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by seren 8y ago
Another patent from the same guy is a gravitational wave generator. Maybe I missed something but I don't think that was possible. So I would take that new patent with some good dose of skepticism.
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by seren 8y ago
I believe that the main value proposition from Rust lang, is more about the safety guarantees, without having a GC that can add some uncertainty for execution time. (I don't know Go but it seems the GC pauses are very short, so if you
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by seren 8y ago
One of the reason to buy VxWorks is that it comes with certification for various industries : https://www.windriver.com/products/vxworks/certification-pro... So if you have to explain to the regulatory body that y
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by seren 8y ago
I think there are two concurrent forces at play pulling in a opposite directions. On one hand, the higher end of the embedded world can be replaced by a powerful CPU that can run Linux, and there is not much differences between embedded vs
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by seren 8y ago
What is interesting at the meta level is that some faiths, notably the Mormons, have a duty to proselytize, so if Facebook ad targeting is an efficient way to convert unbelievers, it becomes a moral duty to use Facebook ads rather than send
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by seren 8y ago
The trick with Renault Twizy is that it is not registered as a proper car, but rather as some kind of motorcycle with a roof, so it does not have really stringent safety requirements.
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by seren 8y ago
Not sure if you read the original article, but the exchange between Europe and Japan seems fairly balanced. > EU businesses export €58 billion in goods and €28 billion in services to Japan every year. (snip) Japan exports €69 billion in
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by seren 8y ago
Title : “We believe we will offer in a year's time a complete cure for cancer." Closing paragraph of the article : Morad said that so far, the company has concluded its first exploratory mice experiment, which inhibited human canc
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by seren 8y ago
FreeRTOS maybe ? But I am not quite sure what is the exact license, or if there are restrictions in terms of features for the free version.
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by seren 8y ago
It is mostly empty just my age and sex. However I am sure I got an interest profile, at least being used with the Discover feed on Android.
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by seren 8y ago
I am curious, if you ask for a dump of your data from Google, where do you have to look to find your ad category ? As far I know, this is not directly accessible from your profile or privacy settings. Looking at the data selection to export
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by seren 8y ago
Isn't it simply shifting the blame downwards ? Because someone from Legal will have sent the dubious request to the law firm, for example, and the law firm can clearly find it in its archive ?
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by seren 8y ago
Empires or religions are great unifying forces that span centuries and continents, so yes it is possible to have a narrative that goes beyond a simple human life. Regarding the global scale, even if we don't realize it, we mostly alrea
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by seren 8y ago
It is a helicopter then. Unless it is significantly cheaper to operate or quieter, I don't understand the benefits of these new vehicles/ form factor. Maybe the hope is that cities will not regulate them, but I am not sure why the
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by seren 8y ago
I never worked in an organization where all the history was transferred to the new system (because of cost or technical hurdles). So basically, even if the 2 systems are available for some times, the old server end up being decommissioned.
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by seren 8y ago
If you look at the both extreme, large public company and a start up, in the former case, you already have customers, a viable business model, and a legacy product. As an engineer, your first requirements would be to "not break things&
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by seren 8y ago
Thanks, it put things in perspective.
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by seren 8y ago
The scary part is that even if you cannot provide food to even, let's say 3% of the human population, it will create massive destabilization, initially in the part of the world affected, then globally. I remember that at the start of t
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by seren 8y ago
Deadly virus not likely, but prions with weird long term effect is something we have not quite understood yet.
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by seren 8y ago
It understand that you are missing is some free time to have a more fulfilling life. And I somewhat share the same urge to have more free time to pursue some technical endeavors. Luckily, I have a few weeks every year when my wife is in vac
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by seren 8y ago
I have looked at the study you linked, I don't find it very convincing because it is only counting the number of incidents (or MVC), but not the seriousness of the resulting collision. I would assume that if speed cameras decrease the
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by seren 8y ago
On the other hand, I sometimes ponder if we are not going to run our 'civilization' into a wall by relentlessly keeping having children, so I am not sure at this point that the most rationale decision is to keep going like the las
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by seren 8y ago
You are correct my memory is a bit fuzzy, and your interpretation is probably correct. Edit : after further checking, he was pretending having the knife of st. Peter, used to cut off the high priest servant's ear in the garden of Geths
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by seren 8y ago
There is an interesting part in Casanova's autobiography where he is in Paris, and he is trying to sell a Lottery implementation to the governement. If I remember correctly he even meets a minister of Louis XV, but the project never re
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by seren 8y ago
In the embedded world, you have much more chance to run QT than Electron, because QT also supports RTOS like VxWorks or QNX.
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by seren 8y ago
buftabline seems handy, so you don't have to reopen the buffer list regularly. For some reason I never use tab either, so I guess the tabline can be used for something else.
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by seren 8y ago
On your second point, there is an article on The Atlantic, that is worth reading in my opinion : the Brain on Trial (2011) [0] It explores some case of brain malfunction leading to various criminal cases and what it means for free will (or
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by seren 8y ago
An anecdata on that topic. I am working for a subsidiary of big company. Six months ago, while other parts of the company were divested, the plan was to keep us. Evey internal communications from the top management were saying basically &qu
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by seren 8y ago
The scientific consensus in a single country is very different bar than a scientific consensus for the whole world. I am pretty sure that if you looked at North Korea today, you could find some weird scientific national consensus, which obv
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by seren 8y ago
I am not really convinced by the piece. According to the article the fix should be : > None of this is to say that the world should give up. Beyond nuclear power, we need to be placing medium-sized bets on potentially transformative tech

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