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by readams 7y ago
Scott Aaronson now has a detailed analysis and covers the IBM claims as well: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372 The high order bit is that the IBM claims do not cast much of a shadow over the claims of quantum
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by readams 7y ago
That's not true. If you build from a dist tarball, you do not need auto tools installed. You usually do if you build from a git repo, however.
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by readams 7y ago
You can clear your watch history: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?co=GENIE.Pla... You can also configure it to automatically clear anything older than 3 or 18 months. Or follow this link to go stra
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by readams 7y ago
Ion drive requires propellant. But it would be similar to a photon drive.
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by readams 7y ago
All the restaurants in the bay area now charge 3% living wage surcharges on their bills. So.... Yes. There's that.
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by readams 7y ago
You can't turn off Apple's version of this already.
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by readams 7y ago
It is carbon neutral to make hydrocarbons and then burn then as long as the energy source for making them is carbon neutral. The hydrocarbons have the advantage of far higher energy density, which makes them much better as fuels.
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by readams 7y ago
No it's Google Maps for both navigation directions and map data. There are some features from the Android google maps app not supported on the Tesla, but otherwise it's the same.
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by readams 7y ago
I think they stopped doing the service center wifi thing. It used to be if you just parked in front of the service centers you'd get the update right away, so of course too many people were doing that. Now you can just select the opti
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by readams 7y ago
It's clear he doesn't do well in traditional liberal arts subjects. The question here isn't really liberal arts vs welding. It's that the narrative for a long time had been that college for everyone is a solution. For
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by readams 7y ago
The unspoken claim here is that if he'd gone to college and pursued a liberal arts degree that he'd be better off now. The evidence in the article however says the opposite. He'd have even more debt and even lower prospects
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by readams 7y ago
Rational angles and only a finite number of points are not illuminated. You can still get points that are dark, but not regions.
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by readams 7y ago
Here's one source at least: https://www.xda-developers.com/amoled-black-vs-gray-dark-mod...
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by readams 7y ago
iOS navigation gestures are suspiciously similar to the gestures on the Palm Pre.
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by readams 7y ago
Note that "true black" saves almost no additional power on an OLED vs a dark grey.
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by readams 7y ago
Actually there are a number of new privacy-enhancing features in this release. Probably the most prominent is that it will help you choose which apps should be able to get location information in the background. Google obviously has a tri
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by readams 7y ago
Google could go the Apple route and make a proprietary version that silently substitutes itself. Instead they're pushing for a standards based approach
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by readams 7y ago
With something like inflation over a 10 year period this isn't true. In ten years either it was lower than you thought or it wasn't, and you can make lots of money based on the spread of inflation-protected and non-inflation prot
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by readams 7y ago
There are two dimensions under which we can alleviate traffic problems. One is to increase throughput of roads and transportatio, and the other is to increase density and otherwise make efforts to allow people to live closer to their jobs
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by readams 7y ago
BMW (uniquely) has moved to a new model that requires you to pay annually to use CarPlay. They do not support Android Auto.
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by readams 7y ago
There is basically no limit to the amount of money that it would be worth paying for a government to get those HSMs, since they could decrypt nearly all the world's communication. And the country in which they are hosted is included in
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by readams 7y ago
The chronically homeless are almost all in the mental illness/drug abuse category. The ones that just need training and/or already have a job and are priced out can access lots of services, move, and otherwise find a way out.
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by readams 7y ago
It used to. They were removed later
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by readams 7y ago
mostly, there just aren't any desserts that start with Q.
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by readams 7y ago
Once a week is a pretty high rate for total failure forcing fallback to a different app entirely.
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by readams 7y ago
The iOS feature set is intended to protect Apple's business model and revenue streams by forcing you to do things in Apple's jail. Getting a developer account is obviously an absurd and impractical approach to distribute software
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by readams 7y ago
Netflix stocks are totally insane, as you're not really getting stock but instead a complex leveraged financial instrument in the form of an call option, that you have to pay for based on a Netflix estimate of the option premium.
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by readams 7y ago
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/after-more-decade-liti... "It all started when Lenz posted a YouTube video of her then-toddler-aged son dancing while Prince’s song “Let's Go Crazy” played in t
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by readams 7y ago
The structure of the company is mostly about making sure that Adam Neuman can minimize his tax burden while maximizing his compensation. It's not really about stealing the IPO cash, but on the other hand nobody is better positioned to
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by readams 7y ago
Yes this happens on essentially every patent a you start absurdly broad and winnow the scope in response to the rejections.

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