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by readams 10y ago
I think you'll find suddenly braking in the middle of the road poses its own dangers.
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by readams 10y ago
We'll just have to see how liability laws and juries treat these technologies. We may well see a situation where thousands of lives could be saved from automation, but any accident leads to millions in lawsuits and the technology is k
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by readams 10y ago
Yea the article is pretty content free. It claims at the end that a future post will contain actual content.
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by readams 10y ago
The problem is that most companies have a small handful of such people, and lots of vice presidents. They want you to think it's equivalent, but the reality is that, Facebook and anywhere, there's only so far you can go on the te
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by readams 10y ago
Nearly every photo of space you see, especially from Hubble, is usually a composite, falsely colored, or otherwise altered in ways that bring out the important features of the photo. Note that the idea of "true color" for these s
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by readams 10y ago
The larger the random file the _less_ likely you are the successfully compress it. Everyone here is telling you that you are wrong, and have even clearly demonstrated this through both mathematical reasoning and empirical tests. Quit diggi
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by readams 10y ago
Let's Encrypt is part of the Internet Security Research Group, which is an IRS 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation. Contributions are tax deductible in the US.
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by readams 10y ago
Judging by the number of salmonella outbreaks from fresh produce recently, I don't think you'll get much food safely benefit.
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by readams 10y ago
Man this is a really creep company. What do they imagine their business model really is? The warning thing is not a good business. Presumably they really want to sell this data to insurance companies.
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by readams 10y ago
There is work going on upstream to allow bypassing the entire network stack in the kernel using eBPF. Kernel bypass techniques though have been the gold standard in performance for quite a while, but they don't work well for container
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by readams 10y ago
One of the key advantages of p4 is that you don't have to use iptables. Instead p4 would compile down to a binary packet processor in either machine language, something like eBPF, or directly onto a hardware coprocessor on your NIC. C
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by readams 10y ago
Fortunately we have a system of law and not based on outrage.
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by readams 10y ago
You realize that Uber has to solve a huge multifactor optimization problem?
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by readams 10y ago
Luckily now we have this useful FAQ on dealing with doctoral exams: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-porti...
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by readams 10y ago
Google voice languished for years with no updates, no bug fixes (despite a lot of serious problems!)
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by readams 10y ago
The insurance would cost more than the expected cost of the litigation which is of course how insurance works. They key with the patent system is that you have to pay millions to defend yourself, but it's exceptionally rare to be able
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by readams 10y ago
As long as your needs are sufficiently basic that you never need to create data structures then what's in Go can be ok. People who are fans of Go seem to be people who don't know what they're missing in more advanced languag
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by readams 10y ago
This is because using Go feels very much like going back in time to Java 4.
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by readams 10y ago
You can buy space on a Falcon 9 today and go to the moon. It's just that nobody wants to since there's nothing there. But some of the Lunar X-Prize participants plan to use a Falcon 9.
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by readams 10y ago
I'm pretty sure a nearby gamma ray burst would sterilize the whole solar system.
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by readams 10y ago
Yea AirBNB ultimately can try to mitigate, but cannot solve completely this problem. Even if they try to blind the profile, at some point the guest has to show up at the host's house. In a way, it's probably better to avoid the
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by readams 10y ago
It's actually not quite as crazy as it sounds. Malaria was used successfully to treat Neurosyphilis.
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by readams 10y ago
That article says nothing about the Heimlich maneuver for choking. Only that you shouldn't use it on a drowning victim. Most sources seem to recommend the Heimlich maneuver for choking victims, possibly in conjunction with blows to t
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by readams 10y ago
This is much more about CSRF than XSS.
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by readams 10y ago
firefox self-destructing cookies extension. Greatest thing since adblock.
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by readams 10y ago
Capital costs for software are low, but labor costs are huge. Once you try to scale past the "you and a couple of buddies from college" stage good people become extremely expensive.
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by readams 10y ago
China is even deeper into the fuck everyone over as much as possible mindset.
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by readams 10y ago
Hex literals work pretty well for defining masks.
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by readams 10y ago
> “Who invented the computer?” A 20-year-old might say “Steve Jobs." It may well be a complex question of who invented the computer. But I think it's safe to say that it was certainly not Steve Jobs.
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by readams 10y ago
The article points to cases especially where mixed or degraded samples can be interpreted incorrectly as the technician is forced to make a judgement call. This actually seems amenable to statistical analysis to me however, so I'm won

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