peeters

48 ms·

601.
by peeters 9y ago
> 16 GB ROM Why do they make such an effort to advertise memory that is useless to the end-user?
602.
by peeters 9y ago
> The problem here in Spain/Catalonia is that Catalonian politicians only want Catalonians to vote. The same was true of the Scottish referendum. And the Quebec referendums. I'm not really for or against anything here, but it
603.
by peeters 9y ago
So are batteries the only viable storage solution? Does any other storage compare in terms of price and scale? (allowing a dollar value to be put on efficiency) If not I'd assume Tesla would be well positioned there, but I wonder if e
604.
by peeters 9y ago
Aren't we only talking about a difference in term length then? i.e. it's more common for the term length to equal the amortization length in the U.S.? In Canada even the amortization/maturity can't be greater than 25 y
605.
by peeters 9y ago
What you're describing is a fixed rate mortgage with a 5 year term. We may not allow 40 year terms, but that doesn't mean we don't allow fixed rate mortgages. After the term is up you can renegotiate a new fixed rate term i
606.
by peeters 9y ago
Honestly I think it's easier to feel irrationally safe about a 0.2% chance, especially if you leave out the "per year". "500-year flood" at least emphasizes that it's not a question of "if", but &quo
607.
by peeters 9y ago
Why is it so much warmer immediately after totality than immediately before? Seems more like the camera shifted its white balance over the course of the video. Thanks for sharing though! I wasn't able to experience the full eclipse s
608.
by peeters 9y ago
What evidence do we have of that?
609.
by peeters 9y ago
> bench seating Wait long tables is one thing, but what on earth does bench seating mean? Like it's one long picnic table?
610.
by peeters 9y ago
Really? Getting rid of a few rarely used and deprecated APIs (for the first time EVER) in a 21-year-old ecosystem is enough to discount the value of those 21 years of backwards compatibility?
611.
by peeters 9y ago
They've stated in the past that the reused rockets are offered at a 10% discount, of a launch price of around 60 million. But that's expected to widen considerably, for now there's basically no competition and they're s
612.
by peeters 9y ago
Well if we're searching for interest, a "first" for this one was that this was the first rocket that has landed on two different oceans. The first launch was from Vandenberg and landed in the Pacific. The second was from Ca
613.
by peeters 9y ago
Well Kitchener-Waterloo had the highest year-over-year house price increase in Canada in April/May (40% year over year), so I wouldn't call it "normal", but all signs point to the housing market in Ontario cooling if not
614.
by peeters 9y ago
What does "liftoff" actually mean here? From the video all I could tell was they taped a tiny circuit to a dragonfly and then let it fly away. Were they controlling the insect? Did the circuit do anything useful? Or was the mi
615.
by peeters 9y ago
I'm pretty new to CA, so I found this really useful in giving some necessary background to the algorithm and what a "rule" is: http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-7-cellular-automata/
616.
by peeters 9y ago
Wouldn't it be a much more accurate measure to track the most commonly occurring words in the "did you mean..." suggestions?
617.
by peeters 9y ago
I wasn't saying that no JS support is hurting them. I was objecting to the notion that them being separate teams is relevant. It's perfectly reasonable to judge a product by how it is marketed.
618.
by peeters 9y ago
What does it matter? If a website for a new router only supported Internet Explorer, I definitely would know either I'm not their target market, or they know nothing about that market, or they don't care.
619.
by peeters 9y ago
To a certain extent sure, but there's a full spectrum. Football does have safer rules than it did a couple decades ago, so obviously there is and has been room for change. Rugby has similar sized guys (not quite as big, but big) and
620.
by peeters 9y ago
That's how I understand it. It is the physical presence of data that allows the warrantless search in the first place. Leaving data off of your device would be treated no different than leaving your device at home entirely.
621.
by peeters 9y ago
> You're only committing a crime if you lie under oath, either to a court or congress. This is unfortunately far from the truth. See this recent post: http://www.wisenberglaw.com/Articles/How-to-Avoid-Going-to-
622.
by peeters 9y ago
What lie has been told?
623.
by peeters 10y ago
You're right. I don't have the resources for a full analysis but I did "shorten" three Google Maps links (IMO a good candidate for link shortening). The compression for the three ranged between 114% and 117% of the orig
624.
by peeters 10y ago
Hmm, IMO it should be a valid URL with a protocol then. Something like zurl:Ma0t7asf...0a==. Something needs to identify how to handle it. I'm really not sure it's handling what URL shorteners are though. URL shorteners can tak
625.
by peeters 10y ago
You can click on a tinyurl link. That's all that's required from the user. I'm finding it really difficult to understand where this would be useful. Do we expect everyone to keep the handy decoder available and know to use
626.
by peeters 10y ago
> If your business model relies on feeding users ad technology known to be unsafe, undesirable, and disrespectful to users' freedom... You're begging the question. The point of the article is saying that advertising should be
627.
by peeters 10y ago
You have api.mysite.com which serves both an embedded device as well as your site. To allow the site to be viewed in Chrome, you need a new cert for your API, and so you now have to either update your site to point to a different endpoint,
628.
by peeters 10y ago
I didn't use "modern" to describe features, I used it to describe languages. Modern languages have a tendency toward multi-paradigm feature inclusion. So while the features themselves aren't new, combining well-receive
629.
by peeters 10y ago
This isn't a spec, it's a thought experiment. There's no need to criticize syntax at this point.
630.
by peeters 10y ago
IMO this is the biggest thing available to modern languages that Java is missing. I would absolutely love to see this, particularly pattern decomposition. I wonder if you could do it without something analogous to Scala's sealed clas

More ›