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by mbell 8y ago
> It turns out that if you use 80 columns as a heuristic, the vast majority of the code will look fine. I'm not sure what corpus was used to determine that heuristic (nor what tab size). But it would trash a lot the projects I work
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by mbell 8y ago
I generally found the fluid analogy did more damage than good for a lot of people in EE school. A lot of people think of electricity as electrons zipping around a circuit at the speed of light due (at least in part) to the water analogy. Ha
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by mbell 8y ago
> One way valves are basically diodes, but for fluids rather than electrons. The analog of the fluid in that analogy is electric charge/current, not electrons which move in the other direction (which kinda breaks the analogy as a re
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by mbell 8y ago
> Also, when did you last download a driver update from NVidia for your Mac? Last week. Nvidia releases drivers for cards that the drivers which ship with macos don't support. I would also guess that the nvidia drivers which ship wi
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by mbell 8y ago
That seems to be based on this paper: http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2009/39/c039p001.pdf That is a really weird paper, basically they are assuming that the 98-99 season is representative of some abstract
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by mbell 8y ago
Realistically, all I want are performance and stability improvements. Unrealistically, there are number of relatively simple things Apple could do to improve the hackintosh experience.
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by mbell 8y ago
I don't understand what you are proposing. If the modal can't cover the like button, how would you implement a modal? How would you implement the standard background fade when a modal is open (which is a div covering the entire pa
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by mbell 8y ago
> With skiing in the east an industry in rough shape since it doesn't snow anymore I'm not sure where you are coming up with that. In fact many places in the NE have have multiple top 10 all time snowfalls in the last 10 years.
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by mbell 8y ago
That would break a lot of things. For example you couldn't use a modal on a site that had a facebook like button on it. Click jacking is generally avoided by the `X-FRAME-OPTIONS` header or the CSP frame-ancestors option.
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by mbell 8y ago
The connection comments are a bit dubious. MySQL will use less memory for 1000 connections but performance will still drop due to contention and context switching. In both systems you want a small number of connections to the actual databas
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by mbell 8y ago
> Apple is in a bad spot. They have beat sales estimates on the MBP and still show growth despite a contracting market. A few people raging on hacker news is not representative of the market, nor even software developers as a whole.
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by mbell 8y ago
> Imagine trying to upgrade a system with incredibly complex data on a BILLION users that has to work 24/7, then deal with massive data influx four times a year plus catastrophic data ingestion one time a year. I think you're o
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by mbell 8y ago
Or you can continuously keep your code / systems up to date and never get wedged into a nearly impossible situation of having to rewrite 60 year old code (which likely has nothing resembling a test suite nor even a spare piece of compa
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by mbell 9y ago
I think that is just an example of losing the branch name, the commit history is the same in both cases. If you really want that behavior from git, you can have it, just create a tag for each branch HEAD. Actually I think this is all that f
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by mbell 9y ago
No I'm not, you do _not_ require keeping a branch around to have the complete commit history of the branch, the point it diverged from another branch, all the commits that were on the branch, and the point where it was merged back into
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by mbell 9y ago
Yes, you can. The name is not stored in the history other than the merge commit message but the full history is there and you can ask git to show you the merge commit for any commit.
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by mbell 9y ago
> or even the history of the branch That is not true. You get a branch diagram just like the fossil example in the OP.
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by mbell 9y ago
The default message is "Merge branch '<name>'"
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by mbell 9y ago
Commits in git can have multiple parents, aka 'merge commits'. Using them maintains the branch history.
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by mbell 9y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding how statistics could be considered an empirical science, and really what bearing that term has on statistics at all. Can you explain?
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by mbell 9y ago
Intel is just behind, Cannonlake which supports LPDDR4 is now ~18 months late. LPDDR4 also uses a different physical signaling scheme than LPDDR3 so it's not a minor change to adapt current processors, if it is even possible without a
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by mbell 9y ago
I believe DisplayPort 1.4 with DSC would already support this, though I think it's pretty close to the maximum.
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by mbell 9y ago
You also don't need to render at full resolution. A significant benefit of higher res VR displays is not being able to physically see the pixels / screen door effect of the screen. You still get this benefit by rendering at a lowe
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by mbell 9y ago
"fake it until you make it" generally refers to the product implementation vs pitch on the consumer side. e.g. You pitch "The best automated way to do X!", but in actuality you have a horde of people doing the work initi
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by mbell 9y ago
> Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s. It's also shrinking at an increasing rate and may be gon
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by mbell 9y ago
Just put your phone in an inside jacket pocket, it'll be fine.
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by mbell 9y ago
I'd be surprised if all phones don't have thermal range protection. At the very least the battery almost certainly does, not having it would be dangerous. Going into a partially operating state and giving warnings rather than just
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by mbell 9y ago
How much of that is applicable in this case? He knew enough to attach the file to an e-mail and send it to someone else asking for a PDF version. So the only piece of missing knowledge here appears to be finding the option in word's me
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by mbell 9y ago
Do you really need a technical background or some sort of college training to find the File > Save As > PDF option?
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by mbell 9y ago
You don't 'hear' EM waves. What you're hearing near high voltage lines is coronal discharges near the conductors; The field strength is high enough to ionize the air around the conductor causing it to move around, moving

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