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by pwagland 6y ago
Hate to say it, but this simply isn't true. What Tesla brought to the game was insane performance for Electic cars, _and_ OTA updates for maps and software. And _just as importantly_ they actually update the software in meaningful ways
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by pwagland 6y ago
Note that this is _not_ a relay attack. This actually updates the firmware on the Key Fob, which allows you to bypass (for example) the old workaround of disabling the "walk up unlocking" to defeat relay attacks. Many manufacturer
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by pwagland 6y ago
Not all manufacturers, but many have fixed this. It's relatively simple to tighten the timings so that if it takes to long to round trip, then it is not accepted. https://www.companynewshq.com/company-news/personal
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by pwagland 6y ago
You do know that "think of the kids" is a terrible argument? And, more importantly, why do you think that your daughter won't want the same freedoms that you had? Or should she be protected from those freedoms? Don't get
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by pwagland 6y ago
The funny thing about the PDP-11 instruction set is how ridiculously simple it is to write a C compiler for it… the C operands map almost 1 to 1 to PDP-11 instructions. At least that is what my compilers writing class taught me 25 years ago
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by pwagland 6y ago
Fascinating. This is an input that I hadn't considered. However "Vegan" things is definitely a tricky subject… for example cars often have leather seats and/or steering wheels. And it can be quite hard to get a "dec
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by pwagland 6y ago
Interestingly enough, one of the things that I hate about travelling in the US, is that a lot of restaurants only have that creamed butter. Maybe it's an acquired and/or cultural taste, but it certainly isn't what I prefer :-
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by pwagland 6y ago
Links to why it would be useful to use Desert sand in concrete: Desert sand is not really usable for most things that we want sand for, for example, it is not suitable for concrete, since it is too fine. ( https://petroleumservice
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by pwagland 6y ago
I think that it's a bit of a shame that you are being downvoted, since the point that (I think) you are making is valid. Namely you need to look at the total cost of manufacture, especially with respect to the environment and/or C
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by pwagland 6y ago
This is absolutely common. For various reasons, I know a bunch of chef's. Some don't mind cooking outside of work, but quite a few see cooking as work, and don't want to work outside of work…
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by pwagland 6y ago
Ironically, these professions weren't listed above. I doubt that many people expect lawyers or doctors to work for free in their spare time… The professions that were mentioned in the grandparent were all things that can easily be test
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by pwagland 6y ago
I can confirm (via unverifiable sources sadly, so this is only anecdotal) that this number is at worst believable. I know of other online retailers that see similar return numbers. Particularly in clothing. From what I understand it is a re
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by pwagland 6y ago
The model 3 handles way better than the Model S, except for (probably) the not yet released model S Plaid (due next year). The new 2020 model S handles a lot better than the older models, but is still quite big and boaty compared to the mod
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by pwagland 6y ago
Honestly, it's simpler than that. Instead of doing <= for your end time, simply say <. That is, give me events where time >=30/1/2020 00:00:00 and time < 31/1/2020 00:00:00.
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by pwagland 6y ago
S/X drivers will, since they can't use the phone as a key anyway. And unlocking the car through the app is extremely slow and cumbersome compared to the app (IMO).
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by pwagland 6y ago
So the funny thing is, here in the Netherlands, eggs are usually packed in six or ten, very rarely in twelve. AKA, a dozen eggs is purely a convention.
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by pwagland 6y ago
> if the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five year" -- Milton Friedman (exaggerating, somewhat) I know that this is meant to be a humorous comment, however, desert sand is not rea
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by pwagland 6y ago
And as per that top voted comment: The question of whether the last gear will break the concrete is moot. The gears themselves will erode away to nothing before they get a chance to apply much torque to the final gear. I think that the sam
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by pwagland 6y ago
I see several references in this thread to "a bug in Clang that is already fixed", but I can't see anywhere where anyone references this bug. Can anyone point to the bug report (and/or fix) in Clang?
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by pwagland 6y ago
You are basically saying the same thing. Behavioural economics, in particular, says that expectations are not always rational. To be more precise, just because people expect that things will improve doesn't mean that they will. Howeve
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by pwagland 7y ago
This is the correct answer, however the question was obviously misstated. They _should_ have stated that the answer was something else. :-)
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by pwagland 7y ago
And this is _exactly_ why, although this is cool, it would have been cooler had it been renamed to, for example, `imv` (aka the name from the rename tools project ;-) )
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by pwagland 7y ago
This would help if you _only_ shared the prefix, however git would still use the full hash. The proposed method would have the advantage of keeping existing known abbreviations, which are _already_ less secure than SHA-1, while keeping the
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by pwagland 7y ago
I 100% agree on the "this is not how humans treat humans". This sort of thing is what comes up when you can only be measured by numbers. And someone four levels above you says the numbers need to improve by 2%. At that point you a
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by pwagland 7y ago
That just means that it doesn't pay enough though. Imagine this thought experiment, if you could make 1,000,000USD a year from being a truck driver, would you do it? Even if that job only has a 3-4 year lifespan? I suspect that most pe
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by pwagland 7y ago
Indeed, I just installed 10.15.2. :-)
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by pwagland 7y ago
Don't turn it into an ageist thing, unless you are particularly old, there will be plenty of older developers that also don't understand this. It largely comes from understanding _why_ reproducibility is a good thing, and there ar
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by pwagland 7y ago
What do you think Amazon do? Their entire store is an ad targeting platform.
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by pwagland 7y ago
One way to think about the Borda is that it gives you the least hated candidate, instead of the most liked. From Wikipedia: The Borda count is intended to elect broadly-acceptable options or candidates, rather than those preferred by a majo
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by pwagland 7y ago
Do you have a source for that? Dropping that age limit from 15 to 12 years would obsolete about 20% of the fleet overnight, since the age spread of the cabs is fairly linear.

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