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by kec 8y ago
Re: autonomous cars Your narrative is a thing which could happen, not the current truth on the ground. The truth is every time a Tesla rams into a stationary object at speed, or an Uber runs down someone crossing the road, the public’s fa
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by kec 8y ago
or huawei has a whitelist of apps not to mess around with, and spotify is on it but vlc isn't.
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by kec 8y ago
Can fiberglass ladders be refurbished and used for decades, or do they weaken and need to be replaced as the epoxy ages? Does the cost of replacement outweigh the cost of refurbishment? How about the aluminum cross braces of your fiberglass
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by kec 8y ago
Everything in there looks ascii to me, just using the charting characters in the high end of the table.
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by kec 8y ago
How on earth could a startup provide that service legally?
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by kec 8y ago
Well, we could also repeal / sunset Prop13 and allow existing properties to reach their actual market values. This would suck in the short term, but it would lead to way more liquidity in the market, even if 0 new units were built.
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by kec 8y ago
In the Rosenhan experiment, the subjects faked the symptoms of psychosis until they were involuntarily committed. If you fake symptoms for an illness you can't be surprised that doctors assume you have that illness. This is a far cry a
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by kec 8y ago
If your GP can't offer you a referral, honestly the best you can really do is just pick a psychiatrist or psychologist nearby who accepts your insurance. Either can diagnose you if there is something to be diagnosed. Both can offer the
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by kec 8y ago
I'd wager the 720/1080 split is due to the former being their limit for browsers doing software decode. 4k being restricted to edge sounds like Microsoft is the only one supporting HDCP (drm).
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by kec 8y ago
I don't see how 5G changes anything. Wireless providers were exempt from net neutrality even when it was in force and have a long history of tiered usage and throttling.
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by kec 8y ago
A second port would remove a significant amount of internal volume, as well as increasing the cost due to the port and whatever electronics you'd need to mux them. I doubt those tradeoffs would be worth it for the majority of consumers
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by kec 8y ago
"Pretty cheap" is still likely an order of magnitude or more than actual standby, and using a small ring buffer to identify a pre-established wake word is similarly going to be cheap compared to actually streaming audio to disk. I
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by kec 8y ago
Aside from cell tower location tracking, you’d know because it would absolutely tank the battery life of your pocket computer.
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by kec 8y ago
The problem (as I see it anyway) is that function scoping + hoisting is weird and can cause some unexpected bugs.
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by kec 9y ago
I don't really understand what you're trying to get at. That just sounds like sour grapes from someone who didn't totally grok that what you do on company time belongs to the company.
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by kec 9y ago
> The result has been a decade-long war in which Python fans try to shame Python users into moving to version 3. I think that's the most succinct way to put this whole debacle I've ever seen. I'm totally stealing this.
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by kec 9y ago
Buying a gun across state borders is already a federal felony. If buying out of state you must use an FFL in your home state as a middle man. There's also no evidence she did obtain the gun from out of state, so that's a bit of a
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by kec 9y ago
Deep discharge is actually probably what caused that. In lithium ion batteries, if cell voltage drops too low it can cause chemical changes in the electrolyte which can cause an internal short.
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by kec 9y ago
Licensing software to make it antagonistic to business is a good way to ensure no one is ever paid to improve it, which is a good way to see it stagnate. Do you really think Linux would have gone anywhere had it been licensed under those te
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by kec 9y ago
Honestly not really. Complexity breeds bugs simply due to surface area, and complexity grows exponentially with features (as in, each boolean option you add doubles the number of states your system can be in).
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by kec 9y ago
In complicated systems this just leads to literally everyone being unhappy: You get vocal users who's weird combination of settings lead to edge case bugs, leading to devs getting stretched thin playing whack-a-mole and neglecting the
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by kec 9y ago
The difference is that the ADA has standards which do not require licensure. You cannot legally require someone show you a service dog license. Where emotional support animals are protected by law (namely, housing and air transport) you als
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by kec 9y ago
someone still has to mop the floors.
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by kec 9y ago
If you're in the US, any license you got was snake oil. There is no licensure for service or emotional support/therapy animals. There are no legal requirements or standards for either in terms of training either, the only standard
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by kec 9y ago
Isn't it the other way around? The SE was released concurrently with the 6S and uses the same CPU even though it sold at a much lower price point.
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by kec 9y ago
It worked for P.A. Semi (eventually).
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by kec 9y ago
Anecdotally all the fast food restaurants I've seen hiring in the bay area are advertising $14-15/hr starting wages.
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by kec 9y ago
Minimum wage in California is $11/hr as of Jan 1st this year.
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by kec 9y ago
Silicon chips age due to electromigration, which is exacerbated by small feature sizes. Chips made 20 year ago could take decades for enough migration to cause failure which is why you’ve never known or cared before. Today due to the much s
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by kec 9y ago
It's inherent to how FPGAs work. Logic blocks are necessary but are kind of a heavyweight solution to emulate normal logic (and they'll result in a ton of extra silicon driving leakage up). Perf/Watt has always been interesti

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