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811.
by scrumper 10y ago
"Illegal" how? Against an actual Australian law, or do you think it's against the terms of the master services agreement the bank has with the consulting company. Have you seen that agreement or the specific statement of work
812.
by scrumper 10y ago
Keep in mind that it's a felony to lie to a customs & border patrol officer. "Is this your main phone?" How will you answer that?
813.
by scrumper 10y ago
For explaining to business, it's generally better to describe a problem and then show how your thing solves it. This is a gentler approach than the 'hard sell' and draws people in, not least because it shows that you do under
814.
by scrumper 10y ago
The text is aggressively sales-y in quite an old-fashioned and cheesy way. I share other commenters' confusion about what's actually happening here too. Having read a bit on secure multi-party computation, you've made somethi
815.
by scrumper 10y ago
Performance and resource usage mostly. It's a very, very good example of an Electron app, but it still shows its web flesh in various ways. Some reconnecting issues, incomplete page loads, UX weirdness (minor). Like I said, it's a
816.
by scrumper 10y ago
Yep, fairly heavy user here and it's basically fine for me, probably because I'm used to it. Simplicity works. Only thing I really wish for is a proper, first class, not-electron desktop app.
817.
by scrumper 10y ago
Reconciliation is the frequently manual process of making sure your records match mine, and vice versa. It's burdensome in finance because of the proliferation of systems used at various stages of a trade, and the number of parties inv
818.
by scrumper 10y ago
A big reason for that is that company car tax (which is paid by the beneficiary, not the company) in the UK is significantly lower on diesel vehicles. Fleet buyers are a gigantic part of the market for new cars in the UK and they wield a he
819.
by scrumper 10y ago
I can understand not bothering to drive to Jersey just to get gas (though it is cheaper), but spending more to fill up before crossing the border solely to avoid the experience of someone else pumping gas for you seems a little extreme. Is
820.
by scrumper 10y ago
This was good, worth the quick read. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of the Sydney office building where The Matrix was filmed, and how its suggestively spinal form echoes themes in the movie.
821.
by scrumper 10y ago
This is pretty interesting stuff about false group memories, albeit inconclusive.
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by scrumper 10y ago
Reaching orbit is the really hard problem he's talking about; once you're up there you have your choice of high SI things like ion thrusters or solar sails - stuff that's useless for reaching orbital velocity but works great
823.
by scrumper 10y ago
Aha! Well that certainly explains the quality. I missed the byline on first read.
824.
by scrumper 10y ago
That was a very illuminating article, thanks for posting. It was also nicely written: "Before dismissing the above story as an aberration, consider that the modern petroleum industry is a direct outgrowth of the practice of going out
825.
by scrumper 10y ago
It was more that you had a set of Notes documents and associated workflows which conformed perfectly to business operations when created, but then gradually got heavier and harder to change as they were adapted along with the business. Ther
826.
by scrumper 10y ago
I was in good company - Mitch Kapoor says something very similar in the design doc: "Notes should stand in relation to word- and idea-oriented tasks as 1-2-3 stands in relation to number-oriented tasks."
827.
by scrumper 10y ago
Notes is a real mixed bag. On the plus side, its open-ended, fully customizable document database is a phenomenally powerful tool for creating information management systems that map very closely to the unique workflows and structures that
828.
by scrumper 10y ago
Argh I'm halfway through Absolution Gap now, and there's a quote from the bloody epilogue halfway down the page! Managed to avoid reading most of it fortunately.
829.
by scrumper 10y ago
"With this “nanoship”, travel time to Earth’s nearest neighboring stars is reduced to just 20 years, as the chip can travel at one-fifth of the speed of light. ... But 20 years is a huge step up from the expected deep space travel time
830.
by scrumper 10y ago
You'll enjoy his later book The Water Knife which is exactly about a water-scarce world and the rather grim social sructures that result.
831.
by scrumper 10y ago
Exciting times. I'll be watching this, but I'm very curious to see what happens with stellarator designs which appear to be much easier to operate (if massively harder to build).
832.
by scrumper 10y ago
And another layer of simplification: the pilot controls small control tabs which fly the main control surface into the position the pilot wants it to be in, which then moves the wing. Usually the connection between pilot intent and wing mov
833.
by scrumper 10y ago
Neztdoor is just starting to try to monetize their network now. Would not be hugely surprised if Facebook ended up buying it.
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by scrumper 10y ago
I agree, even the comparator descriptions seem weirdly awkward and placeholdery, describing the mechanism used to compare images rather than the comparison (e.g. "animated gif comparison" showing an animated gif used to compare tw
835.
by scrumper 10y ago
I kind of agree with you actually. To refine my comment above, if you accept the premise that there's criminal culpability here, then it's morally unacceptable to send an engineer to prison but not the executives who directed or a
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by scrumper 10y ago
Yes, pretty specialized; even then, as I was saying, not really viable. There are .50 cal rifles available for purchase which meet the range performance numbers I gave. These are about the longest range, most powerful, man-portable, unguide
837.
by scrumper 10y ago
There should be some executives losing their jobs and freedom, if this guy is pleading guilty to several felonies. He wasn't acting on his own initiative.
838.
by scrumper 10y ago
I was interested in this too. Shooting the tank could perhaps have done this. So I researched a bit. A large calibre anti-materiel rifle of the type legally available for purchase in the US has a maximum effective range of about 2km, while
839.
by scrumper 10y ago
The corollary is that you have to worry about the DAC in the phone if you have an analog jack, and they're not good. So with digital only, you have the option of buying a good off board DAC (if you care), or otherwise selecting digital
840.
by scrumper 10y ago
Looks like this may have been the Falcon 9 getting ready to launch AMOS-6 on 9/3. Not a previously flown rocket.

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