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by mbell 13y ago
If I were to guess: Google is detecting the user agent string and attempting to use features that should be supported. e.g. google's code is trying to use some IE11 feature that IE10 didn't support. The compat settings are making
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by mbell 13y ago
I can't explain the first 80% of it but the last bit: io/prediction/evaluations/itemsim/topkitems/ Is the folder structure required by the package definition. EDIT: mostly it seems to be the result of
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by mbell 13y ago
Anyone know of a way to check the model/version data of a drive in an OWC USB 3.0 enclosure? I bought a 2012 MBA with the 128GB drive on release and in early July this year the drive completely spazed out. After a round with Apple&#x27
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by mbell 13y ago
I was looking at Xero last year and ran into a firm brick wall, from [0]: "There is a daily limit of 1000 API calls that a provider can make against a particular Xero organisation in a rolling 24 hour period." That is an absurdly
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by mbell 13y ago
Valve can use Half-Life 3 / Portal 3 exclusives on SteamOS to push adoption of the OS/console which benefits them greatly.
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by mbell 13y ago
Even in the US, it's more than that for anyone that actually needs a PE license. It's usually a test, then X years of experience, then another test. More similar to an electrician's licence than anything.
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by mbell 13y ago
Great design. One word of caution before anyone runs out and replaces all your smoke detectors: Ask your local fire inspector about it. Fire safety rules are very convoluted and very region/state/city specific and I've run up
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by mbell 13y ago
The article is from the blog of a Mac only program and it's content is targeted at iOS developers. Windows users aren't remotely in the target market for the article.
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by mbell 13y ago
For what it's worth when I took my driving test in ~1999 they were called rotaries but the dynamics and physical layout was more like roundabouts from your pdf. i.e. If properly entered there was no 'weave' area, it's ju
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by mbell 13y ago
I grew up in New England where there are a fair number of 'roundabouts' (or rotorys as we called them). They were part of my driving test to get my license as a teenager. My take on them is that they probably do make traffic flow
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by mbell 13y ago
I believe that is the point. A human doesn't have the timing/strength to accurately shoot in full auto, a robot possibly can.
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by mbell 13y ago
> That all said, I already have Solidworks available because my roomate is a professional mechanical designer. It's also readily available at the local hackerspace computer lab. Is that...legal? I mean, sounds like you're happy
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by mbell 13y ago
I'm curious: Why does Solidworks justify the price tag but Altium doesn't? They are in the same pricing ballpark. Your description of Solidworks sounds very much like why I would choose Altium over Eagle.
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by mbell 13y ago
Certainly an interest approach for hobbyist work. But, for commercial work Altium is well worth the price in my opinion.
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by mbell 13y ago
The founding of Twitter was a bit of a mess. This is just my understanding of it, is most likely at least partially wrong and is certainly missing details: Williams and Noah Glass founded Odeo which did podcasting, Williams was the CEO and
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by mbell 13y ago
> The Surface 2 at least allows for a bit of productivity with the free office suite. Are you really arguing that there are no productive ways to use an ipad?
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by mbell 13y ago
Right, read that completely wrong, thank you for clearing that up.
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by mbell 13y ago
I'm in the same boat as GP, is there a way to force it back to 'Ajazeera English' short of a VPN? Aljazeera America has made the site worthless for me.
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by mbell 13y ago
I've covered this previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5498682 In short, IA-32e was intel's internal implementation name, which was changed to EM64T which was changed again and is now called INTEL
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by mbell 13y ago
> The illustrations weren't _that_ brilliant on their own The impressive part is that they weren't illustrations, they were individual renders of from 3D models of the worlds, designed, built and rendered on computers with a sm
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by mbell 13y ago
> A good chunk of the console games barely make it to PC/Windows as it is, let alone a PC/Linux platform... seems like a tough sell. True today but both the PS4 and XBone are now 8 core x86 platforms with desktop style GPUs. I
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by mbell 13y ago
Worked in the office acoustics world for awhile including coding a simulation for acoustics within both cubicle environments and private office to private office environments: The most important sound paths in most office spaces are refract
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by mbell 13y ago
While it's far from a complete measure of performance, one data point is that the PS4 GPU is capable of 1.84 tflops, the 5s GPU is capable of 76.8 gflops, only ~4.2% the throughput of the PS4.
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by mbell 13y ago
If you're addressing more than 4GB of physical memory (actually, ~3 to 3.5GB ish), you're using PAE, 32 vs 64 bit doesn't have any relevance to this. ARMv8 still uses a modified version of LPAE and x86_64 also uses an extens
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by mbell 13y ago
> By dynamic I think he just means that annotations are a really hacky way to do things. Why? > You use annotations in place of java code, and while you can tweak java code you can't tweak what an annotation does or how it does i
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by mbell 13y ago
I don't know what you mean by dynamic but dropwizard is just a selection of other libraries wired together into a framework with supporting code (config, etc) which is built for high performance HTTP services serving JSON, but it can d
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by mbell 13y ago
Depends on the dependency management they want to support. If you want to get your package into maven central making it easy to use, you seem to still have to own the domain in reverse order. aka if you want to publish a package with a com.
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by mbell 13y ago
Personally, I would use dropwizard. Spark's key point seems to be avoiding annotation based constructs. Compare (Spark): public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { get(new Route("&#x
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by mbell 13y ago
Just to add, if you want to 'fail safe' a breadboard design, your better off assuming ~25pF of stray capacitance per breadboard insertion point. You should also make sure your circuit bandwidth is less than ~8-10Mhz, keeping in mi
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by mbell 13y ago
When I say 'model it', I mean that loosely, perfect modeling of electronics circuits isn't realistic anyway, any modeling worth the effort will assume a range of possible values for anything under test. A simple example would

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