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by mantap 7y ago
I don't think I'm perpetuating an urban myth. My understanding is that MCAS was necessary to correct a deficiency in the controls - that's the controls violated an FAA rule that the pitch up should not be superlinear relative
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by mantap 7y ago
That's true but it puts the aircraft at a greater risk of stalling, because MCAS is supposed to be a safety feature to prevent stalls. Two sensors are sufficient to prevent false positives, but three or more are necessary to mitigate f
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by mantap 7y ago
If you live in a country that has municipal waste collection, the best thing you can do if you are concerned about plastic pollution is: 1. Don't litter. 2. Switch to clothes made wholly from natural fabrics such as wool or cotton. The
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by mantap 7y ago
Another German named situation is zwischenzug, which is an intermediate move. If your opponent makes a threat against your piece, instead of making the expected move to block, move, capture, etc; you can instead temporarily threaten one of
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by mantap 7y ago
There are parts of the world that have much better OSM coverage than Google maps, e.g eastern Indonesia. I don't think OSM is ever going to beat Google in for instance New York City but it absolutely can and does beat Google in parts o
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by mantap 7y ago
Extremely rare in the west in 2019. Not rare in some other parts of the world with an unstable security situation. They were also common in the UK in the 90s and earlier during the troubles, so it's not like western countries are magic
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by mantap 7y ago
Do Apple customers use recent actively developed software because they want to or because Apple often breaks their APIs and actively developed software is all that you can use?
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by mantap 7y ago
To be clear, it's not a cookie problem. The web link "works" in that I can see more of the article but it still cuts off partway through. I assumed that they are providing a partial article for Google to index.
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by mantap 7y ago
Latency is generally considered a bad thing on Twitch. The lower the better. 5 seconds is good. ~10 seconds is acceptable, 20 seconds or more starts to become intolerable.
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by mantap 7y ago
Can we have a new rule on HN please that if you submit a paywalled or loginwalled article you have to post the full text in a comment? "Web" link not working.
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by mantap 7y ago
That was because one of the contributors made a (legally sound if unsporting) copyright claim though wasn't it?
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by mantap 7y ago
I went to university but I didn't study CS, I studied mathematics. I don't think I'd be a better programmer if I'd studied CS. Am I glad I went to university? Yes, but frankly it's nothing that you couldn't lea
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by mantap 7y ago
Theoretically yes but practically no. Theoretically Big O notation is defined as a limit that goes to infinity but in practice there's no such thing as infinity and saying that an algorithm's runtime is in O(n) implies certain thi
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by mantap 7y ago
IMO, premature optimization doesn't apply to cases where you are making general decisions about policy or defaults, otherwise you can get into a "death by a thousand cuts" situation where none of your functions are slow indiv
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by mantap 7y ago
Binary also has mathematical advantages over ternary, for instance 2 is the smallest integer greater than 1 (no shit) so powers of 2 are as close together as you can get in the integers. Bitwise operations correspond to the finite field GF(
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by mantap 7y ago
I have rarely needed to escape a SQL string since the days of PHP4, nowadays it is standard to use parameter binding such as "SELECT * FROM table WHERE row = ?" - it's also faster since the query doesn't need to be recom
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by mantap 7y ago
That's still dangerous and a retrograde step security-wise. There should be no third party code that is running on your internet banking session, including browser extensions.
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by mantap 7y ago
There's definitely a quantative difference between the amount of other individuals' personal data in your bank records vs in your social network account.
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by mantap 7y ago
Neither of the examples given need types if good interfaces to those functions are chosen. Since types are part of the interface then why wouldn't you just change the interface to not exhibit those bugs rather than using types to pro
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by mantap 7y ago
It's also reasonably dense, up to 3 letters can be packed in one square, compared to one and a half in latin.
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by mantap 7y ago
Both of those errors can also be addressed by better code , e.g. you can use lambdas to make sure things get autoclosed if there's no with/using construct. And you can avoid SQL injection by using query string interpolation inste
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by mantap 7y ago
Those are mergers and acquisitions. I said Apple needs to find new product categories outside of consumer electronics. They were going to make a car at one point but the project imploded. It's really not healthy for a company to build
593.
by mantap 7y ago
HomePod flopped because few people want to spend hundreds of dollars on Siri when they could spend tens of dollars on Google home which is a better voice assistant. Having good audio quality doesn't explain the price tag when you can p
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by mantap 7y ago
The point is that now people in that part of the world think doctors are CIA agents and try to kill them.
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by mantap 7y ago
Okay but say I receive money from you, I send you goods or services, then you fraudulently claim to the bank that the transfer was erroneous. The law is as it is because arbitrating disputes between customers is correctly a matter for the c
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by mantap 7y ago
It's also not really any better than tapping your card against the reader, which is what most people in UK do.
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by mantap 7y ago
How many Android users buy Apple watches and airpods? They are primarily accessories to the iPhone, not standalone products. What limits Apple to the electronics market? It's been clear for a long time that they need to grow outside of
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by mantap 7y ago
That seems way more idealistic somehow. More likely, with a more standard corporate governance Google will begin to rot from within. Apple certainly made more profits under Cook than Jobs, but innovation has slowed to a crawl and he has f
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by mantap 7y ago
The difference between JS and C++ is that C++ is addressing a complex problem domain whereas JS is addressing a simple one. So JS can put its complexity budget towards features that improve productivity whereas such features in C++ require
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by mantap 7y ago
This is what happens when a country has a febrile mixture of money and paranoia. Crackpot scientist phones up and starts spouting random technobabble, neighborhood summarily evacuated while the state verifies that yes he is indeed a crackpo

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