nwallin

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by nwallin 7y ago
Baby monitors are a thing and have been for close to 80 years. Now that cameras and displays are cheap video is on there too.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Privatizing or abolishing the USPS would be almost impossible. It's a constitutional requirement that the federal government runs the USPS.
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by nwallin 7y ago
The decompression could be done lazily when you switch to that channel.
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by nwallin 7y ago
A few years ago I went about trying to get my laptop to boot as fast as possible. Got it down to 9 seconds from POST completion to X with Chromium running. The only differences between the system I used for benchmarking and my regular deskt
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by nwallin 7y ago
That's dumb though. You can't efficiently address 21 bit values. You can efficiently address 8, 16, 32, and 64 bit values, some architectures can efficiently address 24 bit values. No architectures make it efficient to address 21
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by nwallin 7y ago
async factory methods for stuff the API requires me to keep around, but the same API requires my objects to be constructed synchronously. (This includes stuff in .NET) C++ doesn't have async as a language construct. (yet. I dread the d
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by nwallin 7y ago
I would assume it's a parody of James Bond or a reference to any of the numerous parodies of it over the years, notably Austin Powers' Dr. Evil.
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by nwallin 7y ago
I think the OP is only taking about media which was created for the purpose of being sold to people, and is easily copyable. IMHO there are fundamental differences between that and something that was purchased to satisfy the needs of yourse
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by nwallin 7y ago
They might be running old equipment whose only electronic equipment is the spark plugs and headlights. The people who don't upgrade old equipment tend to fall very heavily in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" cam
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by nwallin 7y ago
In my experience it's been the opposite. We work on a dual C++/C# codebase. Something like 3/4 C++ and 1/4 C#. Basically all of the memory lifetime errors happen in C# land. I do not recall a memory lifetime error _ever_
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by nwallin 7y ago
> For a video game running at 60 frames per second each frame has 16 milliseconds in which to complete, so a pause of less than a millisecond is not going to be significant relative to other overheads. First of all: bullshit. Second of a
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by nwallin 7y ago
Badly tied shoelaces?
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by nwallin 7y ago
I think you are dramatically underestimating the cost of a dependency. The dependency may change in surprising ways in the future. The dependency may not change in expected ways in the future. (ie, now you're trapped in an old version
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by nwallin 7y ago
This, a million times this. We can't even begin to think about the answers to this question with knowing what state the employer and/or poster are in. Nor can we begin to think about it without the specifics of the application and
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by nwallin 7y ago
This argument is called a heuristic. It's not actually a proof. It is an extremely persuasive one, however, and and as result of it, nearly all mathematicians believe the conjecture is true. The persuasiveness of the heuristic is one o
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by nwallin 7y ago
I do passwords this way. At first, it's pretty slow, but after a while it's muscle memory: my fingers know my passwords better than my brain does. I don't do passwords this way at work anymore, because they make us change it
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by nwallin 7y ago
My parents bought me a smart meat thermometer that connects to a cell phone app that does stuff. It requires location, file system, phone, contact, email, and sms privileges to pair with the thermometer. Nah.
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Maps aren't detailed enough, Yes they are. All of the US is mapped to 3m horizontal resolution and 1m vertical resolution, the world to 15m. This is grossly overkill. A 30m lossless compression dataset will run you about 1GB, whic
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by nwallin 7y ago
Or if you're me and your project is compiled with MSVC. My personal projects are are beautifully simple loops that compile to vectorized AVX or SSE instructions. My work projects have a lot of `//todo: rewrite this with intri
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by nwallin 7y ago
A bar friend of mine is currently a truck driver. He's going to school to learn to be a network engineer. Retraining is a really important part of our modern reality. The idea that we can simply turn off the tap of advancing technology
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by nwallin 7y ago
If it's one safety driver monitoring 4 vehicles it's still a win.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Dangerfield's shtick was being as shitty as possible in every possible way. He pretended to be a terrible human being, a terrible comedian, a terrible everything. It was hilarious. A lot of people weren't in on it though. They tho
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by nwallin 7y ago
Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space. One of my coworkers was given a Mac laptop by IT, not sure why. He uses it to RDP into his Windows desktop. I&
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by nwallin 7y ago
Do you live in California, and/or can you comment on California's laws regarding non-compete clauses? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Californi... > Non-compete agreements are automatica
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by nwallin 7y ago
Reason #-2147483648 to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL.
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by nwallin 7y ago
If Intel were given a container ship full of a gold and a mandate to redo the basic underpinnings of computation, and given a ten year alternative timeline, I'd wager they'd be about 30% faster than an equivalent Intel that mainta
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by nwallin 7y ago
Ternary is one of those things where the theory looks beautiful until you need to start putting circuits together. Then it's kinda shitty.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Regarding man in the loop: if you're a bystander, (and not the target) you want a drone attacking the primary target as opposed to a manned platform. With a manned platform, you have a chance of getting hit by a platform with a rear we
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by nwallin 7y ago
The leading cause of death among women before modern medicine was childbirth. Childbirth without medical care is incredibly dangerous.
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by nwallin 7y ago
At work we subcontracted a library. It's written in fairly idiomatic C. The person I replaced wasn't comfortable with C so he asked the sub to write a C++ wrapper. Lots of stuff is just a typedef if the C struct in a namespace. Cl

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