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by pcl 7y ago
When I need to use mine with confidential work documents, I just put it into airplane mode and upload documents to it over USB. I confirmed (a few software versions back) that deleting while in offline mode resulted in a full delete, and th
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by pcl 7y ago
Actually, it’s the ultra wide lens that is unique to the pro.
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by pcl 7y ago
Yes -- put more clearly, it's not possible in the relational calculus to fetch the number of degrees of separation between two actors.
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by pcl 7y ago
Let's assume we're playing the Kevin Bacon game. We've got actors, movies, and roles. Here's some sample data: INSERT INTO actors (id, name) VALUES (1, 'Kevin Bacon') INSERT INTO actors (id, name) VAL
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by pcl 7y ago
SQL generally doesn't have primitives that let you traverse arbitrary relationships. You can join multiple tables together, but the nature of those relationships is expressed directly in the SQL statement you're writing. Some RDBs
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Facebook to require buyers of political ads to provide more info about who paid(washingtonpost.com)
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by pcl 7y ago
For many, it's a goal to avoid having a national ID, for privacy-from-the-government reasons. The ACLU has a decent writeup about the issue: https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards
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by pcl 7y ago
> non-usage is moot given it’s in the stream already You can apply backpressure to the stream by buying things not wrapped in plastic in the first place. It’ll take some time for the signal to have an impact, but if enough people selec
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by pcl 7y ago
> Because the fault was triggered by specific streams of erroneous flight data, a new software patch can be devised that monitors the computer for that highly unusual condition and prevents movement of the stabilizer when it occurs, one
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by pcl 7y ago
Presumably someone is using the high four bits for some other purpose. It wouldn't surprise me if parts of an A350's avionics software is old enough that those sorts of space optimizations made sense.
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by pcl 7y ago
What’s meaningful about power density as a metric for reactors?
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by pcl 7y ago
From Wikipedia: An autogyro (from Greek αὐτός and γύρος, "self-turning"), also known as a gyroplane or gyrocopter, is a type of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. Forward thrust is provi
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by pcl 7y ago
In practice, this happens frequently. We've seen this happen with TLS certificate authorities and with DRM solutions.
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by pcl 7y ago
I couldn't find a downloadable copy on his website. Here's an external link: https://archive.org/details/InformationDoesntWantToBeFree
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by pcl 7y ago
The author mentions power consumption issues in the post. I've seen the same when running RPi access points. Definitely use a decent power brick if you're going this route.
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by pcl 7y ago
I’ve set up scripts that periodically grab my working state (unpushed commits, stage, and local diffs) for certain git working trees and push the changes to a directory in Dropbox. The scripts also do a periodic “git fetch origin” in a broa
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by pcl 7y ago
Blerg. There should be asterisks around that italicized conflict word.
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by pcl 7y ago
Be careful with git repositories shared in Dropbox in this manner. If you are running an ide on multiple machines, the idle ones might do some crazy things to your .git tree. You can look for signs of trouble by running “find .git/ -na
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by pcl 7y ago
I want to know what the people who are familiar with type theory but are not proponents of either static or dynamic type systems are up to. Did they move on to management? Switch to physics or painting? Retire?
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by pcl 7y ago
Wow, I just read the first section (four or five paragraphs) and learned two new things already. Is this representative of Feynman’s writings? The level of both clarity and information is impressive.
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by pcl 7y ago
I’m getting good enough to keep them on their toes... I think!
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by pcl 7y ago
If I lose my job, I need to find a new one with a similar title within 6 months. And I can only receive a salary from one company at a time -- no paid side gigs. So it's somewhat tied to my employment status, but more like a generous H
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by pcl 7y ago
I moved to Norway a little over a year ago, and was 41 at the time. It was pretty straightforward for me, as my employer has an office here in Oslo, so it was just an internal transfer, and they took care of all the paperwork. I'm not
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by pcl 7y ago
Per the Wikipedia page about her [1], the two Nobel prizes that would have made sense for her to be awarded were both granted after her death — one in 1962 and another in 1982. The Nobel isn’t awarded posthumously. [1] https://en
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by pcl 7y ago
I’ve been using an aftermarket magnetic connector on my usb-c laptop for several months now. It consists of a low-profile adapter that just lives in one of the usb-c ports, and a bulkier conversion socket that plugs onto the end of my exist
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by pcl 7y ago
Does anyone have a good impression about how Firefox's energy consumption compares to Safari's?
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by pcl 7y ago
Doesn't load for me in Safari, but works in Chrome. From the JS console: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: IntersectionObserver
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by pcl 7y ago
The referenced hydro accident is the Banqiao Dam failure, which Wikipedia says resulted in between 171,000 and 230,000 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
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by pcl 7y ago
> Nowadays this happens less often as there are bigger and bigger private investors (so you can raise billions in private markets) Arguably, the reason IPOs happen less now than 20 years ago is because of the increase in regulatory req
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by pcl 7y ago
That's $776M for the quarter, not for the year. Typically, when doing the "multiples of revenue" valuation comparison, that's done on yearly numbers, not quarterly numbers. I have no idea how constant their revenue figur

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