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by rst 6y ago
And even looking at median income would still leave other things out -- like the much higher fraction of that household income which goes to medical expenses in the US than in, well... the entire EU for starters.
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by rst 6y ago
That was him -- there was an interview at the time about, in part, being part of the period for which the show was a period piece... https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/arts/design/mad-men-enlis...
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by rst 6y ago
There are other... issues with the movie. At the end, Katherine Johnson is shown running between her office in Virginia, and Mercury mission control, which was actually in Florida. This has to do with her checking computer calculations of
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by rst 6y ago
That's what Oracle FAST REFRESH does as well, in the limited cases where it works. Which is why a comparison to Materialize would be intersting...
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by rst 6y ago
Materialize is neat, but there are other database systems that refresh at least some materialized views on the fly, while being smart about not rebuilding the entire view every time. See for example, Oracle, where FAST REFRESH ON COMMIT do
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by rst 6y ago
That's it. See description on page 3 of the manual: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/electrodata/205/3021_B205...
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by rst 6y ago
Screwing people over in every way that's legally permissible is... not always considered praiseworthy. And you can blame Amazon for straight-up lying to the guy about how the terms of his employment would change after the transfer.
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by rst 6y ago
Not the first such tests -- there was a trial in Boston in 2013, at a music festival on municipal property (City Hall plaza). https://digboston.com/boston-used-face-recognition-before-de...
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by rst 6y ago
Well, Dragon looks a whole lot more comfortable than Soyuz, though it hasn't nearly got the same track record yet. And SpaceX is already in the market for space tourism and commercial projects (witness the Tom Cruise movie-in-space thi
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by rst 6y ago
SpaceX is still advertising a seven-seat capacity on their web site. The "crew dragon interior" video seems to be the NASA-endorsed four-seat configuration, but makes it pretty clear there's a whole lot of room under those fo
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by rst 6y ago
After the legal limbo came a whole bunch of fractious disputes within and between multiple core teams -- initially FreeBSD (concentrating on PC-derived platforms) and NetBSD (cross-platform), both having some roots in the earlier, troubled
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by rst 6y ago
Also uses a very strict definition of "asymptomatic" which apparently excludes the likely more common case of "presymptomatic" carriers -- who will develop symptoms but haven't yet.
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by rst 6y ago
Here's an interview with Tom Mueller (design lead on the Merlin engine, and SpaceX's chief of propulsion from inception until he semi-retired a few years ago), talking about working with Elon. The most relevant anecdote is Elon d
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by rst 6y ago
Video from the barges regularly drops out when the booster actually lands, most likely because vibration from the impact of the rocket exhaust messes with the antennas. (The video is still stored on the barge, and sometimes shows up in miss
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by rst 6y ago
It is. The other one is Just Read The Instructions.
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by rst 6y ago
Earliest reference I'm aware of for integration is James Slagle's MIT Ph.D. thesis work, from 1961. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11997
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by rst 6y ago
Grace Hopper was experimenting with symbolic differentiation of functions in her A-2 compiler in the 1950s, and she may well not have been the first. My reference for this is her paper in the proceedings of a 1957 British conference on &quo
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by rst 6y ago
What you saw was the cold start procedure for a completely uninitialized machine -- manually enter a short bootstrap loader of a dozen instructions or so, just enough to load a longer one from whatever I/O device was handy. A lot of
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by rst 6y ago
There was a tradition of such self-deprecating names for lisp dialects specifically -- an early system called PLANNER had an offshoot which was named CONNIVER, and SCHEME itself was another branch off this tree (originally named SCHEMER, an
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by rst 6y ago
The fastest S/370 (pre-S/390) machine in the line was, I think, the 3090; these were multiprocessors, but a single processor had a 69 MhZ clock rate. Even if you assume it retired one instruction per cycle (and I'm not at al
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by rst 6y ago
Elon's long term plan for Falcon is to switch customers to Starship as soon as it's available, and they're comfortable switching. (Which might be a while for the Air Force and NASA.) In the meantime, any major changes to Fal
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by rst 6y ago
It's the easier one to design -- but actually building it requires a production line that cranks out one of the most complicated rocket engines ever designed for cheap (it'll need over thirty engines in final configuration, though
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by rst 7y ago
Dylan's notorious for leaving brilliant songs on the shelf, sometimes for decades. Some of them leak and circulate among collectors/rabid fans, but some of them don't.
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by rst 7y ago
For all the mentions of FORTRAN in the description of other languages, it's a real surprise that FORTRAN doesn't rate a mention of its own -- though there are corners of the world where it's still in use. It's notable no
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by rst 7y ago
It's also pretty directly relevant that their factories are not in areas with a legally enforceable shelter-in-place order. Elon seems to be trying to get cute with transportation being one of the essential services exempt from the ban
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by rst 7y ago
Unfortunately, in Italy, space for other hospital departments has had to be converted to extra space for acute COVID-19 cases. (And they're still overflowing, to the point of doing battlefield triage to determine which severe but poten
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by rst 7y ago
Chinese lockdowns are the most extreme form of social distancing -- everyone in Wuhan and similar hotspots stays home, not just ones for which there's some reason to suspect infection. In South Korea and elsewhere in China, there&#x2
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by rst 7y ago
He's got a space at an artists' cooperative which is divided up into live/work spaces for a few dozen professional artists (including Don himself, who's now a professional fine art photographer). So the address is public
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by rst 7y ago
This also implies they never ran a simulation on the actual mission timeline (with the 11 hour delay between initial rocket startup and launch), or the error would have occurred during the sim.
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by rst 7y ago
Unfortunately, Verne was not well served by his contemporary translators -- among other things, there are technical descriptions, or episodes poking fun at the English or Americans, which somehow just never showed up in the English translat

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