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by rst 8y ago
It's not just New York; there are a few other urban areas with significant numbers of commuters by transit -- Boston and San Francisco (with the crowd traveling on the "Google buses", and the number of tech jobs downtown) bot
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by rst 8y ago
From 2005. More recently, Qubes has adopted a broadly similar approach (using the Xen hypervisor instead of L4, but also isolating untrusted legacy apps and OS-es in VM-ish containers).
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by rst 8y ago
The second referendum featured a Leave campaign that effectively promised, among other things, continued access to European markets on pretty much as-member terms; indeed, immediately afterwards, David Davis, placed at the head of the negot
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by rst 8y ago
The UK had the Norway option, if they'd adopted it as an initial negotiating position -- but it involves agreeing to more than freedom of movement; there are also ECJ rulings and restrictions on external trade agreements. And it's
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by rst 8y ago
NYC has been shutting down particular lines for maintenance on nights and weekends (as needed) as a regular thing over the past few years. (And while I can't speak for London, the US systems that take night-time breaks hardly use them
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by rst 8y ago
Data transformations yes; reports were one case, but not the only one. The sample application in the FLOW-MATIC manual (online at Bitsavers) is a tape-to-tape job. (And there's quite a bit of stuff in COBOL, including things like MOVE
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by rst 8y ago
Apollo 7 -- the first crewed Apollo mission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7#Crew_honors
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by rst 8y ago
It's not -- the Reddit thread has a counterexample: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/a8s17l/2018_d... That said -- one visualization posted elsewhere showed that that person's par
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by rst 8y ago
Finished them all, and enjoyed it, but Day 23 part 2 (part 1 was trivial) was a real bugbear. In particular, Day 23 was pretty remarkable for the sheer number of "solutions" posted to the solutions board that worked for the person
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by rst 8y ago
Another example: on Android, look up scores of an ongoing sports event on mobile Chrome, and mobile Firefox. Mobile chrome gets you a box saying what the score actually is; mobile firefox just shows you the links to sports-league and news
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by rst 8y ago
The war in Yemen has been going on for years, and started during the Obama administration. I'm glad it's finally getting the bad press it deserves, but that's as likely a consequence of the press beating up on the Saudi gover
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by rst 8y ago
Apparently so. I misread the website; their "Enterprise" support package offers better support, but no extra features.
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by rst 8y ago
Depending on definitions, you could also include rocket.chat, and Zulip (open core). There's a bunch. As to federation, the ActivityPub protocol underlying Mastodon, and a bunch of other projects, was originally designed to support it
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by rst 8y ago
Several interesting internal documents about FS have recently surfaced at Bitsavers. See http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/futureSystem/
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by rst 8y ago
He's got another one out now, "Lab Rats", on how open offices and other trends are making office work miserable. (Not sure there's much on how unpredictable scheduling of retail workers is making their lives even more mi
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by rst 8y ago
The main justification for some people will be getting away from Oracle's ... quirks, regarding both technology and business practices. The cloud environment for many folks will just be an added fringe benefit. (Note also that if &quo
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by rst 8y ago
Auguries for NYC are not good: NY governor Andrew Cuomo joked at a public event that he'd change his name to "Amazon Cuomo" to get HQ2 -- the same day that the WSJ reported the city was only in line for half of it. And more
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by rst 8y ago
With Oracle/Sun, there was an immediate exodus of some of the top employees, including people in the hardware group. This wouldn't have derailed projects close to shipping, but likely did derail planning for projects after that.
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by rst 8y ago
And it has increased by well over the ratio; two is substantially greater than 325/200, which is 1.625. What's your point?
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by rst 8y ago
Worth noting that webpack (via the webpacker gem) is supported in Rails 5.2, and will be default in Rails 6; using that gets you access to current versions of React, Redux, and pretty much anything else packaged as npm modules. You still n
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by rst 8y ago
Rescheduling the SpaceX in-flight abort test would be tricky; they were planning to reuse the Dragon capsule from the uncrewed test flight, which also hasn't happened yet. (Boeing does not have an in-flight abort test scheduled at all,
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by rst 8y ago
Per multiple reports, the fine was doubled.
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by rst 8y ago
The initial W3 code releases from CERN likewise preceded any formal standardization effort. They came with documentation defining the protocols and data formats (albeit loosely), but those were project documents generated internally, and no
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by rst 8y ago
Musk doesn't solve the design problems, but (a la Jobs), he does tell the "real engineers" what problems to solve. Here's an interview with Tom Mueller, the SpaceX lead propulsion engineer since inception, about (among o
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by rst 8y ago
They've been running 3.2 with local monkeypatches -- which is part of the reason that upgrading was problematic. (Though certainly not all; over that span, there were lots of breaking changes to supported and documented APIs.)
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by rst 8y ago
Per WSJ reporting, they already had negotiated some sort of settlement, presumably with milder action toward all concerned, and then the Tesla side blew up the deal at the last minute, resulting in the SEC's hurried drafting and filing
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by rst 8y ago
China's had a round over the last few years of prosecutions of big shots, including high-level officers of successful companies, for financial irregularities. See, e.g., https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia
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by rst 8y ago
Oracle is notorious for auditing compliance with their database licenses, and shaking down their users for extra money in the event the auditors find something even slightly questionable. There are external consultants that make a pretty go
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by rst 8y ago
You might want to look into the Brave browser ( https://brave.com ), which is a commercial browser based on the Chromium code, funded by a micropayments idea, which tries to generally be more privacy-sensitive than the Google vers
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by rst 8y ago
The point of lie-flat seats is to let you doze off on long trips. The point of Concorde is that even trans-Atlantic trips weren't log enough for that to matter. You don't get lie-flat seats in first or business class on many US

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