mjevans

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811.
by mjevans 3y ago
Yes, send up the robot miners. Plow the results onto the moon a safe but close distance to a base. Manufacture parts in lower G and far easier vacuum (it's super useful for MANY industrial things). Possibly even use solar collector
812.
by mjevans 3y ago
I strongly suspect they'll achieve at least partial re-usability if not full by 9 launches. If not SpaceX will at least have a very clear understanding of the engineering problem by that point. I'm most worried about the final l
813.
by mjevans 3y ago
The parking spaces are still there because the city's 'density' or 'daytime population' was pumped by ecologically unsustainable commutes. The US has never had a high level civic planning process or ability. Housin
814.
by mjevans 3y ago
Unity also burned a LOT of good will with the licensing changes we heard about over the past year or two.
815.
by mjevans 3y ago
Exactly. Desktops also need to step up to using 4 channels of memory and thus a wider memory bus.
816.
by mjevans 3y ago
As a hypothetical, lets assume there's a compiler that has a deep transformation around alloc/reallocs to optimize them when they're only fed 'static' input sizes. // Source by nlewycky template
817.
by mjevans 3y ago
I have no proof, but I suspect it's a firefox bug, as I've noticed other behavior that seems a LOT like: some process forces a tab to reload, but that trigger isn't fed to plugins (E.G. Dark Reader, and pages that are unexpec
818.
by mjevans 3y ago
I've forgotten if 'address of' ( & ) is signed or unsigned. Worse, in a quick search online I can't seem to find anyplace that mentions what the return type of address of is, just a bunch of basic working with point
819.
by mjevans 3y ago
No, because the code as it was written is still evaluated and executed. Said execution happened to become static at the time the program was compiled and 3 out of the 4 times it was executed an effect and binary output was generated. In al
820.
by mjevans 3y ago
Agreed, 'zombie state' is a valid failure mode. Partners / Infra can think they're alive and respond but be non-functional. As can agents spoofing valid infra but always failing operations.
821.
by mjevans 3y ago
Different levels of warnings might be useful. -Wub # Warn _anytime_ there is detected potential undefined behavior, irrespective of if there is an associated optimization. -Wubelim # Warn any time code is eliminated as a result of undefined
822.
by mjevans 3y ago
If code is dead or unreached, and therefore deleted / no instructions emitted; clearly THAT is of a level a warning should cover, if not an error.
823.
by mjevans 3y ago
Once again, I want to plead. At least have a Warning option to annotate any time undefined behavior is encountered by a compiler. The goal should be to promote optimizations to written code and improve code quality. Not just the result o
824.
by mjevans 3y ago
Compressed data is like a backup. It's not valid until it's tested.
825.
by mjevans 3y ago
Which parts did you find blockingly complex, or was it more the interaction of so many language features? The operator overloading aspect of C++ , IMO, allows for obtusely opaque domain specific languages where the actions and side effects
826.
by mjevans 3y ago
I agree with your guess. High value targets presumably have real effort put into penetration at which point for most of us (single people, rather than megacorps or large countries) it's game over. It is literally impossible for me to
827.
by mjevans 3y ago
Multi-faceted failure mode. 0) At the network terminal level (mobile phone): at least for emergency calls if a given network fails to connect, fail over and try other networks. Even if the preferred networks claim to provide service. 1) At
828.
by mjevans 3y ago
Minimum height in the stairway isn't part of the specification. The house being structurally sound so it doesn't collapse / otherwise cause a safety hazard in the building is. Not sure if there's a type of architect tha
829.
by mjevans 3y ago
Regulation fixes: Life cycle ownership: Just like handling hazmat in industrial processes is considered the ownership of the entity using the materials, so too should the waste stream resulting from the end of life of the product. Encourag
830.
by mjevans 3y ago
Trade: If the company at ANY POINT calculates a lifetime analysis for the whole or any sub-component, the SHORTEST LIFETIME DURATION, MUST be advertised at the same print scale size and next to the price of the product at all times.
831.
by mjevans 3y ago
That sounds lovely and refreshing... Please get that into the USA so I don't have to READ 40+ pages every year!
832.
by mjevans 3y ago
A reasonable compulsory license fee (all paid to the copyright office, none to the corp) and/or a revocation of copyright and entry to public domain for failure to maintain published access would be good sticks.
833.
by mjevans 3y ago
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315585 " Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability > A 2024 plea for lean software " The problem involves so many dependencies that it is impossible for an
834.
by mjevans 3y ago
I wonder how effective a speed focused variation could be for quality among 264, 265, and AV1.
835.
by mjevans 3y ago
Missing an 'ECC' vs 'Non-ECC' filter... and I honestly would like all the marketing people that feel a need to specify 'Non-ECC' to just be fired for search pollution.
836.
by mjevans 3y ago
IIRC PHP BB used || for data separators. The abstraction often leaked.
837.
by mjevans 3y ago
Things like additional inline images, hyperlinks to a bunch of places, etc non-text data. It's probably only a couple fractions of a point more spam score per message, but spammers and typical employee end user communication can look
838.
by mjevans 3y ago
Worse, spammers are better at their 'professional job' (getting mail past other people's spam filters and inane preferences) than your tiny mail server or small group of employees who don't understand how to not look spa
839.
by mjevans 3y ago
Even a newline could be used per header to add a second 'line' that has the units. It makes sense to humans and computers could easily read that.
840.
by mjevans 3y ago
Is there any reason a 'csv' file can't use E.G. \\002 2 0x02 STX (start of text) OR \036 30 0x1E RS (record separator) as the record separator instead of a comma? The big reason CSV uses commas is to be hum

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