (assuming it's actually technically possi
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by kec 11y ago
The main value-add of going to a university isn't attaining an education, it's gaining access to a strong network of educated people. This is something which can't be replaced by self education (which, you'll actually be
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by kec 11y ago
The problem is there doesn't seem to be a way for the left and right to compromise on this issue. You can't realistically police private party transfers without mandatory registration, and there are too many instances of registrat
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by kec 11y ago
AlienBlue was the de facto reddit app for years on iOS, to the point that reddit actually bought it / accqi-hired the dev for it a year or so ago. Unfortunately it's been pretty stagnant since it was acquired, very few bug fixes a
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by kec 11y ago
Well, license plate "technology" has existed for ~100 years. Microstamping exists as a single parent which has never actually been demonstrated or implemented in a commercial product.
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by kec 11y ago
This sort of thing isn't exactly without precedent. Look at gun laws in CA: there are many types of firearms and firearm accessories which are legal in most of the US but cannot be sold or possessed in California. Gun manufacturers hav
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by kec 11y ago
The median 2 bedroom apartment in SF is currently about $4600/month. This means that even with a roommate to split the bills with, at a salary of $90k you're looking at spending nearly 50% of your take home just on rent. Add in ut
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by kec 11y ago
Given that there are significant differences between python2 and 3, such that porting large codebases is a nontrivial task, why do you assume people with automatically decide to proceed with python3 instead of some other language? At this p
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by kec 11y ago
So what happens after "a year or two"? Do you expect the new owners to agree to rent control in the new building for the families which used to live in the trailer park?
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by kec 11y ago
So where do the current residents live for the year or two it takes you to build your new apartment building? How do you expect residents to be able to afford their rent doubling or tripling in the new building once it's built?
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by kec 11y ago
While IANAL, the key word there seems to be "malicious". Merely operating in the same band doesn't show any malicious intent, even if it severely degrades performance for other devices in the band. Jammers on the other hand
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by kec 11y ago
Unfortunately that's not a very good argument on its own. Wifi exists in the unlicensed bands in the US and is thus subject to FCC title 47, part 15 rules. This includes the provision that the onus is on the unlicensed transmitter (in
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by kec 11y ago
As a counterpoint, netbsd has a permissive (3 clause bsd) license and the slogan "of course it runs netbsd". Copyleft definitely isn't required for universal hardware support.
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by kec 11y ago
Is it? We know of two notably successful Harvard dropouts: Zuckerberg and Gates. While their success most likely hasn't been anywhere near as spectacular, I'm willing to bet you know dozens of successful people who graduated from
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by kec 11y ago
To a first approximation modern li-ion batteries don't really care if they drain 100->50 once or 100->90 five times: the wear on the battery is more or less equal. Exposing your batteries to extreme temperatures (below freezing,
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by kec 11y ago
You can't use temperature to accurately model power consumption, if for no other reason than that it's too heavily influenced by environmental factors. "Battery charge" sensors are problematic because they're hard t
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by kec 11y ago
Even if it's that old, that doesn't explain why Infinite Loop would be categorized as Manufacturing and trade, with all the area around it as healthcare and government.
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by kec 11y ago
vi is a posix requirement, emacs is not. If the system you're working on has ed, it'll have some version of vi or vim as well.
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by kec 12y ago
"Engineer" is legally enforced everywhere. If you don't believe me, try to get a building built without having a licensed Civil Engineer sign off on the blueprints.
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by kec 12y ago
Your definition of overdrive is slightly incorrect. Overdrive simply means that the overall ratio between the input to output shafts of a transmission is less than 1.0 (meaning the wheels of the car are spinning faster than the engine). By
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by kec 12y ago
One other thing this deck doesn't go into but has a huge impact (for games at least) is frame rate. Higher frame rates require the GPU to get the work done in a shorter amount of time and make it less likely that the GPU will be able t
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by kec 12y ago
The git diff and log commands are primarily intended for human consumption. I'm not the one you were relying to, but I think it makes sense that git defaults to make that consumption easier, even if it isn't strictly "Unix&qu
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by kec 12y ago
There's no real special technology there, if you do the math on their claim it works out to a maximum power draw from the charger of 12-15W, which is about on par with most tablets. This is just a function of having a large surface are

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