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by mannyv 2y ago
Slowly but surely we got there mm by mm. They don’t have centimeter worms in the metric world I guess?
602.
by mannyv 2y ago
Is the vector method really faster than mask/subtract/compare? They never really say in the article.
603.
by mannyv 2y ago
“Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” Truer words have never been sung.
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by mannyv 2y ago
I'm always surprised that nobody has asked the US Navy if they heard anything. It's somewhat well known that US nuclear subs hang out in the Indian Ocean, and they have big ears.
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by mannyv 2y ago
From the same article: "Like the former emergency governments after June 2007, which were installed by presidential decree, this unity government was in fact illegal, as it was not approved by the Legislative Council.[2][3] Without the
606.
by mannyv 2y ago
At some point the claim of jurisdiction has to be adjudicated, as it states here: "The Chamber provided a legal answer based on the strict interpretation of the Rome Statute. It emphasised that the issue of the territorial jurisdiction
607.
by mannyv 2y ago
My understanding is that the ICC is only supposed to do this for countries/areas without a functioning and functionally independent judicial system. I expect the request for the Israelis will not be approved. Hamas will be interesting.
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by mannyv 2y ago
It uses MacApp, which was one of the first frameworks that tried to handle all the boilerplate for you. The basic structure of MacApp apps is a document, and the MacApp framework dispatches events to your handlers. It's been forever si
609.
by mannyv 2y ago
Freehand still hasn't been beat, even after all these years. Never did like Illustrator, but like everyone learned to use it once Freehand bit the dust.
610.
by mannyv 2y ago
TL;DR: Step 1: use the index Step 2: see step 1
611.
by mannyv 2y ago
I remember the Harvard OIT people had a gopher server running on their new mainframe back in the day. They were all excited about it too. Once the web guys implemented inline images it was pretty much all over.
612.
by mannyv 2y ago
Yeah, let's put another server that can fail in the path of your product because more failure points are better. But at least you're not providing your user a direct link to your database, which is almost always a bad idea.
613.
by mannyv 2y ago
People underestimate the cost of shipping produce. If you look at banana boxes, most of them come from Ecuador (in my area). There's a river of bananas coming from Ecuador to the US, and that river gets broken up into various tributari
614.
by mannyv 2y ago
We used to call them "packlets." His "tinygrams" is pretty good too, but that sort of implies UDP (D -> datagrams)
615.
by mannyv 2y ago
They should have blended all those objects then poured it into a mold. Or gone for the fetish crowd and had shapely legs (and feet) crushing objects, then taking the dust and molding it into an iPad. Or had a big katamari roll up all that,
616.
by mannyv 2y ago
What we've seen with AWS (and we only discounted like 2 services) is that if you commit to a monthly spend amount on a service you can get substantial discounts on that service. There are EC2 plans as well, which I assume means that yo
617.
by mannyv 2y ago
The reason I ask is that we (who are super small) got a massive discount on cloudfront bandwidth by just committing to a $2k/month spend - a discount that was more than 90% off of list. For a spend their size they should be able to get
618.
by mannyv 2y ago
The radius display was great, but the two-page displays really rocked.
619.
by mannyv 2y ago
I think these articles are great. It's about understanding what you do and what infra is appropriate. I have to wonder how that would look with a negotiated AWS discount. But they might get beaten to death by incoming bandwidth costs a
620.
by mannyv 2y ago
At that level you should be able to taste it.
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by mannyv 2y ago
"Modern PAs can self-tune the whole system just from playing a short burst of white noise through the system, and listening for the response" A technology which was developed by/with the Grateful Dead, by the way. From what I
622.
by mannyv 2y ago
How is this different from what the ham radio guys have? They were doing ip over ham in the 90s, i think, which is more performant than uucp for sure.
623.
by mannyv 2y ago
This totally neglects to mention that the commercial c compilers kicked gcc's ass when it came to performance. Sun's cc and and IBM's xlc were substantially better across the board, and I know the latter supported profile-bas
624.
by mannyv 2y ago
TL; DR: testing is hard, and developers aren't very good at it. It also sounds like internal documentation may be lacking, which isn't surprising.
625.
by mannyv 2y ago
One question is: if you build on the easement who is going to sue you? The public? The city? Who's going to bother? Or is the issue that it'll come up in the title search and you won't be able to get title insurance, which wi
626.
by mannyv 2y ago
I remember some telco guy saying “the IMEI is unique until it isn’t.” We always wondered if you could crash part of a cell network by dropping in 8192 phones with the same IMEI. Everyone needs to deal with non unique identifiers, but the qu
627.
by mannyv 3y ago
People are talking about schedule 3 needing a prescription, etc. From the financial point of view that's irrelevant; the point is that you CANNOT legally sell schedule 1 drugs commercially (with some exceptions that I can't rememb
628.
by mannyv 3y ago
You can sell schedule 3 drugs to consumers. Pharmacies do this all the time.
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by mannyv 3y ago
One major effect of this is that weed stores will be able to use banks and payment processors legally once the regulators catch up.
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by mannyv 3y ago
Back in the 80s Phreaking was the thing, because computers didn't really exist. OSUNY was one of the phreaking BBSs at the time. There was a big article in esquire about captain crunch, the blind guy, etc that I remember reading. I thi

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