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by readams 7y ago
Though there are often long lines to wait for many books, because the licensing model is dumb.
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by readams 7y ago
Though it was really hard to find anything.
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by readams 7y ago
It's worth noting that problems like this are pretty normal for new weapons systems. Th V-22 Osprey is a good example here: it seemed like a disaster when it came out, but it's now got its kinks worked out and is performing reall
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by readams 7y ago
Cookie Autodelete on FireFox is really great; it automatically clears cookies and local storage as soon as you navigate away.
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by readams 7y ago
I'm saying I don't buy that the FAA was ever likely to catch the problems with this system that the engineers at Boeing didn't catch. In hindsight it's easy to say the system was a problem and clearly it was, but the FA
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by readams 7y ago
The underlying assumption here seems to be that if only the FAA had examined in detail every aspect of the development of the plane, of course they would have found all the problems. Underlying this assumption is the idea that Boeing is ei
457.
by readams 7y ago
What stops you from doing this now? This is pretty much how Python works currently when you need performance.
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by readams 7y ago
I'm not sure I really follow how this actually will result in better lenses. Is the precision of the numerical solution really the problem, or is the problem the actual precise manufacturing of the lens elements? I have a strong suspi
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by readams 7y ago
That's literally what ad hominem means...
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by readams 7y ago
iOS Firefox is not really Firefox. It's a Safari skin, because Apple doesn't like competition.
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by readams 7y ago
Why not just do this on the shore instead of a floating ship with unmaintainable floating solar islands? I suspect the more realistic scenario though would be to use a huge nuclear power plant to make fuel by pulling CO_2 from the air.
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by readams 7y ago
This story of course makes obligatory a link to Reflections on Trusting Trust, Ken Thompson's Turing award lecture, which first popularized this concept. https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/pape
463.
by readams 7y ago
You can do similar tricks in a cloud setup also though; notably you can do hit detection based on what the user was seeing when they entered the input rather than what the server was doing later. This is pretty similar to client side predi
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by readams 7y ago
Also keep in mind how important multi player is for most big titles now. If you add up player -server-player latency it's actually the same. Given more consistent performance on the rendering/frontend side it's quite possib
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by readams 7y ago
It would have, but it's likely the cloud vendors have already deployed defenses.
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by readams 7y ago
Rooting your phone wipes the data on it. It's actually a very secure model and preserves the user choice.
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by readams 7y ago
One of the things that worries me about the current approaches to improving schools is that we focus so much on ensuring a minimum standard for all students to meet. I think for the future of the country, we should care much more about ens
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by readams 8y ago
It's likely you've now forgotten just how much faster and more powerful desktop computers are than laptops.
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by readams 8y ago
The reason that these behaviors are undefined typically is that the compiler cannot prove whether or not a program will execute undefined behavior, and needing to account for it would lead to less efficient code. For example if (x+1 > x
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by readams 8y ago
They really did it to prevent Microsoft from doing this. Apple just ended up being the real threat. Another company with the ability to lock down access to the web and Google was (and is) an existential threat to Google.
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by readams 8y ago
Electric blankets don't have timers to turn on. My understanding is that UL won't certify them as it's a perceived fire hazard.
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by readams 8y ago
Diane Greene is not being fired. She's been enormously positive for Google Cloud.
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by readams 8y ago
This seems to be a common trope lately. The claim seems to be that because censorship by private parties is not banned by the constitution, it is therefore a good idea. It is entirely fair to criticize private parties for censorship even t
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by readams 8y ago
not sure why you're being downvoted, but it's worth mentioning that the temperature is not what matters here but rather the heat generation per area. The temperature is a function of how quickly the heat can be pulled away as wel
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by readams 8y ago
It's also important to note that the value of solar/wind on a grid declines as they become a larger percentage of the power. These power sources are much less consistent and storage technology doesn't exist yet. And if it
476.
by readams 8y ago
As it says in the note, the bug was in a feature that was latent but not yet being used. Then a configuration change started hitting the feature. With highly redundant systems such as this, you generally need multiple layers of things goin
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by readams 8y ago
Also "whether" remains an open question...
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by readams 8y ago
OpenShift is really garbage. Everything red hat adds just makes it worse, and it's a lot slower. The installer is absurdly slow also.
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by readams 8y ago
You want people who can "disagree without being disagreeable"
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by readams 8y ago
except they still break because Red Hat backports bleeding-edge features but doesn't change the version number.

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