rjmunro

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931.
by rjmunro 9y ago
"Truck reverses into stationary object" is not really news. I think there are too many possible risks of programming the vehicle to do anything except stop dead in an emergency situation - you rapidly get into very complex program
932.
by rjmunro 9y ago
As you are a freelancer, you could easily send them an invoice for the lost time at your normal rate. They will probably pay it without querying.
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by rjmunro 9y ago
It's because Apple won't let you do in app purchases that don't use their payments system, and if you use their payments system, they take a 30% cut. But we are talking about Google / Android, not Apple / iOS here.
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by rjmunro 9y ago
Just delete the PATENTS file. There is nothing that says you can't do that, and you then have a plain BSD licensed project.
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Don't show SQL error messages in production sites(docker.com)
5 points by rjmunro 9y ago|1 comments
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University of Oxford spin-out raises $22M Series A to bring AI to software dev(techcrunch.com)
27 points by rjmunro 9y ago|0 comments
937.
by rjmunro 9y ago
Never swipe before entering your PIN. If you do that, they can clone a card for use in ATMs, and withdraw your money as untraceable cash. Connecting via the chip does not reveal enough information to reconstruct a magnetic strip for an ATM
938.
by rjmunro 9y ago
A trick for finding memory locations of some variable is to take several memory dumps changing everything you can about the game state except the thing whose location you are looking for, so fly around a bit, change altitude, change all the
939.
by rjmunro 9y ago
It would be in the firmware. It should be possible to hack a printer with open source firmware. You could even make a printer with open source hardware - something like this, but higher resolution: https://www.youtube.com/wa
940.
by rjmunro 9y ago
That should be in the title of the article. "Safety incidents at Tesla plant were 31% higher than industry average in 2015". Without the 31% higher, you'd expect a 50-50 chance of being above or below the average. 31% higher
941.
by rjmunro 9y ago
This article annoys me. "YouTube makes $9 billion in annual revenues, but artists earn more from the sales of vinyl records than online streaming" It's a useless comparison. Perhaps the vinyl industry is worth more than $9 bi
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by rjmunro 10y ago
Why would Eric Yip be publicising his strategy? I suggest that it is because by encouraging others to short or sell their holdings in CBMX 6, after he has already shorted it, the value will go down and he will gain. People jumping on his ba
943.
by rjmunro 10y ago
I believe that's basically how Dolby 3d cinema glasses work. https://www.dolby.com/us/en/professional/cinema/products/dol... I wonder if wearing those glasses out and about would give you the k
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by rjmunro 10y ago
I recently discovered the magical incantation: gitk --all $( git fsck --no-reflog | awk '/dangling commit/ {print $3}' ) which show's all the git commits in the repository, even those that are not on any br
945.
by rjmunro 10y ago
In that case, just write the license contract to say "If you change the firmware, John Deere accepts no liability". Make people sign that if they want the unlock key. Presumably John Deere aren't liable for other kinds of mis
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GitHub's Permission System Is Flawed(github.com)
3 points by rjmunro 10y ago|0 comments
947.
by rjmunro 10y ago
Also the fibre doesn't go in a straight line. Undersea, it has to route around continents and the polar ice cap, and sometimes underwater features.
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by rjmunro 10y ago
How about a video of my kids with my Mum who has come to visit? Uploading and downloading the file to a cloud service will take a while. Many will reencode the video and loose quality. I then have to communicate a URL, rather than have my m
949.
by rjmunro 10y ago
Is this compatible with Safari's Bonjour functionality? Apple have hidden it behind flags in Preferences -> Advanced in recent versions, but when enabled, you get a "Bonjour" item in the favourites menu, which will show t
950.
by rjmunro 11y ago
I don't think the representation of shaders as strings vs bytecode is a problem at the low level. Strings are slightly inefficient, but you could just pretend that they are bytecode, where the bytes are all restricted to the ASCII rang
951.
by rjmunro 11y ago
Maybe you socially engineer Apple to get the iOS keys? (I don't think that will work)
952.
by rjmunro 11y ago
Rather than add 0x3030303030303030, you could OR with it because you know there will never be a carry. This may save cycles on some architectures.
953.
by rjmunro 11y ago
Compared to what? You can improve accuracy by optimising the way you do your calculations. A really trivial example: 10000 + .00001 - 10000 is less accurate than 10000 - 10000 + .00001. Without interval arithmetic, you can't easily mea
954.
by rjmunro 11y ago
More important than just increasing accuracy is knowing how much accuracy you have. With interval artihmetic, you keep an upper and lower bound of every calculation, and use the the appropriate floating point rounding modes when you manipul
955.
by rjmunro 11y ago
Why do we have to send the whole ascent vehicle in advance? Why not just send the fuel tanks and some fuel making equipment, then use the cabin, life support, maybe even the rocket motors etc. from the descent vehicle to finish the craft? G
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Petition the Obama Aministration to publicly support strong encryption(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
4 points by rjmunro 11y ago|0 comments
957.
by rjmunro 11y ago
Good explanation of the problem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFHsrCNtJu4
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by rjmunro 11y ago
Why can't the government be the entity that owns air and water and recovers damages?