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by larkost 7y ago
Some parts of the process are obviously not ones where it makes sense to squeeze out every CPU cycle. Sometimes programmer time (both in development and maintenance) is your scarce resource (either because of total numbers, or people with s
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by larkost 8y ago
One of the arguments for pilots to be officers is that they are the ones who ultimately make the final decision on dropping bombs. The U.S. Air Force took a heavy mental beating over the horror of indiscriminate bombings it conducted in the
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by larkost 8y ago
Two things: 1. As an English-native-speaker who also learned German I find that I can mostly understand spoken and written Dutch through my German. I think part of your difficulty there is that it is closer to your native language where you
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by larkost 8y ago
It is not actually NFC, but if you use Target's App you can put your "Red Card" (target's in-house credit card) into your App and have a single scan for both their coupons system (Cartwheel) and payment at once.
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by larkost 8y ago
They get a percentage of every transaction (small, but it is about the aggregate for them). Mostly for Apple this is about pushing people who are using ApplePay to back it with a credit card that Apple gets a piece of, rather than the one y
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by larkost 8y ago
Yes, it is different. But how is that important in this conversation. Here the important bit is: have a tool that enables you to test your iOS code on your development machine. Emulation vs. simulation is not generally important in that. Si
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by larkost 8y ago
No. In order to publish (even just within your organization) you need to establish a trusted relationship, and Apple charges for that. There is plenty of room for argument about how much Apple should be charging for this, but the process do
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by larkost 8y ago
Two comments: 1. The ACA has by all accounts kept the growth of healthcare costs in check. Yes they have gone up, but at not nearly the rate they were going up before it, let alone the increased rate that most expected. If you start getting
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by larkost 8y ago
I am left jumping to the conclusion that you don't speak a second (living) language. There are very often thoughts in one language that can not be directly expressed in another specific language. I have those problems quite often betwe
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by larkost 8y ago
Some of the arguments have been on telling companies how to make their products. An example from the article would be making sure that large appliances can be dissembled non-destructively. Another example has been the suggestion of requirin
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by larkost 8y ago
My biggest problem has been with connections to automated testing systems. Specifically in the ability to keep the two in sync. My professional work in the last decade has mostly been on those automated systems, so I have a somewhat unique
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by larkost 8y ago
Yes, there is a pretty good video of an interview with Musk and the chief engineer on the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwX9G38vdCE From memory, the important points: 1. They want to have the drill work continuou
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by larkost 8y ago
I figured that was a typo for 2.7. But even then there are relatively few areas that need some touchup from 2.7 -> 3.5, and most of those are mechanical changes like having parens around print statements.
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by larkost 8y ago
No, that is exactly eugenics. It is removing an unwanted part of the (potential) population. I happen to think it is a really good idea, but it does solidly fall under the term eugenics.
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by larkost 8y ago
I can't speak to other places. But within the U.S. the "mainstream" media really has not changed. Here I am talking about organizations such as ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR News, The new Your Times, and the like. All of which are fairl
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by larkost 8y ago
No, it will not. The UI Frameworks do not support the concept of a cursor (except for text entry, where it is a bit different than on a computer).
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by larkost 8y ago
RethinkDB switched away from Protobufs (which underly GRPC) in favor of JSON when talking with both Python and Ruby clients because it was so much slower than using JSON. My guess is that this is still true, and even worse for JavaScript (t
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by larkost 8y ago
It was not `if (old phone)` it was `if (worn out battery on specific phones with a problem)`, the specific models with the problem happened to be slightly older. They worked fine with new batteries (and did not throttle), including replacem
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by larkost 8y ago
The main problem is that if you are thinking of getting a job in the U.S., many employers don't have the experience in rating non-U.S. degrees, so will view them with suspicion at best. My wife had this experience when she tried to get
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by larkost 8y ago
I was a bit annoyed that hardware routing is not automatically enabled for setups that can use it. It is not hard, but you have to stumble upon the fact that that setting exists (only on the command line).
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by larkost 8y ago
Type I diabetes is an inability of the pancreas to produce insulin. In typical type II diabetes it is not a problem of production, but rather the uptake of the insulin is inhibited. Basically the body becomes resistant to the insulin signal
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by larkost 8y ago
I grew up in a Sears & Roebuck home, as were a good portion of those on my block. The Wikipedia article on the subject says that there were 70,000 of them built[1]. So I see this as more of something that has come and gone, probably a f
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by larkost 8y ago
Kiva is not quite what you seem to think it is. Those robots navigate in specially constructed, human-free, spaces with QR codes on the floor to keep them positioned right. It is a highly developed system, but not one designed for anything
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by larkost 9y ago
That is not the case in the U.S., we had an unpleasant (and highly patronizing) conversation with an airline steward who tried to tell us that FAA regulations prohibited such a seat belt and that "the safest place for an infant is in t
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by larkost 9y ago
Please provide documentation for this. The only one I know if where they detected degrading batteries that would cause sudden shutdowns, and (without telling people) throttled the CPU to prevent the sudden spike of power draw that was causi
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by larkost 9y ago
It could be that the leaks were not serious enough for discipline, or were accidental enough that management thought that lesser discipline would be enough that it would not happen again. We really don't have enough information to begi
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by larkost 9y ago
You are mixing things up a little bit. Darwin (the underlying kernel layer of MacOS X and the rest) is actually a hybrid between a microkernel and a regular kernel. There is a microkernel there, but much of the services layered on top of it
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by larkost 9y ago
The data that the Obama campaign used, and the one that the Trump campaign may have used (it is clear they had it, unclear that they used it) were very different both in collection and in scope. The Obama campaign asked supporters which of
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by larkost 9y ago
Actually it was almost the opposite. In this case I think you are remembering the events of one release where Apple had to delay an iOS release and pull more resources to get it thought. A couple minutes of searching has not found it for me
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by larkost 9y ago
In the U.S. there are an increasing number of places where the schools insist on parents being present for both drop-off and pickup, sometimes to the point that they will call Child Protective Services (government agency) to report Child En

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