kinofcain

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by kinofcain 10y ago
None of the largest body shops being present on the list is sad. The H-1B program is all too clearly abused by large "consulting" firms to drive down wages and mistreat visa holding employees under the threat of deportation.
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by kinofcain 10y ago
But violating the license terms by border hopping is piracy. Not saying I agree with geo restrictions, or any of the other silliness (I don't, and thankfully we're rapidly moving away from that sort of thing), but using VPNs or
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Yes, I was trying to figure out an eloquent way to add something to that effect to my comment, but I think you've done a better job than what I had drafted anyway. What would be interesting, is if diesels were predominantly more like
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Every gasoline car is going to put out more pollution in "real world" driving scenarios as well. This isn't a problem with diesels, per se, it's a problem with all emissions standards.
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by kinofcain 10y ago
They actually are pulling in boost. System thread and filesystem but not asio, according to the cmake file. The other commenters are probably right that they wanted to integrate with folly's existing async infrastructure.
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Fantastic. Regarding non-merge workflows: For me the question is: should git history reflect a literal record of keystrokes or should it reflect intent? I strongly believe in the latter.
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Super helpful. I hadn't thought of that use case for @autoclosure but that makes a ton of sense.
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Interesting to look at the chart of event volumes at the end. Did Spotify just accidentally reveal the effect Apple Music has had on their growth rate? Steep drop around mid-2015, some recovery since then. Hard to glean anything concrete, b
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Took me a second to figure out that this wasn't a tutorial in itself, but meant as a companion to another erlang book or class, specifically Simon St. Laurent's Introducing Erlang. From the author: "As I continued writing my
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Today's editorial in NYT states that Apple has, in fact, provided the latest iCloud backup for the phone in question: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/opinion/why-apple-is-right...
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by kinofcain 11y ago
But if I can update the firmware to make it easier to brute-force the pin, that's bad. Previously there was speculation that a firmware update to the secure enclave would wipe the contents of the secure enclave. If that's not the
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Boost has variant, which is also a discriminated Union though the visitor pattern ergonomics aren't quite as nice as result in rust or doing the same thing with enums in swift. There's work to get something like variant into the s
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by kinofcain 11y ago
They call for an AI but then they also have a platform. Why do they assume that this AI will make decisions that align with their ideology? What if Watson says vegetables should be banned and smoking should be mandatory? What if he's r
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by kinofcain 11y ago
We already have tubular structures for transporting water.
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by kinofcain 11y ago
This is how the Tunisian government scraped the Facebook passwords of Tunisian internet users in 2011: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-in...
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Interesting, if slightly irrelevant: The patent lists Tony Fadell and Steve Perlman as inventors. https://www.google.com/patents/US5675811
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the correction. I had seen the boost dependency and assumed it was using asio under the hood I guess.
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Folly, the library underneath wangle, is running on top of boost::asio, so this is basically an abstraction on asio two layers up.
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by kinofcain 11y ago
There was a separate issue with the 3.0L TDIs (which do use AdBlue) that VW had not informed the regulators of certain modes that the engine could enter due to temperature. This looks like that issue. "Audi also shed light on the Auxil
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Not just nearly identical to each other, they're nearly identical to zero. So your odds of winning are effectively the same whether you play or not. It approaches 1.0 as you buy more tickets, but even at $800m, the lump sum payout of $
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Seems like a false dichotomy: why not augment a greenhouse with LED lights? For some crops, like wine grapes, growers prefer to "dry farm" or use only natural rainfall. In dry years, however, most are forced to irrigate if nature
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Hub motors are heavy and unsprung weight is bad. If you're going inboard with driveshafts you might as well put a differential in there and be able to put more than 50% (2wd) or 25%(4wd) of power to one wheel. Putting a motor in each w
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by kinofcain 11y ago
"no plan to phase out Chrome OS" does not explicitly refute "speculation that Chrome OS will be folded into Android" Especially since the original story stated that google was going to "combine the operating systems
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Even worse, the person entering the pin knows what they are going to type in. Your backpack chip doesn't need to accept every pin.
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Seems like a lot of the things they're putting behind private APIs should instead/also be behind a user permission. Getting the list of installed apps, device serial number, and the users email address shouldn't be protected
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by kinofcain 11y ago
"Engineers" in this context meaning "Heads of engineering departments". These guys aren't individual contributor engineers.
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by kinofcain 11y ago
The most telling aspect of this is not the 10% power drop but the massive torque drop at lower RPMs. That indicates that VW is limiting turbo boost at low RPMs while in this mode. That makes sense, as increasing turbo boost increases pressu
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by kinofcain 11y ago
The EU announced earlier this year that they were changing the test procedures and certification rules for diesel cars to more accurately assess and control NOx output and to prevent gaming of the tests by manufacturers. Defeat devices were
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by kinofcain 11y ago
China is ~20% of the world's population (1.36 billion of 7 billion). If everyone in China left China, and assuming the rest of the world is living as a family of four (play along), then every home in the world outside of China would ha
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by kinofcain 11y ago
Not surprising to see Burt Rutan/Scaled Composites highly represented. http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/design-by-rutan-1333...

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