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If you can nonetheless voice a design issue, consider putting it on the record in their own forum [1], even if your concerns won't result in substantive changes in the end. [1] https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts
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They overlap significantly, and some of it is by accident and some is by design. Most of this resulted from convergent evolution by some of the same authors; HTTP/2's transport innovations over HTTP/1.1 were largely lifted fr
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It's a spillover from the strange (but comprehensive) land of enterprise communication and productivity software like of Lotus Notes, Exchange, and GroupWise, but also influenced by the web browser "suites" of the late 1990s.
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I live in the Virginia Beach metro, which alongside Austin, Dallas, and Cincinnati, is one of the four test locations announced for their new Whole Foods Prime delivery service. My theory is that the Virginia Beach location was chosen as th
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Whole Foods gave Amazon a high-end, nationwide, yet arguably "mainstream" grocery store to enter into the US grocery market. It's an aspirational brand, yet not so specialty to be ostentatious. It's a nationwide chain, u
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There are emerging standards around this -- in the sense of, you, as the agent to a new client, providing some information and gaining delegated access, complete with API keys, to some established resource server -- but deployment is fairly
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If you're losing connection due to a shaking radio dish, as in the original case, a different shaking radio dish is hardly a compelling solution.
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It sounds like when you say "an AAC project", you're thinking of MPEG-4 ALS [1], which was the codec chosen by MPEG for lossless audio in the mid-2000s and last updated in 2009. Despite ALS being blessed by MPEG, it never ach
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Tow a cable from the barge to a nearby ship, buoy, or platform on which the antenna sits, that's out of range of the vibrations and faces a different direction?
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For what it's worth, PCs are subject to the exact same slow decline, even if the author's romantic notions of repurposing an old machine ring true. While they may be suitable for old games on an unnetworked, phone-activated WinXP,
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From a technical standpoint, this is largely the same problem as the portability of other user data, with the added complication that the data must be signed by an identifiable originating party other than the user that the receiving party
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Swatch Internet Time and UTC solve the same problem: they both present a timezone- and locale-agnostic, almost-monotonous scale that's two-ways convertible with local times. Except UTC is more natural to reason about, because it looks
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This is a fight between smartphone-default map apps (Google Maps, Apple Maps), and other map networks that come integrated in a different product, like a car or a standalone GPS unit. The article chooses HERE to represent the latter, whose
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Hand-harvesting data is a perfectly legitimate solution, although it comes with a steep initial cost and an ongoing maintenance cost. However, this enables the data to be curated and validated. For this, they wanted to accurately capture th
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The title doesn't match the article's content: the content primarily notes that Facebook's own messaging apps Messenger, WhatsApp, and seemingly, in the article's interpretation, Instagram-as-a-messaging app are siphonin
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Range anxiety is real, and you're underestimating its magnitude. Today, gas stations are practically ubiquitous along major population and travel corridors, so there's a huge install base of infrastructure when you're stuck i
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The Switch's success is helped by its predecessor's failure, not unlike Windows 7 was helped by poor reception of Vista. Plenty of people skipped on the Wii U, but demand for Nintendo's content remained high. People wanted to
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I made this point [1] about the latest side-channel attacks: mixing various kinds of activities -- business and pleasure, familiar and unknown, critical and discretionary -- on the same computer is bad hygiene, at least with the sort of com
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It's affected by several factors. Survivor bias, most prominently. "To be listed, a brand or company name must remain operating, either in whole or in part, since inception." Surviving was helped by continuity of social str
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He has a slide deck [1] that he links to in the interview, where he tries to highlight some challenges with grokking large codebases, and techniques one can use to compartmentalize understanding and build from there. I found it both a bit t
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"Tip creep" or "guilt tipping" is simply milking [1][2][3] the social conventions around tipping while you're standing in front of the would-be beneficiary, card in hand. Most of the tip goes to the seller, of cours
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A lot. It's also not a good use of money, as BART has an unusual track gauge, strange engineering decisions, and is operationally and mechanically incompatible with other commonly deployed rail systems. Not to mention, even with BART f
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I think the original Prop 1 bill [1] lays out maximum nonstop travel time targets between major cities to be delivered, and a requirement to be able to bypass any station at "mainline operating speed", (which I strongly believe is
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I will defend the OP here, and say that LA-SF trains indeed make little sense, when perfectly good sunk-cost airports already exist that allow various airlines to compete over that route on price and features. Trains are more susceptible to
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I've long held the opinion that the Central Valley portion of the project, and/or the first phase of this project -- which in this case, refer to the same stretch -- is overbuilt in ways that make little practical sense. If you&#x
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Yeah, the cognitive dissonance is only among the leadership of the project here. Big projects like this are chronically underbudgeted (or "optimistically budgeted"), and leadership always jumps through various mental hoops to attr
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As others are pointing out, steps 2 and 3 are flawed in this design. In an effort to break out the decision steps into a wizard, the author chooses to treat the distinction of 'test alert' vs 'real alert' as a simple con
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These side-channel attacks -- which, as illustrated, are not new -- are becoming perceived as more acute because more so than before we're intermingling processes with vastly different purposes, responsibilities, and origins, on the s
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This seems reasonable. Declarative code, such as HTML or CSS, which describe particular behaviors of rendering from a broad, but limited palette, are a different severity from imperative code that can interact with various features of your
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There's also an amusing "failure mode" of induction loops: impatient people pulling up further into an intersection -- for example, aiming for an opportunistic left turn -- and they move off of the loop. The lights cycle; the

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