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by repiret 8y ago
If you use memcpy and your destination buffer is too small you don’t crash hard with any certainty, your program might even appear to work. Moreover, most of the time I’m either certain the output buffer is large enough (maybe because I jus
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by repiret 8y ago
I'm not sure what government your experience is with, but my experience (mostly with governments within the United States) is that government workers also includes the lazy, the incompetent, but also the hard working who aren't gi
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by repiret 8y ago
The insurance business model is not about distributing costs from high risk customers more evenly with low risk customers, but in distributing costs more evenly between unlucky customers and lucky ones [1]. After all, most insurance compan
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by repiret 8y ago
I think its testable. There's several parts. 1. Its clearly testable whether or not the phase of the circadian rhythm of humans shifts with age. 2. Having a range of circadian rhythm phases in your pack is useful for a 24-hour watch b
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by repiret 8y ago
But an attack that keeps rate limits saturated doesn’t require much bandwidth (you know, because rate limits) and is therefore easy to keep up. Most services would consider it unacceptable if a script kiddie with a botnet and a generic list
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by repiret 8y ago
I agree its a bad headline. Maybe "Dandelion Seeds Fly Using Method Not Previously Described in Nature", because: 1. Of course its been _observed_ before. As the video points out, just about every kid has observed it. The claim
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by repiret 8y ago
> For a user-facing tool, parse errors should be recoverable and the parser should be able to keep going to collect multiple errors. I don't necessarily agree with that assertion. I need to fix syntax errors one at a time anyway, a
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by repiret 8y ago
> they are selling to customers who would not have purchased the name brand When I was a kid, the supermarket had an isle named "generic", and all the generic stuff was relegated to that isle and came in plain yellow packaging.
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by repiret 8y ago
But we have that problem as a capitalist society with or without “price gouging”. And we have a solution for that problem too – charities and the government giveaway or subsidize essentials for people who can’t afford them. If we allow the
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by repiret 8y ago
If you get a 1099-MISC, you need to file Schedule C [1]. They can make a guess at line 1 based on the 1099-MISC, but none of the other lines come with a counter party filing forms with the IRS to give them hints. I agree that most people w
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by repiret 8y ago
If by 1099 you mean 1099-MISC, which is what I think most people mean when they say "1099 income" without an additional qualifier, then the IRS almost certainly has no idea what detections are available to you, and there may be ta
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by repiret 8y ago
One way of thinking about altitude is how many mistakes you have time to recover from before hitting the ground. The higher you are the safer you are - you haven't crashed until you hit the ground. For a single-engine plane, 500'
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by repiret 8y ago
Lots of pictures on the Dutch Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakfiets
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by repiret 8y ago
What countries have you seen GPS jamming in? And if in the US, which airports? If in North America, I suspect there’s another explanation for what you’ve seen given the degree to which civilian air traffic relies on GPS for navigation, inc
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by repiret 8y ago
So if you buy an architecture license to design your own core and you want to use AMBA in your design, you have to pay extra? I find that very surprising, but having never worked for an architecture licensee, I don’t have any information t
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by repiret 8y ago
> For example, you cannot use AMBA/APB/AXB and other ARM buses with ARM CPU core in your design without paying ARM for license for these buses Do you have a citation for that? I’m pretty sure none of the AMBA busses require a
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by repiret 8y ago
In general I agree that more reporting should include measures of uncertainty. But I also think there are cases when talking about inflation where uncertainty measures are inappropriate. You can have uncertainty in the average price of avo
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by repiret 8y ago
I would put your dictionary into a prefix tree if some sort, and the first implementation I would reach for is a trinary tree [1]. As you scan your input, walk the tree. Each time you get to the end of the tree, insert a space one go back t
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by repiret 9y ago
Reminds me of the “football” games in 17776 https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
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by repiret 9y ago
All right then, “most communities in the US.” I’ll admit I don’t really have any idea how it works anywhere else. However, I can only imagine that all developed countries have the “problem“ that modern building codes reduce the rate of fir
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by repiret 9y ago
If you want a reasonable response time from the fire department, then you end up with way more firefighters on duty at any given time than there are fires to respond to. Instead of paying them to twiddle their thumbs, most communities train
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by repiret 9y ago
Just last November I miswrote a check where the digits and written amount differed, and it was processed for the written amount, which has traditionally been the controlling value.
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by repiret 9y ago
160km (~100 miles) in particular seems limiting. There's a critical access hospital in the rural Oregon community I live in that occasionally needs more blood in a hurry, but it wouldn't have enough range to get out here. Plus w
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by repiret 9y ago
> if you miss the target it's pretty much a guaranteed crash How do you figure? If you miss the target, you're still flying, come around for another pass. If you hit the target with something other than your hook, then you cra
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by repiret 9y ago
I’ve never had a problem getting a refund from an airline (in the US) when I chose not to take a flight because it was significantly delayed.
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by repiret 9y ago
UMDF was available for XP too, and printer drivers had been user space for a long long time.
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by repiret 9y ago
Baloney. There are great many people who would die if the price of their food, or their water, or their medicine doubled tomorrow. If the price of flash doubled, many people would have to choose between less storage, slow storage, or less m
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by repiret 9y ago
In Santa Barbara I’ve herd (geeky) people refer to grid-north and grid-south to refer to directions along the axis that US101 and State St follow.
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by repiret 9y ago
On ARM1156, and ARMv7 and newer, use MOVW, which takes a simple 16-bit immediate. If 16 bits doesn’t do it, use a MOVW/MOVT pair which can load any 32-bit value. On older ARMs, either do a load immediate followed by an immediate arithm
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by repiret 9y ago
Do the planes have your own livery, or that of your regional partners?

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